Chapter 746: The Drunkard's Intention Monthly Pass)
If it can be said that Liu Tuanzuo's acquisition of DuPont's stock has shown to be crazy.
In fact, this is not enough to describe the evaluation of Liu Tuanzuo by everyone in the overseas branches of Huashang Group.
Liu Tuanzuo, who was almost crazy, even after spending nearly 50 million US dollars, he set his sights on the famous Springfield Arsenal, which was founded in 1794 and was the main state-owned small arms production and research center of the US government. It was also
There, the world-famous M1903 Springfield rifle, M1 Garand rifle, and M1911 series of pistols were designed.
The most prestigious small arms design center on the American continent.
It is a pity that the leader in the research and development of the absolute small arms series in the United States is now in crisis. The decrease in orders from the US military is just one of them. After the bloody World War I, the main customers European countries have not only begun to research their own
of small arms, and have slowed down a large number of arms purchases.
Liu Tuanzuo, after frantically acquiring shares in many commercial banks and other companies, once again waved his checks and brazenly extended his unfathomable "magic palm" to the U.S. state-run small arms production and research center.
After hearing this information, my American cousin almost laughed three times. The country bumpkins from China will definitely get a lot of trouble this time. The government will let a company from China hold shares in the Springfield Arsenal? That is absolutely true.
Impossible. Who doesn’t know that weapons manufacturing is the core project of a country’s national defense, and it cannot be replaced by profits.
In fact, not only his American cousin, but also the Ross family felt that Liu Lang was humiliating himself. There was no way the U.S. government would agree to such an absurd request. Even though they now subsidize nearly 10 million US dollars to the Springfield Arsenal every year
, and I haven’t seen them raising capital from the private sector.
In fact, this is indeed the case. When the U.S. Army Ordnance Department, the superior of the Springfield Arsenal, heard that a company from China wanted to invest in the struggling arsenal, it almost kicked out several CEOs of the overseas companies of the Huashang Group who expressed caution.
Go to the gate.
Obviously, the Chinese, who are backward in weapons manufacturing, want to develop light weapons and must not be allowed to succeed.
In fact, the U.S. Army Ordnance Department also has a petty mind of revenge. As a country with constant civil wars and a huge demand for small arms, China should have become a big customer of Springfield Arsenal, but the hateful Chinese are responsible for the Third Reich system.
They have a special liking for light weapons. Whether it is the Hanyang-made or Czech-made light machine guns or Maxim heavy machine guns they imitate, as well as the various mountain cannons they import, they are almost all weapons with the origin of the Third Reich.
On the other hand, although the Springfield rifles and M1911 pistols in the United States are also sold, compared with the standard weapons of the Third Reich widely used in China, the sales volume is, to use the words of the generals of the Third Reich, just a little bit of lip service.
Been selling it for several years.
Now, the Chinese who have "thought it through" have extended their "devil's hands" again, and they won't sell it anymore!
Yes, American cowboys can be so arrogant sometimes. Of course, American cowboys occasionally act stupid, and Liu Tuanzuo understands that. They have done this many times in history, and then they wake up after being beaten.
But this does not mean that Liu Tuanzuo will give up.
An order for rifles, light machine guns, heavy machine gun barrels, mortars, and mountain gun barrels, with a total quantity of up to 300,000 barrels, was just thrown on the desk of the president of the Springfield Arsenal by the overseas branch of Huashang Group.
There was almost no hesitation. There may be some American cowboys who are stupid, but they are never arrogant when doing business. They immediately succumbed to Liu Tuanzuo’s money offensive. Who can have trouble with money? You can’t offend the God of Wealth! Even those who can’t offend anyone can’t offend the God of Wealth.
In addition to most of the gun barrels being the familiar 7.97 mm caliber and some Japanese 6.5 caliber, there are also many lengthened gun barrel caliber specifications that I have never heard of, but this order must be made.
Because the price offered by the rich and somewhat evil Chinese is almost double the price sold to Europe and Southeast Asia, and those who don't sign are fools.
