Rebirth of the 1980s: The Military Industry Empire

Everyone was shocked.

The propellant in bullets is very important, directly affecting the power of firearms. Countries keep their bullet propellant formulas secret, tirelessly researching more advanced propellants. Hard work doesn't always guarantee results.

But what about Qin Yang? This young military industry genius actually developed a specialized propellant?

"Impossible! With just your Factory 960 and Factory 955, how could you possibly develop a completely new propellant? I don't believe it!" Wei Man couldn't hold back any longer. After saying that, he looked around at the people, and at Leader Fang, the highest-ranking person in the main seat: "Leader Fang, we've been working on propellant technology for half our lives without any breakthroughs. They must be boasting, boasting!"

However, he was curious: no one echoed him. Everyone was looking at him with a strange gaze, as if they were looking at an idiot!

"Ahem, ahem." Leader Fang coughed twice, and then said: "Factory Director Wei, at the Capital Farm Tool Factory, nothing is impossible. A factory that can invent a brand-new sniper rifle and a light heavy machine gun can also develop a completely new propellant."

"Engineer Qin, how did you develop it?" Wang Liqun's voice trembled. A completely new propellant meant a technological revolution! He was very excited.

"Sorry, the specific methods are confidential, but I can briefly introduce it. We used a precipitation method to create some nanomaterials, which improved the combustion performance of the propellant."

"Nano-what-kind-of-rice?" Wei Man continued to sneer.

Qin Yang smiled and said: "Nano? It's a type of rice that's much tastier than millet."

Pfft! Someone laughed.

Wei Man didn't come from a technical background. He was a typical 'red and expert' cadre, who learned and grew through practice. He hadn't studied systematic knowledge, so he made a big joke.

"Sorry, I asked too much. Engineer Qin, how did you make your external ballistics similar to machine gun bullets?" Wang Liqun quickly changed the subject.

Originally, he was also unconvinced by Qin Yang, but seeing one advanced weapon after another appearing under Qin Yang's hands, he accepted it. Qin Yang was arrogant and confronted everyone, but he had the ability to do so.

If you didn't look at it with an opposing perspective, Engineer Qin was still very admirable, no, admirable.

"We modified the bullet head. The internal steel core penetrator of this bullet head is longer and thicker."

The structure of a small bullet is complex. Generally speaking, pistols use ordinary lead bullet cores, while rifle bullets generally use steel-lead composite bullet cores, with steel in the front and lead in the back, wrapped in a copper jacket. It can tumble against soft targets and has good penetration against hard targets. As for large-caliber bullets, there are more things that can be loaded inside, just like artillery shells: incendiaries, hard alloy bullet cores, steel balls, explosives, etc.

Qin Yang not only chose a suitable bullet weight, but also optimized the interior of the bullet head.

"Actually, a better choice would be the old Maozi's 7N24 bullet design, using a mushroom-shaped tungsten carbide penetrator core, but that's too expensive. I guess we can't afford it, so I didn't use it," Qin Yang said.

The layman looks at the excitement, the expert looks at the doorway. Qin Yang's mention of the old Maozi's 5.45mm bullet showed that he had really done a lot of research. At this time, everyone agreed with him.

Wei Man sneered there.

"Director Qin, your design plan, in our years of research, has also..." Wang Liqun hadn't finished speaking when Wei Man interrupted him.

"Old Wang, don't be so talkative. People are so awesome. The design plan must be the most perfect. In the afternoon, let's test-fire hundreds of bullets to see what problems there will be in the barrel. Young people can't be too smooth, they have to suffer a few setbacks to know their own weight."

Wei Man's words really aroused some people's emotions. This Engineer Qin was too powerful and had always been smooth sailing. He really needed to suffer a few losses to grow up, right?

Moreover, listening to Wei Man's words, it seemed that they had designed it that way before, but they didn't know why it was abandoned in the end.

Wang Liqun smiled bitterly and didn't continue. At this time, Qin Yang glanced at Wei Man with contempt and continued to speak.

"What problems can there be with the barrel? Isn't it just copper fouling?"

"How do you know? Have you tried it? Since you know there will be problems, why are you still taking it out to fool people here?" Wei Man's speech was very fast.

In the process of developing 5.8mm bullets, the problem of copper fouling in the barrel has always been accompanied. How could Qin Yang not know this?

In fact, copper fouling is not a patent of 5.8mm bullets and Type 95 rifles. Many weapon riflings will have copper fouling. After all, copper or brass will have this phenomenon under high temperature and high pressure, but the strength of copper fouling is different.

"If I use this plan, the copper jacket will become very thin, and the bullet head will be deformed by the rifling, leading to serious copper fouling. Engineer Wang, you encountered this problem when you were developing it, and you were forced to give up in the end, right?"

Wang Liqun nodded in admiration: "Yes, Engineer Qin, your analysis is completely correct. If we could solve this problem, why would we have to develop two different types of bullets, light and heavy?"

"Hmph, this kind of bullet is immature. Taking it out is just wasting everyone's time." Wei Man glanced at Qin Yang with contempt: "I think the meeting should be dismissed. I heard that the food in Factory 960 is good. Let's go to the cafeteria for a meal and leave after eating."

No one echoed Wei Man's words. Everyone could see that Engineer Qin looked very confident!

"Impossible, this is simply unsolvable!" Wei Man became nervous.

"Unsolvable? Factory Director Wei, since you are an expert, have you ever heard that some special things can be mixed into the propellant? If this thing is given a name, it's called a copper remover."

This road was taken by the Americans. When they were developing the 5.5855 A1 bullet, they encountered serious copper fouling in the rifling. In the end, they decided to mix a copper remover into the propellant to slow down the speed of copper fouling and solve the problem.

The bullet that Qin Yang is now taking out is of course the DBP10 of later generations, which is the Type 10 universal bullet. Both the bullet head and the propellant are taken from it. This is called the predecessors planting trees for future generations to enjoy the shade!

The propellant made of nanomaterials cannot be mass-produced yet, but there is no problem with small-batch trial production. As for mixing a special copper remover into it, it is something that Qin Yang specially added to completely solve the problem of copper fouling.

"Engineer Qin's remarks make us itchy. I can't wait to go out and test it now." Leader Fang asked: "Engineer Qin, have you prepared the test guns?"

In order to test small-caliber bullets, the country used existing guns and modified the chambers and barrels, etc. Later, there was also a special Type 87 gun family, which was just a temporary凑数, until Type 95, it was considered standardized.

"Of course, we are ready. In order to test the bullets, our factory has urgently developed a gun family. Leaders, please enjoy our new firearms."

This bullet is just an appetizer, the brand-new gun family is the highlight!