Vasily could not be more familiar with the M43 bomb, and he had seen and used at least dozens of different productions.

According to the conventional regulations, the shelf life of bullets stored in the cave without opening the box is about 15 years, and try not to exceed 20 years, but in fact, this standard is simply impossible to be strictly enforced, and there is no need to strictly enforce it.

The very small number of M43 shells produced in the late 40s in the USSR are still in use now, and Vasily has also used them, and they still hit loudly and basically accurately.

However, the earliest Chinese-made M43 ammunition he came into contact with was only about 20 years old, and it was a product sold in the mid-70s on the American market, and there were many military leftover ammunition exported in the 80s, which were in the boss's estate.

Those bullets were completely unaffected by time and were of very good quality, comparable to those produced by American ammunition manufacturers.

As for the Soviet-origin bombs, green painted steel shell shells were basically used in the 70s, and they were of first-class quality to be realistic, but just like Guan Xingquan's Chinese veterans who participated in the war against Vietnam said, the penetration of Soviet green shell shells was a little worse.

More than 40 years ago, the early copper-clad steel shell bombs produced in the Soviet Union can still be used, so is this Huaxia goods that have exceeded their shelf life okay?

Vasily was not only inspecting the goods, but also having a little curiosity and competitiveness in his heart.

Curiosity kills cats, but it doesn't matter if it's innocuous competitiveness and curiosity, it doesn't hurt.

Vasily didn't know that more than 20 years later, around 2015, there were still whole boxes of unopened Huaxia-made M43 ammunition produced around 1970 on the North American market, and the quality was still very good!

Similarly, in the Middle East, the M43 bombs of Soviet origin that are more than 60 years old and manufactured in the 50s still have a market, and they are still playing loudly!

The shelf life of 15 years is only the life that a small number of munition-producing countries themselves sometimes use, and no one pays attention to this outside.

Of course, the newer the better the ammunition produced in the same country, and in the international market, no matter which country produced the M43 ammunition, under normal circumstances, the production batch in the late 80s will be more expensive than the batch in the early 70s.

Except for special circumstances, such as the color of goods produced in China, because you will not see batches from the last few years on the market, and the quality of batches from 20 years ago is absolutely reliable, so bullets produced in the early 70s can be sold at a good price.

In mercenary circles, many people would rather pay ten times more for bullets produced in the USSR, China, Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia in the 70s than in Egypt or Pakistan in the 80s.

This is not **naked discrimination, the quality is in vain, and no one among the mercenaries wants to joke with their lives.

Vasily's request is not harsh at all, and a bunch of people are looking for it.

The lot numbers in the warehouse were basically made in the seventies, and the Arabic numerals on them could be read by anyone: this is how Lieutenant Colonel Baluku and others saw it, and they thought that Vasily was judged in the same way as Leonid.

They didn't know that these two "arms dealers" could understand Chinese.

It was easy to find, and finally found out the color of the box that left the factory in November 65, and there was a box with the batch number of May 69.

This is out of the box.

A wooden ammunition box of 65 years, which is quite well preserved, and there are clear specifications on the outside of the ammunition box: 7.62x39 rifle cartridges, a box of 1440 rounds, weighing 29 kg.

After prying it open, inside were two galvanized iron sealed boxes, a box of 720 rounds.

The seal is intact, that is, the surface of the iron sheet is a little oxidized, but there is no rust, and there is a detailed production time mark printed on it, and even the abbreviation of the ammunition manufacturing plant is in: Jin.

Seeing this, Vasily could tell that there should be nothing wrong with the bullets inside.

Leonid, who was on the side, saw the opening mechanism on the galvanized iron box and said: "It's a little interesting, it's the first time I've seen such an opening method." ”

Hearing this, Lieutenant Colonel Baluku seemed to have found some ground, and said with a smile: "The packaging before 70 years was like this, and the box opened by the double pull ring was not until 71 years later, at least we encountered this way." ”

Pull tabs, the first two on top of a box, can tear open the bullet box like a can.

But the two jars in front of me are not, they are U-shaped steel wires welded into the surface of the tin box with tin or zinc, and the steel wire head is made into two small circles, and two thin iron rods five or six centimeters long are placed on the top of the box.

The wire and iron rod were slightly rusted on the surface, but they looked solid, and a soldier took one of the iron boxes out of the wooden box and inserted a thin iron rod into a small circle at one end of the wire.

Step on the box with your foot, hook the thin iron bar with your right index and middle fingers...

Slowly and forcefully, the iron sheet on the top of the packaging box was slowly torn open, revealing a large paper label covered inside.

The label indicates the names of the production workers and inspectors of the arsenal to which the ammunition belongs, and clearly states the date of production and the type of bullet: copper-clad bullets.

Remove the inspection label paper and reveal the neatly arranged khaki paper bags below, which is the last layer of packaging.

Unlike the small cardboard box used for the last layer of M43 ammunition manufactured in the Soviet Union, the Huaxia Arsenal used soft kraft paper.

The kraft paper was intact, and Vasily took out a pack, and easily opened the kraft paper, revealing the copper-clad steel bullet inside......

It's like it just got made!

The other box doesn't need to be opened, and if the bullet in this state will fail, then hell!

I opened the box with the 69 batch number again, and it was in the same state, which was great!

Lieutenant Colonel Baluku was very satisfied and confident with his cargo, and said with a smile: "Three, are you interested in going outside to try a few shots?"

Stinky shameless, white-eyed wolf!

Vasily and Leonid, of course, agreed.

When they arrived outside the cave, they didn't need to go to any shooting range, so a sergeant made a phone call with a hand-cranked telephone at the entrance of the cave, and listened to the voice to tell the sentry outside not to make a fuss in the barracks, and to test the gun here.

Without a target, a soldier somewhere got an old steel helmet and placed it at the foot of a hillside about 100 meters away from the cave, which was about the height of a chest target.

This target is good, and you can roughly determine whether these bullets are weak or not, and whether the penetration is okay.

Brand new five-six punches, one with a bayonet, the other without.

The two soldiers pressed four magazines of thirty rounds of live ammunition, and when they saw that the lieutenant colonel nodded slightly, they handed one of the guns and one magazine to Vasily.

The weapons that the indigenous black buddies of Africa will use, and they will not be used by laymen without pretending.

Vasily picked up the gun, and when he saw that the ruler was at the end of the tenon position, he held the gun in his left hand, and the magazine he held in his right hand was hung up with a "top and a buckle", and the bolt was loaded as soon as he pulled it.

The fast and slow machine is adjusted to a single shot, and the gun is raised and slightly aimed before firing.

"Three shots, the steel helmet in the distance jumped three times in a row.