Chapter 34: "The Heavy Weapons of the Poor"

[34] "The Heavy Weapons of the Poor"

This is the end of the rifle procurement, except for the simple disassembly, the maintenance of the simple Bayi gun family has no choice, other rifles to 1949 are not easy to use, so how to solve the next heavy weapons?

"I want 3,000 Type 85 Gaoping dual-purpose heavy machine guns and 100 million rounds of ammunition." Xiaoqiang said after thinking about it.

The Type 85 12.7 mm anti-aircraft machine gun is a second-generation anti-aircraft machine gun developed by China itself, which was designed and finalized in 1985 and equipped with a large number of troops.

This type of machine gun is mainly installed in the machine gun company of the infantry battalion, and is mainly used for flat fire on the ground, at a distance of 1,200 meters, to suppress enemy fire and attack from a distance.

One of its bullets can interrupt a soldier's waist, and in the nearly 8-year Sino-Vietnamese border war, both sides used 12.7 mm large-caliber heavy machine guns to fire flat, causing a large number of casualties to the other side.

The most valuable thing is that his weight is very light, from 88 kg of the Type 54 heavy machine gun, to 56 kg of the Type 77 heavy machine gun, to 41.5 kg of the Type 85 heavy machine gun, and from Zuihou to 26.3 kg of the Type 89 heavy machine gun, China's heavy machine gun is getting better and better, and the weight is getting lighter and lighter.

The Type 89 heavy machine gun was too rebellious, the materials and design, including the difficulty of processing, were too high-tech for 1949, and the Type 77 heavy machine gun was not accurate enough and not much equipment. And the Type 54 heavy machine gun is completely extinct and cannot be found. So Xiaoqiang finally chose the Type 85 heavy machine gun.

"This Type 85 Gaoping dual-purpose heavy machine gun is brand new, so it is slightly more expensive than the allocation price, 9,000 each, 2.63 yuan per ammunition, a total of 290 million." General Yuan thought about it for a moment and replied.

"ANOTHER 10,000 Type 69 40MM ROCKET LAUNCHERS, 200,000 ROCKETS." Xiao Qiang said with a fumbled search.

THE 69-TYPE 40MM BAZOOKA IS A NEW TYPE OF BAZOOKA DESIGNED BY CHINA IN THE EARLY 60S FROM THE SOVIET-MADE RPG-7 TYPE ROCKET LAUNCHER, WHICH MAKES THE GLOBAL GUERRILLAS AND ANTI-GOVERNMENT FORCES LOVE THE ARTIFACT WITH OPTICAL SIGHTS, WHICH CAN MEASURE THE TARGET DISTANCE, AND CAN CORRECT THE IMPACT OF TARGET SPEED AND WIND ON THE TRAJECTORY. After it was finalized, it was quickly welcomed by the troops, especially in the complex terrain of the Sino-Vietnamese self-defense counterattack in 1979, which played a very important role in destroying pillboxes, tunnels, and bunkers. From the 70s to the 80s, the 1969 40mm rocket launcher was the infantry anti-tank weapon with the largest number of production and equipment in our country. It can be said that the northern Xinjiang is equipped with squads, and the southern countries are equipped with companies.

We all know that RPGs can hit tanks, after all, this is the main job of RPGs, in fact, in addition, it can also be used to hit helicopters, in Mogadishu, Somalia, Somali warlords used RPGs to shoot down two Black Hawk helicopters of the US military. Other things that can be eliminated with RPGs are bunkers, bunkers, firing points, lightly armored targets, and vehicles. Basically, it can take it all in one shot if it flies in the sky (helicopters), runs on the ground (armored vehicles), and swims in the water (light warships).

Xiaoqiang knows that China's Type 69 bazooka and Soviet-made RPG-7 are also known as bazoomas with better performance and cheaper cost. In addition to "NATO", most countries are also armed with such weapons. Although China has stopped production in the mid-80s, it is still active in the African and Middle East battlefields, and all kinds of African black and Middle Eastern monsters use him to deal with tanks, armored vehicles and various military vehicles, and can basically hit all the targets...... The consequences are quite severe...... The US imperialists were rather annoyed......

If you ask: from Hamas to Al Qaeda, from the LTTE to the Taliban, what are the weapons they can pose a threat to tanks?

Well: mines, roadside bombs not only need to be planted in advance, but these things have a limited effect on the tank, and it is basically difficult to pose a threat to the tank. Unless someone can make a large mine (bomb) with a charge of more than 300 kg of TNT.

What about machine guns? Whether it is a 7.62mm light machine gun or a 12.7mm heavy machine gun, it is very difficult to penetrate the Chobham-style armor and active defense system of a country's tank.

But RPGs are different, as long as they are used properly, all fixed targets, lightly armored targets, the top and sides of heavy armored targets, personnel, and low-flying objects within their range can be killed. RPGs may not be able to penetrate the front armor of the M1A1, but it is not a problem to hit the rear deck, and it may not be possible to hit the mobile "Apache", but it is not a problem to hit government buildings, oil pipelines, and substations. Without RPGs, they might have had to use explosives to solve these problems.

