the world is at stake

They have completed a lot of trivial and repetitive work, allowing our technicians to have more time to complete more valuable work.

They are satisfied with their income and are willing to work overtime.It's just that their experience is not enough at present, so the base does not allow them to work alone, let alone work overtime alone.

I believe that in another half a year, their collaboration ability will be able to catch up with skilled technicians. "

This evaluation is quite pertinent, and Colonel Robert gave a few 'hmm' to express his satisfaction.He asked again: "I want to know how much maintenance capability can be improved by joining this group of people?"

Sergeant Jones thought about it, and conservatively estimated: "At least two batches of maintenance tasks accumulated last year can be completed before the end of the year. If they are experienced and then work overtime, they should be able to complete more needs.

After all, these Asian engineers and technicians are almost desperate for triple overtime pay.They even complained many times why they couldn't work overtime? "

Colonel Robert chuckled.In front of his eyes, the crane on the beam of the workshop is moving, the disassembled track will be sent for refurbishment, and the severely worn parts need to be repaired or replaced.

The lifted engine was dirty and black, and the huge filter was scratched.The gas blades are damaged like rotten iron sheets and must be completely replaced.

The colonel walked around the maintenance line wearing a hard hat, and when he left, he gave Sergeant Jones a good compliment.The two talked and laughed happily in the eyes of others, but they still whispered when there was no one around.

"Jones, I heard that your eldest son has won a scholarship to the University of California School of Medicine. I really want to congratulate you."

"That's my pride, and I'm very grateful for your recommendation and help, Colonel. Without your recommendation letter, this matter would not have gone so smoothly."

"The tuition of medical school is indeed not cheap, but I am very happy to sponsor an outstanding young man to realize his dream."

"Your Excellency, please rest assured that I am also very happy to serve Lieutenant General Miller. This is my honor."

At the end of his speech, Robert laughed, and lightly tapped Jones on the chest.The latter is solemn and respectful, like a patriot who loves America.

The inspection was over, and Robert walked out of the maintenance workshop and took off in a helicopter.He said to another passenger in the cabin: "Harden, the engineer you hired is really good.

I thought they would do some odd jobs at most after three months, but the reality is much better than imagined.My report to the Pentagon at the end of the year will be ready. "

In the cabin, the deputy director of Bureau G'Harden' looked at the rapidly shrinking building on the ground through the porthole, and said nothing.

Robert continued: "However, I have a doubt. Why did you insist on sending me a group of inexperienced low-level technicians. Although their salaries are cheap, they are obviously not as effective as genuine engineers, and they are easy to cause trouble."

The helicopter was high enough off the ground to throw the 'Aniston' base far away.

'Harden' retracted his gaze towards the ground, and said in a low voice: "There are many simple tasks that don't require engineers to do."

Robert wasn't satisfied with the explanation, but he smiled and didn't press the question any further.

'Harden' also didn't clarify his real purpose. In fact, he just saw that many technical school graduates in China were too bad, so he used a salary of more than 20 yuan to lure a batch of them to the United States to forcibly remake them.

Two years of training, so that young people who may be mediocre all their lives can earn some money as wives, and then kick them back to work hard in China-it is a good thing to use Yankee funds and factories to transform socialist laborers.

Although this cannot change the overall low level of domestic technicians, it is better than doing nothing.

Furthermore, it is impossible for engineers like Liang Guang to do everything by themselves, and they really need assistants who can do chores and do repetitive tasks.They have more important tasks.

"By the way, have you got the M829A4 shells I want?" 'Harden' asked, "My client is willing to pay a high price for a few rounds."

Robert suddenly smiled bitterly, "Harden, you are really good at picking."

"It's just a few shells. If you knock out a few more rounds during training, who can come to check?"

"It's the best tank round in the world, and our 'Abrams' depend on it."

'Harden' nodded. "I want the best."

The world's third-generation main battle tanks have been developed for 40 to [-] years. In addition to improving fire control and artillery, countries are trying their best to manufacture the best shells.

