Laser weapons, even in later generations, often appear in science fiction movies. The characters inside are holding laser guns, and a red light passes through, and the opponent is burned through a hole. The laser cannons in the spacecraft can even destroy the opponent's large space warship with one shot.

But now, lasers still have a long way to go to develop into a weapon, especially high-power lasers and technical problems to be solved. Only the United States and the Soviet Union have invested a lot in this regard. They want to use laser weapons to kill each other's satellites in space.

Nowadays, lasers, laser guided bombs, and laser rangefinders are also used. However, these lasers are very weak in intensity and can be used to provide irradiation. However, it is difficult to kill the other party with a laser, even if it is just to damage the other party's aiming system.

However, this proposal was undoubtedly creative. Even Kartsev was attracted by this voice. After translation, he realized that this idea was creative.

But the Kusai behind him was keenly aware that the other party might be one of the designers of the 99 tanks of the Eastern Power in later generations, because this unique laser active suppression system only exists on the 99 tanks of the Eastern Power.

When the 99 tanks of the Eastern Power appeared in front of the world, many people were surprised by the two "mysterious" devices on the turret: the sand box device behind the gunboat hatch and the dome device behind the vehicle hatch.

This mysterious device was speculated for a long time, until a tank chief later confirmed in an interview that it was a "laser suppression viewing system", which was an innovative move designed by Chinese tank designers.

The dome-shaped device behind the hatch of the vehicle is a set of laser warning receivers and a circular device that can accept all laser sources within the range of 360 degrees. The sand box-shaped device behind the hatch of the vehicle is a set of active laser self-defense devices, composed of microcomputer controllers, tracking turntables and follow-up systems, laser pressing instruments, thermal imagers, jammers and other instruments.

This device is very domineering. It has two working states: passive and active. When the system is in passive mode, it mainly relies on the alarm device to sense the enemy's position. The jammer emits a weak laser to calibrate the target position. After confirmation by the computer, the power of the laser beam suddenly increases, thus causing "hard killing" to the target. It can not only damage the opponent's sighting equipment, but also blind the eyes of the shooter who is aiming. If the active mode is turned on, the system first scans the suspicious area with the help of low energy pulses. Once the glimmer reflected by the opponent's sighting instrument lens is identified, it will automatically fire and destroy it.

Kusai knows these, but others don't know them. So what the designer said shocked many people.

As a famous tank designer in the Soviet Union, Kartsev knew the inside story. In the Soviet Union, although he had composite armor in terms of tank protection, he was still following the "side-side" path. One of them was explosion reaction armor. In 1983, the most famous armor design unit of the Soviet Union, the Soviet Institute of Steel Sciences, "Contact"-1 explosion reaction armor, appeared on the T-180b main battle tank. During the period when he left the Soviet Union, it was said that all Soviet tanks stationed in East Germany, including T-72, T-62m and T-55am, were equipped with "Contact"-1 explosion reaction armor.

This explosion reaction armor. The outermost layer is a thinner metal shell, and the inside is a working component composed of a throwing plate (throwing outward), a back plate (throwing inward), a fixed object. After the metal jet breaks through the shell and the throwing plate, it produces a thermal effect that is sufficient to detonate. Under the push of the explosion wave, the throwing plate flies outward and the back plate moves in the opposite direction and forms an elastic wave, causing huge fluctuations in the jet or even interrupting the jet. In this way, the power of the armor-breaking shell can be reduced by 50%, providing protection capacity equivalent to 400 mm, and more advanced explosion reaction armor. It is also under development.

Another type is more offensive and active defense system! In the early 1980s, the Soviet Union developed the world's first active defense system: "piglet", which adopts the principle of hard killing. It uses rockets with broken warheads to intercept incoming anti-tank missiles and rockets, which can provide protection for the 60-degree arc area on the front of the tank turret. The success rate against RPG anti-tank rockets can reach 80%.

Both systems use hard killing methods. One is to wait until the opponent hits him before explodes. The other is to take the initiative to attack when the opponent hits him immediately (it is like a small tank's own ***. Of course, it is just similar in purpose and has far inferior performance.)

