After returning to the consortium, Wang Ye did three things one after another.

The first thing I did was to go to Yuntai City and complete a deposit of 30% of the payment to Toshiba, which amounted to about $36 million.

The second thing is to contact Director Liang, and then personally went to the province to communicate about the provincial industrial chain conference related things, the provincial leaders were very happy, and then the province issued an invitation letter, the final industrial chain conference time was determined to be December 25, the address is in Yuntai City Hongxing Shipyard, after all, the scale here is a little larger, there is a small auditorium, and it is more convenient to come and go.

The more critical issue is that when the headquarters involves the production of weapons, it still needs to be kept secret as a whole, and there will be too many people here, and it is too noisy and not conducive to secrecy, so the external hospitality work can only be placed on the shipyard side, and the scale of the steel plant is too small to support this provincial conference.

The third thing is that the work is checked, which are the local production progress and scientific research progress, the production progress of the dismantling plant, and the production progress of the shipyard.

At present, the products produced by the division include rotorcraft, gasoline engines of various displacements, V8 diesel engines, Red Star ADV motorcycles, motorcycle tricycles, four-wheeled light trucks, pickup trucks, six-wheeled off-road vehicles, fire support vehicle weapon stations, self-propelled mortar weapon stations, compressors, picture tubes, and other supporting parts, as well as production line construction equipment.

In addition to these production projects, there are countless scientific research projects, large and small hundreds of projects, some have produced products and obtained product finalization, some are still under research and can produce results soon, while some are relatively slow and need a long time to produce results, and so on.

And at the dismantling plant, the current production projects are: the dismantling of the Type 59 tank, the wheeled acceleration of the Type 59 tank, the assembly and production of the 59-k fire support vehicle, the assembly and production of the 59-m self-propelled mortar, the modification and production of heavy transport truck trains.

Finally, there is the shipyard, which has begun and entered the right track after a round of rectification, namely electric fans, washing machines, televisions, refrigerators, and air conditioners.

Of course, although there are more than 3,500 workers in the shipyard, these workers, more than 1,500 of them did not carry out production, but started a new round of professional skills training and training according to Wang Ye's requirements, after all, they have been out of production for several years, and the level of workers has regressed, and they need to be caught up quickly.

And the remaining more than 2,000 people are not enough for the scale of household appliance production required by Wang Ye, so from the families of the workers who are being trained, young people and young daughters-in-law, as well as middle-aged women comrades, are selected to join the production of household appliances.

In this way, it is ensured that every worker family in the entire shipyard enjoys the joy of overtime.

After all, in the structure of the consortium, overtime means that there is additional overtime pay, which is unique in this era, and is a good welfare that countless outside workers yearn for, for the simple reason that everyone is short of money nowadays, and is willing to use extra overtime in exchange for more wages, and it is precisely because of this that the entire shipyard is now filled with a joyful atmosphere.

From the past wages can not be paid, to the current normal salary on the basis of overtime, overtime and additional overtime pay, a time of work enthusiasm is full, click is to do, no need to urge, for fear because the work is not good enough fast enough, by others to work, after all, the scale of production is so large, although the formal workers in the factory have something to do, but there are still a lot of idle family members, are waiting to continue to expand production!

"Huh! It's still Lao Zhao who is amazing! ”

"Isn't it, it feels like this in the eighth level worker! Cattle! ”

"Look good, study hard! Don't talk! ”

"Shhhh It's all quiet, don't disturb Lao Zhao's operation! ”

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In the metal processing workshop of the No. 2 Iron and Steel Plant of the Consortium, I saw Wang Ye wearing a work uniform sweating profusely, and a group of people were watching something.

In the crowd of onlookers, I saw a master operating a machine tool to carry out boring operations on a metal cylinder, with his operation, the holes in the metal cylinder are getting bigger and bigger, and the inner wall is getting smoother and smoother, and even with the irradiation of the light, there is already a mirror effect.

"Whew! Suffocate me! ”

"Hurry up, hurry up and measure what the inner diameter is!"

"Yes, it stands to reason that it should be up to standard!"

When another boring operation was completed, there was a sound of relaxation in the crowd of onlookers, and the master picked up the equipment and began to simply measure the inner diameter of the metal cylinder.

"130 mm more than 7 wires!"