In terms of fire control, there is not much difference between several typical third-generation tanks.The best tank gun is the German, but the best shell is the Yankee M829A4.

Relying on the advanced chemical industry of the United States, M829A4 is the world's first tank shell without a fire tube.Its bullet core is inserted straight to the bottom, and its aspect ratio far exceeds that of similar shells from other countries.

"Okay, for the sake of helping me this time, I'll get you some shells. But when will we start the '[-] million dollar' deal?"

"We'll proceed after the shells are verified," Zhou Qingfeng said.

"Fuck-you, Harden. You really are a nuisance." Robert shook his head, "Okay, I'll do it right away."

A few days later, at the Army range at Lima, Ohio, several test 'Abrams' fired a few extra rounds of M829A3 instead of the A4 type.

These rounds of ammunition were taken away by the transport plane of the Logistics Bureau, transported to Pakistan after several transfers, and handed over to the 'Gwadar Port Drinking Water Company' by the US military convoy stationed in Afghanistan.

A shell was sold for 50 US dollars, and the US military officers and soldiers who handled it felt that they had made a profit.

The artillery shells were taken over by the people of "National Security", and they were immediately airlifted back to the country and handed over to the Baicheng Weapons Test Center in Jilin, Northeast China.

One shell was saved, two were sent to be cut open for testing, and two were ready for live ammunition at the test center.

Seeing these shells, the military personnel in the test center laughed happily, "This is a treasure of the old beauty. The old gun of 'Abrams' relies on these shells to support the scene."

In order to pursue firepower advantages, the three generations of tanks basically increased the aspect ratio of the artillery to more than 50.The RH2 of the German 'Leopard 120' was even raised to 55.

Only the Yankees are still using the M-44 with a diameter of 256 times. The reason why it does not change the gun is that the latest armor-piercing projectile M829A4 it uses is rumored to be extremely powerful.

The German version of the M-256 tank gun was obtained in China, all of which are of NATO caliber and the ammunition is common.

Qin Qing was in charge of delivering the ammunition and was allowed to watch the test firing by the way.She saw that the military workers in the shooting range couldn't put it down, and asked, "Is this thing much better than us?"

The military personnel said 'hmm', "Our chemical industry is not as good as that of the United States, and we cannot produce propellants of the same level. Even if the caliber of our artillery is larger, the penetration of the third-stage ammunition is worse than that of the American A3 version some.

As for the A4 version, the Americans have just developed it.

We didn't know anything about it before.Now just looking at the appearance of the shell, it can be inferred that it has strengthened its ability to resist heavy explosives.The 99A main battle tank is equipped with heavy anti-explosive. "

On the shooting range, the German guns used for testing came from some unknown source.It has only the barrel chamber and the rear bolt, which are installed on a special gun mount.

The target was placed 2000 meters away, and the first piece was pure steel armor, used to test the ultimate penetration.

The second piece is to simulate the thickest upper armor of your own tank, 'explosive' plus 'composite' plus base armor, the thickness is more than one meter, to see what the result of the spear and shield confrontation is.

Qin Qing stayed tens of meters away with noise-cancelling headphones, watching the military workers conduct tests from a distance.The scene looked ordinary, but the two bangs of the cannons scared people enough.

After the shooting, the military personnel in the direction of the target didn't say anything, and even the expression on their faces seemed unpredictable, or it was called face sinking like water, showing no joy or sorrow.

Qin Qing didn't know the result of the shooting, so he didn't ask.But before leaving, the military engineer in charge of the test walked up to her, hesitated to speak for a long time, and asked:

"Maybe we're asking a bit too much. But can you get the shells, can you get the Abrams armor to test?"

"Oh, try it."

"Don't play the monkey version."

"Don't worry, if you can get it, it's definitely genuine."

Chapter 41

When the gunpowder smoke in the shooting range dissipated, Qin Qing left the Baicheng Weapons Testing Center.

The military personnel who made the request ran two kilometers away in a car to see the specific situation of live ammunition shooting.

At the other end of the shooting range, many people surrounded the steel target and the dummy target.Everyone was very interested in the results of the bombardment and was busy taking pictures and surveying the scene.

