Zhou Huang was powerless to complain.

After this small episode, Gu Cheng asked him to inform the development team members of the second-generation exoskeleton Power Armor, and most of the original team members were called, leaving only one-fifth of the team members to continue to be responsible for the follow-up work of the Power Armor and the supplementary design of the Power Armor 2.0.

Half an hour later, Gu Cheng looked at the core development team members composed of more than 40 people in front of him, looked around at Yu Fengxian, Zhou Huang and other scientists and engineers and said:

"When Xiao Zhou informed the big guy, he should have already told you in general, so I won't say anything more. Although this mission does not need to be as urgent as the second-generation power armor, since there is a task, let's do it early, so we have to ...... the development task in the first half of this year That's right, the codename index of this development plan is called ...... Playing with balls, it doesn't matter what you call it. ”

Zhou Huang immediately distributed a collated information to everyone, and the whole team was divided into several modules, all of which performed their own duties according to their own professional division of labor.

For example, Yu Fengxian is in charge of the material.

Gu Cheng's preliminary design plan for the spherical chariot is very rough, and it can even be said that it is just an idea, and the real design and development requires team members to participate in the demonstration one by one, and then confirm whether the idea is feasible.

In the following days, Gu Cheng handed over the company's affairs to Qiu Shiming to deal with it with full authority, this year can be said to be the first year of Tianqing Technology's global business, and the negotiations with North America have shown signs of easing, even if the North American market is difficult to access, but opening up other overseas markets such as Europe is promising this year.

This year is destined to be a year of explosion of Tianqing Technology's business, and Lao Qiu's performance target of nearly 700 billion yuan for the company this year is not over-inflated, but has a realistic basis.

However, he didn't care about Gu Cheng, the shopkeeper.

……

In a flash, the new year came in February.

R&D Center of Tianqing Industrial Zone.

In the spherical chariot project development department, the time is already 17:45 in the afternoon, and Gu Cheng is still working in the project department and the development team members.

At this time, Zhou Huang, who lowered his head and focused on the flat panel display in his hand, came to the development hall, and after reading on it for a while, he turned his eyes to the development hall, and saw Gu Cheng sitting in front of a computer desk working seriously.

Zhou Huang became a little more and more curious about this scene, and then looked at the time on the tablet, and it was almost 18 o'clock now.

The boss hasn't gotten off work yet and is still working?

It's been like this lately.

What's going on?

Zhou Huang walked over, held back in his heart for a long time, and finally couldn't help asking: "Boss!" ”

Gu Cheng: "Huh? ”

Zhou Huang hesitated for a moment, and said weakly: "During this time, boss, I found that you have worked almost 6 hours a day for the past two weeks, this is not scientific, what is the reason for making you work so hard?" ”

For Gu Cheng, who couldn't work 3 hours a day, Zhou Huang felt that this was an unprecedented thing.

Hearing this, Gu Cheng temporarily put down the work at hand and glanced at Zhou Huang: "You want to know the reason?" Here's why...... Flirting with girls is the biggest source of motivation. ”

What the heck?

Seeing his blank expression, Gu Cheng asked him slowly: "Let me ask you, what is the purpose of the development of the spherical chariot?" ”

Zhou Huang replied without thinking: "The X-B185 tank against the Americans." ”

Gu Cheng asked again: "Who led the development of the B185?" ”

Zhou Huang replied quickly: "According to the content of the information you showed me, it was a young female scientist from Loma Company who led the restart of the project, what is it called... Loz... Lopez ...... It's Vera Lopez, right! I also deliberately googled her information and found that she is also a god-level character, and she looks very good...... Wait a minute...?? ”

Saying that, Zhou Huang looked at Gu Cheng in astonishment: "Boss, you ......"

Gu Cheng looked at him and smiled, and said lightly: "Use the power of pure thought and knowledge to completely defeat her and finally conquer her, this is the source of motivation." ”

Zhou Huang stared at Gu Cheng with his mouth open, and when he was about to speak, the latter had already looked back at the display panel, and he had no choice but to swallow back the words he was about to speak.

I only sigh, I really have to see you for a long time.

Gu Cheng didn't explain the reason, Zhou Huang couldn't have dreamed that the motive for co-authoring him was actually to flirt with his sister?

Who would dare to believe this?

This way of picking up girls is too high-end, and Zhou Huang said that he couldn't learn it.

Xiaoqing: "The 48th adjustment and correction design is ready, and the calculation simulation will start in 10 seconds."

As Xiaoqing's prompt sound resounded in the R&D hall, Yu Fengxian and other more than 30 scientific research teams put down the work at hand, Zhou Huang also put away his thoughts, and Gu Cheng and everyone neatly set their eyes on the big screen.

