Although the establishment of the new tank leadership group indicates the official beginning of tank development, compared with the long development process, the newly established leadership group is only the first step of the Long March. So on the second day after the leadership group was announced, Xu Yuan, Lu Jiadong and others were involved in the busy development:

Select capable talents to form a new tank development team, clarify internal workers, strengthen the collaboration and contact of participating units, improve infrastructure to ensure smooth logistics, study the introduction of relevant equipment to improve production efficiency, and efficiently use funds to ensure the development process. All kinds of things are complex and abnormal, far from being comparable to the previous new artillery and artillery reconnaissance and school-fire radars, so even Lu Jiadong, who was slight in the development of various weapons and equipment, was the same as one and two big ones.

Xu Yuan even said bluntly that this is much more difficult than fighting. But no matter how difficult it is, both Lu Jiadong and Xu Yuan know that the current situation is just the beginning, and the real difficulties are still to come. If the military factories and research institutes involved in the development are not straightened out clearly and an effective internal mechanism is established, the difficulties faced in the future will inevitably increase several times. Because of this, after the establishment of the leadership group, Xu Yuan and Lu Jiadong focused their work on the principle of internal mechanisms.

Fortunately, both of them have rich experience in this area. Needless to say, Lu Jiadong is a military expert who has traveled through time in his bones. He has more than ten experiences in participating in large-scale weapon and equipment development projects. He has a mature system for establishing and managing internal mechanisms. Xu Yuan himself is a resourceful general on the battlefield. He can command thousands of troops to sweep the enemy formation in a tight order without making any mistakes, which shows that his leadership ability is really not low. Therefore, the combination of the two quickly stimulated a good chemical reaction. The internal operating mechanism of the new tank leadership group was quickly straightened out and officially started to operate.

However, for a complex weapon and equipment development, the most important thing is not the problem of the normal operation of the internal mechanism, but the problem of whether the expected weapon and equipment can be developed with quality and quantity. In this regard, the difficulties faced by the new tank development team led by Lu Jiadong are unprecedentedly difficult.

The most important thing is that most of the entire new tank development team does not have relevant development experience in tank armored vehicles. Although at several chief engineer meetings, Lu Jiadong refined and split the overall performance of the new tanks previously determined, and established a development team of relevant sub-systems respectively to achieve rapid and efficient advancement of the development task.

However, the problem of serious lack of relevant experience is still exposed. This can be clearly understood from the design schemes reported by multiple sub-system development teams over the past few days. Either they pursue performance advancement and use a large number of immature new technologies; or they are too conservative, the technology is very mature but too backward; or the relevant systems are too independent and have excellent single performance, but if they are applied to the whole, they are not very discounted in performance or they are simply not matched!

No matter what, the submitted design plan once again cast a shadow on Lu Jiadong, the chief designer of the new tank, who was not optimistic, and just this morning, Qi Junwen, who was in charge of the fire strike system, also handed over the design plan of their team to Lu Jiadong.

With the plan text, Lu Jiadong just glanced at it, and Lu Jiadong's brows twisted into a lump. Xu Yuan, deputy director of the General Staff Equipment Department and leader of the new tank leadership group, who had just finished the work task arrangement that day, pushed open the door of the office and saw Lu Jiadong's frown, and asked with concern:

"Xiao Lu, what's wrong?"

Seeing Xu Yuan coming in, Lu Jiadong's brows also relaxed slightly, but before Lu Jiadong could reply, Xu Yuan pointed to the design draft in Lu Jiadong's hand and continued to ask:

"It's not for the design draft of the system again, right?" As he said that, Xu Yuan put his hat on his desk, then picked up the teacup and drank two sips of tea and continued:

"The previous sub-system may have some problems, but the artillery development team led by Qi Junwen of Wanshan Factory should not be a big problem. No matter what, they have developed a 52-caliber 155mm howitzer, and they are still very experienced in artillery development. They passed by their office yesterday and heard their discussions. They still have a full understanding of artillery!"

"This is the result of their full understanding!" Lu Jiadong still had no smile and his tone became very cold. As he said that, he handed Xu Yuan the development plan for the fire strike system he had just received. Xu Yuan only turned a few pages after taking the plan, and two thick eyebrows that were as sharp as swords gradually squeezed together:

"How come Qi Junwen did this? The caliber of the tank gun was actually set at 105mm. It was even worse than the tank guns equipped with the Soviet T-62 tanks. There was no breakthrough in overall performance. Where did they learn from the "Chief" tanks on the spot?"