A large number of metal fragments were sputtered on the ground of the steel target, and there was a hole in the target, which penetrated deeply.The testers are dismantling the hit target, they will cut it open to see the internal condition.

Seeing the head of the shooting range driving by, someone shouted, "Director Ge, this Yankee's shells are really tough."

"How deep was the blow?" Director Ge was in his fifties, with wrinkles on his face full of suffering and hatred.He wore faded indigo overalls and looked like an old farmer, frowning as he got out of the car.

"Preliminary estimates show that the steel target has a penetration depth of 750 mm. The condition of the simulated target has to be moved back and carefully measured." The on-site personnel reported.

"Fuck it." Director Ge cursed, "Basically consistent with what we expected."

The steel target is nothing to look at, the focus is on the dummy target.

The outside of the target was scorched black, and the heavy anti-aircraft bomb hanging on it had already exploded.When the armor-piercing projectile encounters 'explosive anti-', the projectile core will be cut by the blasted throwing plate, thereby weakening its armor-piercing ability.

Yankee's M829A4 has strengthened the strength of the bullet core, and it is specially designed to deal with the "explosive anti" that is commonly equipped with the main battle tanks of various countries-that is, to deal with China's 99A, because Maozi tanks have long been outdated in all aspects.

The heavy burst exploded, a hole in the composite armor that had been radioactively disintegrated.Seeing this messy hole, Director Ge cursed and asked, "Did it go through?"

"No." The field tester grinned, "It didn't penetrate."

Director Ge got behind the target and found that the situation was not good. In fact, both the 'explosive anti' and the composite armor were penetrated, but were barely blocked by the last layer of steel base armor.

The tester also turned around and said with a sigh: "We have used the Russian 'Mango' and the German 'DM53', but we have never achieved such an effect.

The technology of 'Mango' is too old, and the steel sleeves from decades ago are still used, which can't even penetrate our 'Explosive Reverse'. The 'DM53' is better, but it can't penetrate composite armor with a 44 caliber gun.

But Laomei's A4 bomb...is really a threat. "

Hearing a lot of sighs, Director Ge patted his shoulders and said, "Don't worry, it will be fine in the future. The country has developed rapidly in recent years. What the United States has, we will also have.

It would be great if we could use the armor of the Yankee to test it, so we can get a feel for it and have a good idea of ​​the future development. "

Both targets will be shipped back to the test center for further analysis.Director Ge had been busy all day and didn't come home until after ten o'clock at night.As soon as he entered the door, he saw his wife and children sitting on the sofa, sulking with each other.

"What's the matter?" Lao Ge walked to the kitchen and took out the warm food from the rice cooker, "Hey, the food left for me tonight is not bad."

"You still have your heart, this kid lost his job again." Lover Ge scolded her son, "Is it easy for me to find you a unit? How many people have I begged to send you in? How dare you resign when you say you want to quit?" .”

Xiaoge was also like a firecracker, it exploded at one o'clock, and he argued angrily: "It's been so long, why do you still think it's good to enter the system and enter the work unit? With the little money in the work unit, who can support them?

Going around to get acquainted with others, and when I enter the work unit, I will be inferior to others.People who are capable look down on me, because I really don't know anything.But I want to go out and rush, but you don't let me. "

"Do you think you can succeed by going out? It's hard to go out now. It's best to have a stable job."

Lao Ge didn't participate in the discussion. He listened to the mother and son quarreling for half an hour, and he figured out the situation—that is, the child looked down on the three to four thousand yuan given by the unit, but his mother felt that the job within the system was guaranteed.

This family has scriptures that are difficult to recite, and so does Lao Ge's family.

Both husband and wife are college students, both are senior intellectuals, and both work in scientific research units.

But the children of the two were not taken care of well since they were young. They didn't study well, barely got into a technical technical school, and couldn't find a job after graduation.

After the expansion of university enrollment, the technical school system collapsed.

The child failed to go to college, which was difficult for the whole family to accept-the couple finally changed from a working family to an intellectual family, and now the child has fallen back.

