Brazilian Ministry of Defense in Rio de Janeiro, Office of the New Minister of Defense.

After attending the inauguration ceremony of the new president, Fang Lang drove directly outside the minister's office and waited for General Moraes to summon him.

It wasn't until about four o'clock in the afternoon that General Moraes arrived late.

After seeing General Moraes return to the office, Fang Lang, who had been waiting outside the office, hurriedly got up and saluted, not daring to show any dissatisfaction.

General Moraes took the initiative to greet Fang Lang very enthusiastically and said:

"Haha. Colonel Fang, we have a meeting. No need to be polite! Come and let's come in."

After speaking, he patted Fang Lang's arm and strode into the office first.

After entering the office, he instructed Fang Lang to sit down on the sofa in the reception room, picked up the coffee pot with his own hands and made coffee for Fang Lang.

This made Fang Lang feel a little flattered, and hurriedly got up to help.

was stopped by General Moraes and said:

"Just sit down, I have to make this cup of coffee myself."

Fang Lang had also dealt with General Moraes twice, and understood that this kind of treatment was obviously not something that everyone could enjoy.

Seeing the other party's resolute attitude, he didn't continue to excuse himself, but just showed a flattered expression appropriately.

General Moraes didn't let Fang Lang wait long, and after brewing the coffee, he went to Fang Lang and said:

"At the inauguration of Mr. President, I heard that your company has been able to produce American 105MM howitzers.

It's pretty remarkable.

I think that when we were in the exchange of naval construction, you were able to offer to build our own modern shipyard in Brazil.

I'm glad you did what you promised.

Today I would like to ask you if your shipyard is allowed to undertake the task of building warships, whether it will be able to complete it."

When Fang Lang heard that it was such a good thing, he immediately relieved himself.

However, he knows that there is still a big difference between building a container ship and building a warship, at least in the steel used. So, don't dare to brag.

can only be honest:

"Your Excellency, our shipyard is just getting started, and we are accumulating experience in building ships.

If we build warships now, I'm afraid that something will go wrong due to our lack of experience, and our family will die.

And, most importantly, our family has not yet found a material formula for armor steel for warships.

This time, I went to Germany to see if I could find a recipe for the armor steel of the ship.

However, due to time constraints, there is no harvest yet."

After hearing Fang Lang's words, General Moraes was obviously a little disappointed, but he quickly disappeared and continued:

"It's okay, I'm sure we'll succeed, if there's anything you need me to do, be sure to tell me directly, and I'll do my best to help you get there."

Fang Lang was still very moved by General Moraes' sincere concern.

Although Fang Lang also understands that the other party wants to quickly let Brazil have its own warship building capabilities.

After thinking about it, Fang Lang said:

"Don't worry! If I can't get the recipe I need from Germany, I think I can find another way from Italy."

In the conversation just now, Fang Lang suddenly remembered that when Universal Shipbuilding acquired a shipyard in Genoa, Italy, there was a military shipyard next to it.

And it seems to have been mentioned at the time that there were many engineers from Italian military shipyards who were recruited by Italy's Globe shipyards.

Now that Mr. Minister of Defense has mentioned that he wants to build ships on his own, the design strength of Brazil's domestic shipyards will begin to improve, and perhaps engineers and designers with experience in building warships from Globe Shipbuilding's shipyards around the world will soon be able to build a design team for the construction of Brazilian naval ships.

Then you can start following the Brazilian Sea

The needs of the military began to carry out the design work of the warship.

In fact, Fang Lang didn't want to start the construction of warships so early, because he knew that the current warships were about to become obsolete, and the future was the era of missile ships, and it would be a bit of a waste to start building warships now.

Fortunately, General Moraes, after hearing that the technical problems of expert steel had not yet been solved, did not continue to talk about the topic of independent shipbuilding, but changed the conversation:

"Today I heard General Leta tell me that you are going to set up your own light weapons company?"

Fang Lang didn't expect General Leta to report this matter directly to the Minister of Defense.

For a moment, I was a little caught off guard, and I couldn't figure out what General Moraes's purpose was in asking about this matter.

It's not like Mr. Defense Minister wants to get involved!

If General Moraes wanted to join the group, Fang Lang would not refuse, after all, being able to get in touch with General Moraes would definitely be of great benefit to his future in the army.

"Yes, Your Excellency. This time, I happened to meet a very good firearms designer in Germany, and chatted with him about some firearm design concepts and development trends.

I was accidentally persuaded by him, and I thought to see if I could support his research, so I decided to set up a small arms company in Brazil."

General Moraes was visibly interested in Fang Lang's claims.

"Oh! I wonder if you can talk to me about how you think about the development of firearms and what kind of design philosophy this designer has."

This made Fang Lang a little blind, how do you look at the development trend of firearms, I know a yarn!

My thoughts are judged by the fact that those weapons in later generations eventually became mainstream, and you now ask me how this trend came about.

How do I know!

