Qin Lang picked up a bullet from the table, stared at it intently for a while, then picked up another one and put them side by side, and then sighed heavily. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Two bullets, one for the .223Rem rifle he brought back, and the other for the same caliber that the best skilled workers in the company processed under his personal guidance. Qin Lang was ready to let the small-caliber fully automatic carbine that Browning was about to start developing use .223Rem rifle cartridges, but now he had some troubles.

In fact, Qin Lang knew from the beginning that due to the limitations of the current technical level, the performance of the new bullet would decline to a certain extent, but he did not expect that the decline in performance would be so large: although the weight of the propellant was exactly the same, the muzzle velocity of the new bullet with a warhead weight of only 56 grains was only about 2,900 feet per second, which was about 125 feet slower than the old bullet with a warhead weight of 62 grains.

That is, at least theoretically, the muzzle kinetic energy of the new bullet is only 83% of that of the old one.

This result is simply unacceptable.

The .223Rem rifle cartridge was inherently less powerful – especially when fired from carbines with short barrels – which is why the U.S. military clamored for new ammunition, and then came up with the 6.8mm SPC and 6.5mm Grendel...... Of course, this is all in the past, and the problem now is that its muzzle kinetic energy has dropped by another 17%. How lethal can it be?

The famous NATO rifle cartridges are about to become .22LR that can only fight rabbits...... Of course, Qin Lang used the rhetorical device of "exaggeration". After all, even if .223Rem's muzzle kinetic energy drops by another 17%, it is still more powerful than .22LR...... But he was very disappointed.

He felt that this result was extremely undesirable..The 223Rem rifle cartridge was not a high-tech product, and although he was comparing it to the M855 produced in the early 21st century, the earliest version of the M193 was used in the AR15 rifle in the fifties. Now that he was just letting it be born sixty years earlier, how could the performance have dropped so outrageously?

Qin Lang let out a long sigh. "Hell, there was no such problem with the production of .308 rifle cartridges...... Well, I thought, now I need a new type of propellant with better performance. ”

"We're using DuPont's best gunpowder, and I don't think you'll find a better product if it doesn't satisfy you either. And," Rachel slowly searched for the right words, "Qin, since you were able to make bullets that met the requirements before...... Gunpowder, why don't you make some now? ”

"That's right." Yi Shui nodded in agreement, "You should remember the previous gunpowder recipe, right?" ”

Because those bullets were not made by me - of course, Qin Lang would never say such a mindless word, he briefly thought about it for a few seconds, and a reasonable reply appeared.

"If I just make a few thousand bullets for my own use, regardless of production time and cost, I can certainly synthesize a propellant that meets the requirements." He explains, with a convincingly serious face, "But now we need a commercial product that is in mass production." ”

"Then why don't we open a gunpowder factory?" Yi Shui asked.

"Because ......"

"Because it's going to put us in some legal way." Rachel hastened to answer - she had always been interested in teaching Yi Shui. "If we produce both gunpowder and weapons, and at the end we maintain an armed force that uses weapons, someone will be in trouble with us."

"The court will make a judgment and break up our company." In fact, this was not the explanation that Qin Lang first thought of, but he found that this explanation was more appropriate than the one he thought of: there was a precedent for this kind of thing...... For Qin Lang, that was indeed a precedent, because it happened in 1934.

That time, it was Boeing that was unlucky.

Qin Lang didn't want to run into the damn superstick of "anti-monopoly" first. Even if there is no law that prohibits arms companies from making gunpowder and providing security services, they can quickly enact a law if they think they need it.

However, he does not want to turn DuPont into a competitor, at least not yet. The DuPont family has always been aggressive in dealing with their competitors, even causing a violent explosion to completely destroy their factories if necessary – a precedent for doing the same.

Although Qin Lang was not afraid of DuPont's violent means, it was a troublesome matter for the two arms dealers to go to war, because both sides had endless ammunition. So unless he has to, or is sure that he can quickly defeat his opponent, he will never go to war with the largest arms supplier to the United States.

"No matter how you look at it, we can't open a gunpowder factory." He made a general summary.

