Pietro was furious at Kalashnikov's departure, and the loss of a good gunsmith was no less than the loss of a large share of the arms market, and when he sent people to the train station to chase and intercept him, Kalashnikov and Albert had already left Italy by train.

When Albert returned to Belgium, he packed the fifty AKM rifles ordered by George Sr. and handed them over to the agents of the Genovessa family, which was generally a small elite system with about 50 people, and the larger families would have 100 to 200 people, but they had several times the number of agents and partners who were responsible for the legal or illegal income of the entire family.

As for how to bring this batch of arms back to Italy, it is their business, Albert is only responsible for selling arms, not free shipping, and if AKM can seize the underground arms market in Italy, it will be a piece of meat, although the meat is small, it can be eaten, Albert has always flattered the spirit of greed and chewing.

Today Albert wants to show Kalashnikov something special, a gun to be exact. And when Kalashnikov first saw the small black firearm, he wondered, "Is this a pistol?" Isn't it too big? ”

In the minds of Russian gunsmiths, the size of the pistol should be about the same size as the Makarov pistol.

Albert took it and explained, "This is a prototype gun, the latest firearm from NORINCO, not a pistol, but a submachine gun, to be precise. ”

"Submachine guns?" Kalashnikov was slightly surprised, in his impression, submachine guns rarely integrated the magazine and grip shooting, from the Soviet ** Sha, the German MP40, the American Thompson or M3 submachine guns, are all products of the magazine front-loading series.

"We plan to insert the magazine of this submachine gun into the grip, which is a position that allows for quick magazine changes, especially at night when the vision is poor. The magazine, on the other hand, is a double-row double-feed magazine that is used directly, and there are observation holes on the wall of the magazine to see the remaining ammunition. ”

Historically, the design of the Uzi submachine gun magazine is borrowed from the double-row double-feed magazine of the Beretta M12 submachine gun, the advantage of the double-feed magazine is that the bolt only needs a small bolt energy when pushing the bullet, and the double single-feed magazine such as MP40, Stern, M3A1 and other double-single-feed magazines require greater bolt energy when pushing the bullet, so that the chance of failure is greater. In addition, the double-row single-entry magazine will be more difficult to reload without the assistance of tools.

"This gun uses 9mm Balabylum rounds, of course, there are also .45-inch ACP rounds, the magazine capacity is set to 25 rounds, of course we can provide 30 rounds, 25 rounds and 32 rounds according to the customer's needs."

The Israeli army had experimented with 40-round magazines, but the 40-round Beretta magazines were more prone to supply failures, so they were quickly discontinued and decommissioned. In the end, the Uzi's standard magazine was set at 32 rounds. Other manufacturers also produce 50-round magazines or 100-round drums, such as VectorArms in the United States, but this 50-round magazine or 100-round drum is not very useful in actual combat, and is more of a private collection product. Therefore, Albert thought that the Uzi submachine gun was a sharp weapon for close combat, and a magazine of 32 or 25 rounds was sufficient.

Originally, the Uzi submachine gun had a special magazine paralleler, which could link two magazines together in an "L" shape. It is said that when parallel magazines are connected in this way, the center of gravity is increased under the barrel, which helps to reduce muzzle jump. Albert was also going to get this thing out.

"This gun has an envelope structure?" Kalashnikov asked, knowing that the M12 submachine gun produced by Beretta was also an envelope structure, but he would not give Albert the slightest hint about his work ethic.

But even if he didn't say that Albert knew what kind of firearm Beretta had made, he nodded, "Yes, we kept this gun as compact as possible, you can see that his bullet socket plane is 101mm from the front of the bolt." When the bolt is locked and fired at the moment, the front part of the bolt has a long section set on the tail of the barrel. This made it possible to both shorten the full length of the gun and avoid damaging the working mechanism of the gun or injuring the shooter in the event of a malfunction such as early or late fire. And due to the use of a front impact fire for the gun, it was also possible to counteract part of the pressure impulse of gunpowder gases. ”

