Seven hundred and sixtieth eight chapters crooked idea
"Everyone, the tank in front of you is the latest stingy light tank established by our Cadillac Gage Company this year." Under the leadership of Dr. Wright, everyone not only inspected the American M1 main battle tank, but also came to another unknown company. The tanks produced by this company are unique.
For Dr. Wright, their order for M1 tanks is enough to make the production line run ten years later. If the Eastern Powers are willing to purchase M1 tanks or use other solutions to determine the equipment of this tank, they will naturally be very happy. If the Eastern Powers do not purchase M1 tanks, they have nothing to complain about. Moreover, they look down on small businesses such as T-54 tanks and just introduced them to other companies.
Now, everyone is standing in front of this light tank.
In this era, the main battle tank is the most eye-catching, majestic and galloping on the battlefield. However, not all places are suitable for using main battle tanks. Take the war on the southern border of the country for example. A tank of sixty or seventy tons is definitely not suitable for advancing under local road conditions. Lightweight light tanks will be more suitable.
"We predict that many countries around the world will need to have the firepower of main battle tanks and high-motivation light tanks, which can be airlifted through the C-130, greatly increasing its ability to deploy quickly." At this time, what is in front of us is Thomas Watt, an engineer from Cadillac Gage. He pointed to the tank in front of him and introduced it to everyone.
What kind of tanks do you need in the world? Main battle tanks are definitely the first priority, but the technical difficulty of main battle tanks is too difficult to play with, and the light tanks they produce are much easier.
The light tank in front of me is quite beautiful in appearance. There are six pairs of load-bearing wheels below and a large-angle turret above, which is exactly the same as the design drawing introduced by Dr. Wright. It is easy to think that the other party moved the tank directly to the T-54 tank.
As a light tank, its combat weight is only 19 tons. Such a weight makes its armor protection capability not strong. Any armor-piercing projectile can destroy it. It can only prevent the shooting of large-caliber guns such as anti-aircraft machine guns.
However, the firepower is not vague. It uses an L7 tank gun. In order to be used on light tanks, the recoil is specially reduced. So far, this tank gun is blooming everywhere in the entire Western camp, and shells are everywhere, which greatly facilitates its use.
Moreover, this tank is also used as an 8V-92TA diesel engine produced by Detroit Diesel Engine Company. Due to its powerful engine power and small tank weight, this light tank has excellent maneuverability.
Now, when he saw this tank, Qin Zhenhua and others understood that the so-called helping to improve their own 59 tank was just based on this tank, and the various equipment used on this tank was moved to their own 59 tank.
"We have a lot of experience in tank research and development." Thomas introduced to everyone: "The Jaguar we jointly developed will be a typical example of an international cooperation project. You provide the chassis and we will improve it. By cooperating with General Motors, we will replace the 8V-92TA 8-cylinder diesel engine and supporting transmission system, we can also cooperate with the Marconi Command and Control System Branch to completely update the fire control system on the tank."
"There are also participation from British companies?" Qin Zhenhua asked.
The other party nodded. The light tank in front of him was transplanted to the 59 tank using the British fire control system and equipped with a new digital fire control system, including a laser rangefinder, a two-way stabilizer, a modern composite aiming device for the commander and gunner, night vision equipment, etc.
After hearing the other party's introduction, Qin Zhenhua nodded. That's right, now, this project has great development prospects. If you don't say anything else, if you participate in the research together, the use of these fire control systems will broaden your horizons.
"However, I have another concern." Qin Zhenhua said: "If we want to sell our tank, I think the unit price should be controlled within one million."
After the research and development, the domestic army will definitely not need it. The power system and fire control are both foreign products, and the domestic army will not agree with it. Besides, the 80 tank has been released. The army uses a plan to save as much as possible in modifying the 59 tank. This improvement is too wasteful.
If the domestic army does not want it, it has to be pushed into the international market. If you want to sell it, the price is a big factor, and one million is a watershed.
Although one million of its own tanks were sold, it was a special situation. Both sides in the war were urgently needed. After this tank was developed, it would be invested in the international market. That would be a competition.
Without a price advantage, how can you compete with others?
If you want to say one million, this price is actually not easy to achieve, because the production cost here is quite high and can only be achieved in the Eastern powers. Therefore, in this way, the production task will definitely fall into the Eastern powers.
"One million?" Thomas shook his head: "Impossible, impossible, the engine, fire control, and turret need to be modified. These modifications alone will exceed one million. Unless the cost of improvement can be reduced... it will be controlled to a maximum of one million. "
How to reduce it? Engines, fire control, tank guns, these are impossible to reduce. Thomas circled the tank twice and said, "If we want to save costs, we can only work on the turret."
If you want to package it and sell it, you must make the appearance look tall and grand. The turret of the T-54 tank is spherical, which looks backward enough and not frightening enough. The original plan was to replace the turret directly, but in this case, it would be too wasteful.
How to minimize cost savings?
"How about we weld the armor shell directly outside the cast hemispherical turret of the T-54 tank and weld an additional armor in the current style?" Thomas said.
This is definitely a bad idea. I originally planned to cover the turret in front of me and re-made the turret. Now, I actually weld a beautiful tall shell directly outside the cast turret to fool people?
However, this bad idea is really the easiest way to solve the problem!