Ladies and gentlemen, the tank in front of you is the latest Stingray light tank finalized by our Cadillac Gage company this year. "Under the leadership of Dr. Wright, we not only inspected the M1 main battle tanks of the Americans, but also came to another unknown company, which produced tanks with unique characteristics.

For Dr. Wright, their order for M1 tanks is enough to keep the production line running until ten years later, if the big countries in the East are willing to purchase M1 tanks, or use other plans to decide the equipment of this tank, then they are naturally very happy, and if the big countries in the East do not purchase M1 tanks, they have nothing to complain about, and they don't like the small business of modifying T-54 tanks, which they just introduced to other companies.

Now the crowd is standing in front of this light tank.

In this era, the main battle tank is the most eye-catching, majestic on the battlefield, galloping, however, not everywhere is suitable for the use of the main battle tank, not to mention, take the war on the southern border of the country, sixty or seventy tons of tanks, absolutely not suitable for advancing in local road conditions, light tanks, but more suitable.

"We predict that many countries around the world will need to have the firepower of main battle tanks, as well as high-motivation light tanks, which can be airlifted by the C-130, which greatly increases its rapid deployment capabilities." At this time, in front of him is Thomas Watt, an engineer at Cadillac Gage. He pointed to the tank in front of him and introduced it to everyone.

What kind of tanks are needed in the world? The main battle tank is definitely the first, but the technical difficulty of the main battle tank is too great, and it is not something that ordinary companies can play, and the light tanks they produce are much easier.

The light tank in front of me is still quite beautiful, with six pairs of load-bearing wheels below and a turret with a large inclination angle above, which is exactly the same as the design drawing introduced by Dr. Wright, and it is easy to think that the other party is moving this tank directly to the T-54 tank.

As a light tank, its total combat weight is only 19 tons, which makes it not very armor-protected, and any armor-piercing bullet can destroy it, it can only prevent large-caliber guns such as anti-aircraft machine guns.

However, there is no ambiguity in firepower, it uses an L7 tank gun, in order to be able to use it on light tanks, so the recoil is specially reduced, so far, this tank gun is everywhere in the entire Western camp, and shells are everywhere, which greatly facilitates its use.

Moreover, this tank uses the same 8V-92TA diesel engine produced by the Detroit Diesel Engine Company, due to the strong engine power and the small weight of the tank, so the mobility of this light tank is quite excellent.

Now, when they saw this tank, Qin Zhenhua and the others understood that the other party's so-called help to improve their own 59 tank was only improved on the basis of this tank, and the various equipment used on this tank was moved to their own 59 tank.

"We have a lot of experience in the development of tanks." Thomas introduced to the crowd: "Our joint development of the Jaguar will be a model of an international cooperation project, you provide the chassis, we will improve, through the cooperation with General Motors, the replacement of the 8V-92TA type 8-cylinder diesel engine and the supporting transmission system, we can also cooperate with the Marconi command and control system branch to completely update the fire control system on the tank." ”

"And the involvement of British companies?" Qin Zhenhua asked.

The other party nodded, the light tank in front of him was transplanted to the 59 tank with the British fire control system, equipped with a new digital fire control system, including a laser rangefinder, a two-way stabilizer, a modern composite sighting device for the commander and gunner, night vision equipment, and so on.

Hearing the other party's introduction, Qin Zhenhua nodded, that's right, now speaking of which, this project is very promising, not to mention anything else, if you participate in the research together, the use of these fire control systems will also broaden your horizons.

"I have one more concern, though." Qin Zhenhua said: "If we want to sell this tank, I think it is best to control the unit price within one million." ”

After the research and development, the domestic army is definitely not needed, the power system and fire control are foreign goods, the domestic army will not agree, and the 80 tanks have come out, and the army in the modification of 59 tanks, the use of the program that can save the province, this improvement is too wasteful.

If the domestic army doesn't want it, it has to be pushed to the international market, and if you want to sell it, the price is a big factor, and one million is a watershed.

Although their own 69 tanks also sold a million, however, it was a special situation, and the warring sides in the war urgently needed it, and then waited until this tank was developed and then put into the international market, which was to compete.

Without price advantage, how can you compete with others?

And if you want to say one million, this price is actually not easy to achieve, because the cost of production here is quite high, and it can only be achieved in the big eastern countries, so in this case, the task of production will definitely fall to the big eastern countries.

"A million?" Thomas shook his head: "Impossible, impossible, the engine, fire control, and turret have to be changed, just these modifications, there are more than a million." Unless it reduces the cost of improvement... At most, it will be controlled to 1.5 million. ”

How to lower? The engine, the fire control, the tank gun, none of these could be lowered, Thomas circled the tank twice, and then said, "If we want to save money, we have to work on the turret." ”

If you want to package it and sell it, you have to make the appearance look tall, the turret of the T-54 tank is spherical, it looks backward enough, and it is not enough to bluff, the original plan was to replace the turret directly, but in this case, it would be too wasteful.

How can you save money to a minimum?

"How about we weld the armor shell directly outside the cast hemispherical turret of the T-54 tank, and weld an additional armor in the current style?" Thomas said.

This is definitely a crooked idea, originally planned to cover the turret in front of you, and the turret will be rebuilt, and now? Now you actually weld a beautiful tall shell directly on the outside of the cast turret to fool people?

However, this crooked idea is really the easiest solution to the problem!