The Soviet Union is a traditional land power, and the Soviet Army is the strongest, so the main battle weapons of the Army also have their distinctive characteristics.

The domestic T-72 is already becoming more and more familiar, once secretly imported the T-72M, disassembled for research, recently Qin Zhenhua brought a T -72 in the oil area, so, has been the T-72 research is not far from ten, it can be said that even if it is against their own 88 tank, it also has its own merits.

Qin Zhenhua is very familiar with this tank, it comes from the Nizhny Tagil Design Bureau, in the past, Nizhny Tagil was unknown, this design bureau is located in the Ural Mountains, which belonged to the Soviet Union during World War II and prospered after the transfer to the Urals.

After the end of World War II, all those who should be relocated were relocated, and the tank designers in Lower Tagil watched others go to the big city to enjoy their happiness, and they were still looking at the Ural Mountains every day.

At that time, a generation of famous cars T-64 was born and became the leader of the Soviet armored forces, but soon, because of the use of a large number of advanced technologies caused by too low reliability, the armored troops were in a mess, and Kartsev was given the task of "developing a simplified T-64 tank with reliable performance". Are they in a hurry? Even a prototype of 6 T-64A main battle tanks was brought.

After Kartsev's research, it was found that this kind of tank, which looks tall, is actually quite immature in many technologies? He thinks this plan is not reliable at all? So? With a slight bad taste for competing peers, he did not plan to develop a new tank on the basis of the T-64 at all, but started anew? He decided to build on the "Project 167" that he designed? Combined with some proven technologies on the "Project 172" to develop a completely new tank, the project code name "Project 172M".

The name of this project is a simplified version of Project 172, and it actually has nothing to do with Project 172 anymore? Hiding from the General Directorate of Armored Forces? Nizhny Tagil made a mess of this new tank? At this time? What is done cannot be undone? The Main Directorate of the Armored Forces found out that it was fooled by Nizhny Tagil? However, the overall performance of this tank is inferior to that of the T-64A, but its design is more mature and reliable than the T-64A tank, and the structure is relatively simple and easier to produce? To meet the needs of the sea of tanks of the USSR.

So? After some psychological struggle? The Soviets decided to put two tanks on the line at the same time? The tank in Nizhny Tagil was named after the T-72 tank.

So, if you know these insiders, you know that the so-called Soviets like high and low combinations? It was purely an afterthought, at that time, the General Administration of Armored Corps had nothing to do, but the final outcome was also happy.

The T-72 tank is not the best, but it is the easiest to produce, so after reading a lot of insider information, Qin Zhenhua sincerely appreciates this tank, and admires the tank designer named Kartsev.

If there is a chance, you can sit down with such a tank designer, Qin Zhenhua is naturally quite willing.

However, the T-64 was not always unreliable, and the Soviets had enough time to improve, and by the time it came to the T-80 tank, it was finally considered mature.

The Soviet tank forces in the seventies were really a little unhappy, the T-64 main battle tank was unusual, forcing the opposite NATO to be frightened every day, in fact, the reliability was poor and the number was limited; The T-72 main battle tank was produced in high volume, but the performance was still poor, and by the time the M1 and Leopard 2 main battle tanks came out, the ground superiority of the Soviets had disappeared.

It was in this situation that the Kirov plant in Leningrad, after a long period of research and development, finally took on the task of developing a new main battle tank. Under the leadership of Chief Designer Popov, the Kirov plant developed a high-level T-80 main battle tank based on the T-64 main battle tank and installed a 1,000-horsepower gas turbine on the basis of the T-64 main battle tank through independent development and technological innovation.

The performance of this tank is quite strong, after all, the T-80 tank is only 46 tons, and the acceleration of the gas turbine is quite rapid, this tank can rush to a top speed of 82 kilometers per hour, turning into an authentic flying tank, which has amazed countless people.

It's absolutely good to use it to pretend to be forced, but it didn't last long before it was beaten in the Chechen war, of course, that's a story for later.

Qin Zhenhua has already seen the T-72 and has already figured it out, however, the T-80 has not been contacted, and it would be great if he had the opportunity to see the T-80 this time.

The T-80 was improved from the T-64A, and the T-72 was also resurrected by the T-64, but these tanks did not fall into the hands of the designers of the T-64A, the Morozov Design Bureau in Ukraine, after developing the T-64A, continued to research, and came up with a 1000-horsepower 6TD engine, and also used other types such as a new fire control system to transform the T-64B tank.

Naturally, I wanted to see this kind of tank, especially the kind of horizontally opposed two-stroke engine.

It is not easy to make a diesel engine achieve a thousand horsepower, especially if you have to pay attention to volume, it is even more difficult, and Soviet tank designers also took a special path in this regard.

When it was still the fifties, Soviet tank designers hoped to get a small volume and high power density tank engine, some designers began to use mechanical supercharging devices on the V-2 series engine, and got the 780 horsepower diesel engine used in the T-72 tank, and some began to find another way, decided to use a two-stroke engine, after all, the engine turned once it did work, and the four-stroke needed to do work once in two turns. So, theoretically, a two-stroke engine is twice as powerful as a four-stroke engine with the same displacement, but in practice there is some waste, which can reach about 1.7 times.

In order to meet the limitations of length, width and height, they decided to adopt a small displacement design, the predecessor of the 6TD engine, the 5TD engine, with a displacement of only 13.5 liters, which is only one-third of the displacement of the V2 engine, so the power is very low, and in order to increase the power, they plan to increase the speed to 3,000 rpm.

The Soviets had limited machining accuracy, and such a high speed would inevitably increase the vibration of the engine, so they simply used horizontally opposed cylinders to counteract the unbalanced torque of the engine, and finally, this special engine was built.

To meet the needs of the T-64B, they added one cylinder, which became a six-cylinder structure, and at the same time improved the supercharger, which increased the power to a thousand horsepower while reducing the speed to two thousand six hundred rpm. It can be seen that in order to improve the power of the tank, the engineers have taken out all the strength to eat.

Qin Zhenhua is also very interested in this special engine, and now, Luo Ronggen said that he might visit the Soviet Union, Qin Zhenhua felt that his saliva was about to flow out, and he couldn't wait to visit all these factories. At this time, Qin Zhenhua was full of longing.