"The factory director is back! The factory director is back! ”

When Wang Ye got out of the car, there was a tsunami-like shout at the scene, and the people who came to greet or watch were actually some old and weak, women and children, because everyone else was at work and had no time to come over.

"It's good to be back! It's good to be back! ”

"Africa is not a good place, it is a chaotic place, there are wars everywhere, I didn't want you to go there in person"

Then, with cheers full of joy, the old factory director wearing a brand-new Mao suit walked over quickly, followed by a group of people, and directly surrounded Wang Ye in the middle, and then the old factory director took Wang Ye's hand, and the eyes that were visible to the naked eye were red, watching Wang Ye keep chattering.

"I'm worried about you, it's fine, it's safe!"

"Living in our army's base, surrounded by our own people, what are you afraid of?"

"You're right?"

Wang Ye took the old director's hand and said with a smile, and the old director didn't say anything anymore, just looked at Wang Ye and said with a smile:

"It's good to come back anyway! It's good to be back! Look! Look! How busy are we right now? ”

"Saw it all the way, right? Construction is happening everywhere, construction is happening everywhere, there's a lot of work! ”

"Not to mention, in addition to these construction things, there are also research and production aspects, so there are many things!"

"The shipyard calls every now and then, the committee members ask you every day when you will come back, and there are a lot of things waiting for you to decide."

"You're busy this time, don't go out, just stay at home honestly!"

Obviously, the old factory director said a lot of things, just for the last purpose, looking at the old factory director's eyes that were already slightly cloudy, Wang Ye nodded vigorously and said:

"I won't be going out again for a short time, so don't worry!"

"This time the outside is almost done, and the next thing is our internal development, after all, the iron still needs its own hardness, right?"

Faced with Wang Ye's statement, the old factory director said with a smile:

"Yes, yes, yes!"

After finishing speaking, the old factory director coughed lightly, and in the face of the surging crowd around him, he didn't have the old state just now, and shouted with full anger:

"That's it! The factory director is back! Nothing but a little tanned. ”

"Let's go back! Let's all go back! It's time to eat, drink, go! ”

Accompanied by the voice of the old factory director, there was a sound of laughter all around, and what else was "the factory director will come to my house for dinner at night!" The crowd quickly dispersed.

Obviously, these people came to see if their factory director came back alive and well.

After all, for today's consortium, Wang Ye has become the spiritual pillar in their hearts, as long as Wang Ye, the factory director, is vigorous, the consortium will still maintain high-speed development, at least in their hearts, it must be like this, then their good days will be endless!

After the old and weak women and children dispersed, there were still fifty or sixty people at the scene, all of whom were factory leaders, some committee members, and some staff members.

"By the way, I just saw, what is it with a big red flower?"

"What is it? Which of our products is it? Hurry up, let me see! ”

After the scene quieted down, Wang Ye couldn't wait to ask, and suddenly a stout and square-faced committee member walked up, looked at Wang Ye and said with a red face:

"Factory director, fortunately, I am not dishonored!"

"Look at it!"

In fact, seeing this Commissioner Liang, Wang Ye had already guessed what it was, and a touch of joy instantly appeared on his face, and then he looked in the direction indicated by this Commissioner Liang.

In an instant, the crowd dispersed layer by layer, and finally only a row of young people who clearly belonged to the project remained, arm in arm to form a human wall, with the front and rear layers blocking the target.

"Open!"

With the order of Commissioner Liang, the young people split from the middle in an instant, making way of the area they were blocking, and at that moment Wang Ye's eyes involuntarily lit up!

I saw an earthy yellow armored chassis, and it was quietly parked there, with three big red flowers hanging in front of it, surrounded by red silk cloth, as if the groom was about to enter the cave room!

"Director, let me introduce you."

"This is the first prototype of our universal armored chassis project, codenamed 'Tractor'!"

Accompanied by the voice of Commissioner Liang, Wang Ye strode over, only to see that this "tractor" was actually the chassis of a tank, and it was the size of a main battle tank, but there was only one chassis, and there was no turret on it, which looked a little strange, and the top was bare, like a huge skateboard.

