At a long distance, we want to give full play to the power of artillery-launched missiles, and within the range of artillery, if we want to improve the power of our tank guns, in addition to continuing to develop tungsten alloy armor-piercing shells, we must also develop more advanced depleted uranium armor-piercing shells. Zhu Lao said: "In this regard, we must increase a certain amount of investment. ”

In fact, the research on depleted uranium materials has long been started in China, but until now, it has not achieved too good results, in contrast, the Americans have begun to create depleted uranium armor-piercing shells.

For armor-piercing bullets, one of the most important things is the rod, the thin and long rod can effectively improve the depth of penetration, however, there is a limit to this way of lifting, the material determines everything, and there will be no advanced performance improvement without qualified materials.

Depleted uranium alloy is simply the best material for making armor-piercing shells, and a simple self-sharpening effect is enough to delight countless tank designers.

However, the research and development of materials is not easy, which requires long-term accumulation and investment.

"Then, let's talk about protection, in addition to composite armor and explosive reactive armor, we also have a new program, that is, active suppression."

This concept was put forward by Zhu Lao for the first time at a meeting of this level, but related research has already begun, and one of the main technicians is Wang Xiaoyu!

"Active suppression?" He Lao asked, "What is that?" It won't be a scheme to intercept artillery shells with missiles, right? ”

In terms of how to increase the protection of tanks, there are conventional and whimsical plans.

Composite armor is a conventional solution, looking for a variety of hard metals, non-metal synthetic materials, etc., in this way to increase the protection capacity.

And what about explosive reactive armor? It's the idea of hitting me and I'm blowing up, and when the cannonball flies over, then take the initiative to detonate yourself and blow the other party away, this kind of thinking has been considered a fantasy for a long time.

But what? Later, in the war of 82 years, explosive reactive armor appeared, which also withstood the test!

In this way, the concept of explosive reactive armor has also been accepted by everyone, and now, there are more radical ideas.

On the tank, install some missiles, the range is not too far, more than ten meters, dozens of meters is enough, so that the volume can be very small, plus radar and the like, once the shells fly over, then the missiles fly over and intercept!

It is the same type as the interception of anti-aircraft missiles.

However, the technology required for this is still very advanced, far exceeding the development of electronic technology in this era.

Now, Zhu Lao proposed a suppression system, and suddenly, He Lao thought of this, so that his WZ123 project became more and more huge.

"No, it's not." Zhu Lao said: "We are taking another plan, which can also be said to have our own characteristics. ”

Zhu Lao looked at everyone and said: "Everyone, on the tank, if you want to hit the enemy, there is one component that is necessary and quite important, and that is the laser rangefinder. ”

If you want to hit the enemy, you have to have a variety of data, the target location is the most important one, the distance between the target and yourself, must be accurate, the previous way of relying on visual calculation is no longer suitable, now, have begun to use laser rangefinders.

Shoot a laser beam and hit the opponent's tank and reflect it back, multiplying this time by the speed of light divided by two, and you can know the distance.

Not only tanks, but even on airplanes, such a scheme is used for ranging when missiles are launched in the early days.

Now, Zhu Lao talked about the laser rangefinder, and everyone didn't know what he wanted to say.

Only the people in the first machine factory understand.

"On our tank, we can have such a system to sense the laser beam coming from the opposite side, and measure its direction, and then, fire a laser beam with greater energy at the opponent, so that the opponent's laser rangefinder can be suppressed, so that the opponent cannot get an accurate distance, and it will not be able to attack us." Zhu Lao said: "In this way, we have a greater chance of survival, this system can be called a laser suppression system." ”

In this era, if you mention what kind of informationization, what kind of electromagnetic confrontation, it is absolutely confusing, many armored troops still use the old way, the way of visual aiming and firing, advanced equipment is not willing to use, speaking of this, many people are confused.

"I've never heard of this system."

"Yes, this is our own idea, our own characteristic system, in the future, not only can be used on tanks, but also on other vehicles to increase the survivability of combat vehicles on the battlefield, I propose this system, as a supporting project for the third generation of tanks."

"But do we have what it takes? Sounds like a mystery. Someone continued.

"Professor Cao, please tell us about this." Zhu Lao said.

This project is what Wang Xiaoyu is doing, however, Wang Xiaoyu is not qualified to participate in such a meeting, but her mentor Cao Jianli, in the conference room, she participated as an expert in the fire control system, the fire control system, mainly the optical system, the laser suppression system, also belongs to the category of optics.

Cao Jianli stood up and began to introduce.

The afternoon meeting was spent in this kind of specific technical discussion, and this time, it was late at night, many technologies were refined, and the outline of the future tank was seen more clearly.

The country's overall technology is weak, and if you want to achieve a cross-era third-generation tank on this basis, you must follow your own path.

We must have our own new technology, occupy the commanding heights of technology, and at the same time, we must pay attention to matching optimization and optimize the function of the system!

The development concept has slowly surfaced: overall optimization, functional coverage, and system winning!

In the actual research and development, the pursuit of the technology spiral, the benefit of the virtuous cycle model, on the basis of limited industry, through the means of high integration, optimization of the matching system function, etc., to achieve the optimal performance design of the tank.

The research and development of the third-generation domestic tank has officially kicked off.

Although this meeting did not say what to do if the research and development failed, but this back road has already been decided, just after the third generation of tanks began to enter the research and development in full swing, the domestic second-generation tank technology, but also continue to develop and progress, in case the third-generation tank really can't be done, the second-generation tank can also gradually transition to the level of the third generation!