The 1224 tank is a tank prototype that is connected to the West for the first time in China. This tank is quite forward-looking in the development of domestic technology. It first abandoned the cast turret for the first time and switched to a welded structure.
If the plan is followed, the 1224 tank should have come out first, and the storm tank is behind. But in fact, due to the slow work in the R&D room, the storm tank finally came out first.
Storm tank already has a prototype car and also a welded turret. However, compared with the welding turrets between the two, it can be found that the welding turret of the 1224 tank has more effort, and the welding polyhedron far exceeds the structure of the Storm tank, especially
It is the curved shape at the front, which is simply the first in China.
Due to the use of a welded turret, the space inside the turret has become quite spacious, and the additional tailgate added at the tail is also prepared for the automatic loader.
However, the automatic loader has not been developed yet.
Qin Zhenhua looked at the tank that was being assembled and debugged in the final, and his heart was also ups and downs. After many twists and turns, this tank was born in his own hands. Father, have you seen it? My son is realizing your wish step by step!
This tank is actually his imagination of the future tank outlined in his father's notebook. This imagination is finally realized under his own hands.
Wang Erzhu was busy there. As Qin Zhenhua's follower, Wang Erzhu is now able to take the lead. At least assemble according to the drawings and eliminate some technical problems, he is still familiar with it.
"Thank you for your hard work," Qin Zhenhua said.
"Brother Zhenhua, are you here? Hey, Mr. Zhang, are you here too?" Wang Erzhu saw Zhang Baolin and had a strange expression on his face.
Obviously, Wang Erzhu didn't care about what happened recently. After all, this tank is his biggest task at present, and all his thoughts are on this.
At the same time, this tank also embodies the most advanced technology in China, so it uses the most reliable personnel. Especially since these personnel entered the assembly, they have been staying in the factory, and even sleeping temporarily.
In the dormitory I set up, I didn’t communicate with the outside world at all.
If someone wants to spy on the real secrets of the Yimai Factory, he is destined to fail.
"Is the engine installed in place?" Zhang Baolin asked Wang Erzhu: "What is the difference between this engine and ours?"
"It's big." Wang Erzhu said: "So, the space we reserved for the engine compartment is large enough. At the same time, although it has a high nominal power, the heat dissipation ability is also very strong, and the protruding one is
Partly, it is entirely because our plate-fin type annular water radiator is installed, which is the largest component in all our tank engines.”
The space occupied by the rear is very large. On the one hand, it is because the engine is large in size, on the other hand, it requires a huge radiator, and on the other hand, unlike the previous tank engines, it uses
It is a vertical structure.
Just like a car, the front of a high-end car looks very long. Why? It is because the fronts of these cars are longitudinally mounted engines, while the front of an ordinary car is very short, and the engine inside is horizontally mounted.
The same goes for tanks.
In the past, tank engines were all horizontally mounted, quite compact and could reduce weight. Soviet tanks have always been smaller than Western tanks. There are many reasons, and horizontally mounted engines are one of them.
As for the West, longitudinal engines have always been used. The advantages of this longitudinal engine are that it is convenient for the arrangement and replacement of power packs, easy maintenance, good serviceability, and is conducive to the replacement of more advanced power packs in the future. The first thing to achieve overall lifting is longitudinal.
Install the engine.
Of course, this is the result of many considerations. For example, the engine of the German Leopard 2 tank is probably square, so there is almost no difference between horizontal and vertical layout.
Some engines are longer and stuffed horizontally, which exceeds the width of the vehicle body, so at this time, they have to be placed longitudinally.
Longitudinal, under the current trend, is still more inclined to longitudinal engines. This imported German diesel engine naturally adopts the longitudinal solution.
"In the transmission system, we used a torque converter and combined with a fixed shaft transmission. Of course, this is just in the early stage to reduce the difficulty. In the future, we are pre-researching a fully automatic transmission. After all, this is the tank power system.
The trend of development.” Qin Zhenhua said.
The 1224 tank is of cross-age significance in China. This tank has essential changes in all aspects. Take the power system as an example, and plans to gradually become a fully automatic transmission. This is a
A major breakthrough, without pulling the operating lever, turns into a steering wheel, is simply too friendly to tankers.
Even if it looks ordinary, the tank in front of me uses double-pin ear glue, which can replace the track plates with floor glue blocks, which are essentially different from the previous tanks. It can walk directly on the concrete floor.
, without worrying about destroying the ground.
Will the troops choose this tank as a future standard tank? Qin Zhenhua is still looking forward to it at this time.
Of course, there are also disadvantages. This tank uses a 120mm tank gun and plans to use an automatic loader. However, until now, the research and development of automatic loader has been difficult.
After all, Qin Zhenhua is not a god, and it is impossible to overcome all technical problems. This takes time and accumulation.
Zhang Baolin's envious eyes stared at the engine at the rear. Qin Zhenhua knew that he was only focusing on the engine now and was not interested in anything else.
Therefore, Qin Zhenhua also talked about the topic of engines.
"How is your self-developed X150 engine progressing?" Qin Zhenhua asked Zhang Baolin.
After the engine meeting that year, the three families separated and each did their own things. In their hearts, they naturally thought that their projects were the most suitable. And since they met today, Qin Zhenhua raised them up.
Among the three plans, the easiest plan of the coal-provincial diesel engine factory is to modify it based on the existing engine. I heard that after the original plan was finalized, they built a prototype in a year.
Let’s look at the first machine factory. So far, we are still conducting basic research and development of single cylinders. The gap is very big.