"The length is seven .eight meters, the width is three meters six, and the height is one meter six and five."

"We use a W16 diesel engine that has been specially upgraded by our power department, which can provide 1,200 horsepower, and in terms of powertrain space, our chassis still has a lot of room for modification, which is convenient for future replacement of more powerful engines, such as the V12 engine with a larger bore."

Speaking of this, the committee member Liang paused, and then said with a smug smile:

"Even according to what the factory director said, in the future, this chassis can also add a battery pack and an electric motor system to improve its torque output and greatly strengthen its tactical maneuverability."

"In addition to its armor, we have adopted the latest ceramic composite armor currently developed by the Armor and Defense Department."

With the suggestion of Committee Liang, Wang Ye looked at the chassis in front of him and couldn't help nodding frequently.

The first requirement is that the platform should be big enough, not too small.

The purpose is naturally to provide a larger platform that can be compatible with a wider variety of weapons of larger size, load more and more complex equipment, and even mount more external armor, leaving enough room for future upgrades and transformations, so that it can be tinkered with and improved on this platform.

The benefits of this are twofold, one is that it improves the versatility of this chassis.

This is also why it is called a multi-purpose combat vehicle chassis, which can be equipped with large-caliber artillery and a large number of reactive armor, as a main battle tank, or equipped with small-caliber artillery to become a fire support vehicle, or equipped with missiles and radars for air defense, and even equipped with electromagnetic countermeasure equipment, becoming the electromagnetic controller of the battlefield.

The second reason is that it is mainly oriented to the international market, rather than domestic troops.

Since it is necessary to face the international market, it is necessary to take into account the different needs of different countries, and a variety of vehicles can be manufactured with a chassis, so the cost can be greatly compressed, and for the buying country, if you buy an early model, you can also spend money to upgrade advanced models in the future, rather than a hammer deal, so that you can make more money.

The second requirement is that the design concept should be forward-looking.

To give the simplest example, the current domestic tanks and Soviet tanks, basically all of them are "manual transmission", in fact, similar to the car, that is, first step on the clutch and then shift, in some old models of Soviet tanks, it is very difficult to hang the gear, and even need a small hammer to knock on to hang up, so there is always a small hammer next to the tank driving position.

As for this general armored chassis of the Red Star Consortium, Wang Ye requires that it must be equipped with an "automatic shift gearbox", that is, it only needs to have four gears: D (forward), R (backward), N (neutral), and L (low speed).

When Wang Ye made this request, all the tank experts in the conference room were directly stunned, although many people had more or less heard that some foreign cars could automatically shift gears, but no one had thought that such a stupid thing as a tank could also use automatic transmission?

The more critical problem is that military equipment is different from civilian cars, the first priority of military equipment is "absolute stability", automatic gearbox, this thing does not sound very reliable, after all, automatic things, it is certainly not as safe as manual things, and the Soviet T-72 tank is also a manual transmission!

However, Wang Ye is against the public opinion, and he must go into automatic transmission!

As for the stability problem, that's what you engineers need to consider, there is no absolute stability in this world, only relative stability, how can automated things not be stable?

In the end, the group of people who were scolded by Wang Ye could only find a project team related to automobile gearbox to cooperate and study the three development directions of automatic transmissions proposed by Wang Ye, namely dual-clutch gearbox, continuously variable gearbox, hydraulic torque converter and planetary gear gearbox.

After some research, the direction of torque converter and planetary gearbox was determined.

In addition to the gearbox, there is also the direction control of the tank, like the direction control of the 59 type tank is a pair of "steering sticks", in essence, this thing was born from the predecessor of the tank, that is, the tractor, the learning cost is very high, and the use is also very complicated.

And even if you are busy, you have to be very energetic with two arms and two legs, because the old tank does not have various power assist systems, and it all depends on the driver's steel-like body to drive.

So, Wang Ye asked to remove all the steering levers and replace them directly with a half-spoke steering wheel.