"Due to the use of a front impact fire, when the bullet has not yet entered the chamber, the firing pin and the primer of the bullet are not aligned, and this forms a mechanical safety before firing. In addition, there is a ratchet safety in the handle slot, when the handle is moved back more than 48mm for some reason, that is, the plane of the bolt cartridge socket just retreats to the rear of the magazine mouth, even if the handle slips, the bolt cannot be re-entered and pushed into the chamber, because the ratchet safety will hang the bolt at this time. When the handle is set back into place, the snap ring is moved to the front so that the bolt can re-enter. In this way, the gun can be dropped and 'misfired'. ”

During World War II, many soldiers had a deep psychological shadow of the submachine gun falling to the ground and misfired, especially like the Stern submachine gun, its safety was only to hang the bolt in the groove in the rear position to prevent the firing, many Allied soldiers were injured or even killed by their submachine guns before they reached the front line, and it is said that some armies stipulated that the Staden submachine gun should go in front to avoid accidentally injuring his comrades. The British soldiers believed that if they threw the Stern submachine gun, they would definitely injure the enemy with a misfiring bullet. Soon, the gun became the most hated weapon of the Allied soldiers.

"Our Uzi submachine guns use a lot of stamping and welding processes, which is to reduce costs and weight. The receiver is made of heavy-gauge steel plate, and there are stiffeners stamped on both sides, which can improve the strength on the one hand, and on the other hand, it can hold dirt such as sediment and grease, which helps to make the gun operate reliably in harsh conditions such as wind, sand and muddy water. The front end of the receiver is welded with a 96mm long barrel positioning sleeve, and the outer surface of the front end of the sleeve is threaded, which is connected to the barrel fixing nut, so that the barrel can be reliably positioned in the receiver. The missile plate is welded to the front of the magazine mouth on the receiver, and the throwing shell is riveted behind it. The front support is made of high-strength plastic, and there is a gap between the front support and the receiver to facilitate heat dissipation. ”

"But IMHO, this gun is not suitable for large-scale equipment troops." After reading the test firing data of the Uzi submachine gun, Kalashnikov raised his own questions, "First, its range is too short, and it is most effective within a range of 50 meters, while the warring parties are basically at a distance of more than 100 meters. The second is that it is too powerful, using a nine-mm balabylum round, which is not as powerful as my AKS submachine gun, and its rate of fire is too high, and it is not very accurate at long range. ”

Albert listened carefully to Kalashnikov's questions and made some notes on paper, and then he asked, "It seems that I never said that this submachine gun was designed for large-scale recommendation to the army, right?" ”

Kalashnikov was a little speechless, "Isn't it true that you have been developing submachine guns for the front-line troops from the beginning to the end?" ”

"Why did we design such a firearm for the front-line troops?" Albert asked rhetorically.

Kalashnikov was baffled by Albert's rhetorical question, isn't the submachine gun a product of equipping front-line troops?

Originally intended as a self-defense weapon for officers, crew members and artillery units, as well as a front-line weapon for elite units, Israeli soldiers during the Six-Day War considered the Uzi SMG's compact size and firepower to be ideal for clearing pillboxes built by Syrian and Jordanian soldiers. At the time of Reagan's assassination, U.S. Secret Service agent Robert pulled out an Uzi submachine gun to protect the president, and made a live advertisement for Uzi in front of people all over the world.

Uzi was not accurate or effective in dealing fire at a relatively long distance. It was for these reasons that the IDF finally decided to eliminate Uzi with assault rifles. In the 1980s, the IDF began to phase out the Uzi, but there were still a few units equipped with this weapon in small quantities, and it was not until December 2003 that the IDF officially announced that all Uzi submachine guns had been retired from the army.

But in reality, this decommissioning program is mainly the standard type in the regular army, and some mini and ** versions of the self-defense weapon used as a self-defense weapon for senior officers, second-class personnel, or special forces are still in service.

If Pietro knew that they didn't intend to compete with you in the front-line army market with submachine guns, he wouldn't be? Equipping front-line troops with submachine guns was originally a conservative and outdated concept of weapons, and in the future, assault rifles will be the main weapons of front-line troops.

"Okay, Comrade Kalashnikov, please read on, because there are a few more family members of the Uzi submachine gun to introduce."