Chapter 659 `Guardian`Tank Factory Ceremony

Outside the final assembly workshop of the Second Armored Vehicle Factory in Bada Town, colorful flags are flying.

Representatives from four member states of the Third OECD gathered here, waiting for a great time to come.

Yes, it's great. For the Third OECD, the coming time is great, because with the unremitting efforts of more than 200 engineers and technical experts from the four countries, the first new weapon of the top elites of the four countries, the first production model of the third-generation main battle tank 'Defendor', has been assembled in the assembly workshop.

Except for Somalia, all three countries sent delegations led by the Chief of General Staff of the Armed Forces to participate in the factory ceremony of the 'Defendors'.

And it is said that in addition to Major General Hussein, Chief of General Staff, Major General Li Mo, First Vice Chairman of the National Defense Commission and Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, will also attend the factory ceremony on behalf of President Yu Sufu.

At eight o'clock in the morning, with the end of a passionate and joyful ceremony, the steel door of the final assembly workshop was opened. Hundreds of pairs of eyes shot at the thousands of square meters of assembly workshop inside the door.

A tank with desert camouflage painted yellow, brown, light green and a small amount of black stopped behind the gate.

This is the 'Defendor' A tank, which is the 'Cheetah' tank that was finalized by the research team at the beginning.

'Defendor' A tank, the gun is 9.412 meters long, 2.185 meters high, 3.520 meters wide, and the vehicle weighs 44 tons. It is equipped with an improved 125mm smooth-mooth gun, a 7.62 parallel machine gun and a 12.7mm high-level dual-purpose machine gun. The tank gun is supplied by an automatic loader. After the research of engineers from four countries, it solves the problem that the automatic loader needs to be loaded with fixed feet, which can make the tank gun automatically loaded at any angle. In addition, the structure of the automatic loader has been optimized, which greatly reduces the failure rate and fully guarantees the continuous combat ability of the tank. Force.

Compared with the T-72 tank, the 'Defendor' tank basically relies only on part of the shape design concept of the former, and the internal layout and electronic equipment have nothing to do with the T-72 tank. Compared with the 'weak' armor protection ability of the T-72 tank, because of the emergence of silicon-uranium alloy composite armor, the 'defendor' can be proud of the heroes in terms of armor protection ability.

The 'Defendor' tank has a maximum road speed of 85 kilometers per hour, a maximum off-road speed of 60 kilometers per hour, and a maximum travel speed of 550 kilometers per hour. The engine is a 12V supercharged diesel engine with a power of 1200 horsepower.

According to the detailed calculation of the research team, the industrial production of 'defendors' tanks is less than 300 units, with a unit price of 2.6 million US dollars; 500 tanks can be reduced by 100,000 US dollars, and if 1,000 units are produced, the unit price will be further reduced to about 2.3 million US dollars. However, the unit price of $2.3 million is already the limit that the unit price of the 'defendor' tank can be compressed. Unless industrial technology is upgraded and further improved, or the price of raw materials is greatly reduced, the unit price of $2.3 million will be the final production cost.

However, this production cost is based on Star's provision of silicon-uranium alloy at a cost price, that is, Star's provision of silicon-uranium alloy at a cost price of $1,000 per kilogram.

According to the contract, the Second Armored Vehicle Factory in Badada Town will produce the first batch of 60 'Defendors' Type A tanks, providing 20 each from Iran, Syria and North Korea. After that, production lines will be installed in various countries, and 20 tanks of silicon-uranium alloys will be provided by Star Company at a price of $1,000/kg. Each of the three countries produces 20 silicon-uranium alloys from Bada Town Industrial Park and 20 self-produced at the cost price, and the price of the alloys required for the tanks produced later is negotiated separately.

This is mainly because the price of silicon uranium alloy quoted by Star Company is too high for the three countries to accept. In addition, the actual combat surname of the 'Defendor' tank has not been tested yet. Coupled with financial reasons, the political axes of the three countries decided to wait for the 'defendors' tanks to equip the army.

Due to the shortage of affiliated factories, the second armored vehicle factory can only produce four tanks per month. It is expected that with the establishment of a batch of affiliated factories in three months, the number can reach 10 vehicles per month.

Although the 'Defendor' A tank left the factory, the research team did not withdraw it. Because the four political axes have seen that this kind of tank is too expensive while the surname is excellent. The most dazzling armor protection ability of this tank is that even if it is not equipped with reactive armor, its protection ability is enough to offset the attack of ordinary armor-breaking bombs.

However, these excellent protection capabilities are built under the premise of using a large number of new alloy armor. At the price of silicon-uranium alloy, this tank, in addition to the cost-effective production of Star Company for the Somali Defense Forces, other countries can't stand the astronomical figure even if the Three Kingdoms Political Axe with the production license of this tank.

