The meeting started from 9 a.m. until 11:30, and it was a big fuss.

Meetings like this are normal for several days. The experts attending the meeting are all independent people, and it is not uncommon for a month or two to persuade others to accept their plans. If the ruling party has made up its mind, it would not be surprising even if it is discussed for a year or two.

For example, the domestic small-caliber rifle was discussed for several years in the argumentation stage alone. It was not until the base area took out the mature 5.8mm caliber automatic rifle and ammunition technology that the dust finally settled. After absorbing the base area technology, the domestic eighty-one automatic rifle was taken out in a year.

Guan Fei personally presided over the meeting, just because he didn't want to waste his time on the quarrel.

At the morning meeting, the general framework of the Wujiu improvement plan was basically determined: a welded composite armored turret similar to the West was used, and air conditioning was installed in the rear basket of the turret, which increased the activity space of the crew members, improved the working environment, and a grid device was installed on the outside of the tank tower to deal with RPG close-range attacks;

The top anti-aircraft machine gun is operated remotely by the commander, reducing the possibility of casualties in people;

Continue to use the new domestically improved 105 mm caliber rifled gun, and develop a matching tungsten alloy tail wing stable shell-out armor-piercing projectile, which requires the ability to penetrate 500 mm of uniform armor at a distance of 1,500 meters;

The engine will temporarily continue to use the latest domestic diesel engine, but further improvements are made in fuel saving, requiring the maximum road driving speed to reach 50 kilometers and the driving distance of full fuel at one time to reach 500 kilometers to have a good maneuver range;

The cut and loading ammunition is modified to automatic/manual loading to reduce crew members, increase the loading speed, and ensure that the artillery can maintain the maximum firing rate of eight rounds per minute;

Maintain a laser rangefinder and install a second-generation active low-light night vision device to ensure that enemy targets two thousand meters away are discovered in a night environment;

The in-vehicle data link system is adopted and a gradually improved military data link system is included to facilitate the unified standards for data exchange and transmission of various military branches and military branches in the future;

Use the fire control computer developed by the base area to receive data conveyed by sensors such as laser rangefinders, integrate the loading, search, tracking, artillery aiming and other systems into one whole to achieve comprehensive automatic control, requiring the hitting of a stationary target from a distance of 1,500 meters, and have a certain degree of shooting ability in motion. It is required to shoot during motion, and at least one of the five guns can hit the target;

Use transmissions with higher strength and toughness to replace vulnerable metal parts and tracks to improve the service life of the tank, extend the overhaul interval, and reduce maintenance costs;

The side is equipped with skirt armor, which requires resistance to attacks within a close range of 50 meters and protects fragile walking mechanisms...

According to this framework outline, this improvement can be said to have undergone a major operation. In addition to retaining the original chassis and artillery, the Type 59 tank has almost changed from appearance to interior, which is beyond recognition.

Guan Fei's move is really a magical change to the end!

The most important thing is that the overall transformation progress he requested was limited to completion within half a year.

Normally, this large project similar to redeveloping a new tank requires at least a dozen new supporting factories, production lines, and training workers, which will take at least two or three years.

However, Guan Fei's subordinates only have such a small number of tanks, only 64 sets of demand, so there is no need to do such a lot of effort to build a production line. He plans to allocate all tasks to various research institutions and use small-batch laboratory production to realize the modification of all tanks.

However, in this way, the renovation cost of a single tank will be high.

He was also mentally prepared for this.

Although he verbally blocked the maximum cost of a single vehicle to 600,000 yuan, in fact, as long as it does not exceed one million yuan in the end, he will be able to accept it.

The total price of a single unit is still cheaper than the Su-style $150 million US dollars, and it is only one-fifth of the m1a1 with more than four million US dollars!

The modified Form 59 will have combat capability of 70% and 80% of m1a1.

The discovery of 1,500 meters, attack distance, night combat capability, penetration power of 500 mm homogeneous armor, and the improved Type 59 can pose a great threat to m1a1. If the opponent does not insert active armor and uses tungsten alloy tail wings to stabilize the shell-unshed armor-piercing bombs outside 1,500 meters, it can also penetrate its armor layer equivalent to 500 mm homogeneous steel plate.

If the distance is narrowed to within 800 meters, both sides will not be able to escape the end of being penetrated by each other's tanks and guns.

This is the current situation of modern main station tanks in the era of firepower.

There are more and more targets that can pose a threat to main battle tanks.

This is also the reason why the main battle tanks gradually stagnated after they developed into modern times, and major powers no longer spent more energy on them. Faced with small-scale armed enemies, existing tanks are enough to crush them; facing a systemic power, no one can escape the destruction of the other side, and the main battle tanks gradually become a useless weapon.

Large-scale wars cannot be fought, and modern wars in the future are becoming increasingly excessive towards public security wars, so there is naturally no need to continue to conduct in-depth research.

Guan Fei led the morning discussion, but this was to speed up the process, not to make a one-man show. He also accepted the correct opinions.

For example, he initially planned to install an automatic loader, or domestic experts raised objections, saying that everything may happen in battle, and the possibility of damage to the automatic loader is not small. He proposed to retain a set of manual loading equipment as a backup, and other correct suggestions. After he considered it, he followed the good and adopted it.

And he did not stipulate the specific modification details.

