Chapter 625 Composite Armor

An improved diesel engine will not be detected in a short time, especially an engine used on the main battle tank. It is definitely necessary to redevelop a high-power engine. The power used by infantry fighting vehicles is too small. Even if it is improved, the power cannot exceed more than 1,000 horsepower. Li Mo did not stay in the power factory for a long time, and then toured other factories accompanied by experts.

After inspecting several important factories, Li Mo came to the final assembly workshop. In the huge workshop, six infantry fighting vehicles are doing the final welding assembly work.

"How much can be produced in a day now?" Li Mo pointed to a chariot and asked. During this period, the sales of Lion King infantry fighting vehicles have remained at a normal level. There are few large-scale purchases between countries, but small-scale purchase orders have been arranged for half a year.

This is mainly due to the weak economic power of African countries, which purchase a small batch of direct armed forces to assemble a company and a battalion to protect key places such as the presidential palace.

In addition, the Venom Snake's Blood Eagle Mercenary Organization has taken over several tasks in Chad to assist the armed forces to seize cities and minerals, and equipped more than a dozen chariots for the Blood Eagle Mercenary Organization, which played an important role and made a good actual combat propaganda for those non-political axe armed forces.

Therefore, during this period, in addition to the orders of some countries, most of them purchased several chariots through the development of the Star Organization and some underground arms organizations that have cooperation with the Star Organization. These owners include non-political axe armed forces, mercenary organizations and some tribal warlords.

Although the orders for several vehicles are very small, how big is the whole of Africa? How many places are there in chaos? Together, it is also a considerable number.

Arms organizations and giants in those countries in the world will only sell to those state regimes with money and resources, and underground arms dealers, generally will not have a huge sales network and sufficient supply of goods like Li Mo.

"Boss, with the proficiency of workers and the improvement of some production processes, we have been able to produce a chariot at the speed of one a day." The expert replied.

"Oh? Isn't the speed doubled? Li Mo asked in surprise. He remembered that when the industrial park was just established, it could only reach the speed of one in two days. At that time, 70% of the parts of an infantry fighting vehicle were still purchased for direct assembly. Nowadays, 40% of the chariots can be self-produced, and 15% of the parts can be purchased by domestic enterprises in the past two years. It's amazing that it can double the production speed.

"Ha ha, boss, when you come, you should see the place under construction on the west side of the town, right? Because of the existence of the industrial park, there are many rich businessmen in Somalia who have opened some affiliated enterprises around them to provide us with some parts with low technical requirements. I think that as more and more factories open around, a completed industrial chain will be formed here, and even become an industrial base in Somalia. Experts are very excited when they say this.

If most parts and components can be purchased locally, the manufacturing cost of the product will be reduced, and the production pressure in the industrial park will also be reduced. In the future, as long as the industrial park controls the industry of core technology, it can produce weapons at a very low cost.

Li Mo nodded with satisfaction, which he was very willing to see. After all, no matter how strong the Star Organization is, it can't involve every industry. Only by investing in some heavy industries with high technology, large investment and slow returns, the rest can be handed over to those businessmen and entrepreneurs.

Only when the Somali industrial system is established can Star Organization's products be unfettered by large-scale industrial production.

"For these factories, the political axe should give preferential policies and vigorously support them. For some less important technologies, we can provide free help. Li Mo said happily.

"What the boss said is that the political axe has made full preparations for this, and every enterprise has policy and tax benefits. We will also send technicians from time to time to provide technical support to those enterprises with quality assurance and good reputation.

Li Mo was more satisfied and said, "The quality must pass. The quality we produce is all military supplies. The quality is not up to standard. It not only wastes time, but also affects our reputation. In serious cases, it will also reduce the combat effectiveness of the army."

When Li Mo and the experts appeared in the northeast corner of the industrial park, a surrounded and heavily defended base, the person in charge of the base Soi was already waiting.

"Boss, this is what we have achieved in the past few months. The design model of the main battle tank code-named TSY-0. In the warehouse of the R&D center, He Ping pointed to a 1:1 tank model in the warehouse according to the actual ratio.

In Li Mo's eyes, a tank with desert camouflage appeared, but he looked carefully for a while and rubbed his eyes to find that the tank was simply a replica of the T-72. If there are any differences, the tank seems to be shorter and shorter. In particular, the turret looks very small.

