The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 33 New Identity
In the summary meeting, there will be criticisms and naturally there will be commendations!
Liu Tao, Wang Tiezhu and Panshan Machinery Factory became the most popular people at the summary meeting.

The leaders of the Fifth Ministry of Machine Building and the army personally gave the commendation.

The old man Wang Tiezhu had a red face and was as happy as a child.

Liu Tao was also very happy. After all, this was an honor given to him by the country and the greatest affirmation of him.

The stories of the two were subsequently reported in newspapers and on the radio many times.

Honor belongs to the past, and we will continue to move forward with confidence in the future.

The following period of time was spent in personnel changes. First, Wang Baoguo was transferred to the Fifth Ministry of Machine Building, and then Wang Tiezhu was transferred to the director of the Yunnan Provincial National Defense Management Office.

Wang Tiezhu personally brought the appointment letter and read out the appointment of Liu Tao by his superiors in front of the management of Panshan Machinery Factory.

Liu Tao officially took over as director of Panshan Machinery Factory from deputy director, and concurrently served as a senior party official of the factory.

This is a common phenomenon in state-owned factories. Under the factory director system, the party and government are in charge, and power is concentrated in the hands of the factory director.

"Comrade Liu Tao, Panshan Machinery Factory is now handed over to you!" Wang Tiezhu held Liu Tao's hand and said solemnly.

This is a kind of inheritance and also an expectation!
Wang Tiezhu has worked at Panshan Machinery Factory for ten years and has deep feelings for the factory.

He hopes that Panshan Machinery Factory will grow and develop under the leadership of Liu Tao, create more brilliance and build a new legend.

"Director, I will live up to your trust!" Liu Tao promised solemnly.

Now that he has taken over as the factory director, the new plan of the machinery factory will be carried out in an orderly manner, and many things that could not be done before can now be done.

Operation 'Red Dragon's Roar' has ended, but this is just the beginning, not the end.

Liu Tao remembered that the next battle would last for ten years. Although the scale of the battle was far from comparable to the "Roar of the Red Dragon", it was still very cruel!
Panshan Machinery Factory also has a task next, which is to produce as many 'Type 78' pistols, 'Type 78' automatic rifles and 'Type 78' heavy sniper rifles as possible. These produced military equipment will be handed over to the troops for replacement and training as soon as possible.

Now, the 'Type 78' gun family has been proven on the battlefield and has won the love and support of the soldiers.

Now, no one in the military on the Eastern and Western Fronts is talking about the 'Type 54' pistol or replacing the Type 63 automatic rifle. Instead, they are asking for the 'Type 79' gun family.

During this period, the squad machine gun developed by Liu Tao was officially recognized by the Provincial National Defense Management Office and put into production.

After seeing Wang Tiezhu off, Liu Tao convened a factory-wide meeting. This was the first time he convened and presided over a meeting as the factory director.

Lin Shengli once again became the director of the technical department.

In the square, everyone looked at Liu Tao with admiration in their eyes.

As everyone knows, the current Panshan Machinery Factory not only allows everyone to receive wages every month, but also pays off all previously overdue wages. The entire Panshan Machinery Factory has been completely renewed, all thanks to Liu Tao.

Everyone even knows that Panshan Machinery Factory will not lack production targets and can resume production.

The best proof of this is the constant flow of military transport vehicles in and out every day.

Moreover, the new factory is under construction, and it is said that new dormitories will be built and everyone will be allocated a house.

Everyone really supports Liu Tao. It was also at this meeting that everyone knew that Liu Tao would no longer be the deputy director, but the director!

At the meeting, Liu Tao made personnel appointments. In addition to promoting one person to be deputy factory director and one to be assistant factory director, he also adjusted and appointed several production workshop directors.

All he needs to do is make the appointment and then file it with his superiors.

Time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye it was already mid-April 1979.

Liu Tao completely straightened out the entire Panshan Machinery Factory and basically took control of it.

It was already spring at this time, with daytime temperatures around 25 or 26 degrees Celsius and nighttime temperatures around 13 or 14 degrees Celsius, making the climate quite suitable.

After adjustments, Panshan Machinery Factory currently produces 'Type 78' pistols, 'Type 78' automatic rifles, 'Type 78' heavy sniper rifles and 'Type 78' squad machine guns, as well as various types of bullets.

As for the weapons and equipment originally produced, they have all been temporarily stopped.

Weapons and ammunition were continuously produced, and the money in the Panshan Machinery Factory's account was also increasing rapidly.

Even though money is constantly being spent on purchasing daily necessities and building new factories, the rate at which money comes in still exceeds the rate at which money goes out.

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"Da da da~~~" the sound continued to sound.

Liu Tao was seen operating a peculiarly shaped machine gun and conducting a target shooting test.

This machine gun has a tripod at the bottom with a scope and a barrel on top.

This is a 12.7mm heavy machine gun that Liu Tao developed during this period. This heavy machine gun system is mainly used for flat shooting to kill enemy cluster targets, suppress light weapons firepower points, and damage light armored targets. When necessary, it can also carry out high-altitude shooting to shoot at low-altitude targets such as armed helicopters. The entire system consists of a heavy machine gun, explosive and incendiary bombs, and incendiary bombs.

This 12.7mm heavy machine gun adopts the short-recoil-gas-operated hybrid automatic principle, a head rotation locking mechanism, a ring lever transmission mechanism for the ammunition supply system, a ball hinge mechanism for the gun mount, and is equipped with a day light sight and a low-light sight.

The whole gun weighs 26.5 kg, the gun body weighs 17.5 kg, the gun frame weighs 8.5 kg, the initial velocity is 980 m/s, the theoretical firing rate is 450-600 rounds/min, the effective range is 2000 meters, the magazine capacity is 50 rounds, the bullet is Type 54 12.7 mm bullet, and it can also be equipped with armor-piercing bullets, armor-piercing incendiary tracer bullets, and armor-piercing explosive incendiary bullets!

If it was just a small guy before, then this heavy machine gun is a big guy with extremely amazing lethality.

Compared with the previous 'Type 79' squad machine gun, this 12.7mm heavy machine gun has even more amazing firepower.

The militiamen who were at the shooting range at the time were all stunned by the fierce firepower of the gun.

This is not a machine gun, but a heavy machine gun!
There are two types of heavy machine guns currently used by the troops, one is the Type 53 heavy machine gun and the other is the Type 67 machine gun.

Type 53 heavy machine gun is a heavy machine gun produced by China based on the Soviet SG43 medium machine gun. It was finalized in 1953 and equipped to the troops in large quantities. This gun is the first machine gun of the "national" product, with a total weight of 40.4 kg, a gun body weight of 13.8 kg, a gun frame weight of 26.6 kg, and an effective range of 1000 meters.

The Type 67 machine gun, also known as the Type 67 dual-purpose machine gun, was successfully developed in 1967 by the Beijing Institute of Technology, the People's Liberation Army Ordnance Research Institute and relevant military factories after more than ten years of imitation in China. It is also the first machine gun independently developed by New China and equipped in large quantities by the army. The gun weighs 24 kilograms, the gun body weighs 11 kilograms, the gun frame weighs 13 kilograms, the effective range is 800-1000 meters, the magazine capacity is 250 rounds, and it uses Type 53 bullets.

However, the power of these two machine guns is far inferior to the heavy machine gun that Liu Tao is testing at this time.

They had no doubt that if there was a stone in front of them, it would be easily crushed.

(End of this chapter)