All in all, RPGs are cheap and versatile, and they are called "heavy weapons for the poor" by the people of the majority of third shijie countries!

Xiaoqiang was immersed in his own obscenity and excited, it is conceivable that after the RPG came to 1949, there was basically no need to hide and hide from the tank, and the front armor of the 2010 M1A1 could not be penetrated, and the US M26 Pershing heavy tank that played in 1949 was guaranteed to ruin a lifetime. THE TYPE 69 40MM BAZOOKA HAS AN ARMOR PENETRATION DEPTH OF 700MM (UNIFORM STEEL PLATE), AND IN FRONT OF IT, THE THICKEST ARMOR IS ONLY 114MM WELDED STEEL PLATE (THE PROTECTION CAPACITY IS HALF OF THE UNIFORM STEEL PLATE) M-26 PERSHING TANK, WHICH CAN ONLY BE RENAMED GOLDEN LOTUS...... This is true for heavy tanks, and other medium tanks such as the M-4 Sherman, the M-46 Patton, and the like are not enough to see.

Xiaoqiang wiped the salivation of the corners of his mouth, and also felt that it was very cheating to bring this goods back, but the 56-type 40 bazooka was discontinued for many years, and then all of them were exported and exported, forcing him to use the legendary artifact of the 69-type 40 fire, as for whether it was too amazing, he didn't think too much, let the enemy worry about it.

General Yuan replied: "There is a large number of brand new stocks in this warehouse, each of which counts you as 1,300 and 550 rockets each." That's 123 million. ”

Xiaoqiang calculates that the total purchase amount of this child has reached 1.08 billion.

Even with the previous Air Force and Navy bills, a huge purchase with a total price of 4.48 billion has been released.

Xiaoqiang asked Yuan Kedi to equip him with a large number of spare barrels and parts for light and heavy machine guns, and Zuihou set the price at 4.48 billion.

He opened the small bag handed to him by General Hua containing a checkbook, which contained a special steel stamp-type embossed seal and a special ink for the Ministry of Finance. This kind of unlimited large check must be paid by the drawer in person, and Xiaoqiang neatly filled in the largest check he had issued in his life, a full 4.48 billion! Marked with a small steel seal, he used his mobile phone to take a photo of himself and the check, so he was reluctant to hand over the check to General Yuan.

General Yuan looked at the scene of Xiaoqiang's selfie, and he daxiao heartily. He admired the young man in front of him, who was humble, natural, not arrogant, and a little shy. Who would have thought that such a young man was the number one arms middleman in the world.

The success of this deal is a huge encouragement to General Yuan and the entire military, and it can be said that this export at the end of this year is a great victory and achievement. As a major participant, General Yuan felt proud on the one hand, and on the other hand, he felt that the results were so incredible. Gone are the see-saw bargains that used to be necessary every time, replaced by mutual trust and concessions between the two sides. Judging from his many years of experience in being in charge of arms exports, there is no doubt that Cao Xiaoqiang is the best customer who cannot be found even with a lantern, and he must keep him for the sake of the country and the army, and let him become our regular customer.

"Xiaoqiang, General Hua has instructed that he will be notified as soon as the deal is finalized, and he will hold a banquet on behalf of the Ministry of National Defense to entertain you." General Yuan proudly told Xiaoqiang.

Xiaoqiang was so excited when he heard this that he almost knocked over the teacup in his hand. This is a high-level banquet on behalf of the Ministry of National Defense, and subconsciously, he still regards himself as a modern person. Every time he sees the banquet in the Great Hall of the People on TV, he feels very far away, as if it is not happening in his shijie, and today, he will enter this "high society" and talk with the proud sons of the sky.

The picture turns to the United States in 1949, when the working class of the United States is watching the Truman administration's trial of the American communist leaders.

It all started after World War II. After World War II, the American working class, which was overwhelmed by the war, had a strong desire to improve their lives, so it was said that large companies such as Detroit and Ford were still adopting a daily wage system, and a large number of workers lined up to work on the factory assembly line every day, and after a day's work, they would line up to receive their salaries for one day, and then come to line up early the next day, and if they were late, they might not work for a day, and the poor assembly line workers would feed their families in this way. At Ford, only engineers and managers are hired, and jobs are somewhat secure. The vast majority of other workers have no labor insurance, no medical care, and have to feed their families.

So the woke workers began to unite and launch a general strike. The number of people who were officially out of work in the United States was 3.5 million in 1945 and 4.6 million in 1946. Of course, the big bourgeoisie cannot tolerate the resistance of these abject poor ghosts, and for every day the factories are shut down, these big bourgeoisie will lose a day of money! So they frantically cried out that the flames of struggle must be extinguished.

First, the Truman administration did the infamous repeal of the Wagner Act, which recognized workers' right to collective bargaining with employers, the first public signal of monopoly capital's assault on the working class in the postwar period.

