The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 168 Five-axis Gantry Machining Center (asking for monthly ticket)

In order to win on the battlefield, both sides fought hard.

Iraq purchased a large number of artillery shells, and with the continuous arrival of previously purchased shells, it was accumulating strength to achieve greater results.

Persia urgently placed a second order to purchase more pistols, rifles, machine guns, anti-aircraft machine guns, rockets, mortars, howitzers, cannons, tanks and other weapons and equipment as well as a large number of bullets and artillery shells. The order was worth as much as $15 billion.

Persia is now carrying out an emergency mobilization to organize more soldiers, and is even willing to release a group of arrested officers for this purpose.

Abadan is now surrounded by Iraq, and Persia absolutely cannot bear the pain of Abadan's fall.

Because Abadan is an important oil town!

Abadan is located at the southwestern tip of Persia, on the north bank of Abadan Island on the Shatt al-Arab River, 53 kilometers southeast of the Persian Gulf and 15 kilometers northwest of Khorramshahr. Since the Anglo-Persian Oil Company established a pipeline terminal refinery here in 1909, Abadan has developed rapidly. Now Abadan has a population of over 30. The city’s refinery is the largest refinery in the world, and the output of the Abadan refinery accounts for 60% of Persia’s total oil production!

Once Abadan is lost and the rich oil is lost, Persia will be finished!

This is why Persia is willing to do anything. Because of the rise in oil prices, Persia has accumulated a lot of wealth. If it loses oil, then Persia will fall into decline.

"It seems that Iraq has lost a lot of fighter jets this time, and now it is even willing to import the J-7 fighter jets." Liu Tao hung up the phone and looked at the green mountains and clear waters outside the office, feeling deeply moved.

The Iran-Iraq War was like a timely rain for China's military industry, and it saved countless military-industrial enterprises.

In the past, a major problem faced by military factories in converting from military to civilian use was lack of money.

But now, the money is coming in continuously.

As long as some military factories maintain production and others open their arsenals, they can earn a lot of money, which can be used to complete the military-to-civilian transformation of the military factories.

Without saying how much money can be allocated, the military factories should be asked to settle the workers' arrears and all outstanding debts, so that they can easily carry out military-to-civilian conversion. There should be no problem.

It's quite sad to say that China's most advanced fighter jet is the J-7.

The J-7 fighter is a single-seat, single-engine supersonic jet fighter that was copied by Shenyang Aircraft Corporation in the 60s based on the Soviet MiG-21. It is the first twice-the-speed-of-sonic jet fighter developed by China. It is equipped in large quantities by the Air Force and Naval Aviation. It is mainly used for national air defense and to seize air supremacy on the battlefield front. It can also perform ground attack missions. It is a typical second-generation fighter.

At the same time, the Soviet Union had developed the MiG-25 fighter, the world's first fighter with a speed exceeding Mach 3. In addition, there were the Su-17 attack aircraft, the Su-15 interceptor, and the Tupolev Tu-28. The United States also developed the F-4 Phantom II fighter and the F-5 Freedom Fighter fighter. France developed the Mirage F-1 fighter and the Super Army flagship attack aircraft.

These fighter jets are more advanced than the J-7.

Not to mention, the most advanced fighter jets in the world now are American-made fighter jets such as F14, F15, and F16, as well as Soviet-made fighter jets such as Su-27 and MiG-29.

In other words, the J-7, China's most advanced fighter jet, is actually two generations behind the advanced fighter jets of the United States and the Soviet Union.

Of course, fighter jets are notoriously expensive. A second-generation aircraft like the J-7 fighter can still be sold for $300 million per unit when exported.

This time, China exported the J-7 fighter jet at a price of US$300 million per unit.

In the international market, fighter jets like the F14 have already cost more than 2000 million US dollars.

Of course, this order is from the Third Ministry of Machine Building and has nothing to do with the Fifth Ministry of Machine Building.

Production workshop.

Liu Tao placed his hand on a CNC machine tool processing center and looked at the virtual panel:

【Item: Four-axis gantry machining center】

【Manufacturer: Liu Tao】

[Item Level: LV9 (1000000000/1000000000) (Upgradable)]

[Upgrade Points: 500]

[Item status: intact, analyzable]

Liu Tao smiled. This four-axis gantry machining center is a turning and milling complex, which is achieved on one machine tool through several different processing technologies.

Turning and milling is the most widely used and most difficult of all compound machining. Such a turning and milling compound machining center is equivalent to a combination of a CNC lathe and a machining center.

"System, upgrade!" Liu Tao said silently in his heart.

shuh~~
A faint light flashed, and the four-axis gantry machining center moved at a speed visible to the naked eye.

When things returned to normal, Liu Tao looked at the virtual panel again and found that the data had changed.

【Item: Five-axis gantry machining center】

【Manufacturer: Liu Tao】

[Item Level: LV10 (not upgradeable)]

[Upgrade Points: 500]

[Item status: intact, analyzable]

Liu Tao looked at the data and his lips curled up slightly. He finally upgraded to a five-axis gantry machining center.

This five-axis gantry machining center has a maximum X-axis travel of 21 meters, a Z-axis travel of 2 meters, and a maximum diameter of the turning and milling table of 4.5 meters. It is specially designed for the processing of large, heavy, high-precision products.

This big guy weighs 70 tons!

This is specially used for diesel engine crankshaft processing.

Tank diesel engines have very high requirements for crankshafts, almost as high as the processing requirements for blades.

Place the processed titanium alloy material, select it on the screen and start it.

The processing started immediately. First, the milling cutter milled the end face, then the center drill drilled the center hole, the tailstock top held the center hole, and the S-shaped external cylindrical cutter roughed the outer circle.
Processing is carried out step by step according to the control procedures.

In about thirty minutes, a crankshaft was completed.

Liu Tao picked up the processed crankshaft and showed a look of satisfaction.

Perfect, the processing precision is very high.

"With this five-axis gantry machining center, many parts can be solved." Liu Tao said secretly.

With the completion of this five-axis gantry machining center, subsequent parts processing will become much simpler, and the production efficiency of tanks and self-propelled anti-aircraft guns will be greatly improved.

Although Liu Tao was in a good mood, he was not proud or complacent.

It's just the beginning now. Tanks and self-propelled anti-aircraft guns can only be produced in small batches, which require a lot of manpower and material resources. If it weren't for him, the whole country might not be able to build a single self-propelled anti-aircraft gun or tank.

Even the current Panshan Machinery Factory, which has the technical backbone of Factory 256 and a large number of engineers assigned by the Fifth Ministry of Machine Building, still cannot produce a qualified self-propelled anti-aircraft gun or tank.

They can't even produce a decent diesel engine.

The most advanced tank engine that can be produced in the country now has a power of 580 horsepower, and there is no way to get higher.

As for diesel engines with thousands of horsepower, they are out of reach, and even unattainable in dreams. Just thinking about it will make people feel despair.

There are definitely no more than 1500 people in the country who dare to dream of a 10-horsepower tank diesel engine.

Liu Tao is a person who dares to think, dares to do, and realizes it.

(End of this chapter)