But now it's the Minister of Defense who asks, it's not brothers and friends who brag together, you can't say, I guess!

After thinking about it, Fang Lang still said:

"I've also heard from the designer that he doesn't have any mature ideas, but his statement really convinced me.

If there's something wrong, I hope you don't blame it."

When General Moraes heard Fang Lang's words, he took a sip of coffee, and motioned to Fang Lang with a smile on his face to continue:

"This trend is mainly based on the fact that the German army used the G43 semi-automatic rifle in the war, which exposed the shortcomings of insufficient firepower in the face of machine gun suppression.

And the range and accuracy of the submachine gun did not help much.

The weight and supply pressure of a light machine gun are unacceptable.

Later in the war, the elite infantry squad of the German army began to be equipped with an STG-44 assault rifle, and in actual combat, Allied soldiers with semi-automatic weapons had little chance of winning against German soldiers equipped with automatic rifles.

Automatic rifles rely on their fierce firepower, high accuracy, long range, good ergonomics, and mature and reliable technical performance to completely crush semi-automatic weapons.

Therefore, we believe that the future development trend of rifles must be automatic rifles with more ferocious firepower, that is, assault rifles."

Fang Lang's words made General Moraes fall into deep thought, and after a while, he asked:

"Have you considered the ammo consumption of a fully automatic rifle?"

After all, it is not an American tyrant, and Brazil's economic conditions are not good, so the first problem that General Moraes thought of was the terrifying ammunition consumption of fully automatic rifles.

Fang Lang can't say that the greater the ammunition consumption, the more I earn!

I could only nod and say:

"Officially, based on this consideration, I didn't make a big deal about this matter, and I was only prepared to take out some of my own funds to support the research of new equipment."

Hearing Fang Lang's words, General Moraes' eyes were full of appreciation, and after thinking for a while, he asked:

"Have you ever considered that if a fully automatic rifle were to use burst mode, the strong recoil would instantly send the bullets from behind to the sky? This is what you call an automatic step

Isn't the accuracy of the gun gone?"

In the end, it was the old army, and General Moraes easily discovered the shortcomings of the current automatic rifle.

In fact, Fang Lang has already discovered this problem, but he is ready to wait for Ludwig Folger to come to Brazil before proposing to change it.

After all, the rifle bullets used in various countries are basically full-power large-caliber bullets, especially the 7.92 mm * 57 mm full-power bullets used in Germany.

As a bolt-action rifle or semi-automatic rifle, this bullet has no problem firing at a range of more than 800 meters.

However, when used as an automatic rifle, the bullet is clearly overpowered.

ALL CALIBERS LATER USED BY BOTH THE SOVIET AND NATO WERE 7.62MM CALIBERS.

THE SOVIET UNION USED INTERMEDIATE-POWER MUNITIONS EARLIER THAN THE UNITED STATES, SO THE AK47 USED INTERMEDIATE-POWER MUNITIONS WITH A LENGTH OF 39MM.

NATO used rifle cartridges, which led to the effective range of the G3 assault rifle, which later used NATO standard bullets, which exceeded the effective range of the AK47 of 300 meters.

Of course, we're talking about effective range! The AK47 has a scale range of 800 meters, and the maximum lethal range is 1,500 meters.

Fang Lang also knew that most of the rifles in later generations used 5.56 caliber, and later disliked the armor-piercing ability of 5.56, so he began to study 6.8 caliber bullets.

These are all things half a century later, and it is impossible for Fang Lang to do such a thing ahead of his time.

After all, what is good in the future is not necessarily the most suitable for the current era.

In Fang Lang's mind, there was actually a bullet of specification that appeared in Fang Lang's heart for a long time.

That is, Czechoslovakia has an intermediate power bomb, and Fang Lang thinks it is very good.

While the recoil may be slightly greater than that of the AK, it is certainly less than the recoil of using NATO standard shells.

If not, just remind Ludwig Folger to add a muzzle brake in front of the muzzle!

Isn't this kind of recoil and power more appropriate?

"Your Excellency, this requires us to transform the full-power bullet into the medium-power bullet."

As soon as these words came out, General Moraes immediately understood what Fang Lang meant, but changing bullets was much more stressful than changing firearms.

The manufacture of firearms generally revolves around bullets.

The good thing is that Brazil does not have its own bullet standard right now.

However, now all the ammunition of the Brazilian army is American-style bullets, which are the standard bullets of the American-style M1 Garand rifle.

If the bullets are to be replaced, it means that all the bullets in the domestic stock will be scrapped, and this loss is very huge.

For a while, General Moraes became in a dilemma, of course he wanted to support Fang Lang's localization of light weapons, but if he wanted to change the caliber of bullets, this kind of thing would affect the whole body.

It is impossible for him to decide by himself.

Although General Moraes has not yet confirmed whether Fang Lang's development trend of light weapons is correct, this does not affect Moraes' desire to support Fang Lang's thoughts.