Military industrial hegemony

Chapter 56 Another Caliber

After a period of hard work, everyone finally worked together to put out the fire on the dry grass in the test field, which also made everyone breathe a sigh of relief.Now is the beginning of spring, and the wind is relatively strong. If the wind changes suddenly or sparks fly out, it will definitely be catastrophic for the entire b17.This also prompted everyone to start thinking about the feasibility of re-planning the shooting range. Anyway, the areas that Jiang Chen circled when he tested the bazooka before were completely sufficient.

After being free, everyone began to fiddle with the firearms in their hands, eager to try, as if they wanted to fire a few rounds to see how the gun was doing.Under Jiang Chen's arrangement, it finally started. Everyone picked their favorite firearms and started shooting.Of course, not everyone can get what they want. After all, there are only a few firearms, and they can only be exchanged.

And Jiang Chen began to explain to everyone the methods and precautions when using these guns. After all, it is a new gun, and it is very different from the previous guns. These people will inevitably feel uncomfortable using it.

Just as Jiang Chen was talking, Chen Guorong called him over and asked, "Xiao Jiang, why does this gun feel weak when I shoot it?"

"Ah? Why are you so weak?" Jiang Chen asked in confusion.

"I can't tell, it doesn't feel as powerful as the 56 punch." Chen Guorong frowned.

"That kind of power?" Jiang Chen suddenly realized that what Chen Guorong said was that this gun does not have as much recoil as the 56. After you get used to the recoil of the 56, it is naturally difficult to adapt to these guns with low recoil. Feeling powerless.

This recoil force is the reaction force of the firearm when firing a bullet. It is with this reaction force that automatic weapons appear.As for the size of the recoil of this automatic weapon, it depends on the amount of reaction force consumed by the automatic mechanism in the gun. The previous 56 punches only considered simple, cheap, reliable and usable, but there are fewer considerations for such details.In order to increase the shooting accuracy of this gun, Jiang Chen had to consider these details, so as to reduce the impact of the gun vibration caused by too much recoil on the shooting accuracy.

"It's like this, Uncle Chen, the power of this gun has not been reduced, but we have reduced the recoil of the gun, so you are naturally not used to it." Jiang Chen explained to him with a smile.

"Oh, so, I still don't feel as refreshed as 56 Chong." Chen Guorong pouted.

Xu Shijie on the side couldn't stand it any longer and scolded with a smile: "Old Chen, do you think everyone is as strong as you? In the previous 56 charge, the recoil was so strong that the shoulders were bruised and purple, but this one is not like that at all. This feeling, I like it very much.”

On the other side, Deputy Director Lu also smiled and said, "Well, this gun is still comfortable to shoot."

Chen Guorong was still speechless when he heard the words. He picked up the 56 punch next to him as a comparison, loaded the magazine and shot a few rounds, and then took a few rounds with the new gun, and finally picked up the gun and said: "Well, it's still This is comfortable, and it feels more stable when playing, without the trembling of 56."

"Hahaha." Everyone laughed when they saw Chen Guorong subdued. You must know that Chen Guorong's temper is notoriously stubborn, and it is not easy to make him subdued.

After playing for a while, everyone also stopped and began to wait to check the results, and they didn't plan to play anymore, as long as everyone is an adult, it's fine.Only Lu Chunyang, the army representative, and Zhang Sai, the chief of the security section, were still playing happily after changing the target paper, and the more they played, the more excited they were, and there was no sign of stopping.

When the grades came back, everyone started to have fun with their own grades. They kept hearing about such high grades and the first time.Judging from their expressions, their grades this time should not be bad, and by looking at their looks, it is clear that they have already approved of this gun.

At this moment, Xu Shijie suddenly came to his senses and asked Jiang Chen, "Does your gun use the same bullets as our sniper rifle?"

Jiang Chen nodded and replied, yes, this gun uses the same 7.62mmX51mm bullets as the sniper rifle. The reason for not using the 7.62mmX39mm bullets of our original rifle is to ensure accuracy.Moreover, this bullet is common to sniper rifles, and it just forms a series, which is more suitable for the current war operations, and also reduces the pressure on logistics supply. Another point is that it is easier to enter the Western market.

"Stop it, don't waste bullets, these bullets are very expensive." Xu Shijie immediately ran over to stop the few people who were shooting.While some are recyclable, there is still a significant portion that costs money.For example, the propellant and primer required by the bullet cannot be produced by B17. These need to be purchased from other brother factories and assembled by themselves when they come back.

"Why do you still use this bullet? Can't our bullets be used?" Army representative Lu Chunyang asked with a frown.

It was impossible for Jiang Chen to explain to him in such detail, he just explained slightly: "I also did this for export."

Lu Chunyang nodded and agreed with this statement, but he asked again: "Now the West is biased towards the small-caliber 5.56 mm, why don't you produce this caliber?"