In the face of Wang Ye's decision, the experts of the entire chassis project team were stunned again, so someone directly pointed out Wang Ye's problem, saying that if the steering wheel is used, the tank cannot make a tank U-turn, that is, the left and right tracks are reversed, and the operation is to turn around on the spot.

And Wang Ye said, why don't you add an extra button, as long as you press it, the tank can directly enter the U-turn mode on the spot?

In an instant, the experts were directly speechless, Wang Ye was not good at giving up, and directly said that the control system also needs to add a hydraulic power assist mechanism, after all, the hydraulic plant of one of the seven third-line factories in Luqi Province has been mixed with the consortium, is there any problem with a hydraulic steering system?

In fact, in addition to these hard conditions, Wang Ye also mentioned a lot of "soft conditions".

For example, the driver's seat should be comfortable enough, and it must not be the same as sitting on a small bench, for a training session, the whole body is like a falling apart, which is not good, and the design of the cockpit should also be reasonable, there can not be too many corners and sharp protrusions, and the driver cannot wear a tank cap and be knocked on the head to break the blood.

It is even necessary to reserve the air conditioning system vents, warm air when it is cold, cool air on hot days, and so on.

"This kind of armored chassis of ours, even if it is a female soldier of the health team, can be driven with just a few words of the wounded soldier."

"That's what I'm asking for, understand?"

In the end, Wang Ye said this in the previous meeting, and after finishing speaking, Wang Ye left, leaving only a whole conference room with hundreds of people sighing, and the smoke was like a fairyland.

Of course, although Wang Ye assigned homework, these scientific researchers alone would definitely not be able to do it.

After all, many things are too forward-looking and outrageous for them.

Therefore, in the follow-up research and design process, Wang Ye provided a large number of guidance and technical core points in all aspects of the entire armored chassis through various ways, such as the design of the gearbox.

In the end, under the guidance of Wang Ye, the project quickly got on the right track, and began to develop at an unimaginable speed, until Wang Ye has now seen the prototype!

At this moment.

Wang Ye walked around the prototype of this chassis, nodded with a smile on his face, and praised it with a sigh of praise:

"Not bad! Not bad! Very good! ”

"It looks very good, and it fits my third big requirement, which is that it has to be handsome! Be cool! Be good-looking! Have a sense of technology! ”

"Because I've always insisted on one thing in the field of weapon design, and that is that good-looking equipment must be powerful."

"Not to mention, our weapons will be sold on the national market for money in the future, and if they look ugly and look like a freak, then customers will not like it at first sight, and how can they arouse their desire to buy?"

"Let's not mention the performance on the battlefield for the time being, it's a shame to pull out the freak equipment and hold a military parade!"

"The people watched the parade, and they were embarrassed to pick their toes on the ground, can it work?"

"Can there be sales in the end? Can we get rich? ”

Accompanied by Wang Ye's voice, there was a sound of laughter at the scene, and suddenly many people fantasized about the picture described by Wang Ye, and then had to admit that although it sounded a little outrageous, it seemed to be such a truth!

"Alright, let me give it a try."

"How about Commissioner Liang, it should be able to open, right? Is there confidence? ”

Faced with Wang Ye's statement, Commissioner Liang, who was standing next to him, said without thinking:

"Of course, of course, I have confidence."

"And the factory director, let me tell you, our universal armored chassis is easier to drive than a car!"

"If you don't believe it, go up and try it, insert the key and press the red button to ignite, then step on the brake and put it in gear, and you can go directly with the gas pedal! How deep the throttle is, how fast it runs, not even like a car, you are afraid that you will not drive against the wall and hit the tree, you drive this thing, the wall and the tree are afraid that you will hit it, hahaha! ”

"Don't talk about the female soldiers of the health team, the delicate little girl of the art troupe, it's also correct!"

"Come on, come on, factory director, go up and try it!"

Accompanied by the ridicule of Commissioner Liang, a sound of laughter sounded at the scene in an instant, Wang Ye nodded, stepped directly on the track, and boarded this general armored chassis.