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The German company's own production is limited, and orders for the Leopard 2 tanks they produce can be scheduled for five years. In this case, they first exported the Leopard 2 tank production line to Pakistan. By transforming this tank overhaul plant, they have It has the ability to produce the 1,500-horsepower engine and gearbox of the Leopard 2, as well as assemble the complete vehicle.

Other parts from Germany were transported to this tank overhaul factory. With the efforts of Pakistani technicians and the command of German technicians, the production line has begun to operate normally.

When Hamad came in with the Minister of Defense and others, Basit, the director of the tank overhaul factory, came forward excitedly.

"Mr. President and the Secretary of Defense are welcome to inspect," Bassett said.

"Well, how is our tank production going?" Mhamad asked.

"Our production lines have been completely renovated and are now in the low-speed production stage," Bassett said.

Engineer Ludwig, the general person in charge of the German side, also came over, and Hamad cordially shook hands with him.

"Let's go take a look at the engine production line first," Mhamad said.

What Mhammad values ​​most is, first of all, the engine. This is Germany's advanced 1,500-horsepower engine! Even in ten or twenty years, this engine will not be outdated!

Almost all the equipment in the production line was shipped from Germany. The equipment aided by Eastern countries could only sit idle due to insufficient accuracy.

Seeing the Pakistani workers busy on the production line, Mhamad was very happy.

"Now, can we produce this engine completely ourselves?" asked Mhammad.

Listening to Mhamad's question, Bassett felt a little embarrassed and said: "Mr. President, we can produce cylinder blocks and other components ourselves, but advanced injectors, oil pumps and other components still need to be imported from Germany. "

Hamad suddenly stared at Ludwig: "Mr. German Consultant, what is going on?"

"The parts produced in your country are not up to standard yet," Ludwig said.

In later generations, China will be able to produce advanced heavy truck engines. Anything above 500 horsepower can be produced, but the most important systems of the engine, the high-pressure oil pump and the fuel injector, are monopolized by foreign companies. However, at that time, the requirements were raised to meet the National III or National IV emission standards. Now, tank engines do not care about emissions, only performance.

Basic industries of Pakistan. Some parts can already be produced, however, advanced fuel injection systems. Mass production is not yet possible.

"According to our agreement, we were able to produce all engine parts." Mhammad said.

"High-precision injector components also require advanced alloys. The alloys you produce are not up to standard. If you want to produce them, you need to import new alloy production equipment and build supporting alloy production plants." Ludwig said .

The meaning of his words was very obvious. If Pakistan wants to have full assets, it will have to continue investing in building other factories.

In Germany, the production of Leopard 2 is carried out by two companies, Kraus and Krupp. The initial negotiation was with Kraus, but now the representatives sent by the production company are present. It belongs to Krupp. In this way, Krause pretends not to know and lets Krupp make the request, so that it can earn more money from Pakistan.

Hamad smiled: "Okay. We will build the new alloy production plant soon."

"Our Krupp company has production equipment. It can be shipped at any time." Ludwig said.

"No need." Mhammad said: "We have reached an agreement with the United States. The new alloy factory will be built soon and will definitely meet our tank manufacturing needs."

This trip to the United States was also for Pakistan's industry. It introduced some advanced alloy production lines. The technology in the United States is no worse than that in Germany. The required alloys can be produced completely independently. Not only alloys required for precision parts, but also extremely hard alloys such as crawler tracks can be produced.

Ludwig was asking for trouble. He originally planned to make another fortune from this, but it seemed there was no hope.

"Let's go and take a look at our vehicle production line." Mhamad said.

The body of the Leopard 2 is not complicated and is entirely welded. On the final assembly line, pieces of armor are being welded into shape.

"What is the speed of our production line?" asked Mhammad.

"Now, in our trial production stage, we should be able to produce six vehicles a month. When the production line is fully run-in and started at full speed, we can produce more than 20 vehicles a month." Bassett said with pride on his face.

You know, even the Leopard 2 produced under license in Switzerland only has six vehicles a month.

Hamad nodded: "Our armored forces need Leopard 2 tanks as sharp knives. The production of this tank is related to the security of our national defense. At the same time, we cannot give up on transforming our old tanks. The transformation of 59 tanks is carried out. How's it going?"

"We have completed the transformation." Bassett said: "Mr. President, please come to the shooting range and see the performance of our 59 tank after transformation."

