The two main tanks from Red Alert 2, the Rhino and the Grizzly Bear, if you purely talk about the technical content, even if you are promoted to the elite level, it is still not as good as the overhauled Type 99. Mainly because the foundation of these two main battle tanks is still the second generation of tanks, the elite level can generally be squeezed into the third generation, and the Type 99 has become a third-generation +++ type of bug weapon after the magic reform.

Factory 617 is Grizzly and Rhino have gotten, frankly speaking, it is not difficult to copy these two tanks for Factory 617, which is actually good in terms of technology, but they can only copy the basic Rhino and Grizzly tanks, high-horsepower engines after rising to the elite level, more advanced fire control systems, and stronger protection of composite armor, these things need to be comprehensively broken, not only can be done by the car factory.

Compared with the Rhinoceros, the Grizzly Bear tank has a smaller caliber of artillery, using a 105mm smoothbore gun, although it can hit depleted uranium shells, tungsten alloy armor-piercing bullets and other more penetrating bullets, compared with the larger caliber 120mm and 125mm main guns, both the range and power are smaller. However, the Grizzly Bear has a very compact design and is particularly maneuverable, with a 1200 horsepower engine, it only takes 6 seconds to accelerate from stationary to 32 kilometers per hour, the maximum road speed is 80 kilometers per hour, and the maximum off-road speed is 55 kilometers per hour. With a maximum weight of only 33 tons, it should be considered a light main battle tank in terms of magnitude. Its main gun and protection are relatively average, but the fire control system is not bad.

It's just that the 1200-horsepower diesel engine of the Grizzly Tank, plus some fire control systems, the 617 plant still can't break through for a while. Therefore, this tank was temporarily put aside, and the rhinoceros tank, which was relatively simple in design and not difficult to copy, became the first choice of Factory 617.

Even Qi Yiming didn't expect that the work ability and tackling key problems of the 617 factory were quite extraordinary, and they only got the design drawings and various technical techniques of the rhinoceros tank in February, and the 617 factory had already built a finished car in mid-April. As the official media of later generations said in the Baguwen, as long as the people of the Celestial Empire want to do something, the absolute efficiency is so high that people can call it a miracle and shout invincible......

The key point to be able to copy the Rhino at such a fast speed is that the Rhino has many similarities with the 80 series main battle tanks under development by the 617 Factory, and in some details, the 617 Factory directly transferred the relevant parts of the mature Type 80 tank to the Rhino Tank in order to pursue progress. And the technique used for the Rhino Tank that has not been broken through in the previous Type 80 series just forms a perfect integration.

The newly designed 617 version of the Rhino tank, weighing 48 tons, is a bit overweight than the ordinary second-generation main battle tank, mainly because of the relatively large weight of the special composite armor it uses. This kind of armor technique is called R-type armor, which did not appear in the real world, some K-shaped composite armor similar to the Soviet T-64 tank, which is the accumulation of multiple layers of different substances, but compared with the complex T-64, the R-type armor of the rhinoceros has a simple structure and low cost, mainly alloys, ceramic armor, quartz sandwiches, etc. In addition, this Rhino tank can also be equipped with reactive armor or fence armor to enhance its resistance to damage.

This defense capability is not far behind that of the earlier M1.

However, the fire control system of the entire Rhino tank is relatively primitive: a monocular periscope gun commander sight, a three-in-one type of day and night sighting, integrated ranging and laser ranging. The night vision sight uses a second-generation low-light night vision device, and the laser rangefinder can measure 260-6000 meters. Other components include a fire control computer and control panel, a ballistic correction sensor, a target angular velocity sensor and a trunnion tilt sensor, and a two-way composite control stabilizer.

Although it is said to be "primitive", such a complete line-stabilized fire control system has basically reached the final milestone of the Type 80 series, that is, the level of the early Type 96 tanks equipped with a large number of Army Rabbits in later generations.

Because the Rhino in the Red Alert 2 game uses a 120mm main gun, but the actual real caliber of the Soviet Army should be 125mm caliber, so the Rhino tank version of the 617 factory can replace the above two different caliber barrels.

The 617 factory knows very well that everyone should share this truth when they make good things, of course, in fact, first, they don't expect the PLA to have an order for this new tank they "developed", the Type 99 blocked all the roads, and secondly, they really don't think that even if they order, how much can the PLA that is shy in their pockets order now.

Therefore, Huang Lianggong, general manager of the 617 factory, took advantage of the fact that the last batch of Type 59 tanks was about to be delivered to the Pakistani army, and enthusiastically dragged out their newly built rhinoceros tanks in front of the Pakistani representatives for the Pakistani side to see.

