Chapter 650 Seriousness and make do
Gao Zhendong also knew it, so he said he would continue with his other ideas.
"In addition to armored self-propelled artillery, if you have the resources, you can build a truck gun based on the existing truck chassis. Mount the 122 gun directly on the truck, deploy it to fire, put it away and go!"
This suggestion was a bit deviant, and the army leaders were the first to refuse: "No need for any protection and off-road performance?"
Gao Zhendong did not demonstrate the superiority of the truck gun, but just stated a few facts.
"Leader, we can't all have tracked armored self-propelled artillery. Towed artillery must be equipped in large quantities, right? In addition to mechanized troops, we will still have motorized troops for a long time, and they will be in large numbers."
Not to mention now, in a few decades, it will be impossible for them to be all tracked armored guns, and the price will be sky-high.
What he said was true. The army leader nodded: "Yes."
"Motorized artillery requires tractors, right?"
"Yes", not to mention towing, there is still ammunition.
Gao Zhendong smiled: "Then we combine the motorized gun, which originally needs to be towed, with its tractor. The price does not increase much, but the convenience is much better. The artillery shells can be directly loaded with fuzes in advance. In the special ammunition rack on the vehicle, there is no need to disassemble and assemble on site The artillery shells do not need to be moved around. The power of the vehicle can be used to achieve auxiliary artillery adjustment and semi-automatic loading. Even further, after the vehicle-mounted digital radio receives the command, it will automatically adjust the artillery and set it to fire... Shoot fast, close it. Fast and efficient.”
Is this guy a salesman from a supply and marketing cooperative? So smooth-talking? No, the salesperson at the supply and marketing cooperative won't tell you this, whether you want to buy it or not.
However, the digital artillery mentioned by Gao Zhendong did indeed open the door to a new world in their hearts.
The leader of the Defense Working Committee also knows that he is the only one who can make this suggestion. Digital radio stations and tactical communication protocols are all being worked on under his promotion. Naturally, no one knows better than him on how to combine these things. clear.
This thing sounds good! To achieve this, towed guns are really not as convenient as vehicle-mounted guns.
"As for protection and off-road performance, there are originally no towed guns or not many, so why bother thinking so much? Moreover, if the cannons are installed on the vehicle, the off-road performance may be improved a bit, and by adding armor plates to the cab, at least the soldiers can still It can protect it much better than a towed cannon, and this thing is not on the front line. Even if we don’t engage in digital artillery for the time being, the overall advantages of this thing are much greater than the towed cannon.”
Gao Zhendong’s strategy is called “relying on peer support.” Don’t say it’s bad or that’s bad. Its peers are worse than it, but it has advantages that its peers don’t have, and its price isn’t that high.
What you think of as a business war: advertising, promotion, operations, and financial means.
In actual business war: the opponent only needs to be stupid enough.
This new approach confused the leaders who had obviously never experienced this kind of baptism.
It seems to make sense, and when I think about it again, it does make sense.
Oppose truck guns, understand truck guns, join truck guns...
The leaders of the Army and the National Defense Work Committee thought for a long time, but they really couldn't think of any shortcomings of this thing compared to the towed gun. They looked at each other and did it!
"Well, this is really capable! Fu Gong, please write a report on this matter later, so that you can at least start pre-research." The National Defense Work Committee directly handed over the matter to the design unit of 122 Pomelo, not to mention how much money was invested. But things can be done once, and preliminary research doesn’t cost much.
Mr. Fu was so happy, it felt like pie in the sky.
Mr. Shao quit: "Me and me, leader, I have another door here, which is bigger than his!"
Several leaders were also curious about why Gao Zhendong only said 122 to get on the bus and not 152, so they looked at Gao Zhendong.
Gao Zhendong smiled and said: "Mr. Shao, that one of yours is too big for the car to carry! The gun weighs 5 tons more, and the car itself needs to be reinforced. It's too heavy to carry it."
Now we don't have heavy off-road vehicles, just the CA10, EQ240 and the like. It's obviously a bit too much to think about carrying the 152, let alone firing. The impact is huge.
"Hey, you are wrong, really..." Mr. Shao was very angry, but there was nothing he could do. There were only so many truck chassis to choose from, and he really couldn't carry it. He also knew this fact.
Even the imitation S-75 can only be towed by the CA10. You can imagine how lacking our chassis models are.
"So the matter of 152 getting on the bus can only be postponed until the conditions are mature. Although that is said, 152 does not have no corresponding room for improvement."
This kind of "although... but..." is very comfortable, and Shao always feels like there is a bright future in a new village.
"General Engineer Gao, please tell me."
"As an auxiliary power unit, get a small diesel engine and install it on the 152 gun mount. It doesn't need to have a long range, just less than 10 kilometers. If designed properly, it can assist the retraction and retraction of the artillery, the semi-automatic loading of ammunition, and can solve the problem of quickly entering and leaving the position. .”