"The test requires a lot of bullets, and we don't have any." Jiang Chen said helplessly.

"Can't you produce it yourself?"

"We don't have a production line of this model." Jiang Chen said with a wry smile.Yes, B17 is indeed proud of being a military factory that produces firearms, that is, it has four bullet production lines.This is not available in many factories across the country. It is easy to produce a gun, but it is difficult to produce a bullet. In later generations, many countries import bullets from other countries.And these four bullet production lines were built with the help of Su Lai back then, and they have been preserved until now.Before, Jiang Chen modified one of the production lines to develop a sniper rifle. The original Soviet-style 7.62mmX39mm bullet was changed to a 7.62mmX51mm bullet. Now, if he wants to change another production line for this caliber, the factory leaders will definitely not agree. of.

"Nothing?" Chen Guorong asked beside him.

"Xiao Jiang wants to transform a bullet production line, and I'm afraid you won't agree." Lu Chunyang replied with a smile.

"Oh, that's it." Chen Guorong frowned and thought for a while and asked Jiang Chen, "What do you think?"

"That's right." Jiang Chen looked at Chen Guorong's question and had to answer helplessly. Originally, he thought of forgetting: "You know that the domestic production of this kind of bullet is far saturated, even if it is used for 30 years, it will not be used. Finished, so I thought about transforming it into a Western-standard 5×56mm bullet, and then went to those to see if I could get some orders for production. After all, it’s not a problem to stay idle like this. The caliber of this gun is also increased, which is this caliber, so that it can better meet the needs of the international market, but there is no bullet for testing.”

"I support it." Xu Shijie on the side began to express his opinion: "Xiaojiang is right, it's not a problem to be idle. After two years of idleness, these production lines will be useless. It's better to transform them to earn some foreign exchange."

"I agree too!" The director and deputy factory director on the side also nodded in agreement.

"I agree too!" Ma Guoliang who surrounded him also responded.

"Are you sure you can get it?" Shan Chen Guorong looked at Jiang Chen and asked.

Jiang Chen shook his head and said, "I don't know, but as long as we produce it and meet their standards, they will definitely come to buy us. After all, our production cost is relatively low, so the price is relatively low. These capitalists are It’s because they got into the eyes of the money, so it’s no wonder they don’t make any profit.”

"That's fine, you can start to reform, we support you." Chen Guorong nodded.

Jiang Chen hesitated and asked, "Is there a standing committee to decide on such a big matter?"

"Stupid boy, you see the majority of the Standing Committee members present support this plan, so the matter is settled, and the Standing Committee still needs to vote." Xu Shijie joked while looking at Jiang Chen with a smile.

"Hehe." Jiang Chen rubbed his nose in embarrassment and smiled.

Next, Jiang Chen focused on the extreme environment testing of these produced firearms, while organizing the research and development center to start developing the 5 caliber gun family, and at the same time organizing manpower to start modifying another bullet production line. Fortunately, only these were modified. It must be impossible to produce it.

The extreme environment test of firearms is the same as the previous sniper rifle test, but the requirements are more stringent. For example, the long-term hot shower test simulates the impact of tropical humid climate on firearms, and the blowing sand environment test, in water and mud Soaking test in sand, test in extremely cold environment, etc.Of course, there were many problems in this series of sequencing. Jiang Chen and the technicians also began to improve based on these reasons, and finally reached a higher level.This made the factory leaders who knew the result full of confidence in this defense exhibition.

Soon, a series of 5 mm caliber firearms was developed and produced. With the mature technology and reference blueprints, all that needs to be done now is to reduce the overall size, so it is not a high difficulty, and the production is very smooth. Out.

Now we are waiting for the bullet to start testing. In order to speed up the transformation, these workers also started to work hard. Without anyone's request, they took the initiative to start 24 hours a day and 4 shifts to speed up the transformation and strive to produce it as soon as possible.When Jiang Chen asked them why, they just said lightly, I am from B17, and I saw the hope of it returning to its glory.Jiang Chen was also full of emotion when he heard the words. It was because of these workers that a Chinese-style miracle occurred.In their view, there is nothing impossible or unconquerable, as long as you dare to fight!You will be able to achieve the final victory.Jiang Chen learned from this all his life.

With the day and night efforts of these technicians, the bullet production line was finally transformed and the first batch of bullets was produced.And this also prompted the small-caliber series of rifles to successfully complete all tests and achieved excellent results.Now it's time to show it to the world.

Finally, not long after everything was over, the notification of the equipment export test came as scheduled. I don't know if the weapons produced by Jiang Chen can pass the test smoothly?
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ps: The right shoulder is still not very comfortable, I will observe it for a few days, if not, I will go to the hospital to have a look!If you have any folk recipes and secrets, you can share them with me in the group and the message area, so that I can adjust and code well as soon as possible.Finally, please support me, code words are really not easy.

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