Chapter 432 Redefining "Bazooka"

These people have almost uniform beards on their faces, but they are not wearing burqas but ordinary suits.

They come from a North African country that is relatively small and transparent at the moment, but has been and will be very well-known.

Algeria.

For a considerable number of users, the Guardian 180B rocket launcher with a range of about 1km is actually enough to meet their tactical needs.

For example, Turkey and Thailand, two of the most important users at present, are negotiating with China Precision Machinery Import and Export Corporation and want to directly introduce the entire weapons production line.

But for some customers with larger land areas or more ambitious customers, 180km is still not enough.

And Defender 2 is aimed at them.

For reasons that are not difficult to guess, Algeria began to fall into an unprecedented scale of riots in the late 80s, which gradually evolved into a civil war in 1992.

It was not until August 1997 that this protracted war finally ended in essence, leaving behind a society in ruins waiting to be revitalized.

Since 1996, Chinese construction engineering companies have begun contracting construction business in Algeria during the reconstruction process.

It also includes the Algiers Pines Sheraton Hotel, a national landmark.

It also became the beginning of Huaxia Company’s entry into Africa.

However, for Algeria, which has just experienced a round of external intervention, quickly establishing an army with sufficient deterrence is a more urgent matter than rebuilding the country.

Fortunately, as a country rich in oil and natural gas, although they are not as wealthy as the Gulf princes, the funds that can be invested in military construction can still be guaranteed.

In fact, a few years ago, they inspected the old-fashioned Guardian 1 rocket launcher, but the range of the first version at that time was only about 80 kilometers, which was too far for use as a tactical weapon and not enough for use as a strategic weapon, so it was not used at that time. An agreement can be reached.

After the upgraded version of Guardian 2 appeared, Alfang almost immediately contacted China Precision Machinery Import and Export Corporation through unofficial channels.

Hence this trip.

In fact, this testing range located deep in the desert itself is a highly confidential unit. If it were a country with a slightly closer relationship with the West, it might not be allowed to enter directly.

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A few minutes later, Zhang Hongyin, who had completed the Zhuyuan setting check, jumped down from the control room quickly and trotted to the side of Rui Xiaoting and his party.

"Everyone of you should have seen the situation of our prototype cannon. If there are no other problems with the static data, then we can go to the monitoring room next to it?"

This kind of rocket with a caliber exceeding 400mm makes a lot of noise when launched. Except for the well-protected cab and operation room, it is difficult to ensure safety anywhere nearby.

The head of the military procurement delegation, Aite Noine, nodded and followed Zhang Hongyin and Rui Xiaoting into several minibuses parked nearby.

After everyone boarded the vehicle, the convoy kicked up a large cloud of dust and sped along the dirt road to the shooting range work area about a few kilometers away.

It is naturally impossible to have any drone live broadcasts these days, so although there are many screens in the so-called monitoring room, the overall design of the camera positions is still relatively monotonous. , nothing more than multi-angle photography of the launch area and bomb drop area.

Fortunately, the final speed of the rocket launcher is not very fast, and the entire process of hitting the target can be easily seen through the camera, so there is no need to worry too much about the demonstration effect.

If you are fighting ballistic missiles or even hypersonic weapons, it is difficult for ordinary optical equipment to accurately capture the entire end process. It will give the audience the feeling that nothing happened just now, and the target exploded directly in the next moment.

The look and feel will be worse.

And it's also difficult to determine whether you actually hit the target or if you placed an explosive point in the target in advance.

After sitting down in the monitoring room, Zhang Hongyin raised his hand and looked at his watch, and then said to the members of the Albanian delegation who were sitting opposite with impatient expressions:

"We are still about half an hour away from the test launch time we applied for. Instead of waiting like this, why don't we let Professor Rui introduce the specific performance of our rocket launcher system?"

The reason why the test time is so stuck is because the approval is not made by the shooting range itself, but by the spare management agency of the Jincheng Military Region Air Force. The coordination and cooperation are quite cumbersome.

Generally, the maximum ballistic height of a howitzer or howitzer with a range of 30-40km is about 6500-7500m. Such test firing only requires closing the low-altitude airspace and will hardly affect the normal flight of fixed-wing aircraft.

However, as a rocket launcher with a range close to that of ballistic missiles, the Guardian 2 naturally has to compete with the former in terms of ballistic height. As long as it is tested, the no-fly zone area is quite large, and the whole airspace is infinitely high in one stroke, so in order to Airspace safety must be punctual.

As soon as these words came out, several members of the delegation opposite looked at each other in confusion.

"Isn't the specific performance of the rocket launcher written in the promotional materials you provided?"

Noine took out a thick color manual from the briefcase he carried with him. There was a structural diagram of the complete version of Defender 2 printed on the cover——

Since Wanshan Special Vehicle has not yet provided the promised 8*8 chassis, it can only use the renderings used in the previous design to temporarily fill up the number.

After all, the current 6*6 site has been specially stretched to accommodate the longer and more directional tubes compared to the old model, which looks very uncoordinated.

"This material... is only for outsiders to see."

Rui Xiaoting waved his hand, indicating that that thing was not important at all:

"Considering the traditional friendly relations between China and your country, we can reveal some more realistic data."

Such a statement obviously instantly aroused the other party's interest.

"What is more realistic data?"

While speaking, Noine had already closed the notebook open in front of him.

Obviously, he has understood what Zhang Hongyin and Rui Xiaoting meant.

The following content is not suitable for a written record.

"To put it simply, the export model of the Guardian 2 will provide three different rockets. What you see in the manual is the first and basic model, with a warhead mass of 75kg, a range of 290km, inertial plus satellite guidance, and a maximum The CEP on the range is about 50 meters.”

Noine nodded, which was the main reason why they came to China.

In fact, most of the equipment of the Algerian army continued its past habits and continued to purchase from the Russians. However, when they began to consider equipping a weapon with strategic deterrent effect, they encountered difficulties.

Naturally, the strategic weapon that a medium-sized country talks about cannot be intercontinental ballistic missiles with a range of tens of thousands of kilometers, but the only decent land-based long-range weapons in the Russian arsenal are these big killers.

As a result of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, all short-range missiles that met Algeria's requirements have been destroyed.

Therefore, they had to find Chinese people who did not have this burden to switch to.

After all, the 290km range is barely enough for them.

"For most users, we will only offer this base model."

Rui Xiaoting said, turning the laptop in front of him to face the opposite side.

Displayed on the screen are three or simple cross-sectional views.

Even non-technical people can see some subtle differences.

Because the painter thoughtfully marked it with bold lines——

"In addition to this, we will provide two other options. One is to replace the seeker and warhead. The head that originally only functions as a fairing will be replaced with a radar seeker. The cost is that the quality of the warhead will be reduced. It’s as small as about 50kg, but it can attack moving surface ships.”

“As for the other one, it is to replace the power section. We retained the propellant corresponding to the 350km range in the initial design, but due to the arms export treaty signed later, we can only waste part of the fuel by adjusting the engine parameters. "

"But actually you only need to replace these key valves to restore performance to the original level."

At this time, Noine's expression sitting across from him was almost unbearable:

"Are you sure this is a... rocket launcher?"

Zhang Hongyin and Rui Xiaoting looked at each other:

"Strictly speaking, in our equipment catalog, the official name of this model is 'Guardian 2 Integrated Rocket Weapon System'. Of course, if you are willing to use the name rocket launcher, we have no objection..."