Military industrial hegemony

Chapter 712 Start a new military project, truck gun
Of course, when you come, you are already a guest.Especially if it is a brother manufacturer in its own system, it will naturally be warmly received.Although the factory manager was in a hurry and wanted to discuss with Jiang Chen and the others as soon as possible, but since this was in Jiang Chen's territory, he could only do what he wanted.

Then I started to show these people around, especially Ma Guoliang and Xu Shijie seemed to be very enthusiastic about it.Basically every time there are leading cadres and brother manufacturers who come to visit and inspect, they are very active.At first, Jiang Chen didn't quite understand it, but later he realized that they had had enough of other people's cold eyes and ridicule in the past few years, and now it's time for them to feel proud, and naturally they are actively happy.Of course, confidentiality is still required, and this visit is limited to the part that can be opened.Then came the reception dinner, although Jiang Chen didn't like to participate in this kind of dinner, but he was the general manager of this project.Moreover, the B507 factory is also negotiating with Jiang Chen, so he still has to participate in this dinner.The dinner was held on the second floor of the old cafeteria in the factory. Although the factory is rich now, the factory leaders and old workers who have experienced hard times are very frugal, so some of these dinners and receptions are also held in the old cafeteria.And although now due to the expansion of the B17 factory, the number of employees has increased, and two large restaurants have been built in the factory, and the environmental facilities are much better than here.But the factory leaders and the old workers prefer to eat here. They say that eating here is more delicious and delicious.

Early the next morning, the tripartite negotiations officially began.The three parties are Factory B507, Factory B17 and Western Industries Corporation.So this negotiation, Fatty and Dongzi also came.And the factory leaders of B17 factory also joined in, together with the people of B507 factory, the conference room was basically packed to the brim.

Before the official start, Jiang Chen gave a brief introduction to the project.Jiang Chen called this project a 'truck type self-propelled artillery', or 'truck gun' for short.That's right, it's a truck cannon. This is Jiang Chen's next development goal.

Truck guns, also known as truck-type self-propelled guns and vehicle-mounted guns, are an organic combination of low-cost towed guns and wheeled truck chassis.Through ingenious design, it is a wheeled artillery with strong mobility and no turret.This type of vehicle-mounted self-propelled artillery has strong tactical mobility, rapid response capability, precise strike capability and autonomous combat capability.The artillery is generally light in weight, so it has better maneuverability and is more flexible in combat than towed and tracked self-propelled howitzers.And because truck guns use wheeled vehicles, they have outstanding advantages such as fast driving speed, good road mobility, light structure weight, and low cost. Now they are generally equipped with light mechanized troops and quick response troops in various countries around the world.

Truck gun, as the name suggests, is a new type of artillery weapon developed on the heavy-duty chassis of a wheeled truck. It is mainly used for light quick response forces and mobile task forces. Just run."Since the end of the last century, our country has worked hard to develop a variety of wheeled self-propelled artillery. In later generations, it has become a technological powerhouse in the research and development of wheeled artillery in the world.Moreover, a variety of truck guns developed and produced by our country, with their superior performance, are far ahead of similar advanced products in the world. It can be said that they have truly become the leader in this field.

According to the traditional development of artillery design, the large-caliber suppression artillery represented by the 20mm plus howitzer/howitzer should be developed in two main modes: towed and self-propelled.The towed artillery is simple in structure, light in weight, and low in cost, suitable for mass equipment, but has a low degree of automation and no protection at all.The self-propelled artillery uses a crawler chassis or a few uses a wheeled chassis and an armored turret. It has powerful firepower, a high degree of automation, and has good off-road maneuverability and protection performance.However, there are advantages and disadvantages. This kind of self-propelled artillery has huge weight, complicated technology and high cost. Only a few countries have the ability to design, produce and equip it in large quantities.Although various new technologies emerge in endlessly, the basic pattern of large-caliber suppression artillery has never been broken.This situation continued until the early 90s. The development of large-caliber self-propelled artillery gave birth to the 155mm vehicle-mounted artillery. The self-propelled artillery swept the global arms market for a short time with its unique design concept.And our country has also become one of the main countries affected by it, and gradually develops and takes the lead in the forefront.

The first countries in the world to launch this truck gun were Ruidian's FH-77BW 'Archer' and France's 'Caesar' vehicle-mounted howitzer.These two countries have been carrying out related research and development work since the 70s and 90s, but affected by traditional artillery thinking, the progress of these two countries is very slow.It was not until the middle and late 21s that it launched its own prototype, and it was not equipped with troops until the beginning of the 77st century.Even in this period, you can still see Ruidian's FH-[-]BW 'Archer'. The tracks on its body are the huge armored turret on the truck that still has a strong shadow of self-propelled artillery.And Caesar in France also installed all the cannons on the trucks, which is far less mature than the truck cannons developed and produced by us in later generations.
The truck gun cleverly combines the advantages of self-propelled artillery "self-action" and towed artillery "simple and practical", and has achieved a good balance between the combat performance and installation cost of large-caliber suppression artillery.It is precisely because of this obvious advantage that vehicle-mounted guns have been widely concerned and exported by small and medium-sized military countries as soon as they appeared.And Jiang Chen considered developing it, on the one hand because of its huge market prospects.On the other hand, because its development threshold is relatively low, it is very suitable for Jiang Chen and his current actual situation.

Moreover, it was Jiang Chen who first proposed this concept, which means that Jiang Chen can be the first to equip our army with this large-caliber firepower strike weapon that fits the current situation of our army.On the other hand, it is to seize the opportunity in the international military industry market, so as to stabilize the position of B17 factory in the arms market.Moreover, in Jiang Chen's plan, this technology will also undergo global patent registration. Although Su * does not recognize it, Jiang Chen doesn't care. Anyway, it will have to accept it if it doesn't accept it in a few years.As we all know, in the military industry, very few equipment technologies are registered as patents.Because once the patent is registered, it means that your technology must be made public.Basically, these military technologies are strictly kept secret by each country, so they will not be disclosed for the purpose of registering patents.What Jiang Chen wants to register is the design patent for the shape and structure. It depends on who is the first to register, and this technology itself has no secrets at all, just like the gun guide rail patent that Jiang Chen registered before.It depends on whoever thinks first, whoever is quick, and whoever registers first.

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