Chapter 35: Look, I've been slapped in the face

Today's NORINCO is very lively, not only the Belgian military department sent representatives to come, but even the Izhevsk arsenal also sent representatives to attend this press conference, of course, they are not the largest manufacturer of Kalashnikov rifles, but they are still one of the largest arms manufacturers in the Soviet Union.

But the most surprising thing for Albert was that he met Giovanni Agnelli Jr., the future helm of Fiat, and if you don't know what Fiat is, you've heard of his Maserati and Ferrari subsidiaries, which were the first car manufacturer in the world to produce minicars.

You may ask a car manufacturing company to come to the gun show to join in the fun? That's a big mistake, the world's first submachine gun, named the Liveri Mod.1914 machine gun by the Italian army, was produced by Fiat, and the chairman of Fiat at that time was Giovanni Agnelli's grandfather, Giovanni Agnelli Sr. And Yafit not only produces automobiles, armored vehicles, tanks, aircraft engines and firearms.

In order to completely solve the problem of broken shell jam in the chamber, Giovanni Agnelli gave up the method of lubricating the chamber and cut out a longitudinal groove in the chamber to solve this problem, the principle is to let a small amount of gunpowder gas leak into the chamber, so that the cartridge case is in a "floating" state in the chamber, so as to reduce the resistance of the shell and avoid the cartridge case sticking to the chamber. The patent he applied for was widely used in later weapon designs, including the famous HK G3 rifle.

However, Giovanni Agnelli Sr. died of illness three months ago, and Giovanni Agnelli Jr.'s father, Juventus club chairman Edoaldo. When he was 14 years old, Agnelli was killed while piloting a seaplane. And his mother also left last year, and Giovanni Agnelli Jr., who suffered the death of a loved one, was once decadent and became a playboy who was drunk with money.

It is estimated that this time to attend his own press conference is also arranged by Vittorio Valletta, chairman of Fiat Company, after all, he was the company's second-in-command, and now he has become a powerful figure, and he also hopes that little Giovanni can cheer up as soon as possible, so he arranged to come over to participate in his new gun press conference.

However, Vittorio's wishful thinking came to naught, and Giovanni's transformation in history came when he crashed into a large truck at 200 km/h in a Ferrari after a car accident one night in 1952. Then in 1953 he married Marella, daughter of the Maharaja of Naples. General reports described the crash as a turning point in his life.

Although Giovanni Agnelli later said: "That argument is meaningless, it is that I am almost 30 years old, and when I am 30 years old, and I am married, my outlook on life will change somewhat." I began to prepare to take responsibility. As Valletta got older, I realized that sooner or later I would have to carry a heavy load. So I started working, and it didn't take long for me to get used to it, and I developed a love for my work. ”

Fiat then developed into a large Fiat multinational group under his leadership.

When Albert saw this report, no matter how he thought about it, he wondered if little Giovanni's body was taken away by some traverser after the car accident.

But at this time, Albert still expressed his deep sorrow to little Giovanni, in fact, he was also thinking in his heart, you Ferrari don't come to fight with us for arms business, one Beretta is enough for a headache, and another Fiat will not kill me?

However, Albert only said hello to the VIPs, because the press conference began quickly, and it was the first time he had stood on the stage in front of so many heavyweight light weapons experts, and of course, the enemy Piertro whose eyes were about to burn.

"Damn, wait a minute, your new gun had better blow up and jam, I'll see how you can show off in front of them." Pietro cursed without a particular gentlemanly demeanor.

However, Albert on the podium could not hear Pietro's whispered curses, and he enthusiastically addressed the crowd, "Gentlemen, it is a pleasure to stand here and introduce you to the new firearms produced by NORINCO and FN, of course, this time I say sorry, because the new firearms have suffered a lot of changes before they were released, so the new firearms that should have been seen last month were actually released this month." ”

Albert picked up the Uzi submachine gun and introduced it to everyone, "Look, this is the Uzi submachine gun produced by our company, there are three models, namely the Uzi submachine gun, the mini Uzi submachine gun and the miniature Uzi submachine gun, these three firearms are specially designed to perform different tasks, and this submachine gun is not like those big and stupid guys in World War II, he is small, as small as a pistol easy to hide, and its firepower is powerful, the rate of fire is high, it is a good close support weapon." The last time the Greek Communist Party extremists assassinated the Prime Minister, this was the case, of course, these firearms were not supplied to the Greek Communist Party by our company, but the last batch of submachine guns were stolen and then passed into the hands of others. ”

"Fortunately, it is the paramilitary operatives of the Belgian Strategic Resources Cooperation Company who are responsible for the security of the Prime Minister, otherwise the assassination would have been successful." Albert also boasted of selling melons.

Piertro's face was gloomy, and his eyes were fixed on Albert, eager to break this little guy into pieces, but he didn't expect that he would be pecked blind by a little sparrow all his life.

"SVD sniper rifle with an effective range of 600 meters and a maximum lethal range of up to 3000 meters. And this sniper rifle is not as delicate as other precision rifles, it is capable of shooting in extremely harsh environments. High accuracy and ease of maintenance are its strengths, and a month ago, government forces used it to knock out the head of PKP leader Marcos Wafiadis. ”

Albert would not be foolish enough to admit that he had done a good deed, and he did not want to live in the shadow of being hunted down by the Greek Communist Party-Liberation Army for the rest of his life.

"Of course, we also have a program this time, which is to introduce the latest M/45 submachine gun and M12 submachine gun produced by the Italian company Beretta." Albert's words were like a depth charge, breaking the calm of the audience at once. Everyone is chattering about what NORINCO is doing?

Albert motioned for everyone to be quiet, "Okay, okay, I didn't take money from Beretta to help them publicize, but Mr. Pietro wanted to compete with my Uzi submachine gun when it came to the product, and now I would like to invite Mr. Pietro to come to the stage and explain it to us." ”

In the eyes of surprise or schadenfreude, Pietro calmly walked up to the stage, raising the M/45 submachine gun in one hand and the M12 submachine gun in the other. ”

"Okay." Albert agreed to Pietro's request, and the venue for the press conference was originally set up on the side of the test range, and all the guests got up and moved to the range to watch the shooting of three firearms.

The first to shoot live ammunition was the Mini Uzi, and Albert did not plan to use the Micro Uzi because it was not easy to control if it was not trained to fire continuously. The Mini-Uzi performed well, and the scatter of single shots and continuous shots at the fifty-meter range was not large. After watching the live firing, the delegates from Argentina and other countries kept nodding their heads in praise.

But there was one exception, and that was little Giovanni Agnelli, who was busy talking to his secretary's assistant, Miss Ellie, needless to say that the playboy was about to start preparing to conquer a woman again, but Albert was only talking about it, looking at it.

He really hopes to win Fiat as a heavyweight ally in the future, after all, Giovanni Agnelli Jr. has developed Teat into a multinational conglomerate, and the business has also expanded into heavy military enterprises. Albert still had to entrust some of the big designs he had in hand to such a company.

The performance of the next M/45 submachine gun is a bit unsatisfactory, first of all, the mini-Uzi is in front of it, and it loses in terms of small size alone, although the M/45 submachine gun is slightly superior in firepower, but the scatter distribution is too large when firing continuously, which makes people feel that the accuracy is not good.

In addition to its size, the M12 submachine gun is the gun that is the most comparable to the Mini Uzi in terms of performance, which gives Pietro hope, even if it can't win against the Uzi, at least it's a good thing to be on par with it.

However, Albert never missed a chance to fall into the ground, and immediately after the shooting test of the three firearms, he immediately quoted the price of the Uzi submachine gun, which only cost $25 a Uzi submachine gun, which is equivalent to half the price of the Thompson submachine gun.

Then Albert shrugged his shoulders at the stunned Piertro and gloated in Italian, "Old fox, it seems that you have lost a single hole card." ”

At this time, Pietro realized that he was completely put on the side by Albert, and he calculated that even if the performance of his M12 submachine gun was the same as that of Uzi, in terms of price, the M12 submachine gun for $35 had no advantage at all, and if his M12 was sold for $25, it was estimated that he would not even be able to earn back the capital.

"Damn Belgians." Pietro wanted to raise the gun in his hand and beat Albert into a sieve, especially with the other party's prelude expression of having the ability to hit me, but reason still made Pietro forcibly endure it.

Albert stared at Pietro's half-red old face with interest, and cursed viciously in his heart, "Old fellow, it's better if you're."

Seeing that everyone congratulated Albert, Pietro realized that he had lost, and that he had lost completely, and that even the sign of Beretta had been smashed into it by him.