"Boss, this is a new tank we developed based on the T-72 tank. In order to save time, we use the data of the T-72 tank in most of the structural designs. In general, the excellence of modern tanks mainly depends on five aspects: armor, power, fire control system, electronic confrontation and ammunition. The architectural design, looking at the world's third generation of main battle tanks, is basically the same. After a detailed discussion with Iranian experts, we believe that redesigning a new tank is not only time-consuming, but also takes 3-5 years to equip. This is too slow for the two countries. Later, the discovery of silicon uranium alloy allowed us to find a shortcut, that is, to combine the current mature design ideas of various countries, add and integrate our own characteristics and strengths to form a tank that meets the needs of the two countries. In this way, we can save a lot of design demonstration time and let the two countries as soon as possible. Equipped with advanced tanks. He Ping reported the results of tank research and development to Li Mo one by one.

Colonel Hardy next to

nodded from time to time. Iran's political axe and the military also felt that it took too long to redesign a new tank. It was better to improve it with a mature product. Iran has an advantage over Somalia in this regard, because Iran currently has a T-72 tank production line. If it is an improvement based on the T-72 tank, Iran can directly produce tanks as long as it makes some modifications to the production line.

The two countries of Sovies are generally Soviet-made weapons-using countries. The selected tank is naturally a Soviet tank. As a third-generation tank equipped with large-scale equipment, the T-72 naturally enters the eye line of the two countries.

"TSY-0 We have completed the improvement of external armor and turret, all of which use silicon uranium alloy, front protective armor and turret are composite armor, designed and installed by silicon uranium alloy and alloy steel according to the best protection ratio, which can improve the protection capacity of the original tank by 35%. The front armor protection capability of the tank is equivalent to 620mm homogeneous armor, and the composite armor used in the front turret is equivalent to 700mm homogeneous armor. In addition to the turret protection capability of the American M1A1 tank, the frontal armor of the tank is 20mm higher than that of the M1A1 tank. But the weight has been reduced by a quarter.

When Li Mo heard this number, his first reaction was not ecstasy, but a painful face. How can he not understand the surname of silicon uranium alloy? Using this alloy as tank protective armor will of course exceed the so-called 'composite armor' with a ceramic layer.

Don't these prodigates know the value of silicon-uranium alloy? How much should it cost to use it for tank protective armor?

After He Ping's proud introduction, he noticed that the boss looked at his expression of gritting his teeth. He couldn't help shivering. He didn't know where to cause the boss's dissatisfaction again.

Colonel Hardy, who also looked excited, stared at the tank without blinking with greedy eyes, and couldn't wait to swallow it in his stomach.

Allah, you should know that the composite armor composed of silicon-uranium alloy/steel not only reduces the thickness, but also has stronger protection ability. The most important thing is that the weight is also reduced. This is undoubtedly a revolution for the current bottleneck in the development of tanks around the world.

Modern main battle tanks have studied a bottleneck in armor protection capabilities. In order to protect against anti-armor weapons, blindly increasing the thickness of armor has been considered a misunderstanding. As a result, all kinds of reaction armor will appear. Because of the increase of armor thickness, although it can protect against armor-breaking attacks of anti-armor weapons, it will increase the weight and reduce the power of the power system. Modern main battle tanks, often 50 or 60 tons, are a great test for roads and bridges. If the weight is increased again, the combat environment of the main battle tank will be seriously restricted. This is definitely a big bottleneck in the development of tanks.

The composite armor used in this TSY-0 tank not only reduces the weight, but also enhances the protection ability. If this news is announced, it will definitely cause a sensation all over the world.

Colonel Hadi has seen that when Iran's armored forces equipped with new tanks are hired in the Middle East.

However, Colonel Ha Ji soon found that something was wrong with Li Mo's face, which was not happy. He can swear, swear to Allah, that is absolutely unsatisfactory.

Isn't the big boss satisfied with such excellent tank armor? God bless, does he want to build an unbreakable mobile fortress?

"He Ping, how much silicon uranium alloy does this tank need to consume?" Li Mo finally put down the anger in his heart and asked in a low voice. These guys really don't know the price of firewood and rice. They don't know silicon-uranium alloy. Can they only have 10,000 tons at present? This is not a composite armor developed by other countries that can only be used in armored combat vehicles, but a special alloy that can be used in many fields.

In Li Mo's idea, since this tank has improved its armor protection ability so much, it must have used a lot of silicon-uranium alloys. Even if it is only one twentieth of a tank, it has two or three tons. Its value is two or three million US dollars. In this way, the production cost of a tank is as high as five or six million US dollars. The two countries can't afford it!

(to be continued)