The engine problem is also very important, and, many times, even the most critical one, take the current third-generation tanks as an example. What is lacking is the engine. If the Black Panther engine of our side is completely mature at this time, what else can Khalid tank have? It will be put into production directly.
At present, the four-axis off-road chassis produced by Antai Factory uses an air-cooled Deutz engine with more than 500 horsepower. This engine has been completely domestically produced. Although it is not suitable for installation on commercial vehicles and its economy is not as good as other engines, it has begun to shine on military vehicles. If you don’t need to add water, you don’t know how convenient it will provide to the army. When you are in cold areas, you don’t have to worry about the water tank freezing, when you are in tropical areas, you don’t have to worry about the water tank opening, etc. It is also very good to use it on a four-axis off-road chassis.
Now, the 500-horsepower air-cooled Deutz is already very good power, and it is used on multiple military vehicles. However, if the chassis of this multi-axle launcher is continued to be expanded and this engine is used, it will be a bit insufficient power.
It can be said that adding one axis to five axis may be possible, but if you continue to increase the number of axis, the defect of insufficient engine power will definitely be exposed.
"Yes, if we want to finally get a large off-road chassis with an eight-axis, then the engine needed should be able to reach 800 horsepower, or even 1,000 horsepower." Fan Gui naturally knew the difficulty. At this time, he said to Qin Zhenhua: "So, we look forward to finding qualified engines from the first machine factory."
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Qin Zhenhua shook his head: "Our first-machine factory produces tank engines, which are not suitable for use on such vehicles."
In fact, the Russians' multi-axis vehicles use tank engines. Even if they are Scud missile launchers, they use T-54 tank engines. Other vehicles later all have tank engines, larger monsters, and even use the turboshaft engine used by helicopters, which sounds so loud.
For the Russians, these things don’t matter, as long as they can be used, but Qin Zhenhua knows very well that tank engines are not suitable for these aspects.
The biggest problem with tank engines is high fuel consumption and short life. After all, tank engines aim to squeeze power and completely squeeze out potential. The fuel consumption does not matter at all. The army is not afraid of fuel consumption. There is no way to avoid a short life. If they can replace tank engines in hundreds of hours, they can bear it.
However, times have changed. If a car overhauls the engine in a few hundred hours, who would have to withstand it? Even if the user is an army, the army can tolerate a short lifespan of a tank engine, but it is absolutely impossible to tolerate a car's short engine lifespan, even such a professional chassis that transports mushroom bullets can't do it.
"If you want to drive such a vehicle, the best thing is a commercial engine." Qin Zhenhua said: "Commercial engines have a long life, low fuel consumption and advanced technology, which are our best choice."
The engines of commercial vehicles use the most advanced technology in the world. Moreover, commercial engines are getting more and more powerful, enough to find a suitable choice. However, it is estimated that they have to be imported. If it is only possible, it means that others will be stuck in their necks. After all, this import is used in military vehicles. Who knows what those people will think? Moreover, the price is also expensive.
Fan Gui suddenly thought about it. As the director of the special vehicle factory, he naturally knew about it. Deutz and Cummins all had imported engines with high horsepower. For example, the Cummins KTTA19-C700 diesel engine has a maximum power of 700 horsepower, which is barely enough. However, thinking about the sudden sanctions that appeared in the past few years still make people feel scared. If you can't produce it yourself, it's not safe.
"What's wrong? You look so embarrassed." Qin Zhenhua also felt strange when he saw Fan Gui like this.
"The import price of qualified commercial vehicle engines is too expensive and can easily be choked by others." Fan Gui said.
Hearing this, Qin Zhenhua finally understood and said with a smile: "Your vision should be longer, we have it ourselves."
We have it ourselves?
"At that time, we cooperated with MTU to import their 396 diesel engine. Later, we overcame various difficulties and localized this diesel engine. Its power reached 1,200 horsepower." Qin Zhenhua said.
After a word woke up the dreamer, Fan Gui then remembered that there is indeed such a project in China, but the engine's horsepower is too high and it is not suitable for use on road vehicles. When used on railways, it is said that the Navy is also optimistic, but the car is too large.
However, if you want to build such a giant, it is simply the most suitable one!
"This diesel engine has a 12-cylinder. If you think the power is too high, it also has an eight-cylinder product that outputs 800 horsepower." Qin Zhenhua continued to introduce.
He is quite familiar with this engine because his 90 tank is equipped with such an engine. In terms of performance, it is too large, so Lao Ba wants to do it. It cannot be assembled on the tank, but the bigfoot monster missile launcher is absolutely fine to use.
Moreover, if there is too much power, just use eight-cylinder products. This is the benefit of modular research and development abroad. Six-cylinder, eight-cylinder, twelve-cylinder, or even sixteen-cylinder, have complete solutions to meet any user needs.
Moreover, Wang Xiaoqiang's wife is responsible for the MTU engine, so if you have any supporting problems, you can also find her. For example, the gearbox that matches the engine can be purchased through her and then used first.
"At present, we can just use eight-cylinder products." Fan Gui said. For them, if they want to develop a vehicle with more axles, the power required to reach 800 horsepower is already a great improvement. If they gradually improve it in the future, it is impossible to eat a fat man in one bite.
MTU is a world-renowned engine manufacturer, so the performance of the engines they produce is absolutely fine. This domestic imitation version of our side has also been praised by MTU, which is considered to be the most successful imitation product. Therefore, using this engine can perfectly solve the problem.
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