Chapter Seventy-Two: The UPK-23 Cannon Pod

As a mechanic, you must continue to learn in order to be able to continuously improve your business level, the Sokolovka base will send the mechanic to Vladivostok for further study every year, and every time, it is the Akim in front of you to lead the team. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Went there, what did they learn? Every day I absentmindedly completed the routine, and in the evening when they were at their most active, they all ran out to drink! Some even went to women......

"Who can do the job of attaching a cannon?" Andrei asked the crew.

Not all aircraft are the same as Akim, no matter where they are, they always have to be divided into two factions, and if all of them are the same as Akim, it can only mean that the Soviet Union is terminally ill and incurable.

"Me." At this moment, a voice appeared at the back of the crowd, and a young mechanic stood up and said: "I once learned the maintenance of the MiG-21, one of which is the GP-9 cannon pod and the UPK-23 cannon pod. ”

MiG-21! This kind of aircraft, which was actually only a transitional model in the aviation history of the Soviet Union, has blossomed everywhere abroad, especially in China, and the fighter that has been re-assigned the number of the J-7 is almost the pillar guarding the Chinese sky.

At the same time, the Soviet Union also exported a large number of MiG-21 fighters to the Warsaw Pact countries, and many models of such fighters appeared one after another. Among them, the MiG-21PF series canceled the fixed aircraft gun on the fuselage and adopted the form of an aircraft gun pod. This kind of pod is the GP-9 cannon pod.

This cannon pod is equipped with a 23mm GSH-23 double-barreled cannon, which is also the most common type of aircraft gun in the Soviet Union.

The GSH-23L aircraft gun is a 23 mm double-barreled cannon developed by the Soviet Union in 65 years according to the "Gast" rule. The so-called "Gast" rule refers to the fact that when one of the two barrels of a cannon fires a shell, its recoil force drives the other barrel to load and fire the shell through a lever device, and so on. The benefits of this device invented by Gast during the First World War were many: simple and compact construction, high reliability, and a very high rate of fire.

The Soviet artillery weighed only 51 kg and had a rate of fire of 3,000 rounds per minute. On the MiG-21PF, it is installed in the GP-9 turret under the middle of the fuselage, which is like a big bulge, which solves the problem of no cannon, and at the same time, after improvement, the more streamlined shape is the UPK-23 cannon pod, which is completely designed to be hung on the external attachment point of the aircraft.

Although in Andrei's heart, he would prefer to have the GSH-6-23 23mm 6-barreled rotary tube cannon, which refers to the six-barreled Gatling cannon developed with reference to the American M61A1 "Vulcan" cannon, with a rate of fire of 5000 rounds per minute, as long as it is fired, there is a sea of metal projectiles in front of it! The target that is covered is definitely the end of the destruction!

It's a pity that this kind of aerial gun will not be able to be developed until next year, and Andrei can't get it now.

"Yes, Victor." Andrei knows this aircraft maintenance, he is very attentive when he usually does fighter maintenance, and he is completely a good Soviet guy! Andre said: "Then you are in charge, help me to add the cannon pod to No. 032, if necessary, I will apply to my superiors to modify my fighter as quickly as possible, which of you is willing to follow and help?" ”

Andrei's meaning is very clear, the people who followed Agem naturally had no willingness, only these new mechanics all expressed their willingness to complete the task.

The old guys, all sneering on the side, thinking that they are aircraft designers? I'm just a mechanic!

"When the modification is completed, I will ask my superiors for credit, and there will definitely be a reward at that time." Andrei said: "We need to modify our fighters as soon as possible. ”

"Yes." Several of the crew members replied in a loud voice, of course they were excited.

"Andrey, I remember that in our warehouse, there should be an UPK-23 cannon pod, a few years ago before our base changed to fly the MiG-25, it used the MiG-21 fighter, and this kind of cannon pod had a backup at that time." At this moment, Ivanov on the side spoke.

Got it yourself? That's the best! Andrei said: "Great, let's do it now, and we can complete the hanging and commissioning of the aircraft gun today!" ”

What a big change is this! It's all ready-made! Attach the cannon pod to the fighter and adjust it to the fighter's fire control system! If you can't even do this well, it's not a qualified maintenance at all!

At this time, Akeem next to him showed a bitter gourd face: "Commander, it was all a few years ago, I don't know where it was piled up in the warehouse, how to find it?" ”

Hearing this, Andrei's face immediately darkened: "What? Can't find it? That's the property of the Soviets! If you lose it! Then go to the command of the Air Defense Forces in Vladivostok and explain! ”

As soon as Andrei's words came out, Akim's face suddenly changed.

Go there, you will definitely be sentenced!

As an air base, the warehouse is very large, in this era, there is no computer management system, and the items in the warehouse are all managed manually.

Andre, who came from later generations, knew how Huaxia was managed at that time, the administrator of the warehouse, had a thick book to record all kinds of items, and, even more, it was by the brain, they looked at these records when they were fine, and after a long time, they remembered them, and, in the system, this kind of competition will be carried out to see who remembers all the things, and it is accurate, and you can get rewards.

At that time, even friends abroad were stunned by this way of Huaxia, the storekeeper of Huaxia, that is a computer!

But now? Entering the warehouse, you can see that there is a mess inside, only the last few large boxes, which contain backup engines, which look very new, and the others, all scattered everywhere, many of which have a thick layer of ash on them.

Such a mess! Andrei said as he walked: "According to the regulations, the inventory of spare parts in the warehouse is carried out once a year, right?" ”

"Yes, but, however, we are too busy maintaining the fighters in peacetime, and we really don't have time to take inventory." As the captain of the maintenance team, of course Akim knew that if he really counted it, the things in it were too bad, because many of them were secretly sold by himself, just to exchange for a few bottles of vodka.