Black tech predators

Chapter 176 [Cost]

The team members put down their work one after another, and the members in other laboratories were also called to the R&D hall.

Zhou Huang took out the mobile tablet control to obtain a synchronous link with the main screen. After operating for a while, he held the big screen and said: "Currently, the standard mass of the spherical chariot is temporarily set at about 4.7 tons. If there is no major change, it will be this data. Yes. Measure against the benchmark, it belongs to the same level as a light tank. The maximum diameter of the spherical body is 3.39 meters, which is tens of centimeters higher than the height of the current mainstream main battle tanks. There are two crew members inside the spherical tank , a driver who is responsible for driving the spherical tank, and a gunner who is responsible for observing, selecting targets, and controlling the weapon system..."

The crew of this new type of weaponry is one less than the crew of contemporary tanks. In the past, tanks generally had four crew members, namely the commander, gunner, loader, and driver. Later, with the development of technology, the interior of the tank has changed. With the system of auto-reloading ammo, so it's down to three now.

The spherical chariot also cancels the commander, because with the support of the intelligent control system, a gunner is fully capable of observing, selecting targets, and striking targets, and naturally it also automatically loads ammunition.

The main core module of the chariot has an integrated power system, which is driven by all electricity. The energy source is still the second-generation isotope core system. Due to its large size, it can carry multi-core energy cores.

In fact, many core technologies of the spherical chariot can be extended from the reserve technology of the power armor. The electric drive can make it move quietly, and it can also reduce the heat radiation signal under the use of an all-electric propulsion engine.

Radio positioning, computer and graphics processing, and HUD head-up display form a vision system.

The defensive armor is made of carbonyne alloy, but its strength is one level weaker than the carbonyne alloy used by the second-generation exoskeleton power armor, because it is mixed with conventional alloys.Without him, if it is against the second-generation exoskeleton power armor, with the physique and full defense design requirements of a spherical chariot, the demand for carbyne alloy is calculated in tons, and the material here is the rhythm of 5000 million bases.

The total cost of a ZTZ99 main battle tank is about RMB 1600 million. If the spherical tank is to play the krypton gold route, the total cost of the whole body will reach the rhythm of hundreds of millions.

Blindly "krypton gold" is sometimes not a good thing, but a bad thing. It will make it a high-value target for opponents to attack, and it is not conducive to large-scale equipment. The more soldiers Gu Cheng has, the better.

Krypton does not change fate.

The low cost can effectively reduce the enemy's desire to strike to a certain extent. This is also a form of security in disguise, and it is the same as the X-B185 all-terrain combat vehicle.

A weapon and equipment, when the level of technology is similar, is cheaper, tougher, and durable than anyone else's. The key is resistance + cheapness.To make it so that you don't feel sad when you lose, and that your opponent feels a blood loss because of the battle loss ratio after destroying the enemy's target.

But having said that, even if the defensive armor of the spherical tank is not as strong as the second-generation power armor, it does not mean that the armor of the spherical tank is weak. Compared with all the main battle tanks in the world today, its armor defense level is absolutely explosive. Benefit from the victory of new material application.

Another point is also very important, that is, the design of the spherical geometry itself is a powerful means of defense, and it is more difficult for the enemy to penetrate the defense.This is also easy to understand, because the surface of the spherical geometry is a curved surface. If the shooting angle of the shell is greater than or less than [-] degrees and hits the target at a right angle, there is a high probability that the shell will be reflected directly, leaving only a small trace on the armor surface.

Then the design of the overall structure, the spherical chariot also needs a strong shock absorption and buffer system, which is conducive to the driver to drive the chariot on a rampage and better adapt to all-terrain maneuvering.

Although the collision with each other failed in the simulation test just now, the environment of the simulation test is extremely harsh, and the comprehensive damping system currently designed is actually very good. If it weren't for Gu Cheng's demanding requirements, there is no need for further improvement.

With the passage of time, Zhou Huang talked for ten minutes, drank half a bottle of water and looked at the tablet again: "The following is the cost budget of the modules in charge of each team, which have been calculated and submitted. Report here."

"The energy core system is about 2000 million. This is the most expensive, equivalent to the cost of a set of exoskeleton power armor." Zhou Huang said to everyone.

The most expensive module of the spherical chariot is still the energy core, which is as important as its heart. The second-generation exoskeleton power armor uses a single-core core, while the spherical chariot uses a slightly modified core. After the quad-core core.

Zhou Huang reported one by one: "Computing graphics processing HUD head-up display and fire control system cost 1720 million, which is the second most expensive module; defensive armor has a budget of 800 million; the structure is so fine that there is no need to achieve the level of power armor. It is one-third of the cost of Power Armor, 200 million; the required secondary carbyne synthetic material is 650 million; the integrated power system is 300 million; the internal independent life support system is 88; um... and the air conditioning system, the budget is 0.51 .”

After finishing speaking, Zhou Huang looked at Gu Cheng and nodded. The latter made a rough calculation in his mind. Excluding the weapon system, the overall cost budget of the spherical chariot was initially determined to be around 5700 million.

Gu Cheng is not satisfied with this: "The budget of more than 5700 million yuan is indeed worth the money compared to its combat performance, but it is still too expensive. The cost must be further reduced. I must control it to about 3500 million to 4000 million. The system can be compressed into a budget of around 1300 million, and the positioning of the spherical chariot should not be expensive high-tech new weapons and equipment, but low-cost high-tech new weapons and equipment that can be mass-produced on a large scale.”

Obviously, the spherical chariot is also a specialized combat unit. Its main combat mission is the mirror image of the X-B185, but an additional one is added specifically for the X-B185 chariot.

Therefore, anti-harassment is the core positioning of the spherical chariot, but it is still a device with stronger and more outstanding offensive harassment capabilities than the X-B185. -B185.

In modern warfare, any weapon and equipment will not fight alone. The integrated joint combat system, integration and integration, emphasizes the high degree of cooperation between multiple arms to execute operations, each playing its own strengths, complementing each other's advantages and disadvantages, so that the overall Form a strong combat force and achieve the goal of both offense and defense.

Obviously, when one's own air force drags down the enemy's air force and hedges off; the missile systems also hedge off each other, then on the ground battlefield it is a contest between the spherical tank and the X-B185 tank.

As long as the opponent is suppressed, the spherical tank can take over the initiative on the ground battlefield.

(End of this chapter)