Not long after Yang Limin left, the new large-caliber long-range artillery project officially entered the technical demonstration stage. In fact, as the army, the military is very satisfied with the performance data it reported, especially the senior military leaders who are from artillery backgrounds, who wish to sign, establish projects and allocate funds immediately, hoping that this new large-caliber long-range artillery will be developed and equipped with the troops as soon as possible.

Because of this, the General Staff Equipment Department, which is directly under the army, has been acknowledging this project from beginning to end. The military experts convened have also highly recognized this new large-caliber long-range artillery, and the project application was also the earliest to sign. However, this new large-caliber long-range artillery project is different from previous assault rifles, light automatic grenade launchers, and individual portable rocket launchers.

These weapons and equipment are all light weapons, with relatively little technical difficulty, and do not use much resources and financial resources. Moreover, these weapons and equipment have more or less real war needs, and the emergency response to actual combat is relatively strong, so the procedures are not formal in terms of approval or development.

But the new large-caliber long-range artillery is different. This weapon is a real heavy weapon with offensive nature. The various resources mobilized by the development of artillery are not comparable to any light weapon. The investment in such heavy weapons is amazing.

Not to mention, just talking about the problem of gun steel materials used for casting guns requires huge investment, because the new large-caliber long-range artillery technical standards in the artillery technical text reported by Lu Jiadong were formulated using the artillery technical standards advocated in the "Nato Second Common Ballistic Memorandum of Understanding" widely used in later generations, namely 155mm caliber, 52 times the tube, and 23 liters of pharmacy volume. The cannons made using this standard not only have long range and high spread accuracy, but also have a multiplied life span. It can be said that they are the golden ratio standard for large-caliber long-barrel cannons.

However, although this standard is good, it brings a problem, that is, a high-strength gun steel is needed to achieve the artillery development under this standard. However, it is not easy to develop such gun steel. Not to mention now, in the 21st century before Lu Jiadong traveled through, there were no more than eight countries who could independently develop such high standards. The reason is that the complex gun steel materials and production and processing technology are a real threshold!

There is no other shortcut to solve such material problems. You can only continue to study and experiment, and you can find a suitable steel ratio after thousands of experiments. However, these research and experiments are not free, and this requires a lot of money. For big countries, you can spare no expenses to fight for the world, but for weak countries and poor countries, even if you put the whole country into action, it may not be possible.

Although China is not a poor country or a weak country, it is indeed not rich from the perspective of the actual national conditions. It should do its best to spend every penny on the edge. Therefore, in the idea of ​​developing weapons and equipment, it always requires the use and inheritance of mature technologies as much as possible in order to save money.

Therefore, there will naturally not be much investment in the development of gun steel. Gunsteel is just a supporting project for artillery development. In addition, there are necessary production and processing equipment, research on new processing and production processes, research on new shells, and thousands of tests after sample guns are formed. All of this requires massive amounts of funds to support it!

This year, China implemented reform and opening up, and since then it embarked on the road of national rejuvenation and prosperity. It was also in this year that China implemented a limited border self-defense counterattack against Vietnam. Earlier, Iran broke out in Islamic revolution that shocked the world. Khomeini, who was in exile, overthrew the Pahlavi dynasty regime that had been in power for many years, turning Iran from a secular country to a theocratic country that unites politics and religion.

And based on this, they actively exported revolutions to the outside world, which aroused the vigilance and hostility of other Muslim countries around Iran. Among them, Iraq is the most active. Coupled with the instigation and secret support of the United States, Iraq and Iran are at a strife and a war is about to break out!

At the end of this year, the Soviet army, without any warning, brazenly sent troops to Afghanistan to overthrow the anti-Soviet Amin regime and support the pro-Soviet regime to power. They took this opportunity to station more than 100,000 troops in Afghanistan, with the attacks until the Indian Ocean estuary. While the Cold War reached its peak, it also started the long-lasting and heavy-lost Afghanistan War in the Soviet Union. This country, known as the tomb of the empire, will eventually swallow all the essence of this red empire until it dies out and collapses with a bang!

The Vietnam War, the Afghanistan War and the upcoming Iraq War, these three wars can be said to have run through the entire 1980s. They are not only protracted, but also have far-reaching impacts. In addition to China's own border war against Vietnam, the other two wars are extremely large in terms of scale and resources invested.

The Afghan guerrillas, Iraq and Iran's demand for weapons and equipment is astronomical. There is such a huge cake. Just cut it a few times, let alone new artillery, even new aircraft's funds are no longer a problem. As a time traveler, Lu Jiadong, as a time traveler, was not unexpected.

However, in recent times, the development of a single-soldier portable rocket launcher and a new type of artillery project discussion. Lu Jiadong is so busy that he can't say he is going around and he has no thoughts on these things. Now Bromberg's words wake up the dreamer, making Lu Jiadong unable to help but be ready to make a fortune in war!

The same idea was not just Lu Jiadong. Tan Bin, the Minister of the General Staff Equipment Department, who was far away in Beijing, was also outlining a blueprint for using arms to earn foreign exchange. He was not based on the foresight of a time traveler like Lu Jiadong, but a request report from Pakistan. Just as Tan Bin was sitting behind the desk holding the report and thinking hard, the phone next to him suddenly rang, which made Tan Bin answer the phone naturally. When he heard the report from the secretary on duty on the other end of the phone, a faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth:
Chapter completed!