Chapter 422: Type 63 107mm light towed rocket launcher
Three days later, Liu Gen sent the drawings he had drawn in the past few days to Director Xu.
After seeing the drawings Liu Gen brought out, Director Xu immediately understood why Director Cheng had paid so much attention to Liu Gen when he was here. In terms of technology, Director Xu could not compare with Director Cheng, but
In terms of eyesight, Director Xu is pretty good.
At least Director Xu can clearly see what the drawings drawn by Liu Gen are like. After a simple look at them, he can see that Liu Gen is serious when drawing the drawings. The various data on them are very clear and accurate.
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At the same time, Director Xu could also see that the drawings taken out by Liu Gen were within the range that the arsenal could produce. It can be said that as long as the arsenal invests certain resources, it will definitely be able to produce these machine tools, but Xu
The factory director was a little confused. These machine tools were good.
But unfortunately, it is impossible for the arsenal to produce all the machine tools. There is not much steel in the arsenal. If all of it is used to produce machine tools, it will not be able to produce enough weapons and ammunition to supply the troops. For this reason, Xuchang
The commander could only reluctantly find a few urgently needed machine tools to manufacture to ensure that the steel in the arsenal would not be consumed too much.
Among them, the machine tools that produce gun barrels are also among the several machine tools that need to be manufactured. Seeing that the arsenal was unable to produce all the machine tools, Liu Gen was a little helpless. But while Liu Gen was depressed, he could also understand the situation in the arsenal.
If we really want to produce all the machine tools, supplying weapons and ammunition to the front line will become a problem.
In this regard, Liu Gen could only back up these drawings and place them with Factory Director Xu to ensure that these machine tools could be manufactured when the arsenal was capable.
While Director Xu was mobilizing workers and technicians from the arsenal to manufacture new machine tools, Liu Gen did not let himself idle. He was thinking about designing a rocket launcher that the arsenal could now produce. Given the current conditions of the Huangyadong arsenal,
, it would naturally be somewhat impossible to produce a rocket launcher like the Soviet Katyusha.
But it is still very simple to produce a rocket launcher with a simple structure and easