Chapter 219: An Unsolvable Mystery

Top tank experts from all over the Soviet Union were confused by the fierce and powerful appearance of the Chinese "Destroyer" tank. From the perspective of operation, the "destroyer" tank should adopt a layout of 4-5 people, from the periscope on the car, the driver is under the main gun in front, the gun commander on the left, the commander on the right, and at least one loader in the back, it is said that there should also be a telegrapher, maybe China's advanced electronic products do not need this telegrapher, but in this space that is nearly 3 square meters smaller than the Soviet T55 tank in service, how can it fit so many people? And so many shells, even if the Chinese are short in stature, they can't fit it?

Judging from the partially enlarged photo, the turret is not a cast turret, but a welded one.

Some of the exposed facilities don't know what they do. As for the equipment installed in the car, such as the fire control system, the stabilization system of the barrel, the suspension system is even more unknown. However, judging from the tank battles in India and the city of Choibalsan in Outer Mongolia, it can be concluded that the fire control system will certainly be very advanced thanks to China's advanced electronics industry, and it is not known to what extent it is advanced.

These experts kept shaking their heads, mystery! Countless mysteries, these Soviet tank experts racked their brains and were still at a loss for China's "destroyer" tank.

Countless mysteries churned in the minds of these Soviet weapons experts, and some questions puzzled them. But one thing that is unanimous among experts is that no matter how good the current Soviet tank is, it will not be able to destroy the Chinese 'destroyer' tank at a distance of 800 meters. On the outskirts of Choibalshan in Outer Mongolia, 36 tanks of a Soviet-made T34 tank battalion of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Army were destroyed by Chinese tanks 1,500 meters away, and the hit rate of Chinese tanks was as high as more than 90 percent. If the Soviets use the T55 tanks they are equipped with in service to face the Chinese "Destroyer" tanks, the chance of victory is zero.

For this conclusion given by Soviet tank experts, Marshal Malinowski, who is known as a Soviet tank warfare expert, was very angry, he was really angry, and at a meeting of the Soviet Defense Committee, he scolded: "Fart, fart!" These experts are pure fart! Just a few photos of Chinese tanks declared the death penalty for tens of thousands of Soviet tanks. In his opinion, the tanks of the Soviet army are invincible. There is no force that can block the group charge of several thousand tanks on a wide frontal battlefield, which cannot be destroyed at 800 meters, 500 meters, and 200 meters. There are 3,000 "Destroyer" tanks in the whole of China. How many of them were in the USSR, the Soviet army had more than 14300 tanks in the garrison in the Asian part alone. Not to mention fighting, even if it hits, it will also knock the Chinese tanks into pieces. These lords and factions are always trying in every possible way to find all kinds of reasons to compromise with China. It took our ancestors more than 300 years and great adventurous spirit to obtain this vast land of Asia, and it is absolutely impossible for them Chinese to return to a piece so easily!

For die-hards like Malinowski, there is absolutely no one who does not see a coffin and does not shed tears, and for such a person he can only talk to him with a cannon.

In a separate studio at the Izhevsk Military Plant of the USSR. A Kazakh, a native in his 30s, was dismantling a Chinese Type 51 automatic rifle with a bent barrel and a blown air duct, carefully mapping each part with a caliper. And put each component on the scale, carefully recording their weight. This is a trophy "captured" by the Indian army in the abandoned area of the Chinese position north of the Siliguri Bridge in the Sino-Indian War, and they handed it over to the Soviet Union, hoping that the Soviet Union can help them make this small and delicate "small machine gun" with very fierce fire used by the Chinese.

The 30-year-old Kazakh in the studio is known as the "father of AK-47" - Kalashnikov, a world-famous firearms design master, he found that the 51 automatic rifle produced in China and the AK47 designed by himself are the same principle, but smaller, more reasonable, and more advanced production technology. Most of the parts of China's AK47, known as the Type 51 automatic rifle, are manufactured by stamping and welding processes, and even the receiver is manufactured by stamping process instead of machining process, which reduces weight, reduces production costs, and is more conducive to mass production.