Pakistani Army Colonel Mubashar asked with some curiosity: "Is this a newly developed tank developed by the Chinese brothers?" It looks completely different from the Type 59 and Type 69, is it the latest model of the Chinese Brother Type 80 tank? "The relationship between the Celestial Empire and the minibus has always been an all-weather de facto ally of non-superficial allies, and China-Pakistan relations are written into the Pakistani constitution, so the Pakistani army is actually clear about what China is doing.

In fact, they also want to get some of China's latest main battle tanks, but the Great Celestial Empire has always made a thing tasteless, or it is much worse than its own use, so it will be exported to others, and even then it seems very painful, making people feel that they lack bearing and are too cautious. It was not until the 10s of the 21st century that this situation was slowly reversed, for example, in 2013, when China Precision Machinery Corporation participated in the bidding with the main anti-aircraft missile HQ-9. Of course, at that time, the PLA's HQ-19 and HQ-26 and other next-generation anti-aircraft missiles were almost mature, and the Celestial Empire had already completed the mid-course anti-missile test, and the HQ-9 did not seem to be the most advanced thing.

Huang Lianggong said nonsense without blushing, patted his chest and said: "That's right, this is the new main battle tank that we have integrated the latest science and technology developed by other brother units across the country on the basis of the Type 80 tank, and finally integrated it. Fortunately, we have obtained foreign trade qualifications for this tank, which is now named MBT-1000, nicknamed Rhinoceros, and has officially put it on our shelves. ”

As soon as he said this, Mubashar immediately understood that this new type of tank could be opened to the Pakistani military for purchase.

In terms of absolute quantity, Uncle Saddam Hussein is the largest buyer of Celestial Empire tanks, buying more than 2,000 Wujiu and Liujiu before and after, but Pakistan is the persistent buyer of Celestial Empire tanks. From the 70s, they began to buy the Type 59, the minibus brothers bought the 69, 85-II, and finally got the decent MBT-2000 Khalid, and with the help of the Celestial Empire, they established a heavy vehicle factory for the independent production of tanks.

Mubashar and a group of Pakistani soldiers who had come to receive the new tanks did not care about the Type 59, which had already been rolled off the production line and ready to be packed and sent away, and with the assistance of the mechanics of the 617 factory, they climbed into the more powerful and domineering Rhino tank.

In terms of appearance, the so-called MBT-1000 Rhino tank is very different from the traditional 59 lineage, the most obvious difference is that the oval cast turret of the 59 line has been canceled, and a taller inclined welded turret is used, which at first glance actually looks a bit like the M1 Abram with a smaller turret. Moreover, the new tank uses light cyan and sandy yellow desert camouflage, and some parts look less "nostalgic" and more modern. People who probably don't know much about tanks, but with the naked eye, can see that the new Rhino tank is much more advanced than the Type 59 that foils the seat next to it.

Mubashar jumped on the tank, touched the muzzle of the gun, turned to Huang Lianggong and said, "The caliber has increased, right?" ”

Huang Lianggong squinted with a smile and said: "That's right, we have broken through the techniques of tank gun brake remelting, self-tightening of the body barrel and chrome plating of the gun breech, and we can also replace the 120mm caliber 44 times diameter main gun of the NATO standard and the 125mm 48 times diameter main gun of the Soviet standard according to customer needs. "In practice, the performance of Soviet-made tank guns was slightly worse, but the rabbits who started from the Soviet-made system and then recited scriptures at home finally made a stronger tank gun with a caliber of 125mm.

Mubashar's eyes were almost crooked when he heard the numbers 125 and 120, their main opponent, India, a large South Asian country that had fought three wars, introduced the T-72M1 tank to the Soviet Union in the seventies, this second-generation tank began to use 125mm guns very early, unlike the American M1 that used 105mm guns in the early days. It can be said that before the Persian Gulf War T-72 was beaten to the ground by the M1, especially in the seventies and eighties, the T-72 was still a rather deterrent weapon.

Sure enough, a Pakistani officer asked: "How is the new tank of the Chinese brothers better than the T-72?" ”

Huang Lianggong snorted disdainfully and said: "The T-72 is not worthy of being compared with our MBT-1000 rhinoceros, and it is better to compare the T-64 with our rhinoceros that the Soviets are not willing to sell." Our Rhino tank can outperform the T-72 in terms of firepower, protection and mobility, and the T-72's 2A46 gun cannot defeat our Rhino tank head-on at a distance of 2,000 meters, whether it fires tail stabilized armor-piercing shells, armor-piercing shells, or armor-piercing grenades. In addition, taking into account the terrible fire control system of the T-72, their hit rate at long distances, according to our calculations, is less than a third of that of our Rhino tank. Moreover, our Rhino tank uses the second-generation low-light night vision device developed by our country, although it is not as good as the thermal imager in night battles, but it is still much more powerful than the active infrared searchlight aiming of the T-72. ”