There are too many equipment that need to be replaced, and whether the expected goals can be achieved is also a question. Whether the space freed up can accommodate so many equipment after disassembling the original components is also a key factor. This requires efforts to miniaturize the equipment and miniaturize it, which is very important to consider the design and manufacturing level of the project team.

Therefore, he did not force all requirements to meet the standards. After the verification work was carried out, all aspects came up with relevant transformation details and samples, and then made further choices based on the actual situation.

For example, power systems, attack power, and dealing with the squadron are useless, and they are only prepared as a means to improve competitiveness in the international arms market in the future. These requirements can be gradually improved with the improvement of base technology in the future, and do not require one step to be achieved.

However, other improvements can be saved. The only goal of integrating electronic vision, laser ranging, low light night vision, and fire control computers into a complete data link system must be achieved in his plan.

This is the foundation for establishing a data-based combat system for the entire army in the future, and he will keep it no matter what.

...

On the dining table, the glasses were serking, Guan Fei, Xia Zhongyuan and others were excited to drink, and they took off their military uniforms and hung them behind the chairs. They even had their sweatshirts. They drank red and were bare-chested, and were still persuading each other to drink. The wine was soaring at the dining table.

On the ground, two empty wine bottles had been placed, and the newly opened Moutai bottle on the table was already empty.

Guan Fei did not drink alcohol in his time, but in this era, because of his depression and in the military, in order to get along with his fellow comrades, he gradually learned to smoke and drink. Moreover, his alcohol content was very large. After two bottles of white wine, his face was only slightly red, his speech was still so clear, and his thinking did not slow down. If he wasn't full of alcohol, it would be like not drinking.

When Xia Zhongyuan and others first arrived at the base, they tried to fight with him, but every time they wanted to get him drunk, they were always the ones who slipped under the table and got drunk. After they were on the table today, except for everyone who started drinking, they turned to talking and chatting, and no one dared to compete with him for a long time.

"Come on, Minister Xia, come and have a piece of braised pangolin. This is what I caught from the mountains. The meat is tender and has a good taste." Guan Fei picked up a large piece of pangolin meat and put it in the Xia Zhongyuan bowl. Then he assembled several general managers, the cadres of the Fifth Machinery Department, and said diligently.

"It turns out that this is pangolin meat. I said why is this meat so delicious, tender, elastic, and very delicious. Traditional Chinese medicine says that pangolin meat has the function of replenishing blood and has miraculous effects on promoting blood circulation and dispersing blood stasis. It is said that if pregnant women have poor milk, they will also have the effect of promoting lactation after eating it." A general assembly cadre who likes food nodded repeatedly and showed off to others.

"Oh?" Xia Zhongyuan quickly picked up a piece, put it in his mouth and chewed it slowly, savored it carefully, and then slapped the table and praised, "It turns out that the meat is delicious and tender!"

Guan Fei smiled and raised his glass to him, drank half a cup in one sip, ate the food, and then said casually: "Minister Xia, I heard that the military expenditure in China seems to be very tight now, and the military expenditure this year has been reduced again?"

When he heard that the military expenses were mentioned, the people on the table were covered in gloom.

Military spending this year is more than just a reduction.

Domestic military expenditure, due to war, reached its historical highest point in 1979, with annual expenditure of more than 23 billion yuan. Then, in order to make way for national economic construction, military expenditure began to be greatly reduced. The total approved military expenditure this year was only 16.8 billion yuan, accounting for only 3.43% of the total GDP value.

As a major country second only to the United States and the Soviet Union, this amount of military expenditure is pitifully small.

In order to deal with the Cold War, the United States' military expenditure has remained at a scale of 100 billion US dollars for many years, and the total budget this year has reached 150 billion, sixteen times that of China.

The Soviet Union's military expenditure was also not low.

Since the Soviet Union's military expenditure has never been clear and there are no detailed figures, it is roughly estimated that the Soviet Union's military expenditure is basically the same as that of the United States, with a slightly less level. Based on this, it is estimated that the Soviet Union's military expenditure this year is about 130 billion.

From this point of view, China's military expenditure is far behind, and it is incomparable to the United States and the Soviet Union.

However, from the calculation of fiscal appropriation ratio and GDP share, China is definitely not low: last year, it was 19.4 billion, accounting for 4.26% of the total GDP value, but fiscal appropriation accounts for 16.7%!

Last year, the United States' military expenditure was 1,339 billion yuan, accounting for 4.9% of the total GDP, which was just a little more than the domestic market, while fiscal appropriations accounted for 22.7% of the total amount, much higher than that of the domestic market.

Although the Soviet Union maintained military expenditure comparable to that of the United States, its economic strength was far inferior. Although there was no specific number, it was speculated that its military expenditure accounted for 20 to 30% of the total annual revenue!

It can be seen from this that it was so difficult for the Soviet Union to maintain its hegemony. No wonder the morale of the people in the country did not want to continue the cold war with the United States, and they were eager to reconcile, which also laid the root cause of future disintegration. They really couldn't afford it.

Judging from the number of troops owned by various countries, China has the largest number, with a total of more than 6 million troops; the Soviet Union was second, with more than 5 million; the United States had the lowest number, with only 2.45 million troops.

The average investment of each soldier is reversed: the US military's individual investment reaches 63,000 US dollars, while the average investment of each soldier in the Soviet Union is 26,000 US dollars. China has the least, and the per capita military expenditure is only a pitiful 1,600 US dollars to convert US dollars into US dollars!
Chapter completed!