"In other words, you intend to add some new ideas to my design?" Yang Mingzhi looked at Kalashnikov who asked the question with curious eyes.
"Of course! Comrade Director!" Kaoshi said bluntly: "I have been studying your design drawings these days. I very much agree that the firearms you developed are of high quality, but there is still room for improvement in some places."
"Okay, tell me."
"Well...for example, its stock can be replaced with wood. And the barrel of the ordinary model should be strengthened to ensure accuracy."
"These are all minor questions." Yang Mingzhi shrugged. He wondered how Kaspersky could raise such an irrelevant question in a vulgar way. He obviously had something else to say.
Yang Mingzhi hesitated for a moment and continued: "I admit that the basic version of the assault rifle is not as accurate as the traditional bolt-action rifle in shooting long-distance targets. Because the warhead we use is lighter, you can't force it too much. But the gun
Tube lengthening really improves accuracy.”
Kaspersky nodded: "Besides...well, I have another idea. Maybe, you...you will object."
Kaspersky seemed rather reserved, and Yang Mingzhi immediately sat upright. He guessed that Kasborg was finally going to explain some of his most important ideas.
"Go ahead." Yang Mingzhi simply raised his voice.
"Yes. You should know that after I recovered from my injury this year, I designed a submachine gun in my own workshop. Because of it, I became a small arms designer."
Yang Mingzhi thought about it and realized that he did know that Kaiser had developed a submachine gun, but nothing seemed to happen after that.
At the beginning, Deggarev was responsible for the development and production of Soviet submachine guns, and then Spakin took over the responsibility. Today, Spakin's work, the Poposa submachine gun, has maintained high production. So Kalashnikov's design,
It is like a star, drowned by the brilliance of the sun.
Yang Mingzhi was interested in hearing more about Ka's masterpiece.
"Comrade Director, I have my own ideas about the firing principle of firearms. Maybe we can..." After saying that, Kaoshi simply stood up and took out his notebook from a small luggage bag. He skillfully pulled out a notebook.
Page, hand-delivered into Yang Mingzhi’s hands.
"What is this? A bolt action design for a firearm? It certainly looks like it."
"Yes, Comrade Director. This is the submachine gun I designed and its bolt mechanism."
Kaskov can be sure that his director Berekov, although he is only ten years older than himself, has no doubt about his achievements in firearms research and development, but he still has many reservations.
Before setting off, Kasha talked with the elderly Fedorov again.
At that time, Fedorov pointed out very bluntly: "This Belekov from the East is extraordinary. Even now he still hides a lot of things. He is a genius in the research and development of light weapons and has also made great achievements in heavy weapons."
You must learn from him so that you can truly start your own business on your own in the future.”
In fact, from now on, Ka Shi can't wait to learn all Yang Mingzhi's knowledge.
Kaspersky also has his own ideas, such as the unique bolt mechanism of the submachine gun he developed himself.
Yang Mingzhi could tell that the system proposed by Kaiser must be a "semi-free bolt action", and it was a quite non-mainstream "semi-free bolt action".
Kaiser's design is completely different from his own gas-guided design, and is even very different from the traditional "semi-free bolt action".
When a bullet is fired, the powerful recoil force it generates pushes the bolt back. This force eventually takes out the second bullet and pushes the bullet into the chamber under the action of the spring. This is the "free bolt".
Some special parts are installed in the gun to weaken the recoil. The main purpose is to reduce the rate of fire.
After all, weapons that fire from free bolts often have an exaggerated rate of fire, which is often a drawback in actual combat.
Kaiser came up with a trick, and the special component he selected was a rotating sleeve. When the bullet is fired, the recoil force first acts on the sleeve, and the sleeve rotates and retreats, and then the force is applied to the spiral tail tube.
This system actually works on submachine guns, which is very rare. And to be fair, this system is a bit complicated, but its effect is actually very good.
The recoil of the bullet has been weakened, which not only slows down the once crazy rate of fire, but also reduces the overall recoil and vibration. As a submachine gun that is an artifact of street fighting, it is best to reduce the recoil and vibration to a level that ordinary women can control.
Under the dim car lights, Yang Mingzhi's eyes widened.
"Comrade Kalashnikov, is this your design?"
"Yes."
"Wow! What a unique design."