The auxiliary power installed on the heavy artillery was available in Gao Zhendong's previous life, but it mainly solved the problem of ammunition loading, and there were not many other practical uses. The main reason was that this thing seemed to be neither good nor bad at that time, and it was a lot complicated, but it is easy to use. , that’s not the case, aren’t truck guns good?
In the 1980s and 1990s, we produced a 155 gun with auxiliary power, but we did not sell it. What we sold was a serious self-propelled tracked 155, and we did not purchase it ourselves.
But at this time, it is still a way. The evaluation of any equipment and products must be conducted in a real environment. If you are separated from the environment, the evaluation will be lonely. There is no way, who calls us poor?
This kind of make-do-and-make-do-what-you-can approach was an eye-opener for the comrades present.
Is this okay?
Thinking about it carefully, it seems that it is not impossible.
I can't run very far, but I can fire quickly, retract and release quickly, and just run out of the position. Hey, you can't hit it anyway. After running a few kilometers out of the position, I can slowly put it on the tractor.
This idea made even the leaders of the National Defense Working Committee laugh. Comrade Zhendong was extremely serious when he was serious. When he made do, it was really makeshift.
Mr. Shao is all numb, why did he end up here with me, a ghost like this?
"This, I think you can give it a try." But let's not talk about it, it still has its uses.
Gao Zhendong said with a smile: "This thing is simple to say but complicated to implement. It can only be regarded as a stopgap measure. I am just giving you an idea. I won't comment on whether it should be done or not."
This thing is really complicated to make. You need to modify the gun mount. It would be easier to make a new one. Modifying it on the basis of a replica product is more troublesome than making a new one to some extent. Therefore, it’s hard to say whether Gao Zhendong will definitely do it or not. It can only depend on the user’s choice.
As for the users... they can't eat delicacies, so they can eat some porridge and side dishes, which is better than nothing.
The Army leader smiled and said: "I see, this thing is not a hard target. You can work on it, and we can squeeze some funds for you, but we will not increase your pressure. It is of course good to have it, but the imitation results cannot be achieved. , that’s okay too.”
The leader of the National Defense Working Committee also agreed: "Well, it is indeed a bit troublesome to modify the existing things. If you have extra strength, just do it."
Hey, there are funds but no targets, right? That's no problem.
Mr. Shao's face was full of smiles. If you don't do it, it will be in vain.
"Okay, let's try it."
Even if the imitation 152 is not useful, I don’t believe that the 152 will not be replaced.
Regarding this issue, Shao always has a clear understanding. As long as the 122 grenade successfully increases the range to 18 kilometers, even if he improves the range of some 152 grenade through the bomb type, the troops will definitely look at imitation of the 152 grenade. If he didn't like it, he dared to bet one month's salary on it.
When the time comes, I will use all the technology I got today and give you the whole big one!
This meeting lasted for a long time. It was originally a meeting about artillery detection radar, but it turned out that the whole meeting had nothing to do with artillery detection radar. Most of the meeting was about artillery.
There is no way, now the conflict is reversed, the artillery detection radar has become a spear, and the artillery side has to consider what kind of shield to use to solve this problem.
An air show: Hall A - the best UAV system in the world, Hall B - the best anti-UAV system in the world; indoors - superb ballistic missiles, outdoor - highly maneuverable air defense systems that can intercept...
But it still opened the eyes of the comrades who studied artillery detection radar. It turns out that Chief Engineer Gao's real direction seems to be to engage in artillery, and everything else is just a side job? No wonder writing the gun position positioning algorithm is so slow.
National Defense Working Committee: It’s hard to say this. Don’t ask me. I don’t know his true direction.
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Gao Zhendong finished the meeting and ran away in the car.
The things mentioned today, except for the undecided matter of propellant, basically did not require his intervention in landing, so he ran very fast.
Back at the No. 3 Factory, a comrade from the factory office told him that Lao Chen was looking for him.
Oh, there's been a lot going on lately. I haven't seen Lao Chen for a month. Gao Zhendong immediately rushed to the chief engineer's office.
Seeing him, Lao Chen pointed to the sofa: "Sit." After that, he threw a cigarette to him.
Gao Zhendong took it over: "Master, I haven't seen you for a month. Please give me something better."
Lao Chen was a little impatient: "That's it, nothing else. Do you like smoking or not?"
Gao Zhendong lit up Meimei and took a puff: "You must smoke it, I haven't smoked Master's cigarettes for a month."
Old Chen smiled: "Why are you pretending to be pitiful? I have called you here this time because I have something to do. I want to give you some air first."
Gao Zhendong stopped laughing: "Master, tell me."
"Since the 6011 battle, our factory, or mainly your third factory, has made great achievements and has basically completed the task ahead of schedule."
Regarding the 6011 battle, Gao Zhendong basically just killed and didn't bury it. Once the documents were thrown away, he ignored it. At the factory level, his master was keeping an eye on the specific affairs for him. In the branch factory, it was Yan Chengde and Liang. It was discovered that outside was Zheng Liangshu from Beijing Steel Works.
(End of chapter)