Can you not worry about the decline in class?

After scolding the child, Lao Ge's lover came to scold Lao Ge again, to the effect that he failed to go through the back door and arrange a better job for the child, and it would be difficult to hold a grandson in the future.

Lao Ge is a calm and calm director of scientific research at the shooting range.But at home, he can only sigh - he is indeed responsible for the child's failure to learn well.

"Well, I'll send him to the United States." Lao Ge said this heavily after eating.

On the sofa, Lao Ge's wife thought she had heard wrong, and turned to look at her husband who never went through the back door, did not cheat, and never asked for gifts.

Xiaoge hesitated for a moment, then said in surprise, "Dad, don't be late for the holidays. Could it be that you were corrupted by some American spy? The country's control has become much stricter in the past two years."

The family of the confidential unit emphasizes secrecy every day.

"Bah, what are you thinking?" Lao Ge returned the bowl and chopsticks to the kitchen, wiped his mouth with a paper towel, made another cup of tea, and sat on the living room sofa.

The mother and son waited to hear the following.

"Not long ago, a company called 'Shengguang' began to recruit junior technicians to work in North America, and has already hired thousands of people in the Northeast military industry system.

They are all young people in their early twenties. They need about two years of work experience, and English is a priority, and it doesn't matter if they don't know it.The annual salary is 15. "

Hearing the annual salary of 15, both mother and son listened carefully.Although this salary is far less exciting than the annual salary of 60, it is also a real benefit.

Lao Ge continued: "I heard about it two months ago, but I didn't take it seriously. Recently, I learned that this labor dispatch is actually true, but a political review is needed to ensure that nothing will happen."

"That means, I can go?" Xiaoge couldn't sit still, and turned to look at his mother, "15 a year, it's not several times better than the dead salary at the work unit."

Lao Ge continued: "15 is the lowest level. Those who receive training in the United States and have outstanding ability can get 20 and 25. Everyone is still dubious about this.

But recently, the technicians who went there in the early stage called back one after another, and roughly talked about their work and life in the United States.It is true that they get a lot of money, and the training is also very hard, and some of them were kicked back.But most people say it's pretty good. "

Seeing that her husband seemed to have made a decision, Mrs. Ge couldn't help asking: "The United States absorbs so many immigrants every year, why does it hire people from China? Don't they have any skilled workers?"

This question confused Lao Ge, who scratched his head after thinking hard for a while and said, "This is really unclear. But the lack of labor in the United States is true. It may be because the labor cost there is too high."

Lao Ge's lover asked again: "It's true, the young people in China don't rush to go? I heard that there are many international youth worker competitions, and the country has won many first places."

"Cut, you don't know what our son is capable of?" Lao Ge glared at his son in an 'indisputable' way, "either playing games at home every day, or going out to find some friends."

Xiaoge became anxious, and sat up straight on the sofa, "If I have an annual salary of 15, I promise to work hard and not be lazy, and I will definitely work hard."

Lao Ge glanced sideways, "You really went, you can't do it without hard work, I heard that the management there is very strict, and the American instructors who train are very fierce.

But this time it is to take care of our military industry system and keep the employment quota inside.This is not considered power-seeking, so I signed up for you.It is estimated that the visa will be processed next month, and you can go there. "

Lover Ge said anxiously again: "So fast? I heard that the social atmosphere in the United States is not good, and there are a lot of drug addicts. There is also racial discrimination or something."

Old Ge glanced at Xiao Ge, "I told the recruiters of 'Shengguang' that the salary settlement will be sent to China, and only some living expenses will be left for you.

As for the atmosphere, it still depends on yourself.The child is also an adult, and it is time to go out and make a living.But some people become dragons, and some become insects.

In the past, I was busy with work, and I really owed my children, and I never cared about your study and growth.But life is not perfect, I can't take care of you forever, I can only give you a chance. "

The whole family talked as if they were parting from each other.

Lao Ge's wife was immediately reluctant to let go, for fear that something might happen to the child she had raised for more than 20 years when she went to the United States.