According to official website information, the BF6M101 type 5 diesel engine was manufactured by Ordnance Group and Hebei Huachai according to the license and imported German Deutz 1015 diesel engine technology. The latter is a new-generation diesel engine developed by Deutz AG in the 1990s, and the Caterpillar C-Series (of which the C9 is equipped with various new wheeled combat vehicles), the Detroit DDC60 series, and the German Mercedes-Benz OM500. The /900 series (equivalent to the MTU880), the MAN D2800 series, the Swedish Volvo D12D series (equipped with the French VBCI infantry fighting vehicle), and the Scania DI 12 series (equipped with the Finnish AMV wheeled armored vehicle) belong to the on-board diesel engines developed during the same period.
At present, the Deutz 1015 series diesel engine has been selected as the standard configuration for military off-road trucks and wheeled armored vehicles in many countries. China’s heavy strategic equipment carriers also use this type of engine. However, the BF6M1015 diesel engine still has defects such as insufficient unit power compared with the above-mentioned mainstream diesel engines. Even the latest model of the BF6M1015 diesel engine, the BF6M101 5CP/MV, is only an international mid-1990s level. Compared to the 12 litre Scania DI 12 diesel engine, the maximum power of 330 kW is still greater than that of the BF6M1015 diesel engine. 10% difference. As for the MTU890 series high-density power diesel engine used by the "Boxer" wheeled armored transport vehicle jointly developed by Germany and the Netherlands, it represents the direction of the future development of on-board diesel engines. It goes without saying that the VN1 wheeled infantry fighting vehicle adopts the BF6M1015C/MV diesel engine and is at the second-rate level in the international ground-weapons engine.
Although we have been reforming and opening up for 30 years, we still have serious problems in military industry and localities in the field of mechanical industry, and lack the national overall strategy to break the problem of building independent intellectual property alliances. In external cooperation, we still rely on the introduction of technology to maintain our products. Advanced, and the technology we introduce is often someone else has eliminated or is ready to be eliminated. In fact, even if it introduces products that others are producing, technically they are often deliberately short of shorts and shorts by foreign parties. What's more, overseas diesel engines have military-type and civilian-type models. Take Huacai BF6M1015 as an example, according to its technical level in the domestic diesel engine can be described as outstanding, and the current international civilian vehicle-mounted machine is not much difference, but there are data show that the German production of BF6M1015 maximum power has reached more than N400 kilowatts , more than 30% higher than the power of domestic models, this gap is precisely the gap between foreign military engine models. We should see that at the same time when the international internal combustion engine industry is "retaining troops to the people" and "combining the military with the people," the trend of "using the people to support the military and the military to feed the people" is becoming more apparent. What is more important is that the cooperation between foreign diesel generators and motivated companies has become increasingly tight. This includes technical cooperation between Renault-Volvo, MAN-Benz and MTU.DDC. In particular, the alliance of the latter has prompted high-power diesel engines. The birth of the company monopolized the vast majority of technology patents for the development of next-generation diesel engines.
On the other hand, in China's diesel engine industry, not only the military industry and local governments are different, but also the technical standards are different. Local diesel engine companies are plunged into purely vicious competition. There is no way to talk about the cooperation between the two companies. In this sense, China's vehicle diesel engine industry is large but not strong, and it is difficult to support the future development of China's wheeled combat vehicles. This is the time for us to learn from our experience. Only from the strategic height of national security, we can combine the efforts of the entire internal combustion engine industry to achieve the same military and civilian use of diesel engines.