Chapter 060: Dragon Rifle Production
After winning the hearts of the people, Wang Hanzhang's main energy was on the development of military industry and immigration, the war made Wang Hanzhang get a lot of equipment, but Wang Hanzhang did not have logistics supplies, one bullet was missing.
Although Wang Hanzhang is working hard to build an arsenal, most of the domestic talents work in the arsenals in various places, and it is difficult to attract professional talents, so even if he has money and equipment, Wang Hanzhang lacks corresponding technical personnel, so there is no way to improve productivity.
Wang Hanzhang's immigration policy is very good, which is to attract more intellectuals and then train them, so that they will not worry about the lack of technical personnel in the future.
The process of starting and developing the military industry is very slow, but the difficulty of the primary rifle is not great, Wang Hanzhang hopes to produce it as soon as possible, if these things cannot be produced, then you can only fight with the enemy with a spear and a big knife, and it is strange that people do not bully you.
Myanmar through Wang Hanzhang's efforts, now there are 7 tons of steel output per month, although relatively small, the quality is not completely qualified, but at least a group of technical personnel have been trained, Wang Hanzhang is starting from scratch, with a small broad, so even if it is urgent, it is not urgent, among these technicians, Wang Hanzhang also used the people of Myanmar, in fact, there are still quite a few people in Myanmar who have stayed abroad and learned Western technology, Wang Hanzhang can only use them when no one is around.
In addition, the gratifying thing is that a large number of overseas Chinese have returned, and their life in China is not satisfactory after giving up their family business, and now the Japanese army has finally been driven out of Burma, and they can come back. And many of these people have studied abroad, and many of them have studied Western physical chemistry, so there are a lot of talents that Wang Hanzhang needs.
Because the output of the arsenal was not large, Wang Hanzhang had to collect the bullet casings from the battlefield and reassemble them.
The copper shell will have a slight expansion deformation after a single shot, and reloaded bullets tend to have a higher failure rate than new bullets, so if possible, machine guns will generally be equipped with new bullets as much as possible. (Generally speaking, only the copper shell can be reloaded, and the steel shell is not only a problem of deformation after shooting, because the ductility of steel is worse than that of copper, and the mechanical strength of the shell will be reduced after shooting)
Wang Hanzhang's troops are all Japanese-style equipment, so there is no excess except for a little capture, and now the troops need to be trained, and marksmanship is practiced, so the troops lack a large amount of ammunition, and they cannot be produced for a while, and they are forced to reload.
Wang Hanzhang is now producing brand-new bullets over and over again, but the amount is not large, so he plans to keep them for use when the war is fought, and reload tens of millions of bullet shells at a time, at least for training, and then the soldiers pay more attention to wiping the guns, and the possibility of exploding is still relatively small, and the training with reloading bullets can also make the troops understand the importance of maintaining guns.
Wang Hanzhang is now facing an important choice, that is, whether to go all out to develop and produce automatic rifles, or to produce single-shot rifles, if it is a fully automatic rifle, but his industrial level is too backward, it is estimated that no matter how good the gun is, there is no bullet, it is not as good as the gun of the 38 big cover, at least the bullet is long enough to fight the bayonet.
Although Wang Hanzhang has not yet decided, he still drew the drawings of AK74, and the reason why he chose this gun instead of AK47 is that Wang Hanzhang attaches more importance to small calibers, and at the same time, the current technology in the world can also reach the technical level of producing this gun.
The weapons of Soviet Russia cough up shoddy, not exquisite enough, but it is indeed the most practical, the environment of Soviet Russia is harsh, either ice and snow, or long yellow sand, which has high requirements for weapons, so Soviet Russian rifles look more rough, of course, this has something to do with their level of industrialization.
But in any case, the small workshops of later generations can produce AK47, Wang Hanzhang is not as good as a small workshop, AK74 53% of the parts are common to AK47, so it is not difficult to produce guns. After Wang Hanzhang drew the drawings of the gun, the arsenal asked technicians to make the prototype gun.
The comprehensive performance of small-caliber bullets is higher than that of 7.62mm intermediate-power bullets, and this assault rifle Wang Hanzhang does not use Soviet and Russian caliber rifle cartridges, but uses 5.6×39mm caliber rifle cartridges.
Because Wang Hanzhang understands the AK47, and then draws the gun drawings, and also changes some data, Wang Hanzhang still doesn't know how powerful the gun is. Now we can only wait for the sample gun to come out, and then improve, finalize, produce, and install.
