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The comparative test was organized by the Saudi Ministry of Defense, and all the companies participating in the bidding provided 10 sample guns and arranged for five personnel to participate in the test.

As Wang Dong expected, the other companies brought all the existing firearms, but they made improvements to the requirements put forward by the Saudi Ministry of Defense.

FN is bidding for SCAR-S.

Although FN claims to be a "Super SCAR", the "S" is also an initial of "Saudi", indicating that it is exclusively supplied by Saudi Arabia.

In fact, it is the latest improved model of the MK17 of SCAR-H, which has made some necessary changes for the Saudi environment.

In terms of performance, the SCAR-S is not much better than the SCAR-H.

H&K brought the HK2000 automatic rifle.

The name has been changed, but it is the weighted barrel type of the HK417Recce, and in addition, the whole gun has been strengthened to fire strong charge bullets.

Like the FN company, with a new name, it looks tall and satisfying the vanity of the local tyrant.

Beretta is ARX-2000.

Like H&K, but with a different name for the ARX-160.

The difference is that Beretta has redesigned the bolt with a 20-inch heavy barrel and optimized the shell throwing mechanism.

Obviously, Beretta wants to get the order.

Barrett brought a modified version of the AR15 rifle.

In fact, Barrett is not a company that produces automatic rifles, and only after acquiring some of the patents of Colt Company did he have the relevant qualifications.

The automatic rifle, named XM2000, is actually the AR15 that fires 7.62mm NATO rounds.

Of course, a lot of improvements were made.

The biggest problem is that this rifle has just been put into the civilian market, not to mention being purchased by the armies of other countries, and its sales in the civilian market are also very average.

The sample guns submitted by these four European and American companies all use 7.62mm NATO cartridges.

As for the fifth bidder, the Russian Kalashnikov company, it took the AK12 assault rifle.

Although it is possible to use a variety of ammunition, including 7.62mm NATO rounds, by replacing parts such as bolts, it is obviously not very attractive compared to the other four companies, because the Saudi military has never been equipped with or used Russian rifles.

There are dozens of comparative tests in total, all of which are related to the performance of firearms.

Obviously, it's all extreme testing.

The first is the life test, each bidding company provides a sample gun, each round fires five magazines, that is, 150 rounds of ammunition, and then do a simple cleaning, every ten rounds to do the maintenance of the whole gun, until the barrel, bolt and other key parts are scrapped.

There is no suspense, the sample guns provided by the six companies are not up to standard.

Comparatively, SCAR-S was the best, followed by HK2000, XM2000, ARX-2000, DF66 and AK12.

In addition, in terms of barrel life, the DF66 surpassed the XM2000 and ARX-2000 to take third place, and the gap from the top two was very small.

The second item is reliability, which is also a test of the limit.

To put it simply, it is to put it in a dusty environment for four hours, and then do no treatment, shoot 5,000 bullets, and compare the number of failures.

SCAR-S made it to the top again with 213 failures, seven of which were serious failures that caused damage to components.

Surprisingly, DF66 came in second with 221 failures and only three major failures.

The HK2000, AK12, and ARX-2000 ranked third to fifth, respectively, and the XM2000, which uses the principle of automatic blowing, was at the bottom, with a total of more than 800 failures.

This result surprised many people, not DF66 ranked second, but HK2000 ranked third.

You know, the HK2000 comes from the HK417, and the HK417 is related to the G36 and has a lot in common with the XM-8 in terms of construction.

In the tests conducted by the US military, the reliability of the XM-8 was above the SCAR.

Obviously, the HK2000, which has made a lot of optimization and improvements, should not be worse than SCAR-S.

For this reason, H&K's personnel objected and asked for the test to be re-tested.

It is a pity that the Saudi Ministry of Defense did not agree.

Next up is the maintainability test.

The method is also very simple: the officers and men of the special forces are trained by the personnel of the bidding company, and then these officers and soldiers carry out the maintenance of the firearms sent for testing.

In order to minimize the impact of subjective factors, the test gun is tested immediately after the maintenance is completed.

There was no suspense in the results, the worst was the AK12, followed by the XM2000, and the maintainability of the other four rifles was in between.

It was only at this time that the contrast test reached its climax.

Quite simply, the next step is to test the performance of the firearm.

There is nothing to say about the performance comparison such as effective range and accuracy, it is all measured by target shooting, and no one can make nonsense.

The most important performance, the comparative test of armor-piercing ability, is the key.

In the first round of testing, only the DF66 received a perfect score, and all five other firearms scored zero.

There is nothing surprising, because 7.62 mm NATO shells, even M993 armor-piercing shells, cannot penetrate fifteen mm thick armor plates at a distance of four hundred meters.

Because there were five types of firearms that did not score, one more round was played.

This time, the target thickness is ten millimeters.

DF66 is still 100 percent penetrating, HK2000 is close to 60 percent, SCAR-S, ARX-2000 and XM2000 are less than 40 percent, and AK12 is zero.

The HK2000 was able to rank second, mainly because of the use of strong charge M993 bullets.

Subsequently, there was a test of the lethality of armored targets.

The method is simple, put a warhead collector behind the armor plate, and determine the stopping effect by measuring the kinetic energy of the warhead after penetrating the armor plate.

DF66 won the championship again, and more than double the second-placed HK2000.

Finally, there is a test of the stopping effect on non-armored targets.

Although the DF66 did not take first place, ranking third behind SCAR-S and HK2000, it still met the performance indicators proposed by the Saudi Ministry of Defense.

The results are obvious, the DF66 scored the highest of all Class A indicators, and it far outperformed the other five rifles.

In other words, only the DF66 is able to meet all the performance indicators proposed by the Saudi Ministry of Defense, and the other five rifles have serious shortcomings.

In category B, DF66 also performed very well, ranking second, and its overall score was only about five percent lower than that of SCAR-S.

Obviously, this gap is completely negligible.

As for the category C indicators, they are not included in the list of comparative tests, and the economic indicators related to the purchase price and the cost of use cannot be compared through the comparative test.

It can be said that after excluding the price factor, the DF66 is the best and the only option.

After the completion of the comparative tests, the Saudi Ministry of Defense announced the test results, and announced that the DF66 was the only sample gun that met all performance indicators.

Next, the six companies will submit their final bids.

According to the procurement process, the Saudi Ministry of Defense will not announce the final winner until the bid has been received and evaluated.

Nominally, the purchase price and the cost of use are still the decisive factors.

It's just that everyone knows that for the most expensive local tyrant in the Gulf, price is by no means a matter that needs to be seriously considered.