The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 44: Shocks One After Another
"Da da da~~"

Liu Tao was holding a Type 78 machine gun and firing, with flames spurting out.

This shocked Al, Rashid, and the two guards. They had no doubt that if the machine gun was aimed at them, they would be shot to pieces in an instant.

Liu Tao didn't look very strong, but he was holding a machine gun.

The Iraqi soldiers are all taller and stronger than Liu Tao. Wouldn't it be easier for them to fire machine guns?

The scene of machine gun fire is much more spectacular than that of pistols and rifles.

The shock is also greater.

After firing a magazine, Liu Tao was still not satisfied and handed the machine gun to Rashid: "Major, try the power of this machine gun."

If you want to sell goods, the easiest way is to let customers experience them personally and believe that the goods are good.

As long as customers think the product is good and has a very high cost-performance ratio, it will be difficult for them not to buy it.

Rashid tried it and only fired one magazine, feeling a lot of emotions.

What a gun!

They're all good guns!

He still hasn't figured out how it was possible for poor and backward China to develop such a good gun. It's simply cheating.

"My friend, how much does this gun cost?" Rashid couldn't help asking.

Did you ask about the price?

This is good!
If there wasn't someone around, Liu Tao would have wanted to burst out laughing.

"My friend, you all know the price of machine guns. After all, you are all experts." Liu Tao changed his address, "This light machine gun costs 2500 US dollars."

In the international market, the price of light machine guns ranges from US$2000 to US$6000, and different models of light machine guns have different prices.

At $2500 per piece, it’s definitely not expensive.

"The bullets for this machine gun are compatible with those for automatic rifles, and the price is the same," Liu Tao said with a smile.

Rasheed gasped.

He had participated in a procurement before. At that time, the price of the light machine gun purchased was US$5800 per unit, and the performance of the machine gun was far inferior to the one in his hand.

The result is now that Liu Tao directly cut the price in half.

Rashid's eyes rolled. Isn't this just his chance? If he can do it well, he will make a great contribution.

Taking a deep breath, Rashid looked at the box opened by Liu Tao. He could tell at a glance that it was a heavy machine gun with a very beautiful shape.

"My friend, you even sell this kind of weapon?" Rashid still had a look of disbelief on his face.

"My friend, this is just a light weapon, not a powerful weapon!" Liu Tao laughed. He quickly assembled the Type 78 heavy machine gun. The gun frame and the gun body were quickly assembled into one. Liu Tao carried the Type 78 heavy machine gun by himself. "Everyone, who wants to try its power?"

"I'll do it!" Rashid had operated a heavy machine gun when he was in the army.

Taking the heavy machine gun from Liu Tao, Rashid weighed it and found it was much lighter than any heavy machine gun he had used before. It would be no problem for him to carry it alone.

If this heavy machine gun is disassembled into the gun body and the gun mount, it will be much easier for two people to watch over it.

"Da da da~~"

The flames from the heavy machine guns spewed out, and the sound was so deafening that it shook people's ears and hearts.

The brick wall 2000 meters ahead was directly penetrated by heavy machine gun fire.

Al and the two guards were shocked when they saw this scene and couldn't help swallowing.

They had no doubt that if there was a car in front, it would be shot into a sieve by this heavy machine gun.

I'm afraid the armored vehicle can't withstand the attack of this heavy machine gun.

And the range is an astonishing 2000 meters, which makes people tremble just thinking about it.

Rashid, who was operating the heavy machine gun himself, was even more shocked. As a professional soldier, he understood the value of this heavy machine gun, which could greatly improve firepower in both infantry and armored units.

Imagine building defensive fortifications on a high ground and mounting dozens of these heavy machine guns. If the enemy wants to capture the high ground, they can only pay with their lives.

This is also the role of heavy machine guns, which can greatly enhance the firepower of infantry.

It is precisely because of this huge firepower that the price of heavy machine guns remains high.

During World War II, an M2 heavy machine gun cost about $1600, but now, an M2 heavy machine gun costs $6000 on the international market.

"My friend, this heavy machine gun not only uses conventional machine gun bullets, it can also use special bullets such as armor-piercing bullets and armor-piercing incendiary bullets, which are even more powerful." Liu Tao waited for Rashid to recover and introduced the three special bullets with a smile.

Unless it is a main battle tank like the T72, other backward tanks would be in danger in front of this heavy machine gun at a close distance.

After all, not all tanks have thick defensive armor.

Rashid's heart was already shocked, and he almost jumped up when he heard Liu Tao's words.

This is simply against the will of heaven.

Rashid could no longer think of any other heavy machine gun on the international market that could compare with the one he had.

He could even imagine the scene of a heavy machine gun blowing up an armored vehicle.

"In 'Red Dragon's Roar', this heavy machine gun turned the armored reconnaissance vehicle into a sieve!" Liu Tao said without blushing.

In fact, this heavy machine gun has not yet been tested on the battlefield.

But that didn't stop Liu Tao from saying this. After all, Rashid and the others were not on the battlefield, so how would they know?

Isn't it the job of a qualified salesperson to exaggerate the product's performance as much as possible so as to strengthen the customer's determination to buy the product?

Rashid and others gasped.

Because the Iraqi army is also equipped with Soviet-made armored personnel carriers and reconnaissance vehicles, whether they can penetrate the armored vehicles will be known after a try.

Naturally, Liu Tao couldn't arrange an armored vehicle for testing. He didn't mind the bullets, but armored vehicles, even abandoned ones, would be hard to find. If it were a new armored vehicle, he would feel bad for it and he couldn't bear to give it up.

The last thing I tried was the Type 78 heavy sniper rifle.

Top-notch aiming lens, beautiful shape, thick bullets.

This time, it was Rashid who tested the gun.

The target at the beginning was 1800 meters.

The sniper rifles on the market now all have an effective range of less than 1000 meters, and almost none of them have an effective range exceeding 1000 meters.

Advanced sniper rifles are not allowed to be exported to other countries at all.

For example, the most advanced sniper rifles in the United States are only equipped to the US military, while other rifles are not even equipped to NATO forces.

This was the first time Rashid had used such an advanced heavy sniper rifle.

aim.

A loud noise was heard as Rashid's fingers snapped.

The target at 1800 meters fell to the ground with a loud bang.

Al, who was looking through the telescope, shouted, "Hit the target, great!"

"Rashid, you are so awesome. You hit the target accurately at 1800 meters! This is your first shot!" Aldu felt incredible.

The thought of an enemy general inspecting the front line nearly two kilometers away on the battlefield and then being hunted down silently made Al shudder.

The sniper rifle is the ghost of the battlefield and the weapon most feared by commanders at all levels. The deterrent power of this weapon even exceeds that of large-caliber cannons.

After all, sniper rifles are specifically used to hunt officers, and their value is not reflected in hunting soldiers.

(End of this chapter)