Rebirth of the 1980s: The Military Industry Empire

Speaking of Institute 201, people in later generations may not be too familiar with it, but its other name is well-known. It is the famous Fangbei Vehicle Research Institute, a giant in the arms industry. The famous 99 tank was developed by Institute 201.

Ordinary military industrial workers have to look up to such units, and Qin Yang certainly respects them. Therefore, he is very generous and shares some benefits with them.

However, these words have a different meaning in other people's ears.

"Engineer Qin, you are really generous. Institute 201 and Factory 447 are both large military industrial units. Would they care about your mere ten thousand yuan?" Leader Pan certainly wanted to seize the opportunity to stir up trouble.

Qin Yang smiled. Leader Pan's inner ugliness was all revealed! Everyone present was shrewd and could hear the provocation in his words. Now, Leader Fang should understand why this project fell to him, right?

In the distance, Factory Director Zhu and other factory leaders were running over. Hearing that Leader Fang was coming, they naturally hurried to greet him. However, hearing Qin Yang's words from afar, Factory Director Zhu felt a burst of tension. Qin Yang, are you really ignorant or pretending to be? On the surface, giving people ten thousand yuan seems generous, but in reality, aren't you embarrassing them?

Now, Leader Pan has seized the handle, right? How are you going to smooth things over?

"It's okay, even close brothers have to settle accounts clearly. Ten thousand yuan is not much, but it should still be given." Qin Yang continued, "Lest it be rumored that our Factory 960 is hogging all the good stuff and not taking care of our brother units. What do you think, Leader Pan?"

Hmph, as expected, he is a reckless youth! Leader Pan was happy in his heart, intending to mock him a few more times, but Leader Fang had already opened his mouth with an icy tone: "Alright, let's not talk about these trivial matters. Engineer Qin, hurry up and get to work. The foreign friends are still waiting to see our modifications."

It's one thing to quarrel behind closed doors, but the foreigners are watching! It's not good to lose face in front of foreigners!

Qin Yang was not alone; he was followed by several foreigners. These people had very complex expressions!

"That's right, let's see how Engineer Qin modifies it."

"The L7 tank gun is not easy to install, especially this gun shield. We spent a lot of effort to put the L7 tank gun in."

"That's right, the position of the trunnions is also different."

Everyone tacitly forgot about the ten thousand yuan and shifted the topic to technical issues.

The gun barrel needs to be able to elevate and depress; you can't just stuff the gun barrel directly into the turret and fix it, otherwise the gun barrel won't be able to move up and down.

If the gun barrel is to rotate, the turret needs to have a vertical opening. How to protect this opening is crucial. If the protection is not tight, machine gun bullets and artillery fragments can enter the turret through the opening and harm the tankers inside.

The Western solution is a large gun shield, which is to add an extra piece of armor to the base of the gun barrel. This armor can move with the gun barrel, always protecting the opening inside, and can even put coaxial machine guns and auxiliary sights on it. This belongs to an external gun shield, which is large in size, and if not designed well, it is prone to shot traps.

Eastern tanks take the internal gun shield approach, which is to make the gun shield inside the turret. In fact, this thing is more appropriately called a gun plug. Only an opening for the gun barrel is left on the turret, and the protection relies entirely on the plug inside. The trunnions are also changed in position, and a dustproof canvas is placed outside to prevent dust from entering the gaps inside.

The installation methods of Eastern and Western gun barrels are different, so it will be difficult to modify domestic tanks to use the L7 tank gun.

"You think it's difficult, but it's very simple for Qin! Qin is the most outstanding engineer! If talents like Qin came to our England, the annual salary could reach 100,000 pounds!" Hearing these people's comments, Robert spoke.

Qin Yang turned his head to look at Robert: "Mr. Robert, please don't say that, otherwise I will be investigated by the domestic intelligence department! There are a few big mouths here who will spread your words quickly."

"Of course not, I am just expressing my admiration as a military attache for technical personnel like you!" Robert looked at Leader Fang on the opposite side, knowing that he had the highest official position on the scene: "Leader Fang, please understand my meaning correctly."

Leader Fang nodded: "Of course I understand. If Engineer Qin wanted to leave, he would have gone to Austria long ago! If anyone dares to spread rumors, I will uphold justice for you!"

Leader Pan's heart skipped a beat. Of course, he knew that this was a warning to himself, but what shocked him even more was something else.

Everyone was not optimistic about Qin Yang, thinking that Qin Yang's claim to complete the transformation in half a day was bragging, but the British were so admired by Qin Yang? And wanted to invite him to work abroad?

Could it be that Qin Yang can really modify it well? Then the lineup I prepared not only didn't trick Qin Yang, but also promoted him?

Zhuang Shuren and Zhang Wanhe were also very surprised, wondering where the foreigners' admiration came from.

"Sure enough, we can broaden our horizons this time." Zhang Wenshu said: "Engineer Qin, what exactly did you do? Don't keep us in suspense, let everyone take a look."

Old Zhu's eyes looked towards Qin Yang and the others' backs, where the roar of the old Jiefang sounded, it was the one that drove away in the morning to send the L7 breech!

When the old Jiefang stopped, Old Zhu had already ran to the front. He looked at the modified parts in the carriage and was immediately stunned: "The length of this breech is obviously shortened!"

"That's right, Qin is too awesome, he cleverly integrated the recuperator and recoil mechanism into a cylindrical breech, which greatly simplified the structure of the breech! I want to take this design back and show it to the people in China!" Robert continued to sigh, he witnessed this transformation process with his own eyes, and his heart was incomparably shocked!

Difficult to install? Then change the gun!

The gun barrel cannot be changed, but the breech mechanism inside the turret can be further integrated! Qin Yang personally took action and modified a few parts in the workshop, cleverly making the breech more compact!

"Change the gun?" Zhuang Shuren, an expert in gun manufacturing, opened his eyes wide. When he saw the L7 tank gun, he also admired the ingenious design of this gun. Putting the L7 tank gun into the turret of the 69-3 tank saved a lot of space compared to the original 100mm rifled gun, and the tankers had more room to move inside.

In his eyes, the L7 tank gun was already very delicate and there was no room for modification. He didn't expect that Engineer Qin had actually modified it? How did he modify it?

You know, the L7 prototype gun was delivered yesterday morning, and Engineer Qin had no chance to contact it before! Now, I didn't expect him to actually modify it!

Sure enough, geniuses don't need time, they can know how to modify it just by looking at it a few times!

Zhuang Shuren was completely convinced.

Qin Yang's face was smiling. How about it, who dares to say that he is relying on his father's guidance? My father doesn't have this kind of technology either!

Gun shield illustration