"Zhang Zhong, how did you come up with your modular idea?" It was already evening. The meeting of the future tanks for one day had already been held. Qin Zhenhua only invited a few people around him, Mr. Zhu, Wang Erzhu, and Nie Qianqian.
, Zhang Zhong, Liu Dajun and others ate a small stove together, and everyone continued to chat while eating.
Hearing Qin Zhenhua's question, Zhang Zhong smiled: "This, of course, was one of the many military equipment that had not been realized in the end of the Cold War. I know that you only focus on the equipment of the Soviet Union. In fact, there are also many in the West.
Everything ended with the end of the Cold War. Have you heard of the M8 armored artillery system?"
Qin Zhenhua has never heard of this thing. In those years, he was busy running the export of tanks. The research and development of domestic third-generation tanks was not smooth. How could he still have the mood to study a abandoned Western firepower?
system.
"This system has advanced design concepts. It has three main aspects, namely high mobility, moderate firepower and growing protection." Zhang Zhong introduced.
This high degree of maneuverability means that it can have excellent tactical airlift capabilities, not only those giants in the US Air Force, but even medium-sized transport aircraft like the C130 can carry out airlifting. This means that the tank
You can't be too heavy.
As for moderate firepower, it does not pursue strong firepower, but only requires the ability to destroy imaginary enemies. At that time, the main threat of the Americans was of course the Soviet T-72 tank. Therefore, in terms of firepower, only traditional ones were used.
A 105mm rifled gun can penetrate the front armor of the T-72 tank.
Among these concepts, the growing protection is even more powerful. The M8 armored artillery system designed according to this concept adopts a three-level armor protection design, so that it can be flexibly and quickly replaced according to mission needs and battlefield threats.
Install different armor components to obtain the most appropriate protection.
Its first-level armor protection means only basic armor, which can only prevent the attack of light weapons and shell fragments. At the same time, the weight of this state is also the lightest, only 18 tons. The second-level armor protection means that additional armor is added to it.
, it may even adopt advanced spaced armor structure, which can block the attack of 23mm machine guns, and at the same time the weight has also increased by 2 tons, reaching the order of 20 tons. As for the third-level armor with the strongest protection, it continues to be added by explosion
The total weight of heavy composite armor composed of reactive armor has reached 24 tons at this time.
At the same time, according to the development of technology, new types of additional armor can be replaced, so that the protection can be further improved.
Of course these are the ideas of modular design.
After hearing Zhang Zhong’s words, Liu Dajun thought about it there and said, “Your introduction like this has given us a reminder that the plateau tank we are about to develop can also be carried out according to this idea.”
Many of the topics in the afternoon were studying plateau tanks, but after everyone's analysis, various things were superimposed, and plateau tanks became main battle tanks again, and they faced the problem of insufficient power.
"In order to allow tanks to fight in plateau areas, our tanks should not be too heavy. I think, like our 59 tanks, the total combat weight of 36 tons is already very large and cannot be increased." Liu
Dajun said: "In this way, we can speed up on the plateau with our improved 1,000-horsepower diesel engine."
If you want the tank to go to the plateau, it depends on the engine. On the plain, the engine of the 59 tank is only 500 horsepower. On the plateau, the plateau tank of the same weight uses a 1,000 horsepower engine, even if it is due to the loss of plateau power.
, One thousand horsepower shrinks into seven hundred horsepower, which is enough. Especially if special improvements are made to improve the performance of the supercharger, perhaps one thousand horsepower shrinks into eight hundred horsepower, or even eight hundred and fifty.
Horsepower, that's also completely possible.
In this way, the main problems of plateau tanks were solved. Everyone has been improving various indicators for plateau tanks. Later, they found that without an engine with a capacity of 2,000 horsepower, they could not be carried at all. Now, the principle is good enough.
, let the tank weigh itself so that it can fully meet the use of the plateau.
The limit on combat weight is 36 tons, and all problems are solved.
"As for firepower, we can use 105mm cannons and extend the barrel to deal with the T-90 tanks on the opposite side, which is absolutely no problem." Liu Dajun continued.
There is no need to carry a 125mm gun barrel. This kind of gun has excess firepower. It is enough to deal with T-90 and 105mm tank guns after deep digging their potential.
"Finally, our armor protection can be achieved through modular design and different armors according to different goals. We don't have to do any third-level protection, as long as there are two types of protection, it is enough
,One is the main armor and the other is the attached armor." Liu Dajun continued.
As a military representative, Liu Dajun has a great say in the research and development of this tank. He can make various requests to let the military factory conduct research and development.
If the requirements are raised too high, then it will be a disaster for military factories and scientific research institutes. There are many projects that have to be finally given up because the indicators are too high and cannot be achieved. For example, the Sanli in that year
Tanks are the product of being too ambitious.
Now, if the army wants to make plateau tanks achieve the performance of the main battle tank, then it puts high requirements on the engine. Without a two thousand horsepower engine, it cannot be supported at all. If such a requirement is really made,
Then domestic technology cannot be realized at all. The engine with a capacity of 1,500 horsepower is still being tested, and a capacity of 2,000 horsepower is not possible within ten years.
"Its suspension must have the ability to withstand the full weight of 45 tons of combat. In this way, in the plateau area, only the main armor is equipped with 36 tons of combat weight, which is enough to cope with the threats from the opposite side. In the plain area, additional modules are hung.
It has a combat weight of more than 43 tons and can cope with all kinds of threats." Liu Dajun said. If this kind of tank can only be used on the plateau, it would be too limited and all kinds of terrain must be met.
"If the army can propose such indicators, we can now invest in research and development to ensure that this tank will be put into service within three years." Qin Zhenhua said that almost all existing technology can be realized, mainly tank engines
The power attenuation problem only needs to be solved.