According to the nature of their heavy machinery factory, the path chosen by the first machine factory is to manufacture heavy trucks.

This is clear to everyone, and a machine factory has been working in this direction.

Of course, this is not simple, there are a lot of resistance, a lot of problems, the last time the introduction of Steyr heavy truck, but in the end did not fall on the head of a machine factory.

At that time, there were people who were worried that a machine factory would not come to make trouble, but later, a machine factory did nothing, and acquiesced to all this, which also won the favor of many people.

However, the pursuit of heavy trucks by a machine factory has not stopped, and even began to set up their own automobile branch, now, the factory building of the automobile branch has been built, and many machines of the automobile branch factory have also started, but no one knows what products they want to produce.

Everyone was curious.

This mystery was revealed after entering the final assembly workshop, and when they saw the car, everyone gasped.

"This was made by one of your machine factories?"

"No way, this is only capable of being made by the best car factories, how can you make such a thing as a tank factory?"

"Equally spaced, actually evenly spaced! How do you do that? ”

All kinds of words of surprise continued, making people look incredible, after all, no one thought that they would be able to see such a big guy here!

What is it?

The whole car body, simple structure, looks a bit like a boat, in fact, these equipment will take into account the problem of crossing the river, so it will have the ability to sail on the water, it is the same shape as the hull, the bottom of the car in front, will slope upward, forming a slope, and on both sides, are wheels.

The entire body is welded with thin steel plates, and with wheels, this is a wheeled infantry fighting vehicle!

If you want to achieve the goal of mechanized troops, you must not only have tanks, but also a large number of armored vehicles to transport infantry.

The only mature in the country is the Type 63 armored car, which uses a tracked chassis and can keep up with the advance of the tank in the field, but at the same time, because it is a tracked chassis, the fuel consumption of this armored vehicle is very high, and at the same time, the speed of travel on the road will not be particularly fast.

Therefore, in addition to tracked armored vehicles, there will also be wheeled armored vehicles, take the USSR as an example, there are not only infantry fighting vehicles of the famous BMP series, but also wheeled infantry fighting vehicles of the BTR series, and even in the current imperial cemetery, wheeled infantry fighting vehicles are used more.

What about domestic?

Of course, there are also domestic.

Initially, in the fifties, the state developed the WZ521 wheeled armored car, but it is called a wheeled armored car, in fact, it is just an armored car, and it still looks like a truck in appearance, but it only turns the shell into a steel plate, at most it can only play a temporary role in partially, and it can never be used as a real armored vehicle.

At that time, due to the weak industrial base of the country, it was also impossible to develop a real wheeled armored vehicle.

In this way, until recent years, after the successful development of Dongfeng EQ240, Dongfeng Motor Plant developed a new Type 523 wheeled armored vehicle on the basis of this modification, that is, Dongfeng EQ245 6×6 off-road truck.

This armored car is already the best wheeled armored vehicle that the domestic army can get at present, and in the upcoming military parade, such a phalanx has also been set, which shows the importance attached to this armored vehicle.

However, after all, this is only a solution to the problem of whether there is or not, and the performance of this wheeled armored vehicle is far from the world's advanced level.

From the outside, although it is already the style of a wheeled infantry fighting vehicle, which is very similar to the BTR infantry fighting vehicle, however, looking at the tires, you can still see the problem.

It is still an improved chassis of an off-road truck, so the two rows of wheels in the back are next to each other, and the front wheels are spaced apart greatly, in this case, the off-road ability is still low.

Only large off-road tires with equal spacing, from the side, almost all sides are tires, and the off-road ability can be improved, and the tires can be guaranteed to touch the ground at any time and will not be stuck in the middle.

However, on this wheeled armored vehicle, it was not realized for many reasons, for example, it was actually developed with an off-road truck without a lot of changes, and the off-road truck was built with two rows of axles in the back.

At the same time, the power system is not very good, the 165 horsepower diesel engine is still used, although compared with the previous power breakthrough, but to achieve mobility and flexibility is still reluctant, especially, not a supercharged engine, on the plateau, the performance will also decline rapidly.

Everyone knows the shortcomings of this wheeled infantry fighting vehicle, but it is better than nothing, and it is the first priority to solve the problem of having it first.

And now?

What appears in front of their eyes now is simply a perfect infantry fighting vehicle! Look at its tires, the three axles, are evenly spaced, this alone is enough to shock!

Everyone originally thought that what appeared here would be a truck, a military heavy truck, but who knew that what appeared was actually a beautiful and atmospheric wheeled armored vehicle!

"This is the first wheeled armored vehicle developed by our first machine factory." Qin Zhenhua said: "In the process of development, it widely refers to the world's advanced technology, and integrates our existing technical capabilities, however, due to some parts are not up to standard, we still purchase some components from the world, but in the future, it will gradually turn to self-production." ”

"Internationally sourced?" He Lao asked, "What have you purchased?" ”

"For example, its steering machine is the hydraulic power steering system of the international famous brand ZF." Qin Zhenhua said: "Although it has not been completely assembled, when it comes to the test run, we can guarantee that it can turn the steering wheel with one finger." ”

After all, a machine factory is engaged in crawler chassis, this first time involved in wheeled chassis, it must be purchased a lot of components, although it can also be produced in China, but it is definitely not so good.

And when it comes to the steering machine, it is also very particular, the truck steering wheel of this era is just an ordinary worm steering machine, there is no hydraulic assistance at all, you can't play the direction in situ, you can only move when you drive, and you have to use the unicorn arm, sometimes the driver is in a hurry, and he will stand up and pull the steering wheel.

With hydraulic assistance, you can turn the steering wheel with one finger? In this day and age, it sounds like a fantasy. However, those imported Mercedes-Benz heavy trucks seem to be able to do this.