The main screen shows a 3D model of the spherical vehicle, with a variety of patterns on its exterior armor for better grip, and a large number of jets between those patterns, arranged in arrays.

In the first round of simulation tests, the spherical chariot rushed to a large slope at a maximum speed of 410 km/h, and the result was that the spherical chariot flew directly into the air, and the big guy of more than ten tons finally showed a parabola and fell to the ground fiercely, smashing a big crater.

Simulation data showed that the armor structure showed no signs of breakage and, like the last test, passed perfectly.

The second round of simulation tests is that the spherical vehicle falls into complex terrain or traps such as mud pools and deep pits, and finally the combat vehicle successfully escapes from the quagmire, deep pits and other traps through its own intermittent auxiliary jet propulsion system, this jet propulsion system is an auxiliary engine device, in addition to its role will also be due to emergency deceleration, the principle is naturally to apply a reaction force to assist the effect of emergency braking.

The second round of mock tests also passed smoothly, followed by the third and final round of mock tests, everyone couldn't help but get nervous again, and Gu Cheng also stared silently.

When the two spherical chariots collided with each other in the same straight line at maximum speed, the result came out immediately.

Gu Cheng spread his hands helplessly: "The 48th harvest of the fruit of failure...... The structure needs to be further improved. ”

The part where the two simulated spherical combat vehicles collided was directly deflated, the defensive armor and structure were completely damaged and irreparable, and even the members of the interior were shown to be killed on the spot.

"Mr. Gu, the test results this time are much better than the last time, the armor structure is more perfect, the last simulation test was even the overall structure fell apart, this time it was able to hold up, but the impact part was deflated." After seeing the data of the test results, Yu Bongxian, who leads the caryne alloy material, said with a smile.

"Boss, I think it's okay, such a test environment is harsh enough, it is rare to encounter this situation in the real environment, it is impossible to continue to soar at a speed of more than 400 kilometers per hour on complex terrain, more than 200 kilometers are in the sky, and the probability of such an extreme situation in an open area is less than 3% of the data." Zhou Huang said.

The overall standard weight of the spherical chariot reached about 12 tons, and then collided with each other at such a terrifying speed, according to the kinetic energy formula E=mv2/2, the energy it carried was so great that the flesh and blood were vulnerable in front of it.

"After another round of adjustment and improvement, it should be almost the same, and we can build a prototype with the data of 49 simulation tests." Gu Cheng is not so brainless, there is no absolutely invincible defense in the world, the limit will always be broken, the key is whether it can be suitable for the current environment, and it can be suitable.

If in this test, another spherical tank is replaced with the old American M1 proposition tank, the result must be that the old American tank is completely scrapped and the spherical tank is not damaged.

Gu Cheng looked around at everyone: "OK, it's not early, there is still half an hour to get off work." Xiao Zhou, you summarize. ”

The team members put down their work, and the members in other labs were called to the R&D hall.

Zhou Huang took out the mobile tablet control again to obtain the synchronization link with the main screen, and after operating for a while, he held the large screen and said: "At present, the standard mass of the spherical chariot is temporarily set at about 12 tons. Measured against the benchmark, it belongs to the same class as the light tank, with a maximum diameter of 3.39 meters in the sphere, which is dozens of centimeters higher than the height of the current mainstream main battle tank. The spherical chariot has two internal crew members, a driver who is responsible for driving the spherical chariot, and a gunner who is responsible for observing, selecting targets, and controlling the weapon system......"

The crew of this new type of weapon and equipment is one less than that of the contemporary tank, the previous tank was generally four crew members, namely the commander, the gun commander, the loader, and the driver, and later with the development of science and technology, the tank already has an automatic ammunition loading system, so it is reduced to three now.

The spherical combat vehicle has also canceled the commander, because with the support of the intelligent control system, a gunner can fully competently observe, select targets and hit targets, and naturally automatically reload ammunition.

The main core module of the combat vehicle is the integrated power system, which is fully electrically driven, and the energy source is still the second-generation isotope core system, which can carry multi-core energy cores due to its large size.

In fact, many of the core technologies of the spherical chariot can be extended from the reserve technology of the power armor, which allows it to move quietly with electric drive, and can also reduce the thermal radiation signal with the use of an all-electric propulsion engine.

Radiolocation, computer and graphics processing, and HUD head-up display form a set of field of view system.

The defensive armor is made of carbonylene alloy, but in terms of strength, it is one level weaker than the carbonylene alloy used in the second-generation exoskeleton power armor, because it is mixed with conventional alloys. Without him, if it is compared to the second-generation exoskeleton power armor, with the physique and full defense design requirements of the spherical combat vehicle, the demand for carboxylene alloy is calculated in tons, and the material here is the rhythm of 50 million bases.