He looked at the total weight of the components of China's Type 51 automatic rifle at only 3.15 kilograms, which was 1.15 kilograms less than the AK47 assault rifle he designed. A hammer deceleration device was added to the trigger assembly, eliminating the possibility of a firing pin firing when hitting a bullet primer. The muzzle of the Type 51 automatic rifle is a diagonal incision to achieve the function of a muzzle brake and improve the dispersion accuracy when firing in bursts. Subtle! The design is so exquisite! He applauded these Chinese designers from the bottom of his heart. This is a problem that I have wanted to solve for a long time but can't solve, so I let my Chinese counterparts solve it so simply and easily, which is really amazing!

How did he know that this is AK47 has gone through nearly 40 years, and after countless experiments, he used this simple method to solve the problem that the accuracy of the burst shot is not high, can it not be subtle. This Type 51 automatic rifle has a folding stock, which makes it easier for paratroopers to carry.

Then he skillfully loaded the broken Type 51 automatic rifle in China, picked up the arc-shaped magazine with a capacity of 30 rounds, and pressed the reed with the thumb of his right hand, no different. He also used the thumb of his right hand to flick the safety handle on the right side of the receiver of the Type 51 automatic rifle from top to bottom, and he could choose between semi-automatic or fully automatic firing methods, exactly the same as his AK-47 gear. It is also "insurance, fully automatic, semi-automatic". This setting is different from all automatic rifles in the world, but the Chinese-made Type 51 is actually the same as its own. He shook his head in disbelief.

He put the Type 51 automatic rifle on the table, then picked up a few bullets from the Chinese Type 51 automatic rifle on the table, he picked up the caliper and measured it, the warhead diameter was 7.62 mm, and the bullet length was 39 mm. He pulled out the warhead with the tension device on the table, and looked at the material of the warhead, which was made of copper-clad steel core.

He poured out the propellant from the cartridge case, which was a very uniform "small grain black".

He also punched the hardness of the bullet case on the hardness tester, which was made of mild steel material, and the surface of the bullet case was painted with electrophoresis paint process, and the grass green paint of the picture was used instead of the brass material used in the Soviet Union. Chinese use low-carbon steel materials to make bullet shells, the production cost will definitely be much lower than brass shells, but the processing is difficult and the process is complicated. Why do the Chinese break the routine and use low-carbon steel materials? This may be to reduce production costs on the one hand, and on the other hand, it may be that China's copper resources are limited.

Another point is different from the Soviet 7,62 bullet case, the bottom edge of the Chinese bullet case uses a concave bottom rim of the car bottom, instead of a convex "big butt" bottom rim stamped like in the Soviet Union, so that although the two countries are both 7.62x39 mm bullets, they are not universal. Why is China so simple and looking for trouble? He couldn't figure it out.

Kalashnikov sat on his chair, his eyes couldn't help but fall on the Chinese Type 51 automatic rifle, and wondered, why would the design ideas of Chinese designers be so consistent with their own? The gun is named the Type 51 automatic rifle in China, indicating that it was established and produced in 51, so when did the Chinese begin to research and design? Chinese have now registered patents in major countries in the world, and the inventor of the patent is Group 5 of Shenyang Blue Sky Machinery Research Institute in China. What he didn't expect was that this patent would later provide China with hundreds of millions of dollars in patent technology transfer fees.

The AK47 assault rifle designed by himself was tested in 1946, and the project was established in 47 years and began to be equipped with troops in 1951. If it is said that China stole the intelligence of the Soviet Union, when did it steal it? He felt like he couldn't figure it out. Okay, analyzing this is not my forte, and I should leave this job to the KGB.

