"There are some other small parts on the tank, there is no way to test the specific service life, it can only be roughly estimated according to the operation mode of the crew members, as well as the use environment, but these small parts do not have a big impact, we have opened up a small space inside the tank, which will place some easily damaged parts, after training, the soldiers themselves can replace these parts in time. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info" Shang Zhu continued to report.

He is the chief designer of this tank, although it is designed according to the graphics drawn by Wang Sirui, but Wang Sirui only gives the appearance of the graphics, and the internal layout is still designed by Shang Zhu himself.

At the beginning, Shang Zhu also encountered a lot of problems, the tank is not a car, it cannot bring any comfort to the crew like a car, so in the early test tank, even each member was equipped with car seats.

However, this design was quickly phased out, as these seats took up a lot of space inside the tank, making the already small interior of the tank even more cramped.

When he eliminated this design, the space saved was enough to increase the ammunition compartment to 130 shells, and as for the seats of the crew inside the tank, they were changed to foldable small mazaars, which did not take up too much space.

However, this is also flawed, in the case of an unsatisfactory external environment, these folded small maza will run around and be very unstable.

Although this tank already looks very advanced, it is also favored by many designers.

But in Wang Sirui's view, this tank is still very unsatisfactory, yes, how can a soldier from later generations look at such an old-fashioned tank?

There are no stabilizers, no armor-piercing shells, no intercoms, not enough power, not even enough defense, not even the most basic reactive armor.

However, Wang Sirui also knows very well in his heart that it is the early 20th century, even if he takes out this tank, it is still the most advanced tank in the world, and within a year after the appearance of this tank, his armored forces will be invincible, and wherever he goes, he will be instantly submerged by the torrent of steel.

In the future, he also has enough time and experience to research more advanced tanks, and as it stands, other countries want to surpass the Chinese Empire in terms of armored forces unless they completely cut off their scientific personnel, so that they have no talents to use for research, but that is obviously not realistic.

In addition to these students who have studied cars and armored vehicles with the Ford team, they are now each taking two students to work on this tank, and in another year or two, these people will have the ability to study independently.

"What about the rest of the data?" Wang Sirui continued to ask, he couldn't wait to equip this tank with the troops.

The sooner the armored forces are trained, the sooner they can rest assured that they will be able to develop, the Russians who are eyeing the tiger, in front of the armored forces, they will be vulnerable, and the Cossack cavalry, in front of the armored forces, it will be their end.

"Wading depth is one meter, more than one meter will have water infiltrate into the tank, more than one meter two, the tank will not be able to extinguish, we have made a lot of efforts in this regard, but we still can't solve this problem in a short time." Shang Zhu was a little speechless.

Although the height of the tank exhaust cylinder has been increased, water will still enter the engine without water entering the exhaust pipe, which is mainly due to the lack of strict design and process problems.

"That tank, how many engines have been scrapped so far?" Wang Sirui stretched out his hand and pointed to the No. 1 tank.

"The third engine is currently in use, and after replacing some spare parts, the overall performance of the tank is about ten percent lower than that of the new tank." Shang Zhu said.

Wang Sirui felt a bad sweat in his heart, it seems that there is no railway, the empire is too big, if you send armored troops to Xinjiang, calculate the environmental factors on the way, it is estimated that you need to scrap an engine when you run to Xinjiang.

In the era when there was no railway, tanks could only be equipped in a small area, otherwise just supplies could drag them to death.

"What about the cost?" For the research of tanks, Wang Sirui does not limit the funds, but so far, Wang Sirui really does not know how much a tank costs.

As for whether it is really mass-produced, this depends on the manufacturing cost of the tank.

"The cost of materials is about three hundred taels of silver." Shang Zhu said.

Now the international steel price is about 12 US dollars a ton, which is converted into silver is 16.2 taels of silver a ton, but in the specific conversion, there will be such and such problems, in fact, the conversion will be about 20 taels of silver a ton.

Shang Zhu gave the cost price, which naturally does not include transportation costs, processing costs, labor costs and so on, this cost, he only calculated according to the ex-factory price of materials, and in the end how many materials were used to complete the manufacturing, the total number was calculated.

If you add labor and some other expenses, the cost of a tank is about 1,000 taels of silver.

After all, in real production, they can't calculate according to the calculation of Shangzhu, they have to calculate all the miscellaneous payments such as materials, freight, labor, scrap rate, equipment depreciation and scrap.

