The curtain finally came to an end in 1984, and 1985 has arrived.
This year is quite special because the Spring Festival comes very late this year. Usually, the Spring Festival is celebrated in January. The first half of February is already very late. This year, February 20th is the Spring Festival.
The moment of arrival.
The production workshop of Yimai Factory has always been in full swing. For everyone, it doesn’t matter whether the Spring Festival or not. Large batches of orders are in hand and must be produced as soon as possible to be transformed into real
income.
The special R&D workshop is also constantly updating its own tanks day and night.
"We have experimented with a lot of new technologies based on the storm tank." Li Changjiang said beside Qin Zhenhua: "Now, in order to further develop, we have expanded the seat ring of this chassis."
This is a new prototype car in production. Now, the body of the chassis has been welded, and familiar people can see its characteristics at a glance.
Its turret has a bigger seat race!
The chassis of the turret and the tank are considered two parts of the tank. Dig a hole in the tank body and stuff it into it. This hole is the seat ring of the turret.
There is a circle of gears on it, and the rotation of the turret is also driven by this gear.
The diameter of the turret race in the past was 1840 mm, but now it has been increased to 2100 mm.
"Yes, we must add seat rings, otherwise it will be difficult to install the automatic loader in the future." Qin Zhenhua said.
The Tank Design Institute has a very strong technical foundation. They have designed from scratch, and they have drawn pictures one by one. They are an orthodox tank design plan.
And what about our side?
Although we have technical personnel, there are still too few professionals after all, so it is impossible to completely follow the research and development process.
What everyone is taking is a path of gradual improvement, just like a private workshop modified vehicle, relying on technology and experience to modify it bit by bit.
Now, compared with the Storm Tank, another major improvement that we have made is to increase the seat of the turret!
"Yes, I heard from the Second Machine Factory that the 125mm tank gun will be released recently. Our sample car will first install a 105mm tank gun and wait until the 125mm tank gun comes out.
, you must change to a 125mm tank gun at any time."
Change the cannon!
The caliber determines everything. Under the same technical conditions, the larger the caliber, the greater the natural power.
The second machine factory is also under great pressure. The tank guns they produced in the early stages cannot meet the requirements of the third generation of tanks at once. This is also a process of continuous improvement, but the initial production is definitely better than the original ones in the Soviet Union, because
Our own electroslag remelting steel and self-tightening of the body tube are all mature.
Foreign trade can't wait. This foreign trade tank should be installed with a 125mm tank gun as soon as possible! In this way, Lao Ba can make up his mind as soon as possible.
If you want to enter the international market, you must have your own characteristics. Oriental powers have always pursued firepower as king. If the firepower cannot reach the strongest, what else can you promote?
This is a new tank prototype. After the Storm 2 tank, the new prototype is, where is it?
It's its firepower!
It is prepared to install a 125mm tank gun, and an important issue with this tank gun is that it occupies more space!
The 105mm tank gun can be installed on the 59 tank, which is enough to show that the structure of this tank is compact, and on its own six pairs of heavy-wheeled tanks, this tank gun makes the interior space of the turret very spacious.
Even a fat man can get in.
However, 125mm tank gun, that won't work.
This kind of tank gun is very large and the shells are also large. If a turntable automatic loader is installed, the original turret race diameter is no longer enough.
Now, if you expand to more than two meters, the space is much richer. The interior space is spacious and the layout of various devices is more convenient.
"However, the imitation of the automatic loader is not smooth, not only requires high processing accuracy, but also requires sufficient reliability. According to our estimates, it will take at least one or two years to manufacture it, and even if it is
Once it is made, the reliability in the early stage will not be very high," Liu Changjiang continued.
Nowadays, there are not many tanks using automatic loaders, mainly Soviet series of tanks. When the T-64 tanks were originally used, a lot of reliability problems occurred, even preventing tank soldiers from being able to do so.
This kind of equipment is not abandoned and uses backward manual loading.
Now, if you want to imitate the mature T-72 automatic loader in China, there may be such problems in the early stages.
Qin Zhenhua nodded: "Yes, so, in our prototype car, we can temporarily use manual loading. Wait until the next one before considering the automatic loader."
The reliability is not high enough. If you take it out directly to the customer, it will probably leave a bad impression on the customer. Although the relationship with Lao Ba is good, Lao Ba's requirements for technology are quite high.
A tank not only needs high performance in all aspects, but also needs to be mature and reliable enough. An immature tank is something that no users like.
Everyone has a deep understanding of these, but the solution is not difficult. Before the automatic loader is mature, use manual replacement.
Liu Changjiang nodded: "Yes, we can only do this at the moment. In this way, the initial rate of fire must be terrible."
The 125mm shell is loaded separately. It takes two loadings for a shell to be fired. It is okay for the automatic loader to be loaded, but if it is loaded manually, it will definitely lead to a rapid regression in the rate of fire.
"Anyway, it's temporary. Let's verify that our firepower and fire control system are no problem first." Qin Zhenhua said.
"By the way, our tank is not named yet. Should we call it Storm-3 tank?" Zhang Xiangqian asked there.
Qin Zhenhua shook his head: "I feel that the name is not very good, so let's call it the Type 85 tank."
Type 85 tank? When we heard Qin Zhenhua's words, everyone present was stunned: "This is not good, right? This number should be the number given to us by the army, but our tank is planned to use it.
Come to foreign trade!"
"It is precisely because of this that we need to do this more." Qin Zhenhua said: "Let's call it the Type 85 tank! This year is 1985, and our new tank will be named after the year name!"