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Chapter 113 Fork in the Road (Part 2)

The design that is about to be finalized will change or not, whether the power or not, there will be a large number of designers in the R&D team to support it. £∝,

Speaking of the beginning of the third generation of tank design, there were two ideas within the design team that were fiercely hedging. One believed that the Republic should base itself on the present and design the next generation of main battle tanks of the Republic based on the T72 tanks. The other was a very radical technological leap forward, suggesting that the Republic's next generation of main battle tanks completely abandon the design style of the Soviet tanks and fully move towards the Western tank standards.

The advantages and disadvantages of these two design ideas are not mentioned yet. After some technical demonstration on the z1224 tank, the Republic's backward industrial foundation was temporarily unable to support the third-generation tanks of Western standards. It became a consensus among the team.

However, no one could have expected Liang Yuan's emergence and did a lot of things in just two years.

Firepower, armor and power are three crucial systems for a tank. The important factors that determine firepower are the thickness of the pipe and whether the fire control is advanced. Armor is definitely the thicker the better within a certain value, while power is the important basis for determining the thickness of the pipe and the thickness of the armor.

When the R&D team obtained all the corporate information of Yuanjia, an earthquake occurred.

Yuanjia cannot make pipes, but they are closely related to the things that command pipes. The tank fire control system can be broken down into two parts. One is the fire control part of the control and calculation of the shooting elements, and the other is the tactical comprehensive communication command part.

The tank's fire control computer is slightly different from the aircraft system. Because the aircraft needs to process a large amount of signal data returned from the radar system, the data processing capacity of a typical third-generation fighter fire control computer basically reaches 100 million times per second.

The tank fire control computer has low requirements for chip operation speed. The 16-bit 386-level chip can meet the operating requirements. However, the working environment of the tank fire control computer chip is very bad, and the chip reliability and maintenance requirements are extremely high. It must withstand tank dust, drastic changes in ambient temperature and humidity, as well as impacts and vibrations caused by bumps and shooting of the vehicle body.

Under Liang Yuan's insistence, the most significant advantage of the 2 processor is its extremely high reliability. Among the top industrial-grade chips produced in the Science and Technology Park, the working temperature is minus 50~70, humidity and heat 95%±3%, vibration (10hz~2000hz), impact resistance is 9g. The system integrated terminal supports solar radiation protection, waterproof, sand and dustproof, mildew, salt spray, and modular rapid maintenance.

Not to mention using this thing on ground tanks with a normal environment, it will be fine even on fighter jets with almost uncontrollable environments.

Among the components of the tank fire control system, the 2 communication processor used by Yuanjia in the Chinese character pager that has just been offline is also an exciting choice.

At this time, although the Republican Industrial System developed a stable and similar fire control system, it has a very high degree of automation. The recognition of the target's cable is entirely achieved by tank crew members with the naked eye with the help of the optoelectronic system, and the tracking of the target also relies on the gunner to manually control and track the target.

The electronic system integration capabilities and mechanical and electrical equipment development capabilities revealed by Yuanjia through the Long March 3 Gas Forest Locomotive and Chinese Character Pager Project were very weak links in the third-generation tank R&D team at this time.

For the development of the third generation tanks of the Republic, the gem turboshaft engine imitated by FAW Power is the most complete product. The domestic gem power pack assembled by FAW Power has a single-engine fault-free operation time on the Long March 3 gas turbine locomotive, which has exceeded 600 hours. This record has exceeded the full life of the Type 59 tank engine.

Of course, compared to the working environment where the tank engine has been running in a drug-taking state, the working environment of the power reduction training gem power pack is basically the same as the relaxed state of eating and waiting to die.

If we add the optical, electrical, infrared, magnetic and other induction devices that are vigorously developing by the Hong Kong-based current collecting discrete device department, the R&D team was shocked to find that if Yuan Glenn made good use of the two crucial subsystems of electronic and power at hand, then other industrial departments in the Republic only need to handle armor, artillery, suspension and integration of these important subsystems and improve the integration of the vehicle. The research and development path that was completely eliminated using Western standard third-generation tanks did not seem so dim.

Unfortunately, what is before the technological radicals is not the first question of whether Yuanjia's technical capabilities are qualified. Instead, there are no documents, regulations or precedents that can make Yuanjia qualified to participate in the research and development of the third generation of main battle tanks of the Republic.

Of course, the technological radicals finally saw the dawn and would naturally not be stumped by this artificial obstacle. Some people suggested that Yuanjia be completely regarded as an overseas advanced industrial group and use the method of technology introduction to subcontract the subsystems with weak R&D capabilities of the team.

As a result, this proposal did not solve the problem, but instead mixed the water even more. The late 1980s were a bitter era when selling missiles was far less than selling tea eggs for the Republic's technology industry.

After finally living in a third-generation tank R&D project, the factory responsible for any subsystem in the development team does not want to be the one to be eliminated. This is related to the food and survival problem of hundreds or even thousands of people in a factory.

From questioning Yuanjia's real R&D capabilities to being a big deal like a member or a capitalist, from state secrets to the original sin of capital, the third-generation main battle tank, which was only one last step away from amid the quarrels, was unable to lock the drawings. It was shut down for more than half a month.

The turning point of things happened in the establishment of Inspur. Whether it is the 102th Institute or the R&D team, they are at a loss when dealing with Yuanjia, they have no obstacles to dealing with large state-owned enterprises like Inspur. Although Yuanjia holds a certain stake in Inspur, the 70% proportion of state-owned equity makes Inspur a publicly owned enterprise extremely eye-catching.

The emergence of the wave has made the system problem that is easy to step on landmines has been crossed by most. After all, the sensitivity of the power system is much less than that of the tank's fire control electronic system. The remaining problems are much easier for the R&D team. Zhu Yusheng provided a document to the Republic's Science and Technology Commission from a technical perspective, and made a detailed analysis of the current differences within the team.
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