"You're flattered, I really didn't invent it."
"But you used this system to develop your own firearm. Maybe you only need to know a bolt system and you can start developing it immediately?"
Faced with this question, Kalashnikov was not modest: "Yes, Comrade Director. I have an idea. Maybe I can use this system to develop my own assault rifle."
"You?" Yang Mingzhi's mind buzzed for a moment, then he quickly calmed down.
"What do you think?" Kaoshi asked quickly.
"Then give it a try." Yang Mingzhi thought about it and said, "Young people should have their own ideas. I support you to try it. However, maybe now is not a good time."
"Ah?" Kaspersky guessed that maybe the director was euphemistically saying he didn't like his design? "Comrade director, my design is immature, and I will continue to improve it."
"Of course you want to improve, and I support you in doing so. But the problem we are facing now is more difficult."
"what is the problem."
"Alas!" Yang Mingzhi stood up and looked into the darkness outdoors. Through the reflection of his face, he saw Kaspersky's puzzled face. "In the final analysis, it is still Comrade Cheng. Dear colleague, your design is very special."
A major feature, it can be fully developed, but your design is still more troublesome, although it may bring great benefits."
"You're worried about cost."
"Yes. I think there is no problem in using this system to develop assault rifles, even firing full-power bullets. It is our current environment that determines that we, weapons research and development experts, must be considerate of the alliance's material difficulties.
We must use the least material cost and time to produce the most cost-effective weapon. Now our submachine guns are monopolized by Sparkin's works. I heard that your shooting won some awards, but it has not been approved for mass production. You
Look, why is my assault rifle suddenly approved for mass production?!"
"It's a cost issue, as well as a reliability issue." Kaspersky said seriously.
"You're right." Yang Mingzhi turned around, "If my weapons hadn't been stamped on a large scale, and the fact that they could fire three thousand rounds of bullets without interruption without any fundamental damage, I wouldn't have been able to mass-produce them.
approved. But I admire your system very much. It’s not just the unique bolt you chose, but also your design concept on safety and firing. You and I are the same. We both have three settings with one wrench.
position, safety lock, semi-automatic and fully automatic. This design is unique and luxurious. The submachine guns currently used by the army only have a fully automatic mode."
At this time, Kaoshi felt that the director's words contained a hint of charity and criticism.
Kaspersky raised his chest: "Comrade Director, I still want to try it, even if it's just a prototype gun."
"Okay, I support you to try. But I prefer the gas-guided bolt structure, which is simpler and easier to produce." As he said, Yang Mingzhi pinched his chin that had just sprouted stubble, "Maybe we
The design bureau could develop a new type of assault rifle, perhaps limited to drawings."
Speaking of which, Yang Mingzhi felt that the "commercial exchanges" between him and Ka's previous conversations were of greater significance.
From the bottom of his heart, Yang Mingzhi really respected the Kaspersky family. In the eyes of the young Kasborg, General Belekov, who had made great contributions and gained great merits, was also the director. His respect for him was simply a mystery. Kasborg had already realized that
It can be seen that the director's respect for him is not at all for Fedorov's sake, but seems to be a simple respect for his own talents.
"Maybe it's because I'm talented and talented?"
Kasha is not a narcissistic person, but he cannot figure out the hidden story here. After all, he is now a subordinate of General Berekov.
…
The night was already very late. When Yang Mingzhi and Kaiser were talking about the gun issue, Grishenko, who had no idea at all, could only sit and smoke and read the newspaper. Dobrov wanted to intervene but was unable to do so.
Chatter.
For a while, Dobroff couldn't help but feel inferior, but so what? Who knew that Kaspersky could already design firearms on his own, but he could only study the director's designs desperately and became a senior assistant, and he was still far from being able to do it on his own.
The saddest thing is that I was shocked by the director's design and still don't have any independent ideas.
Dobrov couldn't figure it out, could the director really be a wise man? Without much understanding, he asked Fedorov to hand over his disciple.
Dobroff could only keep quiet for the time being. He lay in a separate room in the luxury car and tried to sleep.
In another room, Yang Mingzhi was lying on his back wrapped in a blanket. How could his thoughts be calm?
