Military industrial hegemony

Chapter 936 Small Caliber Gatling Gun Concept
For the firearms research and development laboratory, Jiang Chen could only do so.At least so far, he hasn't thought of a good way.It can only be on the current basis, in addition to continuing to innovate, but also focusing on quality and pursuing the ultimate.In other words, in the future, the firearms research and development laboratory will not be so eager to introduce new products and pursue quantity.Instead, it will gradually digest the firearms that have been released so far, select some representative firearms with excellent performance for further improvement and optimization, and come up with a firearm that can truly represent the level of the firearms laboratory.After these jobs are completed, the lab will also continue to innovate.However, in order to ensure the quality or uphold the "artisan spirit", the future laboratory will take the boutique route.Although the state of free competition is still maintained internally, the firearms and equipment developed will not be directly sold to the market.Instead, internal competitions will be held. Only firearms and weapons with excellent performance and approval can be released from the laboratory and put into mass production, and finally put on the market.Although the R&D cost will be very high, Jiang Chen believes that this kind of persistence is right.Although some customers and markets will be lost in a short period of time, it is worth it in the long run.

Moreover, in the firearms research and development laboratory, Jiang Chen also used his golden finger again.This time, Jiang Chen turned his attention to Gatling, the killer weapon.Gatling's research and development project team also made several improved models.For example, from the initial six tubes, to eight tubes, to the largest eleven tubes.From the smallest 7.62 mm caliber, up to 12.7 mm caliber, and then to 14.5 mm caliber Gatling rapid-fire machine gun.Of course, the research and development team was not satisfied with this, and for this reason they also developed three Gatling rapid-fire cannons of 20mm, 25mm, and 30mm.Its rate of fire has also changed from more than 6000 rounds per minute at the beginning to more than 1 rounds per minute now.

People are always like this, always pursuing the biggest and strongest, but ignoring the small aspects. In fact, sometimes the small is more meaningful than the big.This time, Jiang Chen planned to do the opposite, and decided to develop a Gatling machine gun with a smaller caliber.The current research and development project team has developed the smallest caliber Gatling machine gun, which should be 7.62mm.There are three types of them, one is the NATO standard 7.62×51mm ammunition, and the second is the 7.62×39mm ammunition specially prepared for the countries and armies that use the Soviet guns.And the third type is the 7.62×54mm ammunition.Ammunition of this caliber is generally used exclusively for machine guns, because it has a higher charge, so it has a higher rate of fire, a longer range, and greater power.

What Jiang Chen intends to develop is the caliber below 7.62mm.At present, he has chosen to determine two calibers, one is NATO's 5.56mm ammunition, and the other is the 5.8mm caliber ammunition that we have entered the experimental stage.Of course, these two calibers are also divided into rifles and pistols, which Jiang Chen also requested.In his opinion, Gatling's advantage is high rate of fire and strong firepower, but the disadvantage is that the rate of fire is too high and the consumption of ammunition is large.In the future, long-distance combat is generally a firefight between armored vehicles or heavy equipment.And close range is the fire contact between infantry, so this distance is generally within 200 meters, which is within the blind angle of heavy support fire.Therefore, large-caliber bullets are completely wasteful within this distance. Why not reduce the caliber to increase its carrying capacity.

Moreover, such a small-caliber Gatling machine gun will also greatly reduce the size and weight.This will make the Gatling machine gun, which is difficult for one person to master, be improved and operated by a single soldier or even with one hand.It also indicates that this improved Gatling machine gun can be equipped to squads or teams that need fire support to suppress the enemy's firepower in war.And because of the greatly increased ammunition capacity due to the reduced caliber, this Gatling machine gun will also get rid of the embarrassment of the rapid depletion of ammunition due to the high rate of fire.

Seeing the bright eyes of everyone in the project R&D team, Jiang Chen said to himself, I'm sorry, I once again plagiarized your results.In fact, this line of thinking is also the association of Jiang Chen's later generations seeing a small-caliber Gatling machine gun launched by an old U.S. military fire dealer.Moreover, Jiang Chen did better than them. Not only did he want to develop a Gatling machine gun that uses small-caliber rifle bullets, but he also planned to develop a smaller Gatling machine gun equipped with pistol bullets.Jiang Chen believed that after the development of these two Gatling machine guns, they would definitely cause a sensation.Especially the latter Gatling machine gun, which uses pistol bullets with smaller volume and weight, can be said to be the favorite of special personnel or special departments, and special personnel equipped with this kind of killer no longer need to hold a pistol to avoid The enemy's hunted down.Thinking about it, Jiang Chen was a little excited.Now he can't wait to take this gun to the shuttle, and the target is the bulletproof vest.Who said that bulletproof vests can prevent pistol bullets, so let's try this killer weapon, even if it can't be pierced, it can still break the heart.

The main achievements of the technology research and development center should be so many, of course I am talking about the main.In addition to these, there is actually a heavyweight weapon, that is, the truck gun.This is indeed a heavy weapon, because it weighs more than ten tons.There is actually nothing to say about this equipment, and everything is in progress.This is a product of three-party cooperation. Currently, Western Company is making further improvements to the car body.Including adding a more powerful engine and a stronger car body to increase its load-bearing and shock-resistant capabilities.In addition, the body or the cab and the ammunition storage bin must be redesigned and improved. The original cab and the ammunition storage bin are only reinforced.The new cab and ammunition storage compartment will have a certain degree of protection, which will improve the battlefield survivability of this truck gun and make it more adaptable to the battlefield environment.

The B507 factory, the research and development manufacturer of the artillery, is also making improvements, changing the currently used 120mm and 120mm to the 150mm heavy artillery caliber.Although it only increased the caliber by more than 30 centimeters, it was several times more difficult technically.Especially the artillery to be equipped on the truck must control the weight well.For artillery, a reduction in weight means a reduction in strength.Therefore, the B507 factory should increase the strength of the artillery body under the premise of limiting the weight of the artillery.To deal with the force on the gun body when the gun is fired, to prevent damage to the gun body.And there is also the service life of this artillery. The service life of the artillery cannot be greatly reduced because of the weight reduction.It is absolutely impossible for a cannon that could fire more than [-] rounds to be damaged after being lightened after firing one or two hundred rounds.

Although the B507 factory complained again and again, under Jiang Chen's insistence, they could only grit their teeth and carry out technical research.For the B507 factory, the tens of millions of dollars in dividends received at this year's defense exhibition is definitely their best motivation.How could they not seize this great opportunity when they were fed up with the poor life.So while they were cursing, they were still working swiftly.Although a little unhappy, but still have to bear it, who let Jiang Chen be their God of Wealth, their parents.

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