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"This is absolutely impossible! You are bragging!" Jiang Sen's face was a little distorted, and his condition was as crazy. "My surname is Liu, you are lying. Sooner or later, you will be exposed! You can't deceive me..."

Is this guy crazy?

Liu Yijiu really didn't expect that Johnson would go crazy at this time.

From the beginning, the tanks of the Ninth Academy appeared, and then along the way, the technical crushing of the Type 80 tanks produced by Johnson, who was responsible for leading the introduction of technology, and spending hundreds of millions of dollars, was the only result. Johnson's pressure was completely unimaginable to Liu Yijiu and others.

So, he went crazy.

"Is it too much for us to do this?" Liu Yijiu asked Long Yaohua.

If they hadn't been low-key at the beginning, and had not introduced the performance of their tanks, and had always admitted that their tank skills were not as good as those introduced, Johnson would not have been like this in the end.

Long Yaohua shook his head, "It's a good thing that he's crazy! Someone has to take responsibility for this matter. Hundreds of millions of dollars in funding!"

If Johnson had better relations with the Ninth Hospital, instead of targeting the Ninth Hospital from the beginning, he would have made various obstacles and could understand the Ninth Hospital's technology. If he didn't introduce so much, he would not waste the already tight scientific research funds of the military, nor would such a result have occurred.

He was completely self-reliant.

"At least, he is also for the good of the country." Liu Yijiu sighed. He was crazy, so there was no need to step on him a few more times.

"Has your technologies been researched successfully? Have you entered the practical application stage?" Because Johnson was crazy, the meeting could not continue, but it also achieved the results that Liu Yijiu wanted. The military will at least remain cautious in the subsequent technology introduction work.

Otherwise, the Ninth Court will make those responsible people the next Johnson.

Liu Yijiu nodded, "If we have entered the practical stage completely, we can say that, but the cost is too high. Just a 1,800 horsepower engine, this thing will increase the cost by hundreds of thousands. This is not the most important thing, it is just a fuel tiger. Not to mention the logistics support of our army, it cannot support the huge training funds..."

This is the case in the country. With advanced equipment, it may not be possible to use it.

"So in this way, the army cannot equip this tank at all? At the beginning, you told me that the cost would not exceed 20 million, but why did it suddenly exceed 30 million?" Long Yaohua was very dissatisfied with Liu Yijiu's temporary price increase.

Liu Yijiu said at the beginning that it was less than 20 million. In this way, according to the level, it is still fine for the military to equip hundreds of vehicles in a few years.

Now the cost is more than 10 million yuan at once. How could the military accept such a price?

"Jiangson and the others have been targeting us, so after I went back, I asked them to put all the technical crushes on their Type 80. At the beginning, the tanks we were going to provide to the military were not equipped with missile modules, no reactive armor, and some internal electronic systems." Liu Yijiu explained the situation. "After all, we didn't know what technologies they introduced at the beginning. If we knew that their tanks were like garbage, we would not need to add configurations at all, and we could also cause technical crushes on them."

It was really just holding back this breath at the beginning, so when he was supposed to reduce the allocation, Jiang Ming and others added a lot of configurations on it, causing the cost to almost double.

"Your design is not qualitative, why is it so easy to modify? It didn't take much time at the beginning, right?" Qi Hao always suspected that Liu Yijiu had been deliberately trying to deal with Jiang Sen.

He did not think that the Ninth Academy could be equipped with missile modules and reaction armor in a very short time, and even had some other configurations.

"Chief, you really wronged me. Many of our tank productions are universal. The missile modules installed on the third type of Longwei. Reactive armor is a reactive armor block made of hanging a layer of inert explosives outside the composite armor... This is the benefit of modular design. At the beginning, the interface is reserved, and the configuration can be quickly reduced and increased configurations according to needs. After all, if all are in accordance with the top configuration standards, it is still a serious waste if our military cannot afford it."

Modular design, which the Ninth Academy has been doing since the beginning of these projects.

In order to make various tank parts more universal, they constantly improve the original design and modify the design of new projects. In this way, they can effectively improve the logistics support capabilities and reduce the logistics burden.

"Can Longwei's parts be used on this?"