Kalashnikov let out a long sigh and couldn't help muttering to himself, "The Chinese are incredible!" Incredible Chinese. He picked up the Chinese Type 51 automatic rifle on the table again, looked at it carefully, and his intuition told himself that although China's Type 51 automatic rifle was much more advanced than the AK47 assault rifle he designed, he was sure that the Chinese were made by copying their own AK47 assault rifle, and he had to admire the shrewdness of the Chinese imitators, who made the AK47 he designed so well and so perfectly, far beyond him, the original designer, and superior to him. Overcoming many shortcomings that he wanted to overcome in his own design but did not overcome, he perfected the design of the AK47 assault rifle.

But who is copying so many high-tech things in China? This flash of thought shattered his instinct just now.

These weapons experts in the Soviet Union, like Kalashnikov, the "father of AK-47", are asking the same question, what made China, poor and backward, more than 80% of the country's population was illiterate at the time of liberation in 1949, and all the country's steel production was used to make hairpins, which was not enough for each woman in the country, in less than ten years, became the world's first scientific and technological power, military power, and produced these incredible cutting-edge weapons?

However, more people in the world are also asking, what is the force that has made China, a barren and poor country, suddenly rise to stand proudly among the world's great powers with the strength of a world-class power in just a few years?

People know that in this big country in the East -- there is a real man who has never been overwhelmed by any difficulty, who has enabled a nation to live on its own feet, who has swept away the Chinese nation's habit of being weak and unarmed for more than 1,000 years, and who has swept away the stubborn diseases of the inferior slave surname for more than 100 years, and who is not intimidated by any enemy. With his spirit, he gave the Chinese nation a brand-new soul, which is the great guide and founder of the People's Republic of China -- Mao Zd. When he and his more than 30,000 comrades-in-arms, who were in tattered clothes and like wanderers, walked the 25,000-mile Long March, they were the most vigorous and indomitable Chinese national elites in China, and a group of outstanding descendants of the Chinese nation gathered again on the banks of the Yellow River. Against the retreat of the Kuomintang army, the torrent advanced behind enemy lines. Behind enemy lines, he waged an eight-year arduous war of resistance against the Japanese and ushered in a great victory in the War of Resistance against Japan. After another four years of civil war, Chiang Kai-shek's army of 8 million was defeated and all of China was liberated. So that "the Chinese people have since stood up." New China has completely eliminated the women who have existed for thousands of years, the bandits and underworld that have existed for thousands of years, and the tobacco and poison that have existed for more than 100 years.

Countries have invested enormous national efforts to study this phenomenon.

The autumn breeze is bleak, the golden leaves cover the boulevard, and at 11 Lubyanka Square, near the Moscow Kremlin, there is a nine-story building made of large gray granite blocks, and in front of the building, on the wide Dzerzhinsky Square, in the center of the carefully trimmed green lawn stands a bronze statue of Dzerzhinsky, although there are no signs of "intelligence services" or "secret police", but the majestic chairman of the All-Russian Special Committee for the Elimination of Counter-Revolution and the Eradication of Sabotage, The bronze statue of Comrade Dzerzhinsky, the founder of the KGB, silently tells people what this place is.

A 1956 Ford black luxury sedan stopped in front of the KGB headquarters building, which was intimidating to many Soviets. Major General Dasapisky, who hurried into the head of the USSR State Security Committee, Ivan Brown. Aleksandrovich. Serov's office.

"Comrade Chairman, I have the exciting good news to report to you, we have finally made contact with 005, which is lurking in the high-level of the [***] side of the Central [***], and sent back important information. Ha, ha, ha, our swallows are good to make. "Mikhailovich. Without waiting to sit down, Major General Dasapisky laughed impatiently and reported the long-awaited news to his superiors.

Serov stared at Major General Dasapisky, deputy director of the First Bureau in charge of Chinese intelligence, with his eagle-like eyes, and said coldly: "Say it. What important information"

(To be continued)