Guo Zhuocheng asked himself and said: "Yes, I am not satisfied! Why should the soldiers of Western countries fight in comfortable and safe tanks, while our soldiers must fight in sweltering, dangerous tanks? Our soldiers are also flesh and mother, and they have the same right to enjoy them.

Moreover, soldiers who have been fighting in a tense and difficult environment for a long time are easily fatigued, easily consumed, and easily reduced their combat effectiveness, which is the dereliction of duty of our military-industrial enterprises and military-industrial researchers, and our shame.

In addition, the world of the future will be a rich world, a complex world, and our weapons will not be used only by the soldiers of our country, but we hope that the more countries in the world will use them as much as possible, which is not only the need of our economy, not only the need to earn foreign exchange, but also the need of our international relations. Everyone must understand that as long as our weapons are sold to any country, that country will certainly not have too bad relations with our country, and our country will be able to exert influence in that country.

If we can make money and make an impact, that's certainly a great thing. Some time ago, we sold a lot of weapons to Iraq and Iran, and we also made a lot of money, so I don't need to say more about that. However, I have heard many people in China complain about our vigorous development of new weapons and products. Do they think that with such high profits from the mature weapons of the past, it is still necessary to painstakingly design and manufacture new products?

Of course, these people are not completely opposed to designing and manufacturing new products, but they are not used to us doing it so aggressively. It took a lot of money to do it. As they think. We should take out a small amount of funds to gradually upgrade and improve the existing products as before.

Because they are worried about failure, they are worried that the failure of our new product development will not only lose a huge amount of money, but also delay the improvement and improvement of existing products. They think that the profits of the new products they develop are definitely not as high as they are now, but they are now hundreds of percent!

If you want me to say, this kind of thinking of getting by must not be accepted. These people have only made huge profits so far, not to the future crisis, and not to why we are able to make such high profits now.

I'll tell you the truth, the reason why we are able to make such a high profit with our weapons now. The main reason is that our methods are a bit unseemly, to put it bluntly, we are now taking advantage of the fire to rob, taking advantage of the other party's danger and asking for a price.

Of course, we can't say that we are a bit shameless. But it's not that above board, and the main thing is that it's hard for us to find such opportunities in the future. If this tragic war had not broken out in the Middle East, we would not have been able to sell it at such a high price, and it is very likely that no one would buy it, and no one would have cared for our tanks even if they were reduced to $200,000 each, let alone those old tanks, just because our tanks were too backward. ”

The old professor said, "Director Guo, I know what you said is very reasonable. As the saying goes, it is reluctant to let the child catch the wolf. However, today is a matter of discussing the topic of examination and deciding the direction of the future development of tanks. If you really don't care about the cost and only pay attention to performance, then it is bound to lead the accumulation of various new materials and technologies, and the research and development cost and manufacturing cost of the tank will increase significantly.

I don't think I use the heart of a villain to live in the belly of a gentleman, I think that whether it is our research institute or the 02 research institute, in order to overwhelm each other, everyone is likely to buy a large number of new technologies and new technologies from Western countries or the Soviet Union, because this is not only effective and faster, but also more able to overwhelm each other.

If so, I'm worried that the cost will get out of control and that it will be too flashy. I care too much about foreign, new, strange and ingenious. Even if we can develop it, we won't be able to make it then, and the warriors won't be able to use it. In this case, won't the developed tank become a prototype? ”

Guo Zhuocheng said with a smile: "Your worries are not unreasonable, but we will try to avoid this situation." But I still want to say that the first is the first. One qiē puts performance first. We encourage the adoption of new technologies and encourage exchanges with countries that are leading in tanks. Concerns about the possibility of leading to the accumulation of new technologies and materials. I believe that with competition, it will not be, because all of you here are experts, and if someone piles up some unrealistic new technologies, new equipment, and new materials, it will be no good for this research institute, only harmful. If these new technologies, new equipment, new materials are useful for improving the performance of the tank, then it is not a pile-up, but should be encouraged.

Of course, we will also take the way of tracking to avoid unnecessary waste as much as possible, and at the same time require the research institutes to report to the Ministry of the Third Machinery when they conduct technical exchanges with foreign countries, so as to prevent the same technology from being sold to us twice abroad, and also to prevent us from raising prices internally and cheapening foreign enterprises.

