On February 6, the fifty-third year of eternity, in the weapons test site of the Fuyuan Ordnance Factory on the outskirts of Luohai City, Lin Ziran and a group of military and high-ranking officials entered it.

The director of the Light Weapons Department of the Ordnance Department of the Army High Command is leading Lin Ziran and others in, while introducing: "Since last year, our Firearms Department has set up a machine gun department, and organized experts from different institutions such as Fuyuan Factory, Luoan Factory, Luohai University of Technology, Nanzhou Higher Normal School, etc., to jointly set up a machine gun laboratory and test and discuss more than 30 different machine gun design schemes."

"We conducted a comprehensive study and evaluation of the performance, industrial production difficulty, cost, etc. of different design schemes!"

"In October last year, we completed the preliminary study, determined the design scheme of the last two different structures for the next step of research, set up an air-cooled machine gun group, a water-cooled machine gun group, and began the next step of sample gun manufacturing, live-fire testing, etc.!"

"The whole process lasted three months, and during the trial, we learned about a large number of problems, and improved the problems that were exposed, and further improved the design of the two projects!"

"In the end, the research of these two project teams has reached the final stage, and in the internal tests organized by our ordnance department three days ago, the two test sample guns have successfully completed various tests!"

"Although there are still problems of one kind or another with these two different prototypes, we firmly believe that automatic rapid-fire weapons will be the future of warfare!"

"I believe that after reading it, my officers and colleagues will feel the same way as me!"

Listening to the director of the Firearms Department of the Ordnance Department swearing to say these words, the senior generals of the Daheng Unification Army had a flat expression, they were all old rivers and lakes, and they knew that there were countless research projects of various new weapons in the Ordnance Department.

But in fact, most of them seem to be useless things, for example, at the end of last year, the laboratory under the Ordnance Department worked with the Fuyuan Ordnance Factory to come up with a so-called platoon gun.

What's that? It is to load a large number of bullets into fifty barrels at the same time, and then fire dozens of bullets at the same time.

It may sound like a lot of power, but after this round, the barrels are reloaded one by one, and the reload time is enough for a rifle to fire hundreds of bullets......

Among the countless project teams, few of them can be truly put into practical use and enter the army.

In fact, the Ordnance Department itself knows that most of the projects it funds are useless in the end, but the reason why they also fund the laboratories of various schools and the research project teams of enterprises and issue a large amount of research funds is because advanced weapons do need to evolve from many research projects.

What's that, the research of new weapons is originally a big wave of sand, from the many seemingly inconspicuous research projects to find out some more reliable projects, and then continue to research, and then get practical weapons or equipment.

Many of the active weapons and equipment in the Daheng Unification Army are made in this way, and the most typical of them is the collision fuze.

This thing may seem inconspicuous, but in fact this thing is an important part of the rear-loading rifled gun project, if there is no such thing, then even if a cylindrical shell is used, the detonation of the shell can only be the same as a traditional round grenade, and only a fuse such as a disc delay fuse can be used.

However, with the use of a collision fuse and the addition of a cylindrical shell, the two can form a perfect combination, and the shell hits the target and explodes directly, not in advance or too late.

At that time, Lin Ziran funded more than 20 different collision fuze project teams at the same time, and in the end only one succeeded, and this successful collision fuze directly improved the rear-loading artillery in the Daheng unified army.

In terms of rifle research, although Lin Ziran proposed the concept of a breezed rifled rifle very early on as a general design, there are still multiple project teams conducting different studies at the same time.

There are two project teams that study the locking scheme alone, which are to study the front-end locking and the rear-end locking, for example, the locking scheme of the modified rifle used in the Fuyuan rifle is selected from a number of different locking schemes.

Before the Luo'an III rifle was finalized, there were three different calibers of 8 mm, 11 mm, and 13 mm, and there were a variety of locking schemes, including magazines, firing paper shell bullets, firing metal bullets and other technologies dozens of different research schemes.

It's a pity that the last one didn't work, because the technicians found that the Nanhai rifle made by the Nanzhou Bank before was more perfect than the new rifle they made, and the design of the bolt and locking was better, and all that was needed was to improve the firing pin part by one or two to fire the metal bullet of the tail primer ammunition.

And the production line can be slightly modified!

But you can't say that the research at that time was of any use, it is precisely because of so much research that you can know the many advantages of the South China Sea rifle, and modify the firing pattern, and the metal bullet is a thing that the Daheng Unification Army made by itself.

After the two were combined, there was the Roan III rifle!

At the same time, the Ordnance Department has not given up on the research of new rifles, and now the Ordnance Department also has a number of rifle research project teams, including the research of the improved version of the Roan III rifle, including the reduction of the caliber to 11 mm, the increase of magazines, etc., in addition to the newly designed 11 mm rifles, and even 8 mm rifles.

The research on the above three new rifle projects has been continuing, but there is still a long way to go before it is perfected.

It can also be seen from these that if you want to get a perfect new weapon, it doesn't mean that you can do it casually, even if you know the concept, or even know the general design, but many specific details still need to be continuously studied, improved, and even different details can be extended to different schemes, without studying and experimenting one by one, how do you know that the scheme is feasible?

The Luo'an III rifle in the Daheng Unification Army, the steel rifled rear-loading gun, is a mature product that has been developed after long-term research and countless tests.

In addition, although many research projects are useless in the end, they can also cultivate talents in the process of research, or make some by-products, which can be used in other aspects!

This time, many generals also have the mentality of coming to see the excitement, but they have also seen the early prototype guns or concepts, technical materials, etc., and they all recognize the potential of machine guns.

But Lin Ziran is different!