Now, the idea proposed by this person is even more unique, to develop a brand new thing on the tank's weapon to destroy the opponent's sighting equipment!

If it can be developed successfully, then it will be simpler and more practical than explosive armor and active defense systems!

"However, in this way, the equipment for the turret will be added. Our turret has a fire control system, an automatic loader, and accommodating chariot and turret captains. The space is already very small. Now if these equipment are added, the inside of the turret will be even more crowded. In that case, when we choose armored troops, we may not be more than 1.5 meters tall." said an Iraqi engineer.

The round cast turret has a very small space. If these things are installed, God knows what the tank will look like (when the 99 tank system in the next generation did not occupy much space, but now, they have not yet conducted pre-research on this subsystem, and they don’t know how huge the volume will be.)

"We can change the structure of the turret. Now, Western turrets have begun to adopt a welded structure, abandoning the casting process and using welded turrets. In this way, we can install composite armor exactly the same as the main armor of the vehicle body on the front of our welded turret to increase protection capabilities. Moreover, welding turrets can increase space and improve internal environmental conditions. Moreover, the top becomes flat, and a lot of space can be freed up for the system I mentioned." The engineer continued.

Although he appreciated his proposal just now, now that he wanted to use welding turrets, Kartsev shook his head and said: "Casting turrets can have excellent bulletproof shapes, simplify production processes, and facilitate mass production. Moreover, there is already a complete set of casting turret equipment on the production line in Iraq, and there is no need to use welding turrets at all. Although the casting turrets are a little crowded inside, it reduces the projection area and reduces the probability of being discovered and hit."

Unconsciously, the debate between casting turrets and welding turrets began, and Kusai, who was sitting behind, was fascinated by listening.

The cast turret is cast in one-time with a mold. The welded turret is welded from multiple high-quality steel armor plates. From the appearance, the cast turret is hemispherical, while the welded turret has a flat appearance.

The two methods have their own advantages and disadvantages. The cast turret has good integrity and no welds left, which can form an excellent bulletproof shape. However, the armor material structure is single, the armor strength is difficult to improve, and the manufacturing process requirements are high. Composite armor is even more impossible to use. Although the welding turret is worse in bulletproof shape, it can use composite armor because the armor elements of composite armor are all flat-panel-shaped. The front of the turret can be welded composite armor, and other parts can be welded high-strength steel armor plates, etc., and even the turret armor can be replaced or strengthened in time with the development of armor technology. Square welding turrets must have a larger internal space on the same base than the hemispherical turret.

Moreover, because the welding turret can be replaced, if the cast turret is hit, the entire turret will be scrapped, and the welding turret only needs to replace the armor at the hit.

In later generations, it was all about welding turrets.

However, Kartsev was a staunch supporter of cast turrets, especially during the nuclear war, the spherical cast turret was not easily overturned by shock waves, and he denied this proposal.

As a designer, it takes a lot of courage to dare to put forward his own opinions or even conflict with the chief designer, especially since the designer is from an oriental country and has a strong sense of organizational discipline. The orders from superiors are absolutely authoritative. It is quite commendable to deny the above meaning.

Kusai began to appreciate this person more. He thought in his mind, is this person one of the designers of the 99 tanks he knew in later generations? The advanced tanks of the Eastern Power will also start project establishments in the past two years, right?

Next, what this person said made Kusai even more impressed.

"Car Chief Designer, Iraq needs not only tanks with simple production technology and large-scale production. If this is true, we can upgrade and transform the existing T-72 tanks. What Iraq now needs is a more powerful new tank. It is not only the existing second-generation tanks that countries have already equipped, but also new, including the third-generation main battle tanks under development. Our main battle tanks will need to be designed without being outdated in the next twenty years. When facing the US m1 and German Leopard 2 tanks and their improved models, our main battle tanks need to gain the upper hand."

"Well said!" Although Kusai was not willing to disturb them, facing these tank experts, he was just an amateur, but the yellow-skinned and dark-eyed oriental spoke so well that he couldn't help but speak out.

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