Chapter 102： Black Cloud Edition Knight XV

Sure enough, as everyone expected, the Heiyun Group's employees queuing up to buy jewelry at the Chow Tai Fook Jewelry Store have been reported by the Hong Kong media. After all, the employees of Heiyun Group seem to be buying gold without money. In this era, it is definitely a topic that has caused a sensation in Hong Kong.

After reporting on this incident, Oriental Daily reported the benefits of Heiyun employees again, and looked at the delicious meals in the cafeteria with rich, balanced nutrition and various patterns. The environment in the dormitory is clean, comfortable, and the entertainment facilities should have complete living conditions. All the citizens of Hong Kong are discussing this matter.

Some gossip news even said that there are many men in the Heiyun Group, most of them are engineers or senior white-collar workers. Women are a rare species in the Heiyun Group, and most of them are crooked melons and cracked dates. Most of the Chow Tai Fook shopping guides are young and beautiful girls. The reason for buying so many jewels this time is to attract the attention of Chow Tai Fook shopping guides.

Not to mention that after seeing the media reports, the golden bachelors from the Black Cloud Group finally found a lot of Chow Tai Fook shopping guides as wives. Chow Tai Fook's female shopping guide saw these engineers also have bright eyes, which is also considered unintentional!

Bao Zixuan doesn't have time to worry about these things now. With the continuous creation of old German craftsmen, the Black Cloud version of Knight XV has finally come out.

Bao Zixuan stood in front of this land monster. Unlike the original Knight XV, he was limited by the technology of this era and made great changes in performance.

It is 6.1 meters long, 2.5 meters wide, and 2.5 meters high. Its shape is replaced by a diamond line instead of the curve of a general vehicle, reflecting the square and upright characteristics of an armored vehicle. It uses a 6.0-liter V10 diesel engine with a maximum output of 380 horsepower and a torque of 5857kgm.

The appearance of Knight XV is very tough and sturdy, giving people the feeling that as long as he rampages, he can break out of a tight encirclement, like a tank on the road. The body is made of tungsten-titanium alloy and glass avant-garde wheel arches and bumpers, and the windows and windshield are made of 70mm thick bulletproof transparent material. It can withstand the NATO standard fire rate of 900 m/s and a hard steel nuclear bullet with a caliber of 7.62x51 mm. It can resist the attack of 20 kg of TNT explosives. The chassis of military vehicles can also withstand grenade explosions.

The appearance and dimensions of the Black Cloud version of Knight XV are the same as the previous version, and the entertainment facilities are only equipped with a radio and a car version of the Walkman to listen to news and play music.

The engine adopts the most mature diesel engine from German Rheinmetall, and the Germans are indeed at the forefront of the world in this regard. The diesel engine was invented by the German Rudolf Diesel in 1892. On this basis, the Germans have long been proud of the world after more than 80 years of research and development.

This 6.0-liter V10 diesel engine was originally designed to match light tanks and armored vehicles, but now it is directly used by Bao Zixuan to carry off-road vehicles. However, the fuel consumption is too high. If the air conditioner is turned on in summer, it will consume 53 liters of diesel per 100 kilometers.

Equipped with a 380-horsepower diesel engine, it is designed to reach a maximum speed of 120 km/h. It's completely enough if you don't drive a car.

As for the safety performance, it is much better than the previous life. Thanks to the continuous deepening of trade with the Soviet Union, many controlled materials are now being continuously shipped to Hong Kong.

The Heiyun Group is not too greedy, and it digests all the materials under Ming's control and control. There are many materials produced by Soviet military factories in this car.

As long as the whole body is leaking, the metal part is all tungsten-titanium alloy, and a layer of hardened ceramic material is added inside. Even the fuel tank is no exception. This makes its body lighter, stronger, and can even withstand 20mm cannons. The car window glass is the car glass that the Soviet Union gave to the most senior leaders to make bulletproof cars, which can resist all bullet attacks.

