It was very abrupt to arrange for others but not for Monroe, but Alan Wilson really didn't have any good projects for Monroe, so after much deliberation, he could only use the idea of ​​borrowing chickens to lay eggs.

Considering the special relationship between the United Kingdom and the United States, it is very reasonable to ask for a share of Microsoft, and he is not an outsider. Isn't Monroe an American, isn't Monroe the son of an American?

This kind of thing does not need other people to intervene, Alan Wilson can handle it by himself. He also has connections in the United States, which is very easy. I have to admit the story of an American student who has conquered the supreme authority of the United Kingdom. At this time It is ready to start.

Write this down in your diary. The most famous scenic spot in Salisbury Plain is Stonehenge. Of course, in the eyes of the cabinet secretary, Stonehenge is nothing more than a tool for earning royalties with conspiracy theories. This is also the tank testing ground in the British mainland. If the British mainland army conducts army exercises, most of them will choose to launch them on the Salisbury Plain.

From the completion of the Batum ceramic armor, the UK's next-generation main battle tank has entered the development track. During the Middle East War, it was under the jurisdiction of the US's small long arm. Now the UK has to pay attention to its own production.

You must know that the Rhine Army is facing the Soviet Army in Germany, even if it is just a comforting effect, the United Kingdom must prove that it has indeed done everything it can for the soldiers on the front line.

Alan Wilson came here to see the prototype car, accompanied by Makins, the executive deputy secretary of the Ministry of National Defense, and introduced the relevant progress, "We also have to admit that the Germans still have something. The German one hundred and two The ten-millimeter smoothbore gun is statistically better than the rifled gun we were going to use. Of course, the use of German main guns is not without criticism."

"What criticism? That's it." Alan Wilson said unmoved and contemptuously, "The so-called criticism is that the level is obviously average, but we should pretend that we don't know and continue to use backward technology?"

German tanks became famous during World War II, but they have lost their skills for so many years, and most of them have been lost, but the rotten ships still have three-inch nails, and the level of German smoothbore guns is still there. The research and development of a generation of main battle tanks is technically verified, and firepower is naturally the top priority.

Of course, the thin-skinned and big-hearted stuff like France is a bit too extreme. In order to resist the torrent of steel in the Warsaw Pact, not only must new guns be developed, but the progress must not be vague.

The cause of the muzzle noise in the sound of the main gun is that a large amount of gas is squeezed out of the small hole, and modern tank guns with high chamber pressure are often "louder". Sonic boom.

After the Germans endured the noise for ten years, the UK decided to implement the concept of joining if they couldn’t beat it, and purchased German smoothbore guns as the main guns of their tanks. From the perspective of a close ally of Germany, we have carried out technological poverty alleviation.

I believe that the British tanks in this world will not be known to the world with the only rifled main gun in the world. In the military field, if everyone else uses smoothbore guns, Britain uses rifled guns. This will indeed lead to who is retrograde The problem.

The general layout of the new tank is similar to that of the Chieftain, but the appearance of the two is quite different due to the Chobham armor on the hull and turret.

Chobham armor is regarded as the most significant achievement in tank design and protection since World War II. Compared with steel armor of equal weight, it greatly improves the ability to resist armor-piercing and fragmentation shells, but its volume and The weight increase is not much. In addition to using Chobham composite armor, reactive armor blocks are also installed, and the original steel side skirts are also replaced by reactive armor blocks.

The main British objection to the Rheinmetall tank gun was its limited range of ammunition. The 120mm smoothbore gun was primarily developed as an anti-armor weapon, firing a kinetic round with a very flat trajectory and good armor penetration.

At the time of its introduction, the armor-piercing shell of the 120mm smoothbore was comparable to the rifled 120mm gun developed by the British for the artillery, but German weapons did not provide a satisfactory high-explosive shell. The performance of the early 120mm smoothbore HE round was considered by the British to be poor compared to the existing 120mm HES round developed for the main gun.

This is a shell that the British have long favored. Useful against a wide range of targets and combines good explosive characteristics with excellent anti-armor properties. The use of rifled guns is an argument that refuses to give up, even in the name of NATO standardization.

This kind of opposition is nonsense, and it has been regarded as noise by Alan Wilson. Later generations have proved that the last stubborn fart of the United Kingdom is useless for face, and it has also caused the challenger's export sales to be quite poor. Everyone went to buy German tanks with smoothbore guns.

With a good replacement of the smoothbore gun and the reputation of British Chobham armor, the foreign trade of British tanks will definitely not be bad. You have to add something special to yourself, right? Our armor is good, so we use shotguns that are different from other countries to make foreign trade more difficult?

