1959: Carrying the achievement system, she rolled

Early the next morning, the design bureau held a general meeting. Director Song, who was always cheerful, looked particularly gloomy today.

"Comrades, according to the news we received, Western countries have developed a new main battle tank that is more powerful than the Type 59 tank. They began mass production two years ago, and their tanks are equipped with 105mm rifled guns that can fire sub-caliber armor-piercing projectiles with an initial velocity of 1475 meters per second." Director Song said in a heavy tone.

For a moment, the conference hall was silent and everyone's brows were furrowed.

"And..." Director Song had just said these two words when everyone paused. Suddenly, everyone had a bad premonition in their hearts.

"Three years ago, some countries developed main battle tanks equipped with more powerful 120mm rifled guns that can fire armor-piercing discarding sabot shells with an initial velocity of 1370 meters per second." When Director Song said this, everyone gasped.

You have to know that their Type 59 tank is only equipped with a 100mm rifled gun. What is the concept of 120mm?

It's like two sharpshooters fighting each other, one holding a Type 54 pistol and the other holding a sniper rifle. How can they fight?

Guns are also different from each other. For example, they are all rifled cannons, but the difference is 20 mm. However, the power of 20 mm is not something that ordinary people can imagine.

"The only thing we can be thankful for is that they haven't started mass production yet. However, three years have passed, so they shouldn't be far from mass production." Director Song's voice was a little dull.

It is such a sad and lamentable thing when a country is thankful that its enemy's weapons are not mass-produced.

Everyone clenched their fists, breathing heavily, with helplessness and more of an unyielding look in their eyes.

Accept your fate?

Do not……

They never accept their fate!

"Comrades, we don't have much time left!" After Director Song said this, his eyes swept over everyone present!

Yes, they don’t have much time left. Once they fail to come up with weapons to fight back, they will become weak, and the weak will be invaded.

"Comrades, only if we go all out and fear no difficulties can we achieve ultimate success," Political Commissar Yang said loudly.

"Give it our all..." Everyone responded in unison, their eyes filled with indomitable fighting spirit.

"Does anyone have any better suggestions for the new tank?" Director Song's words brought everyone back to reality. Their new tank had not yet been successfully developed, and they had to add more powerful firepower on this basis. It was conceivable how difficult it would be.

Everyone was frowning and thinking, and at this moment Du Yimeng raised his hand, just like a primary school student about to speak.

Director Song couldn't help but smile when he saw this. His all-round Xiao Du was indeed worthy of her name. It was great that she already had an idea while others were still thinking!

I don’t know if everyone saw the expression on Director Song’s face, but suddenly everyone’s eyes fell on Du Yimeng, causing her raised hand to tremble involuntarily.

"I think we shouldn't waste time on linear rifled guns anymore. We should develop a new type of gun with a faster initial velocity and high ballistic characteristics," said Du Yimeng.

Suddenly, she remembered that the Russian Empire had developed a smoothbore cannon based on the rifled cannon according to later records.

They really knew nothing about smoothbore cannons, but they could research in this direction, which was better than being completely in the dark.

"Xiao Du, please continue." Engineer Qiao urged.

"Removing the rifling from the tank barrel and improving it into a smoothbore gun may increase the caliber of the gun." As soon as Du Yimeng said this, everyone's eyes lit up.

They don't know the direction of research, but they can improve on the existing basis, which is their strength.

"Even if your suggestion is feasible, it is still some distance away from the caliber of 120mm. How are you going to make up for this distance?" Qin Chulong retorted.

Everyone looked at Qin Chulong in disbelief. They never expected that he would be the first person to stand up and oppose.

Isn’t Du Yimeng his most satisfied student?

Could it be that their intelligence is out of date again?

Everyone looked at the teacher and the student with great interest. Although it was a bit immoral to see the teacher and the student confronting each other, they just wanted to watch!

Qin Chulong: Rather than letting others attack his students, it would be better for him to do it himself.

"Improve the armor-piercing projectiles and increase their initial velocity." Du Yimeng said calmly. She also had a set of drawings of tungsten alloy discarding sabot armor-piercing projectiles in her space, which she could take out at this opportunity.

It has been so long since they last developed tungsten steel alloy armor-piercing bullets.

In addition, she was the main force when armor-piercing bullets were being researched, so it is reasonable for her to come up with this blueprint now.

"How to increase the initial velocity of armor-piercing bullets?" Qin Chulong was quite interested in this. It should be said that he was interested in areas that he was not good at.

"The gun barrel must be lengthened and the preparation time for gun firing must be shortened. These are the only two points I can think of for now. The others will require testing to find out." Du Yimeng said.

Everyone fell into deep thought. If they were to conduct research in the direction Du Yimeng mentioned, it would be a huge project and would be impossible to complete without a certain amount of time.

The key point is that what she proposed was just a guess and hypothesis, which does not mean that they will succeed if they continue their research in this direction.

Perhaps all the time they have invested for several years may be wasted, and what they lack now is time.

Needless to say, this is a big gamble!

"Our tank design bureau doesn't have a chief designer yet!" Director Song suddenly said something that made no sense, but everyone's eyes lit up.

He always felt that Xiao Du did not use her full strength, but he also understood her concerns.

Everyone present here has more experience than her. If she steps out to make comments, especially if it's about other labs, people will definitely be unhappy about it.

If her position is promoted above everyone else, it will not be a question of qualifications, but a question of ability. At that time, she can fully demonstrate her strength.

If Du Yimeng knew what Director Song was thinking, she would definitely sigh that experience is always the best. She did have these concerns, which was why she hesitated.

The next second, everyone's eyes fell on Du Yimeng.

Everyone here is a collection of various professions, and none of them is a professional tank designer. They have always needed a chief designer.

But the country doesn't have talent in this area. If it did, it would have been transferred here long ago. It doesn't matter if there isn't one, they can train one themselves.