Rebirth of the 1980s: The Military Industry Empire

The meeting place was still the same teahouse as before, but this time when they arrived, there were no other tea-drinking customers, and the entire teahouse was empty.

Qin Yang still brought Nie Xiaoqian and Lin Heping with him, drinking tea and chatting, and when Fahata brought Dr. Wright over, Qin Yang's face showed a smile: "Dr. Wright, I said yesterday that even if you don't withdraw from the bidding, we are destined to win. I didn't say anything wrong, did I?"

As he spoke, he began to pour water into the empty teacup opposite him.

Dr. Wright's face changed, and he almost wanted to turn around and leave.

"President Qin, Dr. Wright is here to talk about another matter." Fahata said quickly, he knew that Qin Yang had this flamboyant personality, but he couldn't lose the next business because of this personality.

"Failure is not terrible, what is terrible is that you are still complacent after failure and don't look for the reasons in yourself." Qin Yang did not appreciate Fahata's kindness, but continued to mock: "This is the same as some novelists. Their novels are not popular with the majority of readers, and they don't look for the reasons in themselves, seeking the interests of readers, but blame the readers for not appreciating their novels and not understanding the high-end nature of their novels. Is this useful?"

"President Qin, what exactly do you want to say?" Dr. Wright was annoyed.

"Dr. Wright, think about it, if your tanks were equipped with the Leopard 2 tank engine and the Leopard 2's 120mm tank gun, would our Type 85 tanks still have a chance?" Qin Yang continued: "Your M1 tanks will not only be sold to Lao Ba, but also have many potential customers. How many customers can afford the fuel consumption of gas turbines? How many don't want stronger firepower? If you don't make changes, the market will teach you how to behave."

This sentence was even more unpleasant. Fahata was very worried that Dr. Wright would turn around and leave, or even lose his temper on the spot, but strangely, although Dr. Wright was very annoyed at first, his face slowly recovered. A minute later, he sat down and sighed: "That's right, President Qin, you are right."

Fahata widened his eyes. 140mm tank gun? He really wanted to ask, but he couldn't ask now, he could only hold it back and be an audience member.

"The tail-cabin automatic loader is not easy to use. The shells are too big, the ammunition stored in the tail-cabin is too little, and the turret weight is too large, which puts too high demands on the drive system. If you want to develop this kind of tank loader, you still have to use the turntable method."

"Turntable? Are you talking about a turntable like the T72 tank?"

"It's somewhat similar, but there are also many different places." Qin Yang said: "I can only say so much, after all, it will be confidential if I say any more. Unless you are willing to pay to buy our design."

"President Qin, your requirements are too high, we can only offer a maximum of ten million US dollars."

Didn't you say you could bargain? This is our bottom line, and it will not be increased.

"If it's ten million US dollars, then you can only buy our design drawings." Qin Yang said: "Complete design drawings for automatic loaders, ammunition, and tank guns. We will not provide samples."

There are no samples in China at all, and Qin Yang didn't plan to start construction, so it's better to sell the design drawings, ten million, it's not a small amount.

After Qin Yang finished speaking, he looked at Nie Xiaoqian beside him. At this time, she was holding a roll of design drawings in her hand.

"President Qin, can we take a look at the overall design first?"

Qin Yang nodded: "Okay!"

Nie Xiaoqian took out the first design drawing that Qin Yang had rushed out during the day and spread it out on the table next to her. Dr. Wright was stunned after only one glance: "Separate loading? All ammunition placed vertically?"

"Yes, the T-72's automatic loader puts ammunition horizontally, and the T-64's automatic loader puts it horizontally and vertically in an L-shape. These cannot meet the loading needs of 140mm shells. Only this kind of all vertical placement can solve the automatic loading problem."

Qin Yang's design is absolutely no problem, guaranteed by character, after all, this is the automatic loading scheme of the old Russian T-14 tank. Although this tank uses a 125mm tank gun after mass production, in fact, when designing it, it was originally planned to use a 152mm gun. This automatic loader completely guarantees the loading of a 152mm gun, let alone a 140mm gun.

"No, I mean why do you want to use separate loading?"

"Because no automatic loader can meet the loading needs of complete rounds. How can a one-and-a-half-meter-long shell be moved inside the tank? It can't be done at all, it can only be broken into two pieces."

Ordinary howitzers, when the caliber exceeds 122, are already separate loading, complete rounds can't be done.

"But separate loading cannot achieve the goal of maximizing the penetration rod."

"Is the length reserved for the warhead one meter? Can your penetration rod be longer than one meter?"

Dr. Wright stopped talking. He wanted to continue watching, but Nie Xiaoqian had already rolled up the drawing again.

Dr. Wright sat back in his chair, continued to drink tea, and thought seriously at the same time. The scene fell into silence.

Qin Yang was not in a hurry either, and drank tea on the side as well.

One minute, two minutes... Ten minutes later, Dr. Wright finished the last bowl of tea, and then said: "Ingenious design, unique ideas, President Qin is really amazing, and only you can come up with this solution to solve the problem. These design drawings are worth ten million!"

This time to Lao Ba, although he did not sell a tank, he bought back a design drawing, which was not a wasted trip.

After speaking, he took out his checkbook, ten million, which was also the maximum amount he could mobilize.

Qin Yang took it and looked at the person who had not spoken all the time: "That, Fahata, you should know someone at the bank, right? Can you transfer this ten million to our account overnight?"

In the 1980s, it was just inconvenient. If it were in the era of mobile banking in later generations, the transfer would be completed by pressing a few buttons.

Fahata nodded: "Okay."

"Dr. Wright, please continue to drink tea. Once it is transferred to the account, all the design drawings will be given to you."

Dr. Wright nodded.

Half an hour later, the two parties completed the handover and separated amicably. Fahata was a little curious: "President Qin, didn't you say you were going to sell it for 30 million? You only sold it for 10 million?"

"Well, this is just the beginning, they will come to us next."