Chapter 12: The Birth of the Assault Rifle
Karl exclaimed, "What? You want to trade this gun for shares? Is there any mistake? I could buy the patent for the design of this assault rifle for 100,000 kroner, but I would never give up my shares. β
Lucas laughed and said, "Mr. Karl, are you kidding?" 100,000 kroner to buy the design patent for this assault rifle, you are so naΓ―ve! You must know that this is a revolution in the field of firearms, and in the future, this kind of rifle can even produce tens of millions, even if each gun only earns 100 crowns, it will be a billion profits, but you are only willing to pay 100,000? It seems that Mr. Carr has no sincerity, so let's talk to Mr. Henry. With that, he turned around and wanted to leave.
Where would Karl not know the market value of this new rifle, but the capitalists always hope to keep the price to the lowest, and when they saw Lucas and they were leaving, Karl hurriedly kept them with a smile on his face: "Three, and slow!" Well, I agree with you, let's talk about the shares in more detail. How many shares do you want?"
Lucas smiled and stretched out five fingers, and Carl opened his mouth wide and said, "What, you want five percent of the shares?" Isn't it too much? β
Lucas laughed, "Not much, not much!" Mr. Karl, you have to know how much profit this assault rifle can make for you, much more than that. Now your company is worth only a few million crowns, right? Five percent of the shares are only about 100,000 crowns, which is about the same as your previous bid, but if you think about it, in the future, this rifle will sell well in the world, and your company will become famous, and in addition to hundreds of millions of crowns in profits, the intangible value of the company and its position in the arms market will also be greatly improved! Moreover, after we become shareholders, we will continue to develop new products, and more money will naturally fall into your pocket. β
Carl thought for a moment and hesitated: "It's still too much, so let's do it, I give three percent of the shares, and I can't do more!" β
Seeing that the time was almost up, and that if he persisted, he might lose the opportunity to acquire shares in Bofors, so he interjected: "Okay! Mr. Karl, three percent is three percent! But there is one more condition for the three of us. β
Karl wondered, "Oh, what other conditions do the three have?" β
Philip smiled: "This condition is actually not a condition, we asked to join Bofors Company, Mr. Lucas as the company's deputy general manager, I myself as the company's deputy chief designer, and Miss Anna as the company's financial specialist." In this way, we can do our best for the company, what do you think? β
Carl thought to himself that this was not difficult, adding three positions was just three more salaries, and when the time came, he would not pose any threat to himself by making these three positions a virtual position. Thinking of this, Carl nodded and said, "Okay! We make a deal! Sophia, you go and call Lawyer Diem, and we'll draw up an agreement here! β
Sophia saw that these three people were actually going to become shareholders and senior employees of the company, which was equivalent to being her own boss, and she couldn't help but feel depressed for a while, and twisted her ass to call a lawyer.
The share transfer agreement was quickly drawn up and signed, with Philip, Lucas, and Anna each taking one percent of the shares of Bofors, and also becoming senior employees of Bofors, Philip was responsible for the development of the new assault rifle, and Lucas was involved in the development and sale of the new assault rifle.
At this point, Philip finally took the first step towards success. The next thing he has to do is to develop this assault rifle as soon as possible, bring it to the market, and obtain more profits.
In his previous life, Philip was involved in the development of a variety of weapons, and the development of such an assault rifle was a piece of cake for him, but he had to make some small adjustments to the design of the new assault rifle based on the Type 03 assault rifle according to the production and processing technology and materials of this era.
Bofors is indeed very strong, its steel smelting and processing is very good, and it itself has been producing artillery for a long time, so it is not too difficult for gun manufacturing. Soon, the first prototypes were built, less than a month before the Philip trio joined Bofors.
Carl was also excited to hear the news of the prototype being built, and personally went to the arsenal to participate in the testing of the new gun.
A total of 30 prototypes were produced in the first batch, which required a series of tests, including the reliability test of the firearm in the simulated environment, the gun shooting accuracy test, the gun service life test, the 5.8mm bullet penetration test, and so on.
In addition to the accuracy, firepower and lethality of firearms, the most important thing is reliability, the new assault rifle will be sold all over the world in the future, forests, deserts, coastals, swamps, plateaus and various environments exist, in order to achieve the global combat capability of the new gun, the reliability of the new gun has become an important indicator of the test, and sometimes even the range and rate of fire and other indicators can be sacrificed to achieve solid and effective reliability! As a soldier's second life, if the mechanical performance of a firearm is unreliable, it will not only endanger the soldier's life, but may even be the success or failure of a battle or even a campaign!
When Carl Gustaf, the boss of Bofors, saw dozens of new black assault rifles neatly arranged on the workbench, his eyes gave off a longing light, these guns are so beautiful, I am afraid that they will be favored by the soldiers as soon as they come out, and they will definitely be in short supply at that time, well, I should have prepared as soon as possible and built two more production lines, so the profits will continue to fall into my pocket.
The first thing to do is the shooting test, which mainly tests the shooting accuracy of the new gun and its reliability in normal use. There are two indicators to measure the shooting accuracy of a rifle, R50 and R100, that is, the radius of bullet dispersion, in millimeters, and R50 is a certain number of projectiles at a certain distance, and 50% of the impact point is taken to measure the dispersion radius. The R100 is a certain number of projectiles at a certain distance, take 100% of the impact point to measure the dispersion radius, R50 can remove a large part of the impact point due to accidental factors and outliers, and R100 is more illustrative, including the degree of combination of the gun and the shooter, of course, when measuring these values, the gun is usually fixed on the gun mount.
This time the shooting accuracy test of the new assault rifle was set at three test distances, namely fifty meters, one hundred meters and four hundred meters. Ten shooters shoot at targets at distances of fifty, one hundred and four hundred meters, and each target requires thirty rounds, that is, bullets from one magazine. Then the R50 and R100 are measured, and the highest and lowest R-values are eliminated, and the remaining eight R-values are averaged as the final test result.
Ten shooters were already ready, guns and targets standing majestically on the ground. Carl excitedly said to Philip: "Philip, this gun is really good, just by looking at its appearance, you know that the performance must be very good!" This time I'm going to experience the power for myself, see how many rings I can hit, hehe, swap me a shooter! β