According to the German classification of bulletproof cars, this car must reach the fourth level: the B7 can accept stronger shots. Examples include various types of grenades, tube bombs, and TNT packs and plastic bombs.

Unless he hits with missiles or direct hits from artillery shells, it's hard to break his armor. But there is also a disadvantage that the cost is too high, so high that Bao Zixuan is a little reluctant to give it to Phil Hawkins.

This car took 4,000 man-hours. According to the calculation of the German mechanic at 40 US dollars per working hour, his labor cost is about 160,000 US dollars.

8 tons of tungsten-titanium alloy were used, and each ton was about 120,000 US dollars, which was still smuggled back. You can't buy it in the market at all, and even if you buy it, it's a sky-high price. After all, this is a material with a relatively high level of control.

2 tons of hardened ceramic materials were used, and the price per ton was US$200,000 per ton. This is still the friendly price given by the Soviet Union. After all, this is the ceramic insert of the latest version of the body armor.

The miscellaneous accessories such as engines and gearboxes are imported by Rheinmetall. The cost of a car is 80,000 US dollars. After all, they are all military grades, and only Rheinmetall can provide them in the world, and it is an exclusive deal.

As for the bulletproof glass, $50,000 per piece is not negotiable. This is a special glass for the cars of the most senior leaders. Not even a few pieces are produced each year. Knight XV has 10 pieces of glass of different sizes.

Looking at this production cost is huge. The cost of labor and materials per vehicle has reached about 2.5 million to 2.8 million US dollars, which is more than double the cost of Bao Zixuan's plan when the project was established. . If the materials are purchased according to the international market, the cost per car will exceed 5 million US dollars.

There are not many people in this world who have the ability to buy, but this is just a product of their own nature. First, let the workers have a job, and as for the future, we can only take it slowly.

As an engineer of aircraft engines, Bao Zixuan is also very familiar with car engines, but there is absolutely no advantage in producing cars in Hong Kong, that is, all the parts on this car are purchased from outside.

Heung Kong's exports depend more on light industrial products such as clothing and plastic flowers. At present, Hong Kong can't even produce a single car lamp. If a large-scale car factory is built here, it will definitely lose money.

After fully understanding the performance of the car, Bao Zixuan said to Hector, "I have experimented a few times, how is the situation?"

Hector: "Boss, we have done all-round monitoring, and there is no problem After all, our power system and sensing system are mature products of Rheinmetall military."

"We have been dealing with these parts and components for a lifetime, and have been debugged repeatedly. And the materials used in the body are the highest grade alloys in the Soviet Union. Although there are these alloy technologies in Germany, they will never be applied to cars. We There are not so many resources. Only the Soviet Union and China have large-scale deposits of tungsten and titanium, and Germany only imported them in large quantities in the 1930s, and now there are not many left.”

"I can guarantee that this is definitely the safest car, even if the person inside the container truck rolls over, it may not be a problem. In theory, his metal strength is sufficient."

Hearing this, Bao Zixuan couldn't wait to sit in the driver's seat. Since it was all bulletproof thickened glass, the clarity of the front windshield was not very high, but it was completely sufficient.

Bao Zixuan, who hadn't driven for a long time, was familiar with the inside of the car and started the test drive. After he stepped on the accelerator, he saw the car start slowly. After all, it was a 13.5-ton steel behemoth. However, after running, the car was very stable on the road. Fortunately, the Heiyun Group's factory area is large enough, otherwise it really can't run.

Now there is also a problem, and that is the problem of production licenses. If you can't get a mass production license, you can only drive on some roads as a modified car. It seems that Phil Hawkins can only apply first in the United States, and it is difficult to get it in Hong Kong. As long as the certification of the American Automobile Industry Association is passed, it can be produced by going through a formalities in Hong Kong.

The employees of Heiyun Group showed no expression after seeing the car, and they will often test the car recently. However, after Bao Zixuan drove the car to the construction site, the construction workers who helped Heiyun build the factory were quite frightened. After all, no one had ever seen such a car.

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