"Old Fang, why are you here?" In a machine factory, on the tank test site, the Storm No. 2 tank is being tested, and Zhu Lao stood at the entrance of the test site, looking at the group of people who arrived in surprise.

Fang Xian of the tank design institute led a team, and more than a dozen people came, and the sudden arrival of the guest was really a little strange.

"What's wrong [ ]?" Fang Xian asked: "We are a tank design institute, and the designed tanks are to be handed over to a machine factory to produce, and the factories should have been combined together, and now, let's take a look at the 122 tanks developed by a machine factory, isn't it okay?" ”

The tank design institute is engaged in the design of tanks, and after the design is out, it is produced by a machine factory, which is originally a normal process.

But now, this process has also changed a lot, because the scientific research strength of a machine factory has risen!

A machine factory, as a large enterprise that makes tanks, also has a special research and development room, once their research and development room capacity, than the tank design institute, a lot of technology, are from the first machine factory.

Later, a lot of things happened, the R & D room has declined, but a machine factory has set up a special scientific research team, some are engaged in engines, some are engaged in vehicles, some are engaged in foreign trade, in this way, the various R & D teams have entered the intense and orderly scientific research, and there are a lot of achievements.

For example, the engine, the Panther diesel engine has been tested, with a power level of 1,000 horsepower, the whole vehicle, with different products for self-use and foreign trade, a machine factory has come out of a road of self-reliance, and the achievements made are actually ashamed of the tank design.

The Tank Design Institute, as the main scientific research institution for armored vehicles, has not achieved anything until now! How can this make them acceptable?

They were in a very uncomfortable mood, so now that they came over, Fang Xian also said with a sincere smile: "We are here to learn from the experience." ”

A machine factory on the 122 tank, has been immersed in many years, in order to change five pairs of load-bearing wheels to six pairs of load-bearing wheels, can be regarded as a lot of twists and turns, to now on, it is already the harvest season.

80 tanks, which have already been selected by the armored forces, are the standard tanks in the future, and the current storm foreign trade tanks are ready to actively explore foreign markets.

It is said that after a while, the old bus side will come to inspect again, they have purchased a batch of 69-2 tanks, the impression is very good, now, in order to update the old equipment, they also need advanced models of tanks.

As he spoke, the Storm-2 tank had already started and returned, and looking at it from a distance, its biggest feature was the turret!

Although on the 1224 experimental prototype, a machine factory decided to use a welded turret, however, the welded turret of the 1224 experimental prototype looks more smooth, the front end of the turret is arc-shaped, which looks very atmospheric, as for the shortcomings, there are also some shortcomings, such as complex processes and so on.

The turret of the current Storm tank looks even more concise, the turret of this tank is directly oblique armor in front, which is very similar to the appearance of the turret of the Challenger tank, but it is much smaller in size, and the rear of the turret also has an additional tail compartment.

The engine compartment at the back is slightly raised, so the bottom plate of the turret is slightly raised upwards to form a special structure.

The crowd stared at the turret for a long time.

"We used to use mainly cast spherical turrets, but we also know that this kind of turret will be eliminated sooner or later, especially foreign users, the spherical turret is very criticized, so we have developed several styles of welded turrets, so far, we think this turret, should be the most suitable."

At this time, Zhu Lao didn't know that the design of this turret was quite reasonable, so that later, the appearance was gradually fixed, and now Fang Xian and others said that they came to learn from the experience, but in fact, they mainly came to find the experience of the turret.

In the past few years, the tank design institute has not done nothing, they have been studying on the T-72 tank, and only by eating the T-72 tank thoroughly can they develop a domestic third-generation tank on its basis.

That's right, since it is a tank design institute, of course, the goal should be higher, the second-generation tank is always excessive, and the third-generation tank is what the troops really need.

T-72, in fact, can not be regarded as a third-generation tank in the complete sense, it is almost the same as the second-generation and a half-generation, and the transition to the third-generation tank will inevitably go through a long period of time, waiting for the progress of various domestic technologies.

The tank gun has been selected with a caliber of 125 mm, but the specific research and development will take many years, and the Panther engine can already output 1,000 horsepower, but the third generation of tanks will have at least 1,200 horsepower, and there is also the problem of armor protection, etc., reactive armor is just starting, and these are all in need of pre-research.

"This tank gun has lengthened the barrel again, right?" Seeing the barrel of the tank gun sticking out, Fang Xian couldn't help but ask.

The British should be very depressed, and after exporting the L7 tank gun, they were constantly lengthening the barrel of the gun and came up with monster-like equipment.

However, in order to increase firepower, this is also the easiest way, besides, only by increasing the length of the barrel can you circumvent the opponent's conditions and sell the tank.

"There's a steering wheel in there?" Fang Xian said as he jumped into the tank and glanced inside the cockpit.

"Yes, if we want to engage in foreign trade tanks, then we have to follow the requirements of customers, and customers have great expectations for the use of steering wheels." Zhu Lao said.

If Qin Zhenhua is here at this time, he will definitely be able to say a lot of reasons, in short, the inevitable path of tank development is steering wheel operation, which brings many benefits, and the domestic army has always been very conservative and unwilling to use new technologies.

The turret also uses a spherical turret, and I feel that the bullet-avoiding shape of this turret can be tolerated for the narrow space inside the spherical turret.

Look at our current turret, the seat has been enlarged, expanded to a diameter of two meters, the space inside is very good, even if it is three people, it does not seem crowded, if you get on the automatic loader in the future, it becomes two people to operate, it will be better!

There is a tail compartment behind the turret, which is also better balanced. At this time, the big guy didn't know the various problems encountered by the team led by Qin Zhenhua. However, it is conceivable that as the tank gun continues to lengthen, the problem of turret balance will become more and more serious.