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Chapter 726 Desert Leopard (1)

October 1, 1984.

This is a special day for the great powers of the East. Because, 35 years ago, a great figure announced on the city tower that symbolizes power: The Chinese people have stood up from now on! This ancient nation has since turned a new page.

Now, on this special day this year, a new ** has been ushered in this special place again.

At this time, the ** city tower and square were colorful and particularly magnificent, with the viewing platform and squares crowded with people.

Tens of thousands of People's Liberation Army soldiers in well-dressed military uniforms have been waiting here for several hours. What they are waiting for is the most grand moment: the National Day military parade.

Amid the majestic national anthem, the National Day military parade officially began. As the review car drove slowly, with the comrades and the comrades' hard-working and kind words, the military parade slowly began.

After the infantry team passed by in an orderly manner, the chariot team appeared. The military officers from various countries on the city tower were also pointing fingers, tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, armored vehicles, howitzers, smoothbore guns, howitzers, rocket launchers, self-propelled anti-aircraft guns, and command vehicles...

"Flying Fish, Chinese Flying Fish!" Suddenly, a military officer saw a coming team. The missile was no longer a big guy like a silkworm, but a missile with the same appearance as the French Flying Fish missile. He couldn't help but scream. When did the Eastern power also equipped this weapon?

However, the announcer's words at this time made him embarrassed among his accomplices.

"What we see now is my country's first ground-attack cruise missile developed through the efforts of our country's scientific researchers. Its appearance has allowed my country to have an additional precise strike weapon that can strike important targets on the other side outside the enemy's air defense area in its air-to-ground strike."

When laymen watch the fun and experts look at the tricks, military officers from various countries immediately thought that this air-to-surface missile can attack military facilities on the East China Sea treasure island outside the middle line in the strait. Just in the war in the Middle East not long ago, the attack of the cruise missile showed great power. Now, does this missile have the same power?

They don't know that this missile is a cruise missile jointly developed by Iraq and the Eastern Powers on the basis of the C801. The numbers in Iraq are Red Bird One and Red Bird Two, while the numbers in the Eastern Powers are Blue Light One and Blue Light Two. They also correspond to models that use solid rocket engines and small turbojet engines. However, the Eastern Powers do not have extra funds to import advanced Western navigation systems. They are performing reverse imitation from the inertial navigation systems provided by Iraq. It has been successful, but the accuracy has been reduced. The terrain matching system still uses the same civilian-based 286 chip electronic equipment developed by Iraq.

Later, the huge ground-based missile, as the finale, finally made its debut. This army has supported the backbone of the Eastern power, and they are the strategic missile forces! If you want to stand up in this world, you need to have enough confidence, that is, your own missile nuclear weapon!

When the huge Dongfeng-5 missile, which was consigned in three sections, arrived slowly, almost all foreign military officers exclaimed. This was the first time that China had presented long-range intercontinental missiles to the world. Before that, China's strategic weapons were always half-covered. This missile with a range of 10,000 kilometers was enough to attack any country in the world!

The military parade scenes of the Eastern powers have been broadcast to many countries around the world.

"Only when we have achieved independent production and research and development of advanced weapons can we be called a real military power." Kusai said: "Advanced national defense is absolutely not possible by buying. We in Iraq are now walking a thorny road." He said this when inspecting the Third Design Bureau of Iraq Military Vehicle Research and Development next to the Mercedes-Benz Heavy Truck Production Base in Kazimain, northern Baghdad, the capital of Iraq.

After returning from Amman, Kusai began to handle a large number of accumulated affairs in the Republic Palace that were not very urgent. Although Adnan temporarily took over these affairs during this period of absence, Kusai still had to check it out again in person.

When Kusai was dizzy and opened the report of the newly established design bureau, his eyes immediately lit up. The third design bureau designed the Mercedes-Benz-based ng-80 series off-road heavy truck, developed its first wheeled infantry fighting vehicle in Iraq. It has now made a prototype, and is preparing for the final test and requesting subsequent funding.

Seeing this report, Kusai immediately became interested. He made a temporary decision to go to the design bureau to see how things were going.

When he introduced Mercedes-Benz ng-80 series heavy trucks and tried to achieve complete domestic production, including the engine transmission rear axle, Kusai intended to develop wheeled infantry fighting vehicles that adapt to combat in the Middle East on such an excellent chassis. This was also a very impressive Kusai proposal when Mercedes-Benz Motor Company lobbied the Iraqi government to purchase a second production line after the Steyr production line.