Originally, I was not going to speak, and I didn't want to talk so much at once, because I thought that the external price of our new tank would be much higher than the current price. If we continue to follow our step-by-step line of thinking, if we continue to develop tanks according to our idea of following generation after generation, it will be difficult for us to catch up with the tanks of developed countries in a short period of time, and we will be embarrassed to quote high prices when our tanks appear on the international military market.

If we are embarrassed to quote a high price, it will inevitably lead foreign users to take it for granted that our products are inferior. This creates a vicious circle and fewer people buy. I would like to ask this old professor, do you make a bold prediction about how much each tank will cost us if we make great use of new technologies, new materials, and new equipment? ”

The old professor thought about it seriously and said: "I can't estimate the cost of the prototype tank after research and development, but if it is finalized, the cost of each tank will be at least twice as much as it is now, and maybe as high as four times in the future." Now the cost of our tank, after several improvements, has reached 300,000 yuan, which is equivalent to 200,000 US dollars, and if it is doubled or even quadrupled, it is 400,000 US dollars or 800,000 US dollars. As you said, the price of $600,000 per vehicle we sell to Iraq is already sky-high, and in the future the price will drop in peacetime, and even if we maintain this price, we will not have much profit to speak of, and we will even lose money. ”

Guo Shucheng smiled: "That's not how the account is calculated. No one said that $600,000 is an insurmountable hurdle? I tell you that this time we are going to export tanks from developed countries in the West, and we plan to quote 1.8 million dollars! ”

Because he was worried that there would be too many people and that someone would inadvertently leak the quotation for the tank, Guo Zhuocheng raised the quotation he had just told Vice Premier Yu Gangqiu a lot.

"Sizzle-" There was a gasp at the scene.

What the? One million and eight million? That's three times as many tanks now, is it selling tanks or gold? Who will buy it? People are not stupid.

Guo said confidently: "You are responsible for developing high-performance tanks for us, and I will help you sell them at a high price." ”

Everyone laughed in unison.

Although the price of the tank is not very relevant to them, if the price is high, their commission will still be more, and selling it at a high price can make people more proud, right? Sometimes that pride is more motivating than just getting money.

With these opening remarks by Guo Shucheng, the people of the two research institutes began to discuss. Begin to discuss how to use more new technologies, new materials, and new equipment. It's just that it can't be realized immediately, and it is impossible to change the original design concept in a short period of time.

Soon, the speeches and demonstrations of both sides began.

Before the meeting, Guo knew that the positions and concepts of the two institutes were completely different today. Headquartered in Baotou City, Inner Mongolia, the 0 Research Institute is an old tank research institute with a long history and outstanding achievements, and the design concept they put forward is that the tank research and development starts directly from the new Biquge www.biquge.info, and simply starts anew, taking the research and development of new tanks as an opportunity to completely get rid of the Soviet-style system. Its design scheme is similar to the design style of the Israeli Merkava tank, with a front-mounted engine, a 20mm main gun, a semi-automatic loader, and a moving machine

The force system is a high-power diesel engine or gas turbine, breaking the traditional tank design concept.

The Merkava MK tank was officially announced by Israel in 977, and the first production Merkava MK tank was delivered to the Israeli Army in 979. In fact, the Israeli development took place much earlier than they announced, and the real start began in January 970.

The reason why 0 institutes chose this model as a reference target is because they have conducted technical exchanges with the Israeli side, and exchanged relevant technologies with Israel on time sharing with the engine "invented" by Guo Zhuocheng, and learned about some of their technologies, and they agree with Israeli tanks.

Although China has not chosen to establish diplomatic relations with Israel for the time being because of Arab countries, and China has officially criticized Israel's aggression against Arab countries from time to time, there are still many contacts between China and Israel secretly, and the main reason for this is that Israel is the younger brother of the United States, and the United States and China are now in the honeymoon period, and this little brother is naturally good with China.

Moreover, Israel also asks China to play a role in Arab countries and to help Israel maintain good relations with Egypt, Jordan, and other countries, and also hopes that China will not suppress Israel too much in the Security Council.

So the Chinese offered to have a technical exchange with them on tanks, and they immediately agreed.

After the exchange, it was believed that Israel's tank integrates the characteristics of American, British, German and French tanks, and has high comprehensive performance, which is worthy of China as a model.

Of course, they also have a speculative idea in private, that is, now China's tanks are mainly exported to Iraq and Iran, which is similar to the environment of Israel.