Chapter 1273 Oman's trip to South America
On the White House and Loma's side, Xiao Yang greeted him in advance, set the time for the meeting a few days later, and arrived in the United States, he did not go to Washington as soon as possible, but went to Hartford with Oman.
At present, Colt is growing up healthily.
Although the M16 and M4 series have lost orders from the military, the share of the civilian market is not low, and the P41 is now not only supplied to the military but also provides police, and in Europe, it also cooperates with country F, and the rest, sniper rifles have also begun to open up the market, which can be described as a bright future.
But with the major light weapons companies jointly launched a new standard for military weapons, a group of high-level people felt a crisis, the prototype of the modular rifle appeared, they undoubtedly attached great importance to it, Xiao Yang and Oman arrived deliberately did not let them get to usher in that set, but when they arrived at the company, a group of high-level executives were waiting inside.
Xiao Yang is okay, after all, he will always come once every three or five months, but Oman will come less, a year, or more than a year, for such a boss to appear, the management naturally does not dare to slack off, after politeness and greetings, it is already more than half an hour.
Aman is better at communicating at the business level than Xiao Yang, and he doesn't feel any discomfort with such a scene, but Xiao Yang is different, seeing that several of them are still eager to speak, he bluntly interrupted them.
"There's still something to do, let's sit down together and talk about it later, this time we'll stay here for two days, and we have time."
Everyone knew that he was impatient, and they didn't dare to say more, they nodded one after another, except for a limited number of people such as the executive president, the rest of them left one after another.
Oman has the title of chairman in Colt, but he rarely comes to exercise his powers, more often, it is Xiao Yang, who is only a shareholder, to do these things, but the company's management has acquiesced to this fact, but when the chairman comes, it is naturally impossible to turn a blind eye, so the meeting or something must be unavoidable.
Xiao Yang couldn't leave him alone to go to Bakken, and by the time the two went to the R&D department, it had been half a day since they arrived.
"Where's the thing, take it out and take a look."
When they arrived at Bakken's place, they didn't talk to each other so much red tape, and after saying a few words, Xiao Yang asked him to take out the prototype gun and look at it.
Baken was shouted down from the workbench by Xiao Yang, and he was a little embarrassed to hear this.
Xiao Yang and their arrival, he knew about it very early, and he also knew Xiao Yang's intentions, in the morning, he specially prepared a complete sample gun, but there was a small test before and the sample gun was dismantled, and he has been busy with things since then, he simply forgot that Xiao Yang and they will see the sample gun as soon as they come.
"I'm going to have to wait a while, there was a test before, and I dismantled it all......"
Seeing his embarrassed appearance, Xiao Yang laughed, turned his head and said to Aman: "I'm right, people like them, if you really want to explain them to do things other than technology, it's absolutely unreliable......"
When they first came to the R&D department from the office building, the two talked about Bakken's affairs here, and Xiao Yang said that Bakken was sloppy, but he didn't expect him to be accurate.
Aman and Bakken didn't have much contact, so naturally he didn't know this, listening to Xiao Yang's words, he couldn't help but feel that it was unlikely, but he didn't expect that it hadn't been ten minutes before the matter was verified, and he immediately laughed.
On Kutos's side, there are similar people, who are more or less focused and always have some problems in terms of human affairs or other aspects, and he doesn't think this kind of thing is very important, and he doesn't care.
However, Beiken became more and more embarrassed when Xiao Yang said this, or Xiao Yang couldn't bear to let him continue to be embarrassed, and hurriedly waved his hand to show that it didn't matter, "You let people prepare, it won't take much effort to think about it." ”
The formation of a new gun, in which the complexity of the program is unimaginable to outsiders, not to mention large parts, just a firing pin, it takes tens of thousands of hundreds of thousands of tests, it is conceivable how many tests are needed in the research and development stage of a gun to finally become a product.
Bakken gave an explanation to the staff, and in just five minutes, the staff came over with a gun that looked similar to FN's SCAR rifle.