Now, Iraq has achieved the ability to produce its own main battle tanks, but the infantry fighting vehicles that advance with the main battle tanks are still blank. Iraq is mainly equipped with two types of infantry fighting vehicles, the Russian-made BMP-1, which has advanced performance and high price. It is only equipped with ace armored division, and the Type 63 of the Eastern Power, which is rough and thick in skin, durable, and cheap, but has low performance. Moreover, both are crawler-type.

According to the original agreement and after introducing the production line, the Iraqi government built a third design bureau next to the vehicle factory, mainly fedoun Cindy, an Arab engineer who returned from the Italian company Otto Melera. He had participated in the development of the Italian Vcc-80 infantry fighting vehicle, as well as Iraq's own experts and more than a dozen senior engineers sent by Mercedes-Benz Automobile to jointly study this infantry fighting vehicle.

Mercedes-Benz Automobile has always wanted to intervene in the development of wheeled infantry fighting vehicles again, but due to the failure of the German government to establish projects and the headquarters did not have research and development funds. When lobbying the Iraqi government for purchasing ng-80 heavy trucks, it promised that if the Iraqi government was willing to develop on the basis of such chassis, they were willing to provide technical support for Iraq, and the salaries of the experts sent by Mercedes-Benz Automobile itself paid by them. Of course, Kusai had to agree to their kindness. You must know that it is not easy to fully understand their chassis technology. In later generations, it took more than ten years for the Eastern power to introduce Steyr technology. It took them more than a decade until the new century that those technologies were fully mastered. Various heavy trucks flocked out and even began to be exported overseas.

Those German experts mainly help to use existing civil components to improve and meet the design needs of new chassis.

The development of infantry fighting vehicles is relatively difficult, and it is also a reference for mature off-road heavy trucks. It is not very difficult and the investment will not be particularly high. This is a research project in Iraq. However, it is definitely not a problem to weld some steel plates on the chassis of off-road heavy trucks. It is called an armored truck, not a wheeled infantry fighting vehicle.

Off-road trucks with 6*6 or 8*8 are all front double or rear double axles with two axles close together. The wheelbase of the front steering (combination drive wheels) and the rear drive wheels are very far apart, so that peripherals such as fuel tanks, batteries and other peripherals can be placed in the middle. However, wheeled infantry fighting vehicles are not the case. They need to have equal wheelbases of front and rear to fully utilize off-road advantages. In this way, the corresponding beams and suspensions need to be redesigned. In this regard, experts from Mercedes-Benz Automobile Company will play a great role. They will use mature and general components as much as possible to achieve the design of the new chassis.

The body on the vehicle was mainly developed by Feduen, which is very similar to the VCC-80 infantry fighting vehicle he participated in. Although the chassis of the latter is track-type, they need to consider the versatility and rationality, and it is necessary to facilitate the ride and combat of a combat team member, be able to adapt to the weather in the Middle East, and can be modified into various other vehicles based on this to develop a car family.

Now, what is shown in front of Kusai is such a powerful armored combat vehicle.

Under the feet are eight large wire-lined bulletproof tires, which are larger than ordinary off-road heavy trucks. Four on each side almost block the side tightly. The body shape is pointed at the front and the rear, the front deck is inclined, and the area is small. What is more important is that it can reduce the resistance when floating on the water. There are bulletproof glass in front, as well as the top hatch and periscope. When the ballistic glass is maneuvered at low intensity and highway maneuvering, the armored cover in front of the bulletproof glass can be opened.

, driving like a truck, and after entering the war zone, use a periscope and drive like a tank. The rear is square and a larger hatch door is opened to facilitate the accompanying infantry to get on and off the tank at any time. There are two propellers on both sides of the rear, which is convenient for navigation on the water. The top turret is low, equipped with a 30mm high-level dual-purpose machine gun and a 12.7mm machine gun, and there is also a Seg anti-tank missile launch track in front.

In later generations, when Kusai was performing missions, although the most commonly used vehicle was helicopters, he often rode in infantry fighting vehicles. He felt that the infantry fighting vehicle in front of him seemed even more powerful.

"President Kusai, you are very welcome to visit our Third Design Bureau. What you see now is the wheeled infantry fighting vehicle with 8*8 chassis in our Design Bureau. In another workshop, there is also a 6*6 wheeled infantry fighting vehicle." Feduen, who is the chief designer of this car, is a middle-aged man in his forties. He pushed the glasses on his nose and said.

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