Although the Chinese made a very strange request, they hoped to hire Captain Leslie Skinner from the Aberdeen Proving Ground of the U.S. Army Ordnance Department to serve as a small arms equipment test consultant for two years in a Chinese factory, and were willing to pay for it.
A friendly donation of $200,000 to the Ordnance Department.
With such favorable conditions, what else can the bosses of the Ordnance Department say? Although the rich and stupid Chinese sent the order, in any case they still resisted the temptation of millions of dollars and rejected the backward China.
People’s acquisition of shares in the arsenal. I heard that few companies chose to refuse the check waved by the wealthy Chinese. This definitely safeguarded the dignity of the U.S. government and the American people.
I have to say that not only the Chinese have the Ah Q spirit, this spirit is actually worldwide.
With the approval of the Ordnance Department, and the salary offered by the Chinese was five times that of the United States, and the time was only two years, how could Captain Skinner disagree?
I'm afraid that the Americans who feel they have won, including the people from the Huashang Group, don't know that whether it's a share or the success of Springfield Arsenal helping to process gun barrels, that's not Liu Lang's goal.
Liu Lang's goal from beginning to end was only for one person, Captain Skinny. The guy who would later be called the father of "Bazooka".
Yes, Liu Lang's purpose in coming to the United States, besides making money and making more money, was to use the "Bazooka" rocket launcher, the most powerful anti-tank weapon in World War II.
As the originator of equal-caliber rocket launchers, its fame dwarfs other anti-tank weapons of the same period. Some even assert that the invention of the "Bazooka" was the greatest contribution the United States made to the development of anti-tank weapons during World War II. It
The emergence of the U.S. infantry allowed the U.S. infantry to regain confidence in the face of German tank attacks, and shaken the famous assertion that "tanks are the most effective anti-tank weapons."
In fact, individual rocket launchers are not high-tech. The United States actually started a project to research individual rocket launchers in the summer of 1918. The person in charge was Dr. R.H. Goddard, one of the founders of American rocket technology.
Dr. Dade has designed a variety of plans, and finally he believed that the most suitable caliber for infantry rocket launchers is 51mm.
The rocket launcher tube it designed has a total length of 1.68m and a mass of 3.4kg. When using it, the shooter must put the front of the tube on his shoulder to adjust the shooting direction at any time, and the rear of the tube is supported by a light bipod.
The supporting rocket is 510mm long and has a mass of 3.63kg, of which the warhead mass is 1.81kg. In early November of that year, the rocket was tested several times at the Aberdeen Proving Ground, with a maximum range of 685.8m, but such a rocket seems to have great potential.
The promising weapon was relegated to the cold side because of the end of World War I, and Dr. Goddard's research work was abandoned halfway. If development had continued at that time, and if the European Army could have used this weapon when World War II broke out in 1939, then Germany's "
"Blitzkrieg" is likely to be another outcome, and world history will be rewritten as a result.
The U.S. government's research stopped, but Captain Skinner, known as the father of the "Bazooka", did not stop. It was this young man who was extremely interested in individual rocket launchers who won another prize after six years of research.
After the Swiss engineer patented the "hollow warhead", he finally tested the bazooka individual rocket launcher with full combat effectiveness in 1942.
Liu Lang, the Swiss engineer's patented hollow warhead technology, had already entrusted Sir William to purchase it. What is missing now is the father of the "Bazooka"'s various experimental data on the stable flight of rockets over the years. Not only is that
It is useful for Liu Lang's coveted individual rocket launcher, and can also reduce the development time of the storm rocket launcher that has been invested in research and development.
This person may be just an ordinary weapons experimenter to the United States, but to Liu Lang and the Independence Group, he is too important.
Of course, whether it is a rocket launcher or a rocket launcher, it is strictly confidential for the father of the "Bazooka" in the past time and space. Regarding this, Liu Lang had already made a stern explanation before leaving, including when he was still at the base.
Including Dr. Grunov, who researched the 56-and-a-half rifle, the core weapons of the Independent Regiment must be kept secret.
If the Third Reich is allowed to obtain rocket launcher technology, the red polar bear will most likely become a barbecue polar bear, which is also not in line with China's current interests.
Liu Lang has decided that in this time and space, this American patent belongs to China.
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