The total cost of a ZTZ99 main battle tank is about RMB16 million, and if the spherical tank plays the kryptonite route, the total cost of the whole body will have to be hundreds of millions.

Blindly "kryptonite" is sometimes not a good thing, but a bad thing, it will make it a high-value target for the opponent to strike, and it is not conducive to large-scale equipment.

Krypton does not change his life.

The low cost can effectively reduce the enemy's desire to strike to a certain extent, which is also a kind of security in disguise, and the X-B185 all-terrain combat vehicle is also a reason.

A weapon and equipment, in the case of a similar level of science and technology, is cheaper, solid, and resistant to Cao, the key is that it is resistant to Cao + cheap. It is necessary to make sure that you do not feel heartache when you lose, and the opponent destroys the enemy target but feels a blood loss because of the calculation of the battle loss ratio.

But then again, even if the strength of the defensive armor of the spherical tank is not as strong as that of the second-generation power armor, it does not mean that the armor of the spherical tank is weak, and compared with all the main battle tanks in the world today, its armor defense level is completely explosive, which is due to the victory of the application of new materials.

Crucially, the spherical geometry is a powerful defense in itself, making it more difficult for the enemy to penetrate it. This is also easy to understand, because the surface of the spherical geometry is curved, and if the firing angle of the shell is greater than or less than 90 degrees and hits the target, there is a high probability that the shell will be directly reflected, leaving only a small mark on the surface of the armor.

Then the design of the overall structure, the spherical combat vehicle also needs a strong shock absorption and cushioning system, which is conducive to the driver driving the combat vehicle in the rampage and better adapting to all-terrain maneuvering.

Although the simulation test just now failed to collide with each other, the environment of the simulation test is extremely harsh, and the current design of the comprehensive shock absorption system is actually very good, if it is not for Gu Cheng's demands, in fact, there is no need for further improvement.

As time passed, Zhou Huang spoke for more than ten minutes, drank half a bottle of water and looked at the tablet again: "The following is the cost budget of the modules that each group is responsible for, which has been calculated and submitted, and I will report it here." ”

"The energy core system, about 20 million, this is the most expensive, which is equivalent to the cost of a set of exoskeleton power armor." Zhou Huang looked at everyone and said.

The most expensive of the major modules of the spherical chariot is still the energy core, which is as important as its heart, and the second-generation exoskeleton power armor uses a single-core core, while the spherical chariot uses a quad-core core that needs to be slightly modified.

Zhou Huang reported one by one: "The cost of computing graphics processing HUD head-up display and fire control system is 17.2 million, which is the second most expensive module; 8 million budget for defensive armor; The fineness of the structure, which does not need to be to the same extent as the power A, is one-third of the cost of the power A, 2 million; 6.5 million secondary carboxyne synthetic materials required; 3 million for integrated power systems; 880,000 internal independent livelihood support systems; Well...... There is also an air conditioning system with a budget of 5,100. ”

After speaking, Zhou Huang looked at Gu Cheng and nodded, the latter roughly calculated the total amount of the overall cost budget of the spherical chariot, excluding the weapon system, and the overall cost budget scale of the spherical chariot was preliminarily determined to be around 57 million.

Gu Cheng was not satisfied with this: "The budget of more than 57 million is indeed worth the price compared to its combat performance, but it is still too expensive, and the cost must be further reduced, I must control it at about 35 million to 40 million, and the fire control system can be completely compressed at a budget of about 13 million. ”

Obviously, the spherical tank is also a specialty combat unit, and its main combat mission is a mirror image of the X-B185, but with an additional one, specifically for the X-B185 tank.

Therefore, anti-harassment is the core positioning of the spherical chariot, but it is still a stronger and more outstanding equipment with offensive harassment ability than the X-B185, which is also undoubted, and the original purpose of the design is to target the X-B185.

In modern warfare, no weapon or equipment will fight alone, and the integrated joint combat system, integration, and integration, emphasizing that the multiple arms of the armed forces will highly coordinate in carrying out operations, each giving full play to its own strengths, and complementing each other's advantages and inferiors, so as to form a powerful combat capability as a whole and achieve the goal of having both offense and defense.

Obviously, when your own air force drags the enemy's air force and hedges out; The missile systems are also hedged against each other, so on the ground battlefield it is a contest between the spherical tank and the X-B185 tank.

As long as the opponent is suppressed, the spherical tank can take over the initiative on the ground battlefield.

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(PS: Still owes 9 chapters~~)