"What's going on?" In appearance, it looks similar to the mainstream SCAR rifle, but this color, dark and light, does not look so pleasing to the eye.
"Haven't done any external processing yet. The current color is the color of the material itself, and the current test is mainly for structural performance, and further testing will be done for external treatment. ”
The good gun looked like a leper dog, it looked a little unappetizing, and he couldn't help but look at its color, Xiao Yang took the gun and looked at it with Aman.
"The whole gun is divided into three parts, the receiver, the stock, and the barrel, of which the receiver can be split into two parts, and can be replaced with a variety of barrels of three calibers, 5.56 mm, 6.8 mm, 7.62 mm caliber, 11.5 inches, 14.5 inches, 18 inches, and 20 inches of barrels......"
Rifle/modular, the purpose is to be more adaptable to the battlefield environment, just like the current M4 series, if used in the Middle East battlefield, unless you have enough logistics, otherwise, maybe a battle will run out of ammunition soon after it begins, and the gun in your hand will become a burning stick, because the most common thing in the Middle East battlefield is 7.62 mm AK ammunition, and the M4 series, except for special models, are all used 5.56 mm, that is to say, after you finish the ammunition you carry with you, you can't get the ammunition replenished at all.
But the modular rifle is different, it can carry a variety of barrels with you, and you can easily change the caliber when necessary, so that even if you go behind enemy lines, you are not afraid of running out of ammunition.
Of course, this is only one advantage of modular rifles, in addition, the replacement of multiple barrels can make the gun convertible between assault rifles, sniper rifles, machine guns, and so on......
Despite these introductions in the previous report, Xiao Yang and Aman listened carefully to Beckon's words until he finished speaking, and after disassembling the gun, they asked him, "Can this gun fire ammunition now?" ”
Bakken nodded, "It's no problem to fire ammunition." Yesterday, the first batch of guns was formed, and after the initial monitoring, I had people test them with live ammunition, and now there are 10 guns being tested at the shooting range, do you want to go and see them? ”
The two of them can be regarded as experts in guns, but this refers to the use, the structure of the gun itself, compared with Bakken, it can only be regarded as half an expert, under the naked eye, it is difficult to determine the real quality of a gun, and the shooting result is the most intuitive, you must know that the gun is used to kill, the accuracy is not good, the power is not enough, and the material of the gun itself is good for nothing.
Of course, they were in favor of Bakken's proposal.
"I'm definitely going to see it, let's go, I'll go right away."
Colt has several shooting ranges, and the company's indoor shooting range is the most professional for detailed testing, such as component life......
Opening the soundproof door and entering the shooting range, the sound of banging gunfire entered everyone's ears, and Beckon did not lead them to the target track, but to a room to the right of the entrance.
This shooting range, Xiao Yang and Oman have been here, and unlike ordinary shooting ranges, the tests here are all done by machinery, and the test results are all controlled by the computer, and the results need to be checked, as long as they stare at the computer, Bakken brought them here directly, and they were not surprised.
The two of them didn't know much about too professional things, but the test data was not a difficult thing, and when they walked into it, Bakken asked the staff to come to the test results, and they didn't need him to explain, so they picked it up and looked at it.
There aren't many projects being tested at the moment, and they'll be done in a while.
"The numbers look good." Aman looked up at Bakken.
Beken was not surprised that Xiao Yang and Aman knew professional knowledge, he knew a long time ago that the two of them had a certain ability to change guns, and they were more or less familiar with this aspect by themselves.
He smiled at Aman's words and said: "The time is too short, the test items are limited, judging from the current results, it is quite good, but I am sure that every data cannot be so perfect, a new gun, there will be some problems, but we haven't tested it yet......
Neither Xiao Yang nor Aman felt that he was too little confident, but knew that he was telling the truth.
If a product wants to be formed at one time, it is simply a fantasy, not to mention other fields, at least in the field of small arms design, they have never heard of anyone who designed a new gun and can produce it without testing.