Yang Mingzhi had already thought about it. After meeting with his old subordinates, he would discuss with them how to fight the future war. Although according to his agreement with Stalin and Zhukov, he would not disclose to those three people at all that the Soviet army not only wanted to fight in the north
The largest counterattack of the year was launched, with the main target still being the important city of Smolensk.
However, the criss-crossed front line is almost translucent, and the German infiltration spies and reconnaissance aircraft are not fools or blinders. When they learned that the Soviet army had a large-scale increase in troops, would they be stupid enough to think that nothing happened? How is it possible!
Yang Mingzhi estimated that the three old subordinates could already guess a lot. At that time, he would have a good chat with them about how to fight the Imperial Division. After all, their troops would be transferred to the 39th Group Army, and its main enemy would be the German Imperial Division.
Yang Mingzhi was no longer worried about what to talk about when they met. Now he was more concerned about the non-mainstream gun design idea that Kalashnikov had just come up with.
An assault rifle with a semi-free bolt? It is not a new thing. In that dimension, the first person to come up with this design was the Soviet Spakin.
And that assault rifle review conference finally made Kalashnikov famous. Kalashnikov finally gave up the design of a semi-free bolt and chose the gas-operated type which was more promising at that time.
Let's talk about the prototype gun submitted by Sparkin to the "Rifle Committee", the free-action assault rifle, which was declared scrapped after only 350 rounds. For no other reason than Sparkin felt that the so-called assault rifle was not
It's a large submachine gun. I went with this idea, but it broke on the barrel of the gun.
The metallurgical industry around the world has been developing in this time and space, but it is still far behind the next century.
In the 21st century, humans are already using metal materials that can withstand temperatures of three thousand degrees, which was a fantasy during World War II.
With the metallurgical level of the Soviet Union during World War II, it was difficult to produce extremely high-quality gun barrels and bolt components. If possible, it would also consume huge financial resources. This is consistent with the Soviet Union's saying that "firearms are an inevitable consumable.
The idea of "guaranteeing quality while being as cheap as possible" is inconsistent with the concept.
It is because the smelting technology is not up to standard that the general-purpose machine gun has to always have its barrel replaced.
The revolver has also become an oddity that always blows up the chamber and suffers from severe air leakage. This fatal flaw has almost blocked its development prospects.
However, that design is not without its merits. After some modifications to fire grenades, it became a handheld semi-automatic grenade launcher with low chamber pressure and low muzzle velocity. It is fully capable of the job.
If the times progress for a hundred years, many of the difficulties of this era will be solved.
In that dimension, the G3 rifle developed by Germany after the war used a "semi-automatic bolt action" system and has always been the standard weapon of the army. It is an automatic rifle that fires full-power rifle bullets, and its barrel
It can withstand the huge bore pressure of full-power bullets, and the bolt system can also withstand greater recoil. Behind its success is the credit for scientific and technological progress.
But in this era, the Soviet army has no technical difficulties at all in developing gas-guided firearms.
It is not a long journey from Moscow to Perm.
This railway line is two-way, and there are a large number of military columns running on it and they all shoulder heavy responsibilities.
In fact, since Stalin and Zhukov completed the campaign planning of "Operation Mars", adjustments to the mobilization of logistics materials have been carried out.
War is about logistics. To carry out a huge operation, a huge amount of artillery shells and bullets are bound to be consumed. What's more, on the current Rzhev front line, the exchange of fire between the Soviet and German armies is never at the forefront. The two sides are separated by five kilometers of the front line every day.
The left and right no-man's land throws cannonballs at each other, so the daily consumption of cannonballs is very large.
The Soviet army can easily cope with the daily ammunition consumption of the Kalinin Front and the Western Front. Now, the amount of ammunition planned to be delivered to the two fronts has increased sharply.
The most intuitive manifestation is that the railway network east of Moscow is even busier, especially the Moscow-Perm line. The number of freight military trains going to Moscow every day has increased by twenty, totaling more than a thousand trains.
!
Yang Mingzhi easily noticed this abnormal change. He could not see what was contained in the fully enclosed carriage. However, the large equipment covered with snow-proof canvas on the flatbed truck was the T3476 tank that the Soviet army was using on a large scale, as well as a larger number of them.
Field artillery.
He estimated that many 76mm guns were simply loaded and taken away at the freight station in Perm.