After returning to the joint venture, Wang Ye did three things in succession.
The first thing was to go to Yuntai City and pay a deposit of 30% of the payment to Toshiba, which totaled about a little over thirty-six million US dollars.
The second thing was to contact Director Liang, and then went to the province in person to communicate about matters related to the provincial industrial chain conference. The provincial leaders were very happy, and then the province issued an invitation letter. Finally, The industrial chain conference is scheduled to be held on December 25th, and the address is at the Hongxing Shipyard in Yuntai City. After all, the scale here is larger and there is a small auditorium, making it more convenient to come and go.
The more critical issue is that the headquarters still needs to keep the overall confidentiality when it comes to weapons production. There will be too many people coming, and excessive noise is not conducive to confidentiality. Therefore, the external reception work can only be placed at the shipyard. The scale of the steel plant is too small to support this provincial conference.
The third thing is to conduct work inspections, which are the local production progress and scientific research progress, the production progress of the dismantling plant, and the production progress of the shipyard.
At present, the products produced by this department include rotorcraft, various displacement gasoline engines, V8 diesel engines, Red Star adv motorcycles, motorcycle tricycles, four-wheel light trucks, pickup trucks, six-wheel off-road vehicles, fire support vehicle weapon stations, and self-propelled howitzers. Weapon stations, compressors, picture tubes, and other supporting parts, and production line construction equipment, etc.
In addition to these production projects, there are countless scientific research projects. There are hundreds of projects, large and small. Some have already produced products and have been finalized. Some are still under research and will soon produce results, while others It's relatively slow, and it takes a long time to produce results, etc.
In the dismantling plant, the current production projects include: dismantling of the Type 59 tank, wheel speeding of the Type 59 tank, assembly and production of the 59-k fire support vehicle, assembly and production of the 59-m self-propelled howitzer, heavy-duty Modified production of transport truck trains.
Finally, there is the shipyard. After a round of rectification, projects have started and are on track, including electric fans, washing machines, televisions, refrigerators, and air conditioners.
Of course, although there are more than 3,500 workers in the shipyard, more than 1,500 of these workers are not engaged in production. Instead, they have started a new round of professional skills in accordance with Wang Ye's requirements. Training and training. After all, they have stopped production for several years. The level of workers has deteriorated and they need to be caught quickly.
The remaining two thousand people were not enough to produce the home appliances that Wang Ye required, so from the family members of the workers being trained, young people, young wives, and middle-aged women were selected to join the household appliances business. The production is essentially the same model as the previous manufacturing plant, and the effect is still good.
This ensures that every worker family in the entire shipyard enjoys the joy of working overtime.
After all, in the structure of the consortium, overtime work means extra overtime pay. It is unique in this era and is a good benefit that countless outside workers yearn for. The reason is very simple. Nowadays, everyone is short of money and is willing to use extra money. Working overtime in exchange for more wages, it is precisely because of this that the entire shipyard is now filled with an atmosphere of joy.
In the past, wages could not be paid, but now, on the basis of normal wages, overtime work is also subject to extra overtime pay. For a time, the work enthusiasm was fully stimulated, and I just did it without any urging. The work was not good enough or fast enough, and others took over the work. After all, the scale of production is so large now. Although the formal workers in the factory have something to do, there are still many idle family members, all eagerly waiting to continue to expand production. Woolen cloth!
"Hey! Lao Zhao is still awesome!"
"Isn't it? It feels like this is the case among all eighth-level workers! That's awesome!"
"Watch and study hard! Don't talk!"
"Shh! Be quiet, don't disturb Lao Zhao's operation!"
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In the metal processing workshop of the Second Consortium Steel Plant, Wang Ye, who was wearing work clothes and sweating profusely, was watching something with a group of people.
Among the crowd of onlookers, I saw a senior craftsman operating a machine tool and boring a metal cylinder. As he operated, the hole in the metal cylinder became larger and larger, and the inner wall became smaller and smaller. Smooth, even with the illumination of light, it has a mirror effect.
"Phew! I'm so suffocated!"
"Quick, quick, hurry up and measure the inner diameter!"
"Yes, it stands to reason that it should have reached the standard!"
When another boring operation was completed, there was a sound of relaxation among the onlookers, and the old master picked up the equipment and began to simply measure the inner diameter of the metal cylinder.
"130mm has 7 more threads!"
