This was Albert's first visit to the FN company in Liège, and it was still 1945, and the FN company had not yet designed the P90, no F2000, no SCAR, and even the most popular product was a firearm designed by Browning more than ten years ago. It can be said that FN has been in a state of eating its old capital for so many years.

When Albert walked into the room, it was already full of gunsmiths, but Albert recognized only two of them, one was the chief designer Seifer, and the other was Ernest Fairfi, who designed the MAG58 general-purpose machine gun, which was as widely used around the world as the Soviet PKM machine gun.

Albert noticed that except for the two designers who looked more serious, everyone else had a slight impatient expression. It's no wonder that having a person who has never been in contact with firearms before to talk to a group of professional designers about the development of firearms is really suspicious of having an axe.

And Albert didn't pay attention to the emotions of the people, directly took out his own design drawings, and began to explain, slapping his face with facts and pretending to be forced with actions has always been his life principle.

"Gentlemen, it is a pleasure for me to visit FN and to be able to discuss the future of firearms with renowned firearms designers. As I mentioned earlier, the future of firearms will be geared towards a successful combination of the best tactical and technical performance inherent in rifles and submachine guns. It is possible to shoot in a fully automatic, semi-automatic or burst manner, firing intermediate power bullets or small-caliber rifle bullets, with an effective range of about 300-400 meters. Personally, I like to call it an assault rifle. ”

"This gun is characterized by a high rate of fire, stable shooting, moderate recoil, and a short and light barrel. It is an automatic rifle with the heavy fire of a submachine gun and a shooting power close to that of an ordinary rifle. ”

Albert distributed the design drawings of AKM to the professional designers, and even Seifer and Ernest were secretly surprised that they could not get the professional design drawings, and the detailed parameters in it were not at all possible for a person who had not been exposed to firearms design to do.

Albert, who was a military house in his previous life, naturally talked about various data of AK, "The main feature of this rifle is that it uses a riveting receiver, which is very light, only 3.15KG in weight. There are two modes of launch, single shot and burst, the theoretical rate of fire can reach 600RPM, the maximum lethality range is about 1500 meters, and the effective range is about 500 meters. Uses 7.62×39mm M43 shells. It has a bevel-cut muzzle anti-jump device on the muzzle, which is screwed to the muzzle, which can improve the dispersion accuracy when firing in bursts. ”

Compared with the previous AK47, the weight of the rifle is reduced, mainly by using a large number of stamping parts, and changing the riveting to welding, such as the barrel nod sleeve and tailstock are spot welded on the 1mm thick U-shaped casing, and the frame-bolt guide is also stamped and spot-welded on the inner wall of the casing; The magazine was changed to light alloy, which can be used with the original steel magazine, and a glass fiber plastic compression molded magazine was also developed later, which can also be completely universal.

The stock, handguard and grip are made of resin synthetic. The surface of the bolt and bolt frame is phosphated; There is a small magazine positioning slot on each side of the receiver and stiffeners on the receiver cover. The range of the gauge is increased, the gauge is divided into 200~1000m, and one is divided into 200m; Both the cylindrical front sight and the U-shaped notched gate have reversible attachments and are filled with the fluorescent material Radium 221 for night aiming. Switch to a new type of multifunctional bayonet. The handguard has finger slots on it, which makes it easy for the shooter to control the weapon when firing in bursts. A dovetail groove has been added to the gun, which can be used to install side mirror bridges and scopes.

However, because AKM and AK47 do not look much different in appearance, later generations mistakenly referred to AKM rifles as AK47, but in fact, the world's largest circulation and most widespread influence in addition to China's Type 56 is AKM.

"And I heard that Your Excellency Sever and your design team are designing a semi-automatic rifle, it's not that I specifically want to hack the design of your FN company, and use such a weapon that is about to keep up with the pace of the times, it is better to directly adopt the next generation of new rifles." Albert challenged Sever's design, and of course, knowing the fate of the firearm, which had only been equipped with troops for a few years, was completely replaced by the FAL automatic rifle.

As soon as Albert's voice fell, some designers began to can't help but struggle, "First of all, I admit that Your Excellency Albert's design is excellent, although this gun has sacrificed its range, but it takes into account the firepower of the submachine gun and increases its power. But I would like to ask your Excellency Albert, apart from these two refreshing points, are there any other design highlights? If that's the case alone, I think the German St-g44 is already ahead of you. ”

Albert replied categorically, "Of course, the St-g44 rifle designed by the Germans was too complex, and the production cost led to its high cost, and my design was not even half the price of his." And I can bet you that this gun is more than capable of shooting in extreme environments. ”

"Extreme environment design?" Seifer, who had been silent, finally spoke, "This is very new, I want to hear about the extreme environmental law?" ”

"This gun is soaked in muddy water, and it can be picked up to shoot. Buried in the sand, you can shoot it when you pick it up. Soak in the water, pick it up and shoot it still has no problem. That's the beauty of this firearm. Cheap, suitable for mass production, with strong firepower, whether it is a regular army or a civilian armed force, it can be quickly used, this is a cross-era automatic rifle. ”

"It's nonsense." The designer who had just retorted to Albert stood up, "If Your Excellency Albert is talking about it in order to promote his own products, I don't think there is any need for our discussion to continue." After all, we need serious design, not your exaggerated magic show, Your Highness. ”

Unceremoniously refuting a prince is really something that this group of gunsmiths can do, and they find it difficult to accept Albert's statement, a firearm that can still shoot without obstacles when it is stained with mud? In World War II, no matter which country designed the firearms, they did not dare to say so.

Albert looked at this outrageous designer with a sneer in his heart, exaggerating? Joke, you stupid bastard, you haven't seen how rebellious the Vietnam War was more than 20 years later. An American soldier found an AK47 under the corpse of the Viet Cong that had been rotting and smelling for more than 40 days, and at that time the internal organs and everything flowed into the body of the gun to block it, but it was still able to fire after picking it up and loading the magazine.

"That's why I said, I want to make a bet with all of you for 300,000 francs. If I lose, how about paying 600,000 francs to each of you? As a prince of the Delman Empire, this amount of money can still be afforded. ”

In 1945, the salary of the senior designer of the FN company was only 200,000 francs a month, and Albert's odds clearly made the confident designers excited.

"Okay." Someone is already starting to take the bait.

"Me too." The second person is stupid and has a lot of money and starts to take the bait.

"Count me in." It was clear that everyone was impressed by Albert's bet.

Albert quietly hoisted up the four designers, and Seifer did not participate in the frivolous bet, and he had been discussing the feasibility of the firearm called the AKM with Ernest next to him. In his opinion, this gun is 100% well-designed in terms of data, but what the specific situation is, we will have to wait until the appearance of the prototype gun to make another plan.

"I would like to ask, Mr. Sever, when will you be able to make an experimental firearm?" Albert asked politely.

"There are specific drawings and parameters, and if you make it manually, it will only take about a month." Seifer groaned for a moment, and reported the date and time.

"Good." Albert nodded, "Then there will be a new gun launch in a month, and I hope everyone here will have the francs ready at that time." ”

"Now, let's talk about the blueprints for another firearm." Albert took out another stack of drawings from his bag and handed them to the designers present.

Everyone looked at each other, is this prince really the legendary loser who only knows how to spend time and drink? Why did this guy get so professional and throw us off the streets?

This time it was Sever's turn to be calm, he couldn't help but straighten up and asked, "Dear Lord Albert, how many blueprints do you have for the new firearm?" ”

Albert spread his hands and smiled, "The FAL automatic rifle, this is the blueprint of my last firearm." You don't want me to get one more. ”