The men wore almost uniform beards on their faces, but they were not wearing burqas but ordinary suits.

They come from a North African country that is still relatively small and transparent, but has a high reputation in the past and in the future.

Algeria.

For a considerable number of users, the Defender 1B rocket launcher with a range of about 180km is actually enough for their tactical needs.

For example, Turkey and Thailand, which are currently the two most important users, are negotiating with the Huaxia Precision Machinery Import and Export Corporation to directly introduce the entire weapons production line.

But for some customers with a larger land area, or more ambitious, 180km is still a bit unsightly.

And Guardian 2 is facing them.

For reasons that are not difficult to guess, Algeria began to fall into an unprecedented riot in the late 80s, which gradually turned into a civil war in 1992.

It was not until August 1997 that the protracted war finally came to an end, leaving behind a society in ruins.

Since 1996, Huaxia's construction and engineering company has been contracting construction business in Algeria for the reconstruction process.

It also includes the Sheraton Algiers Pines Hotel, a national landmark.

It also became the beginning of Huaxia's entry into Africa.

However, for Algeria, which has just experienced a round of external interference, the rapid establishment of a sufficiently deterrent army is more urgent than the need to rebuild the country.

Fortunately, as a country rich in oil and natural gas, although they are not as wealthy as the princes of the Gulf, the funds that can be invested in army building can still be guaranteed.

In fact, a few years ago, they had inspected the old Defender 1 rocket launcher, but at that time, the original version had a range of only about 80 kilometers, which belonged to a level where tactical weapons were too far away and strategic weapons were not enough, so no agreement was reached at that time.

After the appearance of the upgraded version of Guardian 2, the Albanian side almost immediately contacted the Huaxia Precision Machinery Import and Export Corporation through unofficial channels.

That's why we had this trip.

In fact, the test range itself is a highly secretive unit located deep in the desert, and if you change to a country with a little closer relations with the West, you may not be allowed to enter directly.

……

A few minutes later, Zhang Hongyin, who had completed the Zhuyuan setting check, jumped down from the control room and trotted quickly to the side of Rui Xiaoting and his party.

"A few of you should have already seen the situation of our sample gun, if there are no other problems with static data, then let's go to the monitoring room next to it?"

These rockets, with a caliber of more than 400 mm, are extremely dynamic when fired, and it is difficult to ensure safety anywhere in the vicinity except for the well-protected cab and operation room.

Aite Neune, head of the military procurement delegation headed by him, nodded, followed Zhang Hongyin and Rui Xiaoting and got into several minibuses parked next to him.

Once everyone had boarded, the convoy kicked up a cloud of dust and sped along the dirt road towards the range work area, about a few kilometers away.

Naturally, there is no possibility of any drone live broadcast in this year, so although there are many screens in the so-called monitoring room, the overall design of the camera is still relatively monotonous. , which is nothing more than a multi-angle camera of the launch area and the drop area.

Fortunately, the final stage of the rocket launcher is not very fast, and the camera can easily see the whole process of hitting the target, so there is no need to worry too much about the demonstration effect.

If it is a ballistic missile or even a hypersonic weapon, then it is difficult for ordinary optical equipment to accurately capture the entire terminal process, giving the audience the feeling that nothing has happened just now, and the target will explode directly in the next instant.

The perception will be poor.

And it's hard to determine if you actually hit or if you put a bomb point in the target in advance.

After sitting down in the monitoring room, Zhang Hongyin raised his hand to look at his watch, and then said to the members of the Argentine delegation who were sitting opposite, already impatient:

"Now there is about half an hour before the test launch time we have applied, instead of waiting like this, why don't you let Professor Rui introduce the specific performance of our rocket artillery system?"

The reason why the test time card is so dead is that this approval is not made by the shooting range itself, but by the spare management agency of the Jincheng Military Region Air Force, and the coordination and cooperation are quite cumbersome.

Generally, the range of 30-40km howitzer or howitzer, the maximum ballistic altitude will be about 6500-7500m, such a test launch only needs to close the low-altitude airspace, almost will not affect the normal fixed-wing aircraft flight.

However, as a kind of rocket artillery with a range close to that of a ballistic missile, the Guardian 2 naturally has to benchmark the former in terms of ballistic height, as long as it is test-fired, the no-fly zone area is quite large, not to mention, and a stroke is the infinite height of the whole airspace, so for the safety of the airspace, it must be on time.

As soon as these words came out, several members of the delegation on the other side directly looked at each other.

"Isn't the specific performance of rocket artillery written on the propaganda materials you provided?"

Noyne took out a thick color manual from the briefcase he was carrying, and on the cover was a structural diagram of the full version of Guardian 2 printed on the cover—

Since Wanshan Special Car has not yet provided the promised 8*8 chassis, it can only be temporarily filled with the renderings used in the previous design.

After all, at present, this 6*6 site has been specially lengthened in order to carry the directional tubes that have been lengthened and increased compared with the old models, which looks very incongruous.

"This material...... It's just for outsiders to see. ”

Rui Xiaoting waved his hand, signaling that the thing didn't matter at all:

"Considering the traditional friendly relations between China and your country, we can reveal some more real data."

Such a statement apparently aroused the interest of the other party instantly.

"What do you mean by more realistic data?"

As he spoke, Neune closed the notebook that was spread out in front of him.

Obviously, he has already got the meaning of Zhang Hongyin and Rui Xiaoting.

The following content is not suitable for transcription.

"To put it simply, the export model of the Defender 2 will provide three different rockets, what you see in the manual, it is the first and basic model, the warhead mass is 75kg, the range is 290km, inertia plus satellite guidance, and the CEP at the maximum range is about 50 meters."

Noyne nodded, this was the main reason why they came to Huaxia.

In fact, most of the equipment of the Algerian army continued to be purchased from the Russians, but when they began to think about equipping them with a weapon of strategic deterrence, they made a mistake.

Naturally, the strategic weapons in the mouth of a medium-sized country cannot be intercontinental ballistic missiles with a range of tens of thousands of kilometers, but the only decent land-based long-range weapons in the arsenal of the Russians are these weapons of mass destruction.

As a result of the INF Treaty, all short-range missiles that meet Algerian requirements have been destroyed.

Therefore, they had to find Chinese people who did not have this burden.

After all, the range of 290km is barely enough for them.

"For most users, we'll just offer this base model."

Rui Xiaoting said as he turned the laptop in front of him to face the opposite side.

The top of the screen is shown with three or simple sections.

Even people who don't know about technology can see some of the nuances that exist between them.

Because the draftsman thoughtfully marked it with bold lines on it—

"In addition to this, we will provide two other options, one is the replacement of the seeker and the warhead, which originally only played the role of a fairing with a radar seeker, at the cost that the mass of the warhead will be reduced to about 50kg, but it can attack moving surface ships."

"As for the other one, it is to replace the power section, and we kept the propellant corresponding to the 350km range in the original design, but due to the arms export treaty signed later, we can only waste some fuel by adjusting the engine parameters."

"But you really only need to replace these few key valves to get the performance back to where it was at the beginning."

At this time, Neune, who was sitting opposite, was almost unable to hold back:

"You're sure it's a ...... Bazooka? ”

Zhang Hongyin and Rui Xiaoting here glanced at each other:

"Strictly speaking, on our equipment catalog, the official name of this model is 'Defender 2 Integrated Rocket Weapon System', of course, if you are willing to continue the name of rocket artillery, we have no opinion......"

(End of chapter)