"It has met the task requirements assigned by the factory director, and coupled with the chrome plating process, it should be possible to accurately control the inner diameter of 130 mm! Hahaha!"
After some simple measurements, the old master couldn't help but excitedly said this, and instantly there was a deafening cheer!
"Hahaha, I finally saw the clues!"
"I've been really exhausted these past few days, but Lao Liu is so awesome! I won't accept it."
"Machine tools! We still lack high-precision machine tools! How many gun barrels have been scrapped? At least more than a hundred, right?"
"Just a little more, this kind of success rate is definitely not enough, but at least we have taken the first step and can conduct subsequent research and testing!"
"Yes, yes, to be honest, I have been dreaming about this gun these days. It has a caliber of 130 mm. My God, it must be shocking when it fires!"
"To be honest, I think this caliber is a bit outrageous!"
"Hey? What are you afraid of? We can be as big as we are small, and we have technical reserves! If the performance is excessive, we can build 125, 120, or even 105, right?"
"Yes! That's the truth, do the big ones first, then the small ones!"
Everyone at the scene had excited expressions on their faces, and warm applause echoed in the workshop. The old master's face was glowing, enjoying the glory that belonged to him. Even Wang Ye was applauding crazily, with an expression of admiration on his face, and everyone was talking. There were many voices, and joy filled the entire workshop.
After returning from Yanjing, Wang Ye completed those three things and devoted his energy to the scientific research project team.
I go back and forth between various project teams every day, starting from 8 o'clock in the morning, to 11 or 12 o'clock in the evening, or even early in the morning. I am still meeting with different project teams, or in workshops and laboratories. Anyway, I never take a break. , driven by this high intensity, the electroslag remelting project of the Metals and Materials Laboratory finally achieved success in the first phase, and then the tank gun project team began to take over the work.
After more than ten days and more than a hundred gun barrels being scrapped, it seems that we have finally succeeded!
The root cause of many failures is that the current consortium's machining accuracy level is not up to standard. It is very difficult to produce a high-precision gun barrel. It is almost impossible to rely solely on equipment. In the end, Wang Ye had to I tried to call on the master craftsmen to manually compensate for the accuracy problem of the processing equipment, which is often called hand rubbing. Now it seems that the probability of success for the first time has finally been triggered.
As we all know, in the field of machining, there is an iron law.
That is, the accuracy, or error level, of a part cannot be lower than the error of the machine that produces the part. To give a simple example, if the processing error of a machine tool is ten wires, then the parts it produces, The error cannot be less than ten wires, so problems arise.
What if you want to continue to improve accuracy?
In other words, the precision of the parts processed by each machine tool is lower than the precision of the machine tool itself. So how can we use these parts to create a machine tool with higher precision?
The solution is very simple and complex. On the one hand, it relies on multiple processing, multi-platform, and multi-mode processing to improve the overall accuracy of the parts. On the other hand, it relies on manual labor and the level of senior technicians to make up for it with manpower. Accuracy, ultimately improving the accuracy of machine tools, which in turn leads to an increase in the accuracy of overall industrial production.
But now, Wang Ye just relied on his personal skills as a master and through many experiments, he smoothed out the errors of the equipment and got the first barrel!
That's right, this hollow metal pillar with a smooth interior is a gun barrel, a tank's gun barrel.
From an international perspective, in the next thirty years, tanks will still be the most mainstream equipment of the army, and they are also a high value-added weapon and equipment whose overall value will gradually increase. Wang Ye originally wanted to develop heavy-duty diesel engines. On the one hand, he wanted to develop agricultural machinery. and construction machinery. On the one hand, they want to build tanks.
After all, this thing is known as the king of land warfare and will be the main force in the war in the next twenty years. The market demand is huge, and exporting is very profitable.
Moreover, the war between Iraq and Iraq will soon reach its climax. Their demand for tanks is increasing. With the United States and the Soviet Union maintaining restraint and hoping for a ceasefire, both sides will no longer export tanks to Iraq and Iran. Finally, this The task fell to Luo Yang Yituo and Baotou Er. It can be said that they made a lot of money!
Even when the demand was at its highest, these two factories couldn't meet it at all. So Wang Ye used his "tractor" to fill the gaps. Isn't that excessive?
Secondly, from a domestic perspective, there is also a lack of powerful main battle tanks.