New tanks are too expensive. No country will eliminate old tanks when introducing new tanks. They will continue to upgrade old tanks and keep using them.

Now, Pakistan has Leopard 2 tanks, but the 59 tanks cannot be given up. Continued upgrades are necessary.

When we arrived at the shooting range outside, a modified Type 59 tank was parked there.

The barrel has changed its shape, with the smoke extraction device in the middle, and the barrel is thicker and longer.

The first step in the modification of the Type 59 tank is to replace the 100mm rifled gun with a 120mm caliber gun!

This type of gun was introduced from an Eastern country, and the modification and installation were also completed with the help of technicians from Eastern countries. Since the structure of the Type 59 tank is very familiar, the modification is a piece of cake.

Eastern countries have developed two types of tank guns with calibers of 120mm and 125mm. After comparison, they chose the 125mm caliber gun. As a result, this 120mm tank gun was temporarily idle, and later it was changed to a self-propelled anti-tank gun.

For Pakistan, Eastern countries are very generous and have exported the manufacturing and ammunition production lines of this type of gun.

Pakistan uses the electroslag remelting steel technology from Austria to produce it, adopts the self-tightening process, and chrome plating inside, which greatly improves the life of this type of gun.

At the same time, in addition to improving the artillery, the sighting system has also been greatly improved. It uses a simplified version of the FLP-10/EMES 18 fire control system, the same as the Leopard 2, the FLER-HG hybrid ballistic computer, and a thermal imaging system for low visibility or night conditions. These systems allow the 59 tank to have the ability to shoot on the move and strong combat capabilities at night.

Now, what appeared in front of Muhammad was such a tank. The gun barrel was replaced, and the sighting equipment on the turret was also fully modified. The infrared headlight was finally gone, and it looked more concise.

"You should introduce our L44 tank gun at the same time." Ludwig said: "If this tank is equipped with our artillery, its performance will be more advanced."

The fire control system made the Germans a fortune, but Rheinmetall did not share a share. It was originally planned that the Pakistanis would use the Leopard 2 artillery to modify it, and they also planned to ask for a high price, but unexpectedly, Pakistan actually installed its own gun barrel.

Pakistan is an agricultural country. Although it has just started industrial transformation, it cannot be completed overnight! Moreover, industry requires years of accumulation! Tank guns are the crown of industry. You know, even the Americans, who have such developed industry, have not independently developed new tank guns, and directly imported the L44 tank guns of Rheinmetall from Germany.

The Germans absolutely look down on this kind of artillery, they are absolutely proud.

Maybe technically, this tank gun is worse than the tank gun of Rheinmetall, but by increasing the length of the barrel, the final performance is comparable to that of the German gun.

This 120mm tank gun is 50 times the caliber, while the German tank gun is 44 times the caliber. The longer the barrel, the longer the action time of the gunpowder, and the greater the kinetic energy when it goes out.

In later generations, in order to increase the firepower of its Leopard 2, Germany changed the 44-caliber caliber to 55-caliber caliber, and as a result, the power increased greatly.

"Really?" Muhammad said, "Let's test fire a few shells from our tank guns."

"Yes." Bassett said.

The coordination between the fire control and the German fire control system was completed by both parties, but the power of the tank gun was not tested at that time, so the Germans were very contemptuous of this kind of artillery with the same caliber.

Now, it's time for the Germans to see it.

At a distance of 1,500 meters, a 150 mm thick homogeneous steel plate was placed at an angle of 68 degrees. At this angle, it is equivalent to a penetration distance of 400 mm.

Several tankers got in, skillfully stuffed the shells into the barrel, and aimed.

"Boom!" A ball of flame came out of the muzzle, and a tungsten alloy armor-piercing projectile flew out.

In the telescope, you can see where the armor was placed, and a piece of debris flew across.

Ludwig was shocked. He ran over quickly and saw that the steel plate had been completely penetrated!

What does this mean? If the Leopard 2 tanks of our side were not equipped with bras, they could be easily penetrated by the tank guns produced by Pakistan!

"Put the target at a distance of 2000 meters!" Ludwig said.

What is this 1500-meter distance? Although the armor of the Leopard 2 cannot be compared, the tank guns of the Leopard 2 can also penetrate at a distance of 2000 meters!

Now we are comparing tank guns, not armor! (To be continued ~^~)