"Okay, so what are you going to do?" Yi Shui shrugged, "You also know that DuPont doesn't have the ability to provide better gunpowder. ”

"How about having DuPont produce the kind of gunpowder you invented?" Rachel advised, "Apply for a patent and then sell it to it, and I think the DuPont boss will thank you in the end." ”

"I swear he'll be grateful to me, Rachel. But ......" Qin Lang thought slowly. Synthesis and patent application for WC844 bi-base flat ball propellant? He had almost forgotten the recipe for this propellant. And, if you take Rachel's advice, you're adding another nuisance to yourself.

Is it necessary to do this, in order to obtain a suitable propellant?

"I need to think again." He said, with a look of difficulty making a decision, "It's a bit of a hassle." ”

"I can understand, Qin." Rachel nodded. However, her next statement made it clear that she did not understand anything. "It's a sad thing to sell your invention to someone else, but there are times when we have to learn to give up something......"

Qin Lang interrupted him. "Do you think I'm that careful?"

"Nope." She replied quickly, "Of course you're not careful, Qin. It's just that every time you do something, you always try to make it work for you to the fullest. ”

"You still don't know anything, Rachel." Qin Lang said with an extremely regretful expression, "You see, we only have one laboratory, and now Elizabeth is synthesizing poisonous gases in it, if I go in and configure gunpowder again...... Do you want me to finish with your cousin? ”

This is simply a perfect excuse, Rachel can't find an entry point to refute, she can't even say to him, Qin, you go to the experiment at night - because Qin Lang will definitely say, do you want me to go to God?

She thought about it and had to give up. "Then, you can think about it slowly, Qin."

"Thank you." Qin Lang said as he put the two bullets on the table into a drawer, then took out a box and poured all the contents on the table.

Or bullets. But these bullets were different from the ones Rachel had just seen, they looked slightly thicker, but they were also much shorter, and they had a nicely smooth round bullet - naturally, they were Barabrum pistol bullets that Qin Lang copied based on the pitiful little common sense he remembered.

However, they are all incomplete copies. Because he had never seriously understood this kind of nine-millimeter ammunition at all, Qin Lang's memory was quite vague, so these bullets were only the same in appearance as the real Balabellum pistol bullets, while the weight of the bullet head and the quality of the propellant were different, and even the primer had two types: the Bodin type and the Boxai type.

"There are forty different configurations of bullets here," he picked up one of them, admiring it with a satisfied expression for a moment before tossing it to Yi Shui, "We'll have to find the most suitable one out of them." ”

Yi Shui repeatedly observed the bullet for about ten seconds, then reached out and picked up the other one, placing them together for comparison. "So, what is the 'most suitable', Qin?" He didn't seem to quite understand, "To be honest, I don't see any need for this. ”

"If I told you that I wanted this bullet to be produced for at least a hundred years, would you believe it?" Qin Lang asked rhetorically.

"I think that's an exaggeration." Yi Shui shook his head, "A hundred years, too long, who knows what will happen?" "When I first came to the U.S., there were a lot of people who used black powder pistols, but now they're using pythons and anacondas, and you're working on new weapons." I don't even know what will happen in 10 years. ”

Rachel exclaimed in agreement - on technical issues, she couldn't say anything, she could only choose to agree with Yi Shui's opinion.

"But I just want to develop a bullet that can be produced for at least a hundred years." Qin Lang said seriously.

"But I still think it's exaggerated." The same goes for easy water.

"Time will tell." Qin Lang could only announce this, and he turned his gaze back to the bullets on the table, "Of course, to achieve this goal, you must choose the one with the most balanced performance from these bullets. "More precisely, what he wants is the standard Balabellum that the NATO has determined.

But he simply does not know the specific parameters of the NATO-standard pistol cartridge. Qin Lang's understanding of this is that since NATO has chosen a certain specification of Balabrum as the standard model, it must be the most balanced one among all kinds of ammunition.

Only God knows if this theory is correct, but it is certain that Yi Shui does not know, so he says, "Okay, what are you going to let me do?" ”

"Shoot."

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