Chapter 474: AK-47 is born

This caught country M a little off guard. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info They originally wanted to let a few small island countries unite to deal with China! However, their dreams were all in vain in the face of China's large-scale planned military exercises.

When China's various advanced military weapons were unveiled during the exercise, country M was also very surprised. Even if they were not convinced, they also used the small island country to compete with China several times, but each time they failed, which made the military and political leaders of country M have to change their previous policy of wanting to contain China.

Now country M has given up its previous attempt to occupy China, and has instead maintained friendly diplomatic relations with China, so that the two big countries can live in a peaceful and friendly atmosphere.

The policy of country M is to focus its efforts on Europe and to turn this place into the largest market for the sale of military weapons.

In this way, the part of Europe is naturally not peaceful. Under the discord and demagogy of country M, the entire European plate is divided into two camps, one is pro-M and the other is anti-M. The two camps are incompatible, and the war in Europe seems to be on the verge of breaking out.

Zhao Zhongyao now knows this historical background, and he feels that now he has the opportunity to make this small military industrial base a world-class military industrial group.

This is because the world is about to enter a state of large-scale war. Although this war may only be a war for the whole of Europe, not for the whole world.

But that's enough. This can already allow the advanced weapons developed by Zhao Zhongyao to show their skills on the battlefield. At that time, their small military-industrial base will also quickly grow into a super military-industrial group.

Of course, this is just a vision for Zhao Zhongyao. He wasn't sure what would happen in the future, after all, he was reborn in a parallel world. Some parts of this parallel world are the same as the one in life, and some places are different.

But no matter what, Zhao Zhongyao, who has first-class military technology, is still determined to build this small military industrial base into a super military industrial group.

And to achieve this lofty goal, the first step is to develop an excellent rifle of your own.

Because the rifle is the most commonly used weapon in the world, it is an essential weapon for every soldier.

For a military industrial base, only by producing an excellent rifle can it ensure its own military products and can always occupy the world's military market.

What Zhao Zhongyao has to do now is to design and produce AK-47, the world's most famous rifle king during his lifetime, and then promote this rifle to the world.

Zhao Zhongyao had already designed the drawings of the AK-47 before. What is needed now is to produce the two sample rifles requested by the superiors.

The first step, the design work, Zhao Zhongyao can complete it by himself. But this second step, production in the workshop, is definitely not a task that can be completed by one person.

Now is the time for Zhao Zhongyao to really test him. After all, the military-industrial machinery in this world is also very backward. Machine tools for the production of weapons are also backward. There are no advanced CNC machine tools in later generations, all of them are some early single-part processing machine tools. A lathe is used for each part.

Although the equipment is relatively rudimentary. But Zhao Zhongyao is still very confident. Because, he knows very well that in fact, when AK-47 was first produced, it was also in World War II, at that time, there were no CNC lathes in the military factories of the former Soviet Union, and they were all ordinary lathes, but on ordinary lathes, they produced the most advanced and practical AK-47 at that time.

Sometimes, the quality of the equipment does not determine anything. The key is also the person using the device. As long as you have patience and confidence, you can produce some high-tech products with ordinary equipment.

Back then, China's two bombs and one satellite were all completed under the conditions of poor technical equipment. It can be said that this is the miracle of a person's ambition, as long as you have faith, there is nothing that cannot be done.

Zhao Zhongyao knows a lot about the history of China during his lifetime. We know that under such difficult conditions, we can produce such world-class high-tech 'products' as 'two bombs and one satellite'. Then he now has to produce the AK-47 on an ordinary machine tool, but it seems to be a very easy thing.

However, faith is faith, and when you really want to do it, of course, it will take a lot of effort.

After all, Zhao Zhongyao already knew a lot about the technology and knowledge of the development of the AK-47 before his death, and even more so knew how a mysterious military factory that produced this kind of gun in the former Soviet Union produced this kind of gun.

Although the AK-47 is very famous, the military factories that produced it are not famous. As soon as it opened, it was called Shestrolek. The name was changed twice later.

The factory was very poor and very unfamous. Sestroretsk is located in the city of Kronstadt, 27 km northwest of St. Petersburg, near the Oranimbam Land in the Sea of Finland basin, and is not shown on most maps. According to Russian documents, the Shestroretsk factory was the third Russian government arsenal built in 1721 or 1724 (during the time of Peter the Great) to take advantage of the water power of a large river. Their first supervisor was the Swede Christine Pedro. According to official Russian documents, the plant specializes in the production of light weapons, but also produces artillery for the Russian Navy. However, sources outside of Russia indicate that the factory was established only to produce rifles for the imperial Russian government. In any case, during the time of Peter the Great, the factory produced a large number of weapons from 683 workers. In 1780, the factory was almost razed to the ground by fire, but production resumed in 1799. In 1867, Sestroretsk was denationalized, but 17 years later it was again under state control, and from 1880 to 1894 the number of workers was as high as 2,500 to 2,600, but later it was significantly reduced. After Colonel Mosin took over the factory in 1894, in order to produce the M1891 rifle, the factory added 206 new machines and the number of workers was increased again, from 1,000 workers working 8 hours a day in 1898 to 1903 the factory had 1,200 workers and 940 machine tools, producing about 30,000 3-line rifles per year.

