Chapter 264: Something Goes Wrong with the Scope
"It's good! Although the Type 79 pistol is a little less powerful, its lethality at close range is still no problem, and the stability of this gun is good, and the accuracy will be improved accordingly. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoFor soldiers on the battlefield, the biggest problem with weapons is that they malfunction, and the pistols that jam when the enemy on the opposite side comes up, even if it is a powerful cannon, is useless. Chen Xu nodded, stuffed a lump of ice cream into his mouth, and said vaguely.
"This pistol is made of plastic, like a child's BB toy gun, it's too light and doesn't feel good." There was a battalion-level cadre next to him who complained loudly, and it was still a heavy iron lump for them veterans.
"You know what! This is a high-tech composite material that can remain deformed in extreme environments of high temperature and cold, and many parts are molded in one go, with a high yield rate, and the internal space is compact after being assembled into a pistol, which is why it has few failures. The pistol with iron cast parts feels better, but it will rust when it touches the water, and the parts are cast and polished, and the parts look the same, but the details are still different, which is also the reason for the high failure rate of metal pistols. Chen Xu popularized science for these officers, and made him understand that the so-called plastic pistol in his mouth was much more advanced than the cast iron pistol.
There is no shortage of old-fashioned people in every era, especially in the hierarchical army, it is the most difficult to promote a new weapon, those old generals have used weapons all their lives, and it is difficult for the logistics department to persuade them to agree to change their thinking and throw away this weapon for a new one, not to mention that the new weapon has not been tested in actual combat, and it is difficult to determine whether it can really take on the heavy responsibility.
The situation of the flower grower is special, the guns and ammunition are basically imported from the Soviet Union, and many designs were developed during World War II, although these weapons are very reliable, but everyone knows that these weapons have indeed fallen behind, and it has come to the time when they have to be updated. If our army does not take corresponding actions, then it will obviously lag behind in individual equipment, once the soldiers meet the enemy in the forest, in the face of the enemy's powerful firepower, our officers and men will definitely be beaten and cannot raise their heads.
The famous battalion-level cadres were bored and hid behind to look at other equipment, while Chen Zhuo Zhuo walked to the front of the booth and copied the highlight of today's exhibition - the Type 79 submachine gun!
Whether it is a Type 79 pistol or a Type 79 submachine gun, because they were both developed and designed at the same time in 1979, they naturally use a year number, looking at these two weapons, Chen Xu couldn't help but sigh, in a blink of an eye, it is now the end of 83 years, and unconsciously one-third of the entire eighties has passed.
This submachine gun Chen Xu did not copy foreign designs, but directly used the domestic 03 type automatic assault rifle, the researchers of the firearms research institute according to Chen Xu's design, the gun used a large number of engineering plastics on the gun and also improved some design, strengthened the strength of key components, while increasing the power of the bullet, although the weight of the gun has been slightly improved, but after becoming heavier, the gun body is also more stable, and the range and accuracy of the bullet have also been improved accordingly. Coupled with the addition of a tactical rail system to the gun, the design of this submachine gun is arguably the best of the best today, and there is no one!
Chen Xu chose the Type 03 assault rifle with a butt because of his personal hobby, because the long butt has a good-looking gun-shaped foundation, and it is more handsome with a bayonet, which is especially suitable for military parades. It just so happened that when fighting against Vietnam, it was more of a positional battle, and the long rifle butt was more suitable for reducing the exposure of the head in positional warfare, so as to avoid being hit by the enemy on the opposite side because of the head-opening fire.
"What about the scope? How I didn't see it! Chen Xu swept over the table full of tactical accessories, and was surprised to find that there were tactical flashlights, grenade launchers, and laser pointers, but he didn't see the rifle scope!
You must know that when Chen Xu designed this submachine gun, he deliberately strengthened the accuracy of the barrel, so that this gun can be used as a high-precision rifle, and it can have quite high accuracy within 800 meters with the cooperation of the scope, which is a big threat to the enemy. But if there is no scope, relying only on the mechanical visual aiming of the three-point line is equivalent to losing the greatest advantage of this gun.
"Report to the chief, because of the process problem, the scope is not able to equip the troops for the time being." A middle-aged man wearing a camouflage uniform next to him, but with the rank of major, stepped forward, Chen Xu knew that this person was a senior researcher at the Firearms Research Institute, and his military rank was not low because of his excellent skills.
"Process problems? What is the specific reason? Report to me when you have to equip the troops! Chen Xu's anger came up at once, in the group he was most taboo is to procrastinate, he asked his staff to take over the task according to their ability, do it if they can, and let go of more capable people as soon as possible if they can't do it.
Don't look at this scope as just an accessory, whether there is it or not is another matter, not equipped will greatly affect the accuracy of the assault rifle, and how can you kill the enemy without the accuracy, which Chen Xu can't bear.