"Having fulfilled the task requirements assigned by the factory manager, coupled with the chrome plating process, it should be possible to accurately control the inner diameter of 130 mm! Hahaha! ”

After some simple measurements, the old master couldn't help but say this excitedly, and a deafening cheer rang out at the scene in an instant!

"Hahaha, I finally saw my eyebrows!"

"I'm really tired these days, Lao Liu is still amazing! If you don't accept it, you can't. ”

"Machine tools! We still lack high-precision machine tools! How many cannon tubes have been wasted? At least there are more than 100 of them, right? ”

"It's just a little more, this kind of success rate is definitely not good, but we have at least taken the first step, and we can carry out follow-up research and testing!"

"Yes, yes, to be honest, I've been dreaming of this cannon these days, a caliber of one hundred and thirty millimeters, my God, it must have been shocking when it fired!"

"To be honest, I think this caliber is a bit outrageous!"

"Hey? Afraid of what? We can be big or small, technical reserves! If there is too much performance, we can do 125, we can do 120, or even 105, right? ”

"That's right! That's the truth, first make the big one, and then make the small one! ”

Everyone at the scene was full of excited expressions, warm applause echoed in the workshop, the old master's red face, enjoying the glory that belonged to him, even Wang Ye was clapping wildly, with an expression of admiration on his face, the sound of discussion around him sounded, and joy filled the entire workshop.

After returning from Yanjing, Wang Ye finished those three things and devoted his energy to the scientific research project team.

Every day, going back and forth between the various project teams, from eight o'clock in the morning to eleven or twelve o'clock in the evening, and even in the early hours of the morning, still holding meetings with different project teams, or in the workshop and laboratory, anyway, there was no rest for a day, under this high-intensity push, the electroslag remelting project of the metal and materials laboratory finally achieved the first phase of success, and then the tank gun project team began to take over the work.

After more than ten days and more than a hundred barrels scrapped, it seems that now it has finally succeeded!

The root cause of many failures is that the current machining accuracy level of the consortium is not up to standard, and it is very difficult to produce a high-precision barrel, relying solely on equipment, it is almost impossible to complete, and finally Wang Ye had to try to call the master to manually make up for the accuracy of the processing equipment, which is often said to be hand rubbing, and now it seems that the probability of the first success has finally been triggered.

As we all know, in the field of machining, there is an iron law.

That is, the accuracy of the part, or the error level, can not be lower than the error of the machine itself that produces the part, for a simple example, if the machining error of a machine tool is ten wires, then the part it produces, the error cannot be less than ten wires, so that the problem arises.

What if you want to continue to improve accuracy?

In other words, the accuracy of the parts processed by each machine tool is lower than the accuracy of the machine tool itself, so how can these parts be used to make a machine tool with higher precision?

The solution is very simple and complex, on the one hand, it is to rely on multiple processing, multi-platform, multi-way processing to improve the overall accuracy of the parts, on the other hand, that is, to rely on labor, rely on the level of senior technicians, use manpower to make up for the accuracy, and finally improve the accuracy of the machine tool, which in turn leads to the improvement of the accuracy of the overall industrial production.

And now, Wang Ye relied on the personal level of the master, through many experiments, smoothed out the error of the equipment, and got the first barrel!

That's right, this hollow metal column with a smooth interior is a gun barrel, a tank barrel.

From the international level, in the next 30 years, tanks are still the most mainstream equipment of the army, and it is also a kind of high value-added weapons and equipment that gradually increases in overall value.

After all, this thing is known as the king of land warfare, and it will be the main force of the war in the next twenty years, and the market demand is large, and exports are very profitable.

And the Iran-Iraq war is about to usher in a climax, their demand for tanks is increasing, the United States and the Soviet Union to maintain restraint, hope for a ceasefire under the common goal, both sides no longer to Iran and Iran to export tanks, the last task, fell to Luo Yang and Bao Tou 2 nose, it can be said that a lot of money has been earned!

Even when the demand is at its highest, these two factories can't meet it at all, so Wang Ye uses his own "tractor" to fill the caulks, isn't it too much?

Secondly, from a domestic point of view, there is also a lack of powerful main battle tanks.

Nowadays, the mainstream tank guns in China are the 100 mm rifled gun above the old 59, the improved 100 mm smoothbore gun technology, the 105 mm rifled gun with the introduction of Austrian technology, the 105 mm rifled gun upgraded after digestion, and the 105 mm rifled gun upgraded again.