Second, the U.S. government began to actively counter confessions, and the Committee on Un-American Activities of the House of Representatives of the Federal Assembly began to fabricate charges against a large number of writers, professors, artists, doctors, film producers, and actors who sympathized with poor workers, and prepared to deprive them of their jobs and put them in prison.

In the third step, President Truman issued an executive order designating the FBI and the Federal Civil Service Commission to conduct loyalty inspections of more than 3 million officials and staff of federal government agencies, all of which were screened. After a four-year political trial, some 2,000 federal government officials were forced to resign, and 212 were eliminated as "dangerous elements."

In the fourth step, the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives passed a well-known labor suppression law, the Industrial Relations Act of 1947, also known as the Taft-Hartley Act. It formally repealed the provisions of the Wagner Act on workers' rights.

The fifth step was to try the leaders of the workers' movement, and the Truman administration dispatched military and police to arrest all 12 members of the National Committee, the highest governing body of the Communist Party of the United States, throughout the country.

Shortly before that, the Communists and progressives who had been arrested and persecuted had already been "the case of the Chairman of the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee and its 12 members". Most of them are well-known scholars, professors and social activists. They were arrested for "contempt of Congress" and sentenced by a court in June 1947;

The "Hollywood 10," which featured prominent progressive film script writers and directors, who were arrested for "contempt of Congress" and sentenced by a court in December 1947;

"Los Angeles 16 cases" and "Denver 7 cases", they were arrested and sentenced for "contempt of court";

"Eugene Dennis" for refusing to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities...... There have been many cases of this kind.

The Truman administration took out several books in court as "incriminating evidence" of the American Communists, only exposing its own absurdity and weakness in front of the whole Shijie. However, there is another "crime" of these communists. The jury found that the leaders of the Communist Party of the United States had rebuilt the Communist Party of America, which had been dissolved by the Rowd revisionists, in 1945, and that they themselves were members of the party. In the United States, to rebuild the Communist Party, to be a member of this party, this is a crime! By virtue of this article, you will be sentenced!

In the eyes of the big capitalist monopoly oligarchs, the Communist Party is their gravedigger and natural enemy! As a result, the anti-supply wave intensified, and everyone associated with the Communist Party was to be put to death by the super-capitalist government.

Even the famous General George Marshall, who came to China from 1945 to 1947 at the behest of President Truman to "mediate" and then returned to the United States, served as Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense in the Truman administration, and who formulated the "Marshall Jihua" was not spared.

This is a pseudo-big fat boiled country with a "glorious tradition" of using the army to suppress the people.

Attached are the country's great achievements:

In 1873, President Ulysses 61 Grant dispatched federal troops to suppress the "New Orleans Rebellion";

In 1876, President Grant dispatched federal troops to deal with the "South Carolina Riots";

In 1877, President Rutherford Hayes dispatched federal troops to suppress the "railroad strike riots" in West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Illinois and other states;

Presidents Benjamin Harrison, Grover Cleveland, and William McKinley dispatched federal troops to suppress the Idaho miners' strike, which began in 1892 and lasted seven years.

In 1894, President Cleveland dispatched federal troops to suppress the "Coxey Unemployment Petitioners";

In 1894, President Cleveland sent federal troops to suppress the Chicago railroad workers' struggle.

In 1896, President Cleveland sent federal troops to suppress the Colorado miners' struggle.

In 1899, President McKinley sent federal troops to suppress the Utah miners' struggle.

In 1907, President Theo Roosevelt dispatched federal troops to suppress the "Nevada miners' riots";

In 1914, President Woodrow Wilson dispatched federal troops to suppress the "Coal Miners' Riot" in Colorado;

In 1918, President Wilson dispatched federal troops to suppress the struggle of the Shijie Industrial Workers' Union.

In 1919, President Wilson dispatched federal troops three times within a year to suppress the steelworkers' strike, the "race riots" in the capital District of Columbia, and the "race riots" in Nebraska.

In 1920, President Wilson dispatched federal troops to carry out the famous "Palmer Manhunt" in American history.

In 1921, President Warren 61 Harding dispatched federal troops to suppress the West Virginia coal miners' strike;

In 1932, President Herb 61 Hoover dispatched federal troops to suppress unemployed veterans from across the country who were concentrated in the capital, the District of Columbia.

In 1941, President Roosevelt dispatched federal troops to suppress the struggle of California's aviation workers.

In 1943, President Franklin 61 Roosevelt dispatched federal troops to suppress the "race riots" in the Motor City of Detroit.

In 1967, President Lyndon 61 Johnson dispatched federal troops to once again suppress the "racial riots" in Detroit.

In 1971, President Richard Nixon mobilized a large number of airborne troops, marines, and armies from federal military bases in North Carolina, Virginia, and Maryland to Washington, D.C., to suppress protests and demonstrations by the broad masses of the people, mainly young students, against the war of aggression against Vietnam.

In April 1992, President George W. Bush dispatched federal troops to suppress the "race riots" in Los Angeles.