For the firearms R&D laboratory, Jiang Chen can only do this. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info At least so far, he hasn't thought of a good way. It can only be on the basis of the current situation, in addition to continuing to innovate accidents, but also pay attention to quality and pursue the ultimate. In other words, in the future, the firearms research and development laboratory will not be so eager to push new products and pursue quantity. Instead, we will gradually digest these firearms that have been pushed out so far, select some excellent and representative firearms for further refinement, improvement and optimization, and come up with a firearm equipment that can truly represent the level of the firearms laboratory. Once these efforts are complete, the lab will continue to innovate as well. However, in order to ensure the quality or uphold the 'craftsman spirit', the laboratory will take the high-quality route in the future. Although the internal state of free competition is still maintained, these developed firearms and equipment will not be directly marketed. Instead, there will be an internal competition, and only firearms and weapons with excellent performance and recognition can be put out of the laboratory and put into mass production, and finally put into the market. Although the cost of research and development will be very large, this insistence is right in Jiang Chen's opinion. Although you will lose some customers and markets in the short term, it will be worth it in the long run.

Moreover, in the firearms research and development laboratory, Jiang Chen also used its golden finger again. This time, Jiang Chen set his sights on Gatling's big killing weapon. Previously, the Gatling R&D project team also made several improved models. For example, from the original six pipes, it has increased to eight pipes, and then to the largest eleven pipes. From the smallest caliber of 7.62 mm, to the caliber of 12.7 mm, to the Gatling rapid-fire machine gun of 14.5 mm caliber. Of course, the R&D team was not satisfied with this, and for this purpose they also developed three Gatling rapid-fire cannons of 20 mm, 25 mm and 30 mm. Its rate of fire has also increased from more than 6,000 rounds per minute to more than 10,000 rounds per minute.

People are always like this, always striving for the biggest, the strongest, but ignoring the small aspects, in fact, sometimes the small is more meaningful than the big. This time, Jiang Chen planned to go the other way and decided to develop a Gatling gun with a smaller caliber. At present, the smallest caliber Gatling machine gun developed by the R&D project team should be 7.62 mm caliber. There are three types of ammunition, one is 7.62x51 mm ammunition according to NATO standards, and the second is 7.62x39 mm ammunition specially prepared for use by countries and armies that use Soviet-made firearms. And the third type is 7.62x54 mm ammunition. Ammunition of this caliber is generally intended for use exclusively with machine guns, as it has a higher rate of fire, a longer range and greater power because it has a larger charge.

What Jiang Chen intends to develop is this caliber of 7.62 mm or less. At the moment he has chosen to identify two calibers, one is the 5.56 mm NATO and the other is the 5.8 mm caliber ammunition that we have already entered the experimental stage. Of course, these two calibers are also divided into rifle and pistol cartridges, and Jiang Chen also asked for this. In his opinion, Gatling's advantage is that the rate of fire is too high and the firepower is high, and the disadvantage is that the rate of fire is too high and the consumption of ammunition is large. In the future, long-distance combat will generally be a firefight between armored vehicles or heavy equipment. And the close range is the fire contact between the infantry, so this distance is generally within two hundred meters, that is, within the blind angle of heavy support fire. So a large-caliber bullet is a complete waste at this distance, so why not reduce the caliber to increase its ammunition capacity.

Moreover, such a small-caliber Gatling gun will also greatly reduce the size and weight. This would make the Gatling gun, which was originally difficult for a single person to master, improve and shoot with one soldier or even one hand. This also indicates that this improved Gatling gun can be fully equipped with squads or squads that need fire support to suppress the enemy's fire in war. And because of the greatly increased ammunition carried by the reduction of the caliber, this Gatling machine gun will also get rid of the embarrassment of running out of ammunition quickly due to the high rate of fire.

Seeing that the eyes of everyone in the project R&D team lit up, Jiang Chen thought silently in his heart, I'm sorry, I plagiarized your results again. In fact, this idea was also associated with a small-caliber Gatling machine gun launched by Jiang Chen's old American arms dealer in later generations. Moreover, Jiang Chen did even better than them, not only to develop a Gatling gun that uses small-caliber rifle cartridges, but also to develop a smaller Gatling gun equipped with pistol cartridges. Jiang Chen believes that after these two Gatling machine guns are developed, they will definitely cause a sensation. In particular, the latter Gatling gun, which uses pistol cartridges to be smaller in size and weight, can be said to be the favorite of special personnel or special departments, and special personnel equipped with this killing weapon no longer have to hold a pistol to evade enemy pursuit. Thinking about it, Jiang Chen was still a little excited. He can't wait to take this gun to swoop out now, and the target is a bulletproof vest. Who said that a bulletproof vest can prevent pistol bullets, then try this killing weapon, even if it can't be pierced, it can still be shocked.

So much for the main achievements of the R&D center, of course, I'm talking about the main ones. In addition to these, there is actually another heavyweight weapon, and that is the truck gun. It's a heavy weapon, because it's ten tons. There's not much to say about this equipment, everything is still in progress. This is a product of a three-way cooperation, and at present, the western company is making further improvements to the car body. This includes the addition of a more powerful engine and a stronger body to increase its load-bearing and anti-shock capacity. In addition, the body, or cab, and ammunition storage compartment were redesigned and improved, and the original cab and ammunition storage compartment were only reinforced. The new cab and ammunition storage compartment will have some protection, which will improve the battlefield survivability of the truck gun, making it more suitable for battlefield environments.

The B507 plant, the manufacturer of artillery research and development, is also making improvements, changing the current 122 mm and 120 mm to 155 mm heavy gun caliber. Don't look at it, it just increases the caliber by more than 30 centimeters, but it is several times more difficult in terms of technology. In particular, the weight of the guns that need to be equipped on trucks must be controlled. For artillery, a reduction in weight means a decrease in strength. Therefore, the B507 factory should increase the strength of the artillery body on the premise of limiting the weight of the artillery. In order to cope with the force on the cannon body when the gun is fired, to prevent damage to the gun body. Moreover, there is also the service life of this artillery, and the service life of the gun cannot be greatly reduced because of the reduction of weight. As a result, artillery that could have fired more than 2,000 shells was damaged after being reduced by one or two hundred rounds, which is definitely not possible.

Although the B507 factory complained again and again, at Jiang Chen's insistence, they could only grit their teeth and carry out technical research. For the B507 factory, the tens of millions of dollars in dividends received at this year's defense show are definitely their best motivation. Tired of the poor life, how could they not seize this wonderful opportunity. So while they were scolding, they were still doing it quickly. Although they are a little unhappy, they still have to bear it, who made Jiang Chen their god of wealth and their food and clothing. (To be continued.) )