Before he could finish his words, Xu Yuan threw the design draft in his hand on the table. What he said about learning the "Chief" tank was two British "Chief" MK-5 main battle tanks brought back from Iran. You should know that there is a large order for spare parts of the "Chief" tank in the arms sales agreement with Iran.

To this end, the General Staff Equipment Department and the National Defense Science and Technology Commission handed over this task to the experienced Northern Factory to be responsible for completing it, and assigned them a "Chief" tank for research, while the other was asked by Lu Jiadong to use as a prototype car for reference for the new tank development team.

When Xu Yuan came to Wanshan Factory, he brought the tank over. After the new tank leadership group was officially established, Lu Jiadong and Xu Yuan organized members of the tank development team to conduct extremely in-depth research on this British-made tank, which did get a lot of inspiration from it.

Even Xu Yuan was the same. Although he did not know much about production and manufacturing and related processes, he was the commander of the tank mechanized cluster and had the experience of confronting Soviet armored clusters in the northern heavy army. Xu Yuan's research and familiarity with tanks were better than ordinary people, otherwise he would not have seen the problems in the draft fire strike system design at a glance.

"It's not that they didn't study hard!" As soon as Xu Yuan finished speaking, Lu Jiadong walked to Xu Yuan with a water cup, turned the draft design on the table two pages, pointed to the design sketch above and continued:

"For example, the artillery recoil system, smoking device, thermal sheath device, and the most important rifle. Lao Qi and the others all borrowed the l11a5 type 120mm rifled tank gun equipped by the "Chief's" tank, but......"

"But it's still too conservative!" Before Lu Jiadong finished speaking, Xu Yuan took the topic. Although he was not clear about the specific details of the sampling device similar to the recoil system, he was extremely clear about the indicator data of the artillery. Although the new tank gun designed by Qi Junwen presided over the structure and weight of the tank guns equipped by the troops were significantly improved,

However, in terms of initial velocity of the muzzle, maximum chamber pressure, maximum range and armor-piercing power, the 115mm tank equipped with the Soviet-made T-62 tank did not improve essentially. Because of this, Xu Yuan said this with such affirmation. Lu Jiadong nodded in agreement and then closed the design draft:

"Old Qi still doesn't know much about tanks!"

"It's not just Lao Qi!" Xu Yuan picked up the thermos to store water for Lu Jiadong and his teacup, and sighed helplessly: "Lao Zhong from the Central Plains Electronic Radar Institute, Guo Zhipeng from the Yunnan Factory, and Lao Zheng from the Guinan Factory, don't know much about tanks. After all, Qin Jingbin from the Institute of Materials and Zhu Haifeng from the Hunan Special Steel Factory, but they both only know the old tanks from more than ten years ago, and they are not very familiar with the current trend of tank armored vehicles..."

Xu Yuan continued, sounding like he was making a fortune, but after many days of understanding Lu Jiadong also knew that this was Xu Yuan's style. Before some major decisions, he would list all the advantages and disadvantages, so as to weigh the pros and cons to find a breakthrough to solve the problem. This was the case with leading the war before, and the current leadership of the weapons and equipment development project has not changed this habit into a natural style.

Because of this, Lu Jiadong did not interrupt him, but listened quietly. After all, Lu Jiadong also needed to find a way to make up for the existing shortcomings at this time. Otherwise, the entire new tank development plan might be abandoned halfway, and the production consortium that he had worked hard to unite would fall apart. The most critical question is what method should be used to solve it...

"Although we face many difficulties!" Lu Jiadong thought while listening to Xu Yuan's analysis of current advantages and defects: "But it is much better than when our country was first founded. At that time, we were poor and lagging in the industry, so we are not as good as our current supporting facilities. At that time, under the guidance of Soviet experts, we only completed the study of one screw and one screw, and we still have advantages in this regard..."

"Soviet experts are instructing us step by step?" After hearing Xu Yuan's words, Lu Jiadong's eyes suddenly lit up. Seeing Lu Jiadong's thoughtful look, Xu Yuan frowned slightly and nodded at Lu Jiadong, saying with sincerity:

"Although we don't have Soviet experts now, we have Xiao Lu, a military genius. From your understanding of tanks and armored vehicles, we are definitely better than that of the Soviet experts back then..."
Chapter completed!