Of course, this is only the cost on paper, but in reality it doesn't use so much, why? Because the imperial court had a steel mill in their hands, they only needed to pay for freight, and if they used the army to transport it, they would even save freight.

If you really want to calculate it like this, the cost of a tank can even be controlled within five hundred taels of silver.

"What about manufacturing hours?" Wang Sirui continued to ask.

The cost is not high, it depends on how many resources they have, if everything needs to be bought, then this cost will be multiplied by ten, and even 10,000 taels of silver may not be able to build a tank.

Steel has itself, artillery can be manufactured by itself, and now it means that Wang Sirui only needs to pay the wages of the workers, and does not need to pay any expenses other than wages at all.

And the employees of military factories and steel factories are paid monthly wages, ranging from four to ten taels per person per month, even if it takes a thousand people to make a tank, then it is only between four thousand and ten thousand taels of silver a month, and you can't only make one tank a month, right?

Based on the calculation of 30 tanks, the average cost of each tank is only 133.33 taels to 333.33 taels.

Now we know why China's weapons and equipment have a price advantage in future generations, right? In addition to the fact that some things are not as good as others, the main thing is that labor and materials save great costs.

If Ford's salary of five dollars per person per day is calculated, it takes 1,000 people to build a tank, then it is 5,000 dollars a day, 150,000 dollars a month, and it is spread over 30 tanks, and a tank alone has 5,000 dollars in labor costs.

In one, this tank does not require too much high-tech, and even the functions on it are not much, and the cost of a simple tank is naturally very cheap.

"Your Majesty, this has not been calculated yet, because we have few people, so it took a year and a half just to spend on this tank." Shang Zhu scratched his head a little embarrassed, he really didn't calculate the working hours.

Anyway, their team of nearly 200 people has been either manufacturing parts or researching in the past year and a half, and 200 people, a year and a half, how many man-hours should be counted? It's almost a million man-hours, right?

"Leave some people to continue the final test of this tank, temporarily transfer a group of people out, I will arrange people to assist you, set up a new tank factory, all of which will be produced in an assembly line manner, and build according to the output of thirty tanks per month, and go back to make a budget for me." Wang Sirui nodded and ordered.

"Your Majesty...... I'm afraid this is a bit difficult, manufacturing this tank just requires thousands of processes, if you want to reach a monthly output of 30 units, with our current industrial capacity, I'm afraid it is a little difficult, and the investment is also huge......" Shang Zhu said with a black line.

"How long does it take for the simplest process and the most complex process?" Wang Sirui frowned and asked, he knew that the manufacture of tanks was very complicated, and there were not many thousands of processes, or even few, and it was difficult to produce 30 units a month by means of assembly lines? It shouldn't be difficult, right?

"The simplest process can be done in ten minutes, and the most complex process is the engine, which takes half a month to make an engine, and we don't have so many talents available." Shang Zhu said.

"The engine can also be manufactured in the way of assembly line, you are designers, you should be very clear which steps can be disassembled and made, all the parts are disassembled and made, and finally gathered in the assembly workshop to assemble the engine, can be divided into different groups, a group is only responsible for a process, this problem, I think it is difficult for you, right?" Wang Sirui said with some disdain.

Are you a scientific research institution? You need to make a part one by one, do you have to make it yourself when it comes to mass production? What is an assembly line? To put it simply, assembly line employees only need to know two steps.

One is the process you are responsible for, the other is your previous process, when the product is delivered to you, you need to check whether the previous process is qualified, if it is qualified, then continue to the next step, unqualified, then hit back, or scrapped, it's that simple.

If a person wants to learn from beginning to end, it is unrealistic, even if he is given two years, he may not be able to understand the technology of the engine, but only two steps are learned, and only one week is enough.

Although the assembly line seems to have increased the production equipment and personnel, the efficiency is also doubling.

"In this case, it is possible, but the quality is not guaranteed at present."

"Don't worry, the assembly line production has been verified, as long as the master who taught them is not wrong, and they have really learned, then the quality can still be guaranteed." Wang Sirui explained with an expression of "I am a master", and immediately became excited: "The appearance of this tank is a little rough, the speed is not very fast, although the flexibility is okay, but there are still flaws, I think it is called a wild boar tank!" ”

A mighty and domineering name, naturally able to make people rush to fear when they hear it, although the wild boar also has a certain threat, but it is not domineering, the main reason is that Wang Sirui is reluctant to use those domineering names on this simple version of the tank, a good name should be used on a good tank. (To be continued.) )