Therefore, the political axes of the four countries intend to further simplify on the basis of 'defendors', mainly to simplify the proportion of silicon-uranium alloys in composite armor, and obtain a new tank with a lower production cost and a protection capacity that is almost the same as that of today's three-generation tanks.

To this end, the four countries will invest 50 million US dollars as research expenses for 'simplified tanks'.

After the launch ceremony of the 'Defendor' A tank, Iran, Syria and North Korea left several military representatives to monitor the production of the tank.

With the sweetness of 'defendors', Li Mo feels that in the study of new weapons, we should contact those countries with weak comprehensive technical capabilities. If we bring together a group of scientific researchers from countries and work hard for a project, the final benefits will be unimaginable.

Li Mo ordered Hussein to take this opportunity to make preliminary contact with the chiefs of general staff of the other three countries and discuss the formation of several research groups to jointly study other new weapons such as missiles and aircraft.

And he himself, after attending the factory ceremony, took several people to the Camel Mountain base. Because the base has made another major breakthrough in the study of sarcophagus fragments.

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Ahmed? Kadaf, carrying a folding AK47, was surrounded by a group of men with various types of AK rifles and stepped on the large fishing boat 'Blue Whale'. Several pirates who rushed up first have escorted 16 'thieves' on the fishing boat to the deck.

Pit? Gisela squatted on the deck with her hands raised, looking at a group of pirates wrapped in turbans of all kinds of eyes, frightened and bitterly at the same time.

Somali pirates are now well-known internationally. Although they have never heard of Somali pirates killing, they are a group of criminals and heavily armed criminals. In the hands of these people, Gisela didn't know whether she could go back or not.

When he saw a black black short-sleeved T-shirt, a pair of camouflage trousers, and a fierce man with a rifle eye, walking on the boat surrounded by a group of pirates. His eyelids jumped, and he knew that the pirate leader was coming.

A group of sailors also noticed the fierce light in Kadaf's eyes, and their faces turned white. These white and black sailors, I don't know how the pirates will deal with them and will kill them? Because in the current situation, it is by no means the normal 'work' of pirates. The normal 'work' of pirates is to hijack those freighters and tankers, not to hijack a 'small fishing boat'.

Is this the legendary patriotic pirate with a sense of sovereignty?

"Damn it, you shameful thieves!" Kadav raised his right foot in leather boots and kicked a white sailor squatting beside him to the ground, constantly cursing.

Kadav is a pirate, he admits. But he thinks he is different from other pirates, because he is patriotic. He was once a member of the "Somali Ocean Defender" composed of Somali college students and civil patriots in the 1990s. Later, for various reasons, the civil organization for the protection of Somali maritime rights was disbanded. Some left and some stayed as pirates.

When the members of the pirates, after a period of separation and combination, most of them finally gathered under Kadav's command. The 'Defend' pirate organization he leads has a total of about 50 full members. The base is located in a remote fishing village near Bulgab.

The 'Territory' of the 'Defendors' pirate gang is also an important sea route in the Indian Ocean in southern Somalia. Kadav's men targeted the ships on this route. Cracking down on illegal fishing boats in other countries is another job of the 'guards'.

As an awakened maritime rightstor in Somalia, Kadav hates the illegal fishing of fishery resources belonging to Somalia. But the motherland is weak, there is no navy, and there are only a few patrol boats modified by fishing boats in the political axe marine department, which is not enough to manage the huge Somali territorial sea. After becoming a pirate, Kadav took on the task of patrolling the territorial waters of southern Somalia after normal work. If you find a ship illegally caught in another country, it will definitely be hijacked and attacked.

However, foreign fishing boats that dare to steal in this sea either have a tough back or have profound strength. Defenders also have only a few small fishing boats and speedboats, and sometimes it is difficult to even fight against those heavily armed fishing boats.

This time, due to the arrival of the fishing season, Kadav and his men discussed and decided to strengthen the firepower of each ship, and each patrol ship increased the number of bazookas and pirates.

With the use of pirates, these sailors poured beans into bamboo tubes and said everything they knew. At this time, it is not a hard time. If you are an angry pirate, it is possible to sink you into the sea and feed the fish.

After learning that the 'Blue Whale' belonged to a company registered in the Republic of Seychelles and specializing in illegal fishing of fishery resources in other countries' territorial waters, Kadav's eyes were even more fierce. I secretly made up my mind to make this 'Yingsai Fishing Company' look good in the future.

"You... shameless thief leader, from now on. I took over the fishing boat. You can't go back until your company pays the ransom. Kadav scolded Gircera and told them what was over.

"Head... there is a situation!" Just as Kadav was considering how much ransom compensation he wanted, a pirate who was observing the wind suddenly warned.

Everyone immediately raised their heads and looked in the direction pointed by the pirate. A black dot is appearing in the sky and telling it to fly this way.

(to be continued)