Military industrial hegemony

Chapter 1206 Build a Cross-Era Wheeled Infantry Vehicle
Ever since Jiang Chen came back, he has been busy with company affairs.I kept talking about going down for a walk, but I didn't have the time.But today, he deliberately took out a day, planning to go down for a walk.In fact, there was nothing he could do. The people below had urged him several times.The reason for this is that Jiang Chen has been concerned about a research project, which also belongs to the research and development of vehicles.However, the vehicle developed this time is different from the previous ones, because the vehicle to be developed this time is directly aimed at military vehicles.

In the past, the off-road vehicles developed by Jiang Chen and the others were actually developed along the path of military-civilian integration, which can be used for both military and civilian purposes.It can be said that this was a comprehensive consideration of many aspects and made full use of resources, but it was also a helpless choice at the time.Because Jiang Chen and the others were still weak at that time, they could not support the research and development of this kind of vehicle specially used for military development.Of course, the research and development of this type of military vehicle itself has great risks, so Jiang Chen took this route in order to stabilize the company.

In fact, this is also an attempt by Jiang Chen and the others, or it is considered based on the current situation.After all, the requirements for military vehicles are very high. If you enter rashly, you may encounter problems that catch them off guard.That's why Jiang Chen chose military and civilian vehicles, which is also a way of insurance.Even if one side fails, there is still another side that can guarantee the bottom line.

But this time, what Jiang Chen and the others want to develop is a wheeled armored vehicle.To put it bluntly, it is to absorb and learn the technology from the BTR-80 armored personnel carrier they got from Su*, and then redesign and develop a new eight-by-eight armored vehicle based on this. Wheeled combat vehicles.But in order to be able to make this step chariot, Jiang Chen spent a lot of effort.Not only did it collect relevant information from various parties, but it also synthesized the characteristics and advantages of the same type of wheeled combat vehicles of the Soviet Union and the West. requirements.

For example, for the engine horsepower of this wheeled combat vehicle, Jiang Chen requested to abandon the configuration of the BTR-80250 350 horsepower engine and increase the horsepower of the engine to more than [-] horsepower.In this way, the power of the vehicle will be stronger, and the speed and passing capacity will be greatly increased, thereby improving the performance of the entire vehicle.Moreover, the increase in horsepower can enable the body to carry greater weight, which can be equipped with thicker armor and carry more ammunition and personnel.

As for the chassis of this armored vehicle, it is based on the eight-by-eight chassis design of the BTR-80.However, Jiang Chen also replaced the chassis with a V-shaped lightning protection chassis based on his knowledge and memory. This design can reduce the impact of landmines and improvised roadside bombs on the bottom of the car, and protect the safety of the people inside the car.Moreover, this V-shaped lightning protection chassis also greatly increases the passability of the body and increases off-road performance.As for the suspension, the method of independent suspension springs is adopted, so that each wheel can independently adapt to the road conditions, so as to adapt to driving on complex road surfaces and increase the stability and passability of the vehicle.

Moreover, the design team also abandoned the wheel and tire design of the BTR-80, and replaced it with a more three-dimensional all-steel radial safety wheel.The strength of this kind of tire is better than that of the rubber tire equipped with BTR-80, and this kind of tire is also more suitable for road driving, increasing the passability and gripping ability.And this kind of tire can also drive at low and medium speeds after being hit and damaged, so that it can leave the battlefield and get out of danger.In this way, it is avoided that the members in the car get out of the car to change the tire because of the damage of the tire, thus exposing the dangerous situation under the firepower of the enemy.

Because of the high horsepower of the engine and the full drive mode, the mobility of this armored vehicle is very high.Under Jiang Chen's request, the maximum speed of this wheeled combat vehicle on the road should not be less than 25 kilometers per hour, and the maximum travel distance on the road should not be less than [-] kilometers.The average cross-country speed cannot be less than [-] kilometers per hour, and the maximum climbing gradient cannot be lower than [-] degrees.And it can pass through a variety of complex terrains or extreme environments.For example, this wheeled infantry vehicle only needs to cross a trench with a width of [-] meters and pass a vertical wall with a height of [-] meters.This undoubtedly brought difficulties to the design and development of the entire vehicle, but under Jiang Chen's clear request, the researchers still tried their best to meet this requirement.

As for the body, Jiang Chen borrowed the design ideas of several very famous wheeled armored vehicles in later generations, including our very famous Type 09.Of course, under the current conditions, there is definitely no way to compare with the Type 09, but its design ideas are far more advanced than those of other wheeled armored vehicles during this period.One of the most important design ideas is modular design.The entire vehicle adopts a modular design and consists of six basic modules: power, transmission, action, handling, car body and upper-mounted weapons.Through the combination of different modules, multiple variants of the chassis can be realized, so as to match and integrate with various combat requirements.Moreover, the modular design can improve the interchangeability of the car family, which is beneficial to logistics maintenance support.Jiang Chen also completely borrowed the design idea of ​​the 09 style, allowing this design concept to appear decades in advance.

And in other respects, this wheeled armored vehicle also fully adopted Jiang Chen's design ideas.In other words, it is a product that synthesized the later 09-style design ideas stolen by Jiang Chen, and then synthesized the current international advanced design direction.Under Jiang Chen's request, the total weight of this wheeled combat vehicle should not exceed 3 tons. This requirement is to reduce weight and increase its maneuverability.The crew in the car is 7 crew members and [-] crew members, which is exactly the configuration of an infantry squad.Among them, there are three people in the car crew, one is the driver, one is the commander, and the other is the gunner.The layout of the international wheeled combat vehicle standard is adopted. The power cabin is located on the right side of the front of the vehicle, the driver and commander are located on the left side of the power cabin, the fighting room is in the center, and the rear is the crew compartment.The personnel compartment is equipped with observation windows and shooting holes, which enhance the ability to carry infantry in combat and the ability to fire support them when dismounting.

As for the protection performance of the vehicle body, Jiang Chen required that the frontal armor protection capability of this infantry fighting vehicle should be able to withstand the shooting of 100mm armor-piercing bullets within a distance of 100 meters.The side protection can block the shooting of [-] heavy machine gun bullets and [-] armor-piercing bullets within a distance of [-] meters.As for the roof with the weakest protection ability of the whole vehicle, it must also resist certain powerful explosive fragments and heavy machine gun stray bullets within a certain distance.

Moreover, Jiang Chen also set a requirement, that is, while increasing the protection performance of this car, the weight of the body should not be increased much, and the mobility performance should not be sacrificed by increasing the protection performance.So this adds a lot of problems for the developers.Especially in the research and development of armor materials, it is a headache for the relevant research and development team.But there is no way, who made Jiang Chen the big boss? Although it is very difficult, he still has to bite the bullet and grit his teeth.

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