In normal history, next year, the troops will obtain a T-72 tank from Romania through some secret channels and methods, and it is still an early model, not the T-72A model that India has begun to pursue, and then it came into contact with the 125mm tank gun, and because of the follow-up contact with the German company Rheinmetall, the other party rejected our contact and cooperation plan related to the 120mm tank gun, so it was finally decided to develop a 125mm tank gun.

And it was not until 92 that the first tank 822AP, equipped with a 125-mm smoothbore tank gun and an automatic loader, was officially launched and exported to Pakistan to assist them in countering the threat from Indian T-72 tanks, and as for domestic tanks equipped with 125 caliber cannons, that was a later matter.

Precisely because of this.

So Wang Ye decided to directly and vigorously make a miracle, and first engage in 130 mm super caliber tank guns in one step, which is also one of the final trends in the development of tanks after 40 years, after all, with the development of "spear" and "shield", from homogeneous armor to composite armor, and then to reactive armor, the defense is getting stronger and stronger, which in turn leads to the caliber of tank guns getting bigger and bigger.

Nowadays, the purpose of directly taking out a 130 mm caliber tank gun, or the benefit, is actually only one, that is, in the case of a less advanced manufacturing industry, without considering mobility, no matter which country's tank is on the opposite side, it can be shot through with one shot and sent it directly to the western sky!

In the next 20 years, although the technology and digitalization of tanks have been advancing, and various tank tactics have emerged in an endless stream, but for the vast majority of battlefields around the world, in fact, this kind of performance is "overflowing", and customers can't play it at all.

As long as this tank gun is strong enough, the armor is almost OK, the mobility ability is almost OK, it doesn't matter if the shooting ability is on the move, as long as you stand firm and can shoot accurately and penetrate it, anyway, when the tank is in the hands of the customer, it is either a horizontal push, or a cover ambush and sneak attack, or it is built into an artillery position, anyway, they can't play with advanced tactics, and there are too many bells and whistles to be useful!

As long as the most critical performance is described, Wang Ye is sure that his tractor will definitely sell well because of the anti-cannon!

That is: with this cannon, you can punch through all tanks!

Or: give you a chance to fire, and the enemy will surely die!

Such performance is enough for the customer, as for the higher level, that is the domestic problem, anyway, when the energy is limited and the time is limited, there is absolutely nothing wrong with getting the most critical and core out first, and the core of the tank is definitely not the defense, but the cannon!

Even if this thing is called a tank in the end, Wang Ye thinks it doesn't matter, even if it is called a self-propelled anti-tank gun, or a tractor with a giant cannon, Wang Ye has no opinion, anyway, as long as it can be sold, it is a good name!

"That's it! Next, it's time for the chrome plating process inside our barrel. ”

"This step must also be careful, otherwise our precious pipe will be scrapped, and it will be too difficult to get such a piece out again before our machine tool is in place!"

Hearing Wang Ye's emotion, there was a burst of laughter at the scene, and then everyone began to continue working step by step, and the chrome plating process of the gun barrel also began.

At present, the world's most advanced tank gun actually has three important technical characteristics, namely electroslag remelting, self-tightening of the body tube, and the coating technology in the barrel, of which the coating is currently mainly chrome plating.

In other words, as long as the chrome plating is successful, this is a qualified laboratory-level barrel, and the next step is to solve the success rate of processing and mass production.

In addition, this super tank gun is matched with the "Tracked Tractor" project.

At present, related technologies are also being studied, such as the V8 diesel engine that has been produced as a blueprint, the design and improvement of the V16 engine, as a power source for the crawler tractor, and also the heavy armored crawler body technology, in order to carry this cannon, in order to have enough expansibility, in order to leave enough room for upgrading in the future, Wang Ye decided to engage in a "universal heavy-duty crawler tractor chassis", the kind of seven pairs of load-bearing wheels.

Time flies, and December 25 is getting closer and closer.

In addition to running around the conference room, laboratory, and factory workshop every day, Wang Ye also had to take the factory leaders, the staff of the factory affairs office and the secretariat to hold meetings at night to prepare for relevant issues about the province's industrial chain.

Meanwhile.

The conflicts on the Saudi side have become more and more violent, cruel and frequent.