Overall, Alan Wilson was very satisfied with the results of this test. He waited for others to report the data, and went to the test car group with Maggins, and had a cup of afternoon tea together. According to the unwritten rules of the British Army, the person who makes tea for the entire crew is the most junior member of the crew, usually the loader.

The first British tank equipped with tea-making equipment was the Centurion tank, which is now an unwritten tradition of the British Army. It originated from the inconvenience of the crew members drinking afternoon tea when fighting the Desert Fox.

Alan Wilson held a teacup and asked if he was satisfied with the new tank. At this time, the heads of Whitehall and the Ministry of National Defense and several crew members toasted face to face, very similar to the scene in the anime Girl and Panzer in the good old days. Elegance never goes out of style.

"Sir, very good." Carrying black tea, the commander expressed his satisfaction, but he didn't know whether he was satisfied with the performance of the tank or the latest tea making equipment in the car. It cannot be said that this set of equipment is not important.

Alan Wilson believes that this is definitely the tradition of the British Army, and it has absolutely nothing to do with a thousand dollars a coffee cup. "That's good, the treatment of the army has always been a matter of great concern to Whitehall."

The crew members on almost two channels nodded one after another, feeling that what the supreme authority said was too correct, and the new tea making equipment was improved very well, so they couldn't help raising their glasses.

"Now, the free world finally has a tank that can be compared face-to-face with the Soviet Union." Leaving the shooting range, Alan Wilson said with a long voice and a relieved tone.

The t72 is a tank that the Soviet Union used to make a lot of money. It is a product of compromise because the cost of the t64 is too high. It is the product of this compromise. In a sense, the strategic balance has been narrowed.

In terms of protection, fire control, firepower and power, the new tank satisfied Alan Wilson. He named this tank the Challenger Tank, and he was going to let the Prime Minister who is about to resign, after completing his last feat, not to The trouble is left to the next prime minister.

As the Bretton Woods system has become history, before the sovereign currency comes to power, it will only become more and more difficult to update armaments as time goes by. European countries can hardly keep up before the advent of the 21st century. The free world The big brother, the United States, is just a little bit better, and it has persisted for an extra 20 years.

The platform of the tank is not too big, with a volume of 50 to 60 tons, there is not much room for improvement. If you want to make huge improvements in all aspects, you can only follow the route of the German Rat tank in World War II. Turn into a real monster and go pretending to be a land cruiser. Obviously this road cannot be taken, it is purely a living target.

Now mass construction can serve more. If you don’t think about efficiency, as inflation intensifies, the same amount of money can’t be exchanged for the same amount of things.

"Secretary-General, Garland has arrived." Radwich came to Whitehall to pick up the boss according to the off-duty time. "Schedule a time tomorrow?"

"Tomorrow? Now, it's not too late." Alan Wilson shook his head when he heard it, and went straight to the car to meet the big boy from the United States~lightnovelpub.net~ From the moment he got on the car, he began to form words silently.

Garland Gode Hellman, a product of the Anglo-German friendship, is Anna's second child, but was raised by Pauline Gode in the name of adoption, and lives with her mother in the United States.

To be honest, Alan Wilson hasn't met a few times, and he can't go to the United States all the time. He is preparing his words along the way, thinking whether to show his father's love.

But he obviously thought too much, so Daer didn't stage a family ethics drama, which proves that Pauline Gao Dai's upbringing is very conscientious, and she really treats the child as her own.

"Is the success rate of divorced parents so high?" Alan Wilson couldn't help but muttered in his heart. After all, he didn't see each other very much. He still wanted to find some topics to talk about before getting to the point. He hoped that this big boy could help take care of Gates, the winner in life. journey of?

"Don't worry, leave it to me." Garland dressed in a suit and leather shoes, like a successful person, "It's just two entrepreneurs who are still in school."

"The entrepreneur's mother is a director of IBM, his father is a famous lawyer, and his grandfather is the president of the National Bank of the United States." Alan Wilson said, "If you approach rashly, people won't check you? If you cooperate with me, I will pass Its business in London creates conditions for you. By the way, you are now living in the United States, what are you interested in, see if I can help? Let alone the financial field, I don’t know much. computer."

"The computer company with the best momentum in the United States is a Chinese company." Garland didn't hide anything from his father, and introduced his understanding in detail.

"Heh, he will die if he stays in the United States, or go to Xiangjiang or Malaya, there is still a chance of life." Alan Wilson pondered for a while and said, "Stay in London for a few days first, let me think about it."