At the time of the October Revolution, the workers of Shestroretsk played an important role due to their proximity to Lenin's headquarters in St. Petersburg. During the Civil War, due to the possibility of the White Army occupying the factory, it was forced to evacuate the machine and evacuate the factory, and the production plant was converted into a maintenance center. When German troops began to encircle Leningrad in 1941, Fender Allied forces approached the factory, forcing it to evacuate again. The workers of Sestroretsk continued to produce in the Leningrad factory, and after the war more modern production lines were built in Izhevsk and Tula, while Sestroretsk was no longer taken seriously, so the factory was not rebuilt and ceased to exist.

Izhevsk is a small city in the hills of the Ural Mountains, 77 km northwest of Sarapul on a large river, originally established in 1760 as an ironworks for the production of small arms and cannon accessories, which was taken over by the Russian government in 1763 and began to produce weapons. Later, as Napoleon was preparing to invade Russia, and for strategic reasons, the Russian government needed to find a new place to produce weapons, which could not be as dangerous as the location of Tula and Shestroretsk, and close to the supply of natural resources, and finally decided in 1804 to use the well-established Izhevsk hardware factory. On July 10, 1807, Izhevsk was officially a full-fledged arsenal, and by 1825 it had become the most modern and efficient weapons producer in Russia, using the resources of the river to provide sufficient power and steam. Since 1807-1907 about 4 million rifles have been independently produced, and workers working in Izhevsk have the possibility of being drafted into compulsory military service at the age of 25, so its production efficiency is quite high.

In order to increase the production of Mosin-Nagant rifles, the Izhevsk arsenal was greatly expanded from 1900 onwards, importing a large number of modern production machines from France, England and Switzerland, and the number of workers increased dramatically. In 1882 there were only 2,048 inhabitants in the city, in 1902 there were 3,637 workers, in 1903 there were about 7,000, and in 1905 there were 6,366 workers producing 3-line rifles. In 1896, Izhevsk produced 1,000 3-line rifles per day. This number was reduced to 600 per day in 1899. During the civil war of 1919, the Izhevsk arsenal was occupied by the "White Army" for several months. During World War II, the Izhevsk Arsenal produced M91/30 rifles at full capacity, and in the first half of the war alone, 3,000,000 M91/30 rifles were produced. Rifles produced in Izhevsk are recognizable by the factory markings of the hammer and sickle in a wreath at the top of the chamber, and on the left side of the chamber there is a gun number consisting of at least 7 Cyrillic digits. Izhevsk produces barrel guards and base plates, and there is also a triangular marker with an arrow inside it, on the lower right side.

The largest number of Mosin-Nagant rifles were produced at the Izhevsk Arsenal, and most of the M1891/30 rifles that can be found on the market today are produced in Izhevsk. The plant is famous for producing high-quality and inexpensive gun steel, so in addition to producing rifles, it also produces rifle parts for Sestroretsk and Tula, as well as cold weapons and shells for the army and navy. During Soviet times, Izhevsk was the capital of the Udmurt Republic, and after the collapse of the former Soviet Union, the Izhevsk Arsenal was reorganized into today's Izmash Company, which still produces military, sporting and hunting weapons.

Zhao Zhongyao knows very well how the AK-47 assault rifle was produced. The former Soviet Union could produce such an excellent assault rifle as the AK-47 under such difficult conditions, and he could also produce such an excellent rifle under poor conditions.

In the past few days, Zhao Zhongyao has been staying in the workshop almost all the time, and Zhao Gang and Zhao Gang are looking at the drawings while producing parts. Zhao Zhongyao personally inspected all the parts produced by the workers several times, and finally made sure that there were no problems with these parts before he began to let them assemble the whole gun.

After three days of hard fighting, Zhao Zhongyao and Zhao Gang finally produced two AK-47 sample assault rifles.

Looking at the real AK-47 in front of him, Zhao Zhongyao was a little excited.

You know, this is a weapon that he personally designed, developed and produced. Compared with before, he just designed, and no matter how he produced, these two AK-47 assault rifles, for Zhao Zhongyao, it felt like his own children, and that kind of feeling was not at all comparable to the weapons designed before.

Even if it was a lot of powerful missile weapons designed before, he didn't feel this way, anyway, now Zhao Zhongyao feels that these two assault rifles are the most important things around him after he was reborn in this world, and there seems to be nothing that can be compared with these two rifles.

"Haha, it's finally done. Since the establishment of our military industrial base, the first real gun has finally rolled off the assembly line!"

Zhao Zhongyao looked at the two brand-new AK-47 assault rifles that had been assembled on the assembly table, he wiped the sweat on his forehead and showed a pleased smile.

"Director Zhao, is this gun really powerful!"

For Zhao Gang, he felt that there was not much difference between the production of this gun and the production of a stockless rifle designed by Zhang Lianying and Chen Dongshan. It is nothing more than that the barrel of this gun is relatively short. And the buttless rifle designed by the two old guys had a longer barrel. There is also the fact that this gun is a wooden butt, and the gun designed by the two old guys does not have a butt, except for these places, I really don't feel that there is anything special about this gun.

Relatively speaking, it was easier to produce this gun than the stockless rifle designed by the two old guys before.

After all, all the parts of such a gun are a little smaller than an ordinary rifle. In particular, the barrel is a little shorter than that of a normal rifle. In this way, it is easier to produce. Unlike the previous production of the stockless rifle designed by the two old guys, because the barrel was too long, the result was that the lathe could not be used, and in the end, the design drawings had to be modified to produce the stockless rifle. (To be continued.) )