You know, the sixth wheel of Longwei and Jiuyuan are two completely different tanks.

"Modular design. Missile modules are universal, and even weapon systems are universal..." Liu Yijiu immediately explained to the two bigwigs what modular design and modular production mean.

This is an inevitable future development, and the military does not know much about this.

Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, although China has obtained a complete set of industrial systems from the Soviet elder brother, it has always had a huge and chaotic system in military production, with guns of all kinds of calibers being produced and various equipment technologies being used.

"In this way, you tanks can completely reduce some unnecessary modules, thereby effectively reducing costs. If you remove those complex electronic systems or even some unnecessary data connection systems, can the cost be reduced to less than 10 million?" After learning about the benefits of modular design, Qi Hao asked Liu Yijiu with his eyes shining.

Liu Yijiu rolled his eyes at him.

After all, he is also the Minister of Logistics, and he thought he was buying cabbage on the market!

"This is impossible. Strong armor defense, fierce firepower, and good maneuverability are basically the lowest configuration. Of course, missile modules can be cancelled. If some internal electronic systems are cancelled, the cost can be reduced to 17 million, but in that way, it will have a very big impact on the performance of the tank." Liu Yijiu measured it and felt that not many things could be cancelled.

However, in order for the military to have more advanced tanks, this kind of tank has been ready for use for half a century from the beginning, and these modules can be installed in the future when the technology is upgraded later, just leave the interface.

"The air conditioners inside have been cancelled. Just add a fan. We are not capitalist, and war is hard, so we can't be greedy for enjoyment..." Qi Hao was very dissatisfied with these humanized functional designs of the Ninth Court.

Anyway, their current purpose is to reduce the configuration and let Liu Yijiu lower the price.

Liu Yijiu cannot do such a thing. Some things seem useless now, but at the critical moment, they can completely save the lives of soldiers.

"Chief, these things are important means to ensure the combat capability of soldiers. In order to reduce costs, we can even cancel the function of submersible in a closed environment like tank. Just that alone can basically reduce the cost of millions. Of course, this is based on 30 million..." Liu Yijiu was helpless.

Any national defense science and technology worker will be very helpless about such things.

Because they developed advanced weapons and equipment, but in the end, because this advanced requires huge funds to support it, they have to reduce the advanced performance by themselves.

"The cost of 17 million is not the manufacturing cost of research funds. If the military finally decides to purchase, no matter how much it is, we will sell it to the military for 20 million." Liu Yijiu spent a lot of money. "Of course, in this case, the army does not need to purchase it. We need to modify the tanks in front of us."

"Your name is Liulun so casual. Have you ever thought of giving a good name?" Qi Hao frowned and asked Liu Yijiu.

This is how the Ninth Hospital’s project is, because it does not require the above review and approval, which makes their projects named at will.

"After all, after the design is finalized, it can't be called Liulun?" Seeing Liu Yijiu staring at him blankly, Qi Hao explained. "Although your Ninth Academy's technical research and development is rigorous, it is really too rigorous in these project plans..."

"To be honest, we really haven't thought of such a problem." Liu Yijiu said with a wry smile. The name is not important, as long as the performance is outstanding, "Perhaps we can produce a small number of minimum configuration tanks first to provide them to the military for combat testing."

"Isn't the Blue Army equipped?" Qi Hao was a little surprised. Liu Yijiu did not equip such advanced tanks to the Blue Army, and his father-in-law would agree? "The Blue Army is responsible for the important task of exploring the direction of our domestic military construction. Military modernization is to rely on the Blue Army."

"Chief, in order to get our domestic equipment to equip these tanks, are you there?" Liu Yijiu felt helpless. "But don't worry, we currently plan to equip a battalion of the Blue Army, more than 30 vehicles, and several of them in various configurations to form a high and low combination with the Dragon Guard tanks equipped by the Blue Army. This reduces costs while also effectively ensuring combat capabilities."

"Your tanks are not numbered, otherwise they will be designated as Type 87 main battle tanks?"

Liu Yijiu shook his head and refused.

The tanks of the Ninth Academy do not use these.

"Can we call it Six Wheels in the future?"
Chapter completed!