"The institute has indeed designed two types of sights: an optical sight and a reflective red dot sight. The problem lies in the optical sight, because of the factory's process problems, the accuracy of the scope will become very poor due to the vibration of the gun body, and the lens inside will even fall off. This is not serious, the main thing is that the lenses of the factory are not well polished, various errors, and the accuracy is worse than visual aiming! However, our red dot scopes do not have this problem, but they are expensive and have exceeded the price of rifles. The Logistics Department of the Central Military Commission did not want to equip it, believing that it would be enough to use a three-point-and-one-line mechanical aim, and if there was a demand, each unit could purchase its own equipment according to its needs. ”
As for the sights that could not be equipped, the major researcher did not feel that there was any responsibility for the design of the firearms, and they made both scopes according to the world's most trendy design, and the responsibility was that the factory failed to make the optical sights.
Although the red dot sight was built, the logistics department was unwilling to spend money, and he couldn't do it.
Different from optical sights, red dot sights are also called fast sights, because this is a kind of electronic imaging that projects the aiming origin on the mirror, so as long as the soldier lifts and grabs, the aiming point will always fall on the aiming point, and the soldier can generally hit the target quickly when he shoots quickly, which is very useful for urban street warfare.
However, Chen Xu wants to turn the Type 79 assault rifle into a high-precision rifle, and the red dot electronic sight is not enough, and it must be equipped with a high-precision optical sight, after all, in positional warfare, direct strafing at close range can solve the enemy without aiming at all, and the scope has little effect.
"How can the manufacturer of sights not even polish a lens, just grind a piece of glass, what a big deal!" As a commander, Chen Zhuo naturally hoped that his soldiers would be equipped with the best weapons, and when he heard that it was actually because of the manufacturer's process problems, his group army could not use the scope, and his words became quite harsh.
"The commander can't say that, this glass grinding is also a high-tech job, if only a few sights can naturally achieve accurate accuracy, the master in the factory has been dealing with glass all his life, and the polished lens is not worse than that of foreign countries! But this is a mass production, in the past, the factory only produced tens of thousands of lenses a year, most of them were still used for cameras and telescopes, and suddenly they were asked to expand their production to produce millions of lenses. And the optical sight is to be loaded on the gun, the vibration when the gun is great, for the precision sight is a great test, the factory has no production experience in this area, the shock absorption of the frame is not good, the initial trial product can not even carry 10 guns, the lens actually flew out of the barrel directly. ”
The major researcher hurriedly explained that it was not that the factory did not want to do things well, but that it was suddenly faced with such a large order, which was too much pressure for the factory. From grinding lenses to producing frames, it is all difficult work, and it took more than ten years to solve these problems abroad, so that the factory can solve the problem in just two or three years, which is really difficult for some strong people.
"If it really doesn't work, let's import a batch from Europe for emergency first, anyway, our tactical rail system is unified with NATO, and foreign scopes should also be usable, but they are more expensive."
Chen Xu frowned and thought for a while, and finally made up his mind, the optical scope is equivalent to an extra clairvoyance for the soldiers, which can give full play to the power of the Type 79 assault rifle, and its importance is self-evident.
Chen Xu suddenly remembered the almighty Tao Bao in the future, everything can be bought, all kinds of scopes are available, not to mention the overwhelming copycats, those powerful netizens can even get the US military's precision sniper scope, as long as you are willing to pay!
"How can a few pieces of glass be more expensive than a gun?" Chen Dasan, who was standing behind Chen Xu, complained in the back
"How many lenses? What you said is simple, the price of slightly better telescopes and scopes abroad starts at least two or three thousand dollars, and the shock-absorbing shelf alone costs hundreds of dollars, do you think it is as simple as grinding a piece of glass? There's an accuracy problem with this thing! Chen Xu was depressed in his heart, so he had to dig up ice cream desperately to get angry, he couldn't make a scope at home, and it was estimated that the price would be much more expensive to import from foreign manufacturers, and it still hurt to think about it.
Chen Dasan immediately stopped squeaking, he knew that Chen Xu was unhappy, and everyone would not be happy.
"Little Wu, which mirror are you going to buy?" Chen Zhuo grabbed the assault rifle, pulled the bolt a few times, and retreated the magazine to look at the internal structure of the rifle.
"If you want to buy it, buy the best! Austria's Swarovski, Germany's Smitbender, Zeiss, and Leica, there are only a few of them, and they all want to buy anyway, so they simply import technology and equipment with others. East German Leica is the teacher of China's optical enterprises, and many of our old optical companies have learned the grinding technology from Leica! It's a pity that there has been no progress at all in decades, and people in East Germany can make the purest glass in the world, and the camera lenses and telescopes made are all the best of the best, but the price is not cheap. Germany has the best grinding technology, so I hope to introduce all the equipment and technology from Germany, and set up our optical enterprise through the introduction of a full set of technology! (To be continued.) )