At present, Wang Hanzhang has ordered a large number of machinery and equipment and related materials from the United States with the money obtained by various means, and has been shipped over one after another, Wang Hanzhang knows that after he establishes an independent state or refuses to hand over Burma to Britain, it is the time when it is blocked, so now as soon as he has money, in addition to ensuring that the immigrants are to order a large number of machinery, medicines, etc., to be transported to Burma, and to prepare for long-term resistance.
While waiting for the gun, Wang Hanzhang also inspected the artillery factory, which is now capable of producing 75mm mortars, mountain guns and smaller caliber grenadiers, and can also produce artillery shells, but the amount is not large. Otherwise, Wang Hanzhang would have put tanks, airplanes, and helicopters on the road directly.
The artillery arsenal is now developing 105mm caliber artillery and pre-researching 152mm caliber artillery, and there is really nothing that can help Wang Hanzhang for artillery.
A week later, the prototype gun was made, and the technician had already scrapped two of them, and now this gun is usable, not just a façade.
Wang Hanzhang came to the shooting range to try it, because he didn't beat those assault rifles in later generations, and he really couldn't feel whether the power of the gun was compared with that of later generations, and how big the gap was.
Wang Hanzhang asked the opinions of the technicians and the soldiers who tried the gun, and the soldiers thought that the gun was too short to fight bayonets, and it was not enough, but Wang Hanzhang did not plan to use this gun to fight with the devil with bayonets in the future.
Technical experts are mainly worried about the large amount of ammunition consumed, and the military industry will not be able to meet the operational needs, and as for the technical things, they really can't find them.
That said, with a capacity of 30 rounds, small-caliber bullets...... The idea of all this is beyond their imagination, and they have also tried guns for the power of small-caliber bullets, and the power is not less than that of mainstream rifle bullets now, and it can also save materials, so it should be said that this is a perfect rifle in theory.
In the era of aircraft, tanks, and artillery, the range of rifles was no longer so strict, and now most of the battles between soldiers were within 300 meters, and no matter how far they went, artillery and airplanes were basically used.
Thinking about the wars of later generations, automatic rifles are indeed very bullet-consuming, but even rifles are lagging behind others, and when the time comes, they can only fill with human lives. Wang Hanzhang remembered that in the Pacific War, the U.S. army only killed 120,000 people, but killed millions of Japanese soldiers, in addition to planes, artillery, and tanks, there is also the use of automatic rifles by the U.S. army, the Japanese army can finish a magazine with a bullet, so the Japanese army often finishes a bullet, there is no more chance to shoot, and the U.S. military kills, so Wang Hanzhang decided to experiment again, if there is no problem, he will go all out to produce this assault rifle, Wang Hanzhang has already thought of the name, it is called "Dragon Assault Rifle" In the future, his caliber will become a symbol of Chinese countries.
During the experiment, Wang Hanzhang participated in the whole process, and any important things were handled in the arsenal, and after half a month, after the experiment in various situations, Wang Hanzhang decided to immediately finalize the production.
The reason why Wang Hanzhang decided so quickly is that this gun in later generations has been tested by the ten-year war in Afghanistan, as well as the Chechen War, and other less famous wars, the war has told the world that this gun is a very reliable gun, Wang Hanzhang has changed very little now, so even if the overall performance is not as good as the gun at that time, I believe it will not be much worse. In addition, it is a time of war, and there is not so much time to investigate slowly, so let him accept the test of war!
The parameters for the final finalization of the Dragon assault rifle are:
Firing mode: single shot, burst, caliber: 5.6mm, ammunition: 5.6×39mm, magazine capacity: 30 rounds, automatic principle: gas conduction locking method: bolt rotary locking, full length: 930mm, barrel length: 420mm, butt opening 675mm, rifling: 4, right-handed, winding distance 196mm, full length of the rifle part 372mm Aiming baseline: 379mm, muzzle velocity: 850m/s muzzle kinetic energy: 1383j, Theoretical rate of fire: 650rpm Magazine capacity: 30rds, effective range: 400 meters, gun weight: 3300g including empty magazine; 3600g with live magazine; The magazine weighs 230g, the muzzle kinetic energy: 1383 joules, the gauge range: 1000m, the maximum lethality range: 1350m, the maximum range: 3150m, the front sight: cylindrical, the gate: the U-shaped notch, and the most beautiful birdcage-shaped muzzle.
After the rifle was finalized, Wang Hanzhang felt a lot more relaxed, and finally had a most advanced gun, and in the future, he would promote it to China and other places, like this gun, the technical content is not high, as long as one can be obtained, developed countries can imitate it, so Wang Hanzhang does not intend to hide it, and it is impossible to conceal it if he wants to equip a large number of troops, and it is very easy for the enemy to engage in one with such a huge number.