"Humph!" Old John sat on his bed with anger on his face: "This is a challenge to us, their weapons have begun to compete for our traditional export market in the United States!" ”

The equipment of the waterless country, the American goods of the water, and now, the products of the big eastern countries are about to appear, how can this satisfy their hearts!

"That's right, they just have a longer barrel than ours, so the range is longer than ours, we can't wait, our next generation of standard cannons, we must solve it as soon as possible. Ladies and gentlemen, our NATO Memorandum of Understanding on Mutual Ballistics cannot wait any longer, and must be signed as soon as possible! ”

It was Best who spoke, although at the beginning, everyone was in a competitive relationship, but now, the results of the competition have come out, and everyone is going to lose, and these losers will naturally have to cooperate.

At this time, Best finally raised this question, the big guys have been together countless times, and now they are taking advantage of the big countries in the East, what are you waiting for? It's time for us to do it!

In fact, as early as the sixties, their "Four-Power Ballistic Agreement" had already determined the most reasonable ratio of the two parameters of the volume of the chamber and the length of the barrel of the large-caliber suppressed artillery, so that the muzzle velocity and firing range of the cannon could achieve the best internal and external ballistic performance.

Because NATO is together, the parameters that they want to determine must be unified by all countries, so that a unified standard can be formed within NATO, that is, they must consult with each other, and this consultation will bring endless disputes.

After several years of coating, they finally determined that the new 155 mm plus howitzer has a chamber volume of 23 liters, and the relevant barrel length is different, these four countries, that is, the United States, Britain, France, and West Germany, they have proposed several artillery ballistic design schemes ranging from 45 times the caliber to 58 times the caliber for various considerations.

Which one is better? Everyone is arguing, and in this process, the artillery genius Dr. Bull has already come up with a 45 times caliber GC-45 artillery system in advance, and, by now, it has matured.

In their eyes, this scheme is not mature, this artillery has a 23.5-liter chamber, but only 45 times the caliber, so to speak, the power of the gun is not fully utilized.

Because the barrel is too short, when the projectile burns at the end, it is actually close to the muzzle, which means that the propellant is not all burned inside the barrel, but a part of it will leak out, the energy of the propellant can not be fully utilized, and even the amount of unburned propellant is different every time it is shot, so that the muzzle velocity of the projectile when it is fired out will also be very different, which will lead to the inconsistency of the muzzle velocity of the projectile and bring the problem of aiming. Because the propellant cannot fully expand in the chamber to do work when burning, it produces a relatively large muzzle flame and a high muzzle pressure.

Today, this situation has been seen in the test firing of the cannons of the eastern powers, and when fireballs come out of the muzzles, the scene is quite spectacular, and it also shows that all the energy has been wasted.

Therefore, this kind of artillery is not mature, this is a plan proposed by other experts, and tonight, under the introduction of experts within his team, Best understood these things, and then came to the Americans to discuss.

We failed today because our range is not far enough, and we are not without it, so we have to hurry up and develop it.

"Yes, our failure this time will definitely give the country a shock, and we will definitely unify the standards as soon as possible and hurry up to build our advanced artillery!"

This four-nation ballistic agreement should have been finalized a long time ago, and the failure of this bid is definitely a booster, allowing them to end the dispute faster, and the final plan is according to the proposal of the British.

After all, Britain is an old power, and the L7 tank gun of that year can become a NATO standard tank gun, and the potential is very deep, you can see Britain's deep skills in artillery, and after the end of the quarrel, countries accepted Britain's plan.

52 times the caliber barrel, 23 liters of chamber volume and 945 meters per second muzzle velocity, as the basic parameters of the future artillery, this plan can ensure that the future 155 mm artillery system of NATO countries has the same trajectory, that is, the range of ordinary projectiles is 30 kilometers, and the range of extended-range projectiles is 40 kilometers.

From these data, it can also be seen that this kind of cannon of the eastern power has been able to reach this data now, or because of the contribution of the Great Pharmacy, it was originally said that Dr. Bull's design plan was not perfect, in fact, it was just a kind of paranoia of the artillery genius.

Dr. Bull's favorite is the large charge, any of the guns he designed, the volume of the chamber is very large, as for the barrel, although he also wants a longer barrel, but that must also have mature artillery manufacturing technology to rely on, it is not easy to drill holes in such a long steel to make cannons, his plan is a kind of compromise.

This matter has been decided, which means that they can go to the waterless country to discuss, our future artillery plan has been determined, and the firing range will definitely not be lower than the standard of the current eastern powers, don't you want this kind of long range? Then we have you covered!

"However, even if the ballistic protocol can be determined now, the development of new guns, and the testing of new guns, it will take several years." "And the waterless countries, it seems that they can't wait that long, they will still choose the products of the eastern powers." ”

People are tyrants, rich, as long as you have money, you can buy it if you want to, don't think about it, now it's all decided, maybe you can sign a contract tomorrow, and it will be delivered next year?

When Best said this, he still had concerns, once he chose the howitzer of the eastern power, then, due to the inheritance, he may always choose the eastern power.

"yes, so, we're going to have to do something about it." John Sr. said: "They have been boasting about their car air conditioners, hmph, have they forgotten that their car air conditioners are actually our American goods." ”

As soon as these words came out, Best already understood what Old John meant, and couldn't help nodding: "That's right, in this way, they can't deliver on time, and it can also affect their reputation!" However, relying on this alone, I am afraid that we will not be able to delay the development of our howitzer. ”

"Yes, so, we still have to find the defects of their howitzers, let them continue to improve, their improvement, it also takes time, so it leaves us time, when the time comes, it is a big deal to let the waterless country break the contract and give a compensation, anyway, the waterless country is not short of money."

Speaking of this, several people laughed, and the haze on their heads was dissipated.