Nowadays, the mainstream domestic tank guns are the 100mm rifled gun on the old 59, the improved 100mm smoothbore gun technology, the 105mm rifled gun introduced from Austrian technology, the digested and upgraded 105mm rifled gun, and the upgraded 105mm gun. Rifled cannon.
In normal history, next year the army will obtain a T-72 tank from Romania through certain secret channels and methods, and it is an early model, not the T-72a model that India has begun to pursue, and then came into contact with the 125mm Tank guns, and because when we contacted Rheinmetall in Germany later, the other party rejected our contact and cooperation plan related to 120 mm tank guns, so we finally decided to develop a 125 mm tank gun.
It was not until 1992 that the first tank 822ap equipped with a 125 mm smoothbore tank gun and an automatic loader was officially launched and exported to Pakistan to help them fight the threat from Indian T-72 tanks. As for domestic tanks equipped with 125 caliber Cannons, that’s something that comes later.
That is why.
So Wang Ye decided to work hard to create a miracle, and first developed a 130mm super-caliber tank gun. This is also one of the final trends in tank development after 40 years. After all, with the development of "spear" and "shield", everyone has From homogeneous armor to composite armor, and then to reactive armor, the defense is getting stronger and stronger, which in turn leads to the larger and larger caliber of tank guns. In this case, what are the small calibers? Just go to the larger ones!
Nowadays, the purpose, or benefit, of directly taking out a 130mm tank gun is actually only one, and that is when the manufacturing industry is not so advanced and mobility is not considered, no matter which country is on the opposite side. All tanks can be penetrated with one shot and sent directly to the west!
In the next two decades, although the technology and digitization of tanks have been advancing, and various tank tactics have emerged one after another, for most battlefields around the world, this kind of performance is actually "overflow" and customers cannot use it at all. Turn, under such circumstances, Wang Ye's tank design ideas gradually overlapped with the design ideas of the American "A-10 Warthog" attack aircraft. That is the essence of tanks, buying a gun and getting a tractor!
As long as the tank gun is strong enough, the armor is about the same, the maneuverability is about the same, it doesn't matter whether it has the ability to shoot while moving, as long as it can stand firm and can shoot accurately and penetrate. Anyway, when the tank is in the hands of the customer, it will either be pushed horizontally or It's just to cover an ambush and sneak attack, or to build an artillery position. Anyway, they can't use advanced tactics. There are too many fancy functions and they are useless!
As long as the most critical performance is described, Wang Ye is certain and certain that his tractor can resist artillery will definitely sell well!
That is: with this cannon, you can penetrate all tanks!
In other words: Give you a chance to fire, and the enemy will definitely die!
This kind of performance is enough for customers. As for higher levels, that is a domestic problem. Anyway, when energy and time are limited, there is absolutely nothing wrong with getting the most critical and core things done first, and tanks The most important thing is definitely not the defense, but the cannon!
Wang Ye doesn't even think it matters whether or not this thing is called a tank. Even if it's called a self-propelled anti-tank gun or a tractor towing a giant gun, Wang Ye doesn't have any objection. Anyway, as long as it can be sold, it's a good name!
"Okay! Next, is the chrome plating process on the inside of our gun barrel."
"We must be careful in this step, otherwise our precious pipe will be scrapped. It will be too difficult to get another one like this before we have the machine tools in place!"
Hearing Wang Ye's emotion, there was a burst of laughter at the scene, and then everyone began to continue working step by step, and the chrome plating process of the gun barrel also began.
The world's most advanced tank gun actually has three important technical features, namely electroslag remelting, self-tightening of the barrel, and inner barrel coating technology, of which the coating is currently mainly chromium plating.
In other words, as long as the chromium plating is successful, this is a qualified laboratory-level gun barrel. Next, we only need to solve the processing success rate and mass production issues.
In addition, matching this super tank gun is the "Crawler Tractor" project.
Related technologies are currently being studied, such as designing and improving the V16 engine based on the already produced V8 diesel engine as the power source for crawler tractors, as well as heavy armored crawler body technology, in order to carry this cannon and have enough power. Expandability: In order to leave enough room for future upgrades, Wang Ye decided to build a "universal heavy-duty crawler tractor chassis" with seven pairs of road wheels.
Time flies, and December 25th is getting closer and closer.
In addition to rushing to conference rooms, laboratories, and factory workshops every day, Wang Ye also had to take factory leaders and staff from the factory affairs office and secretariat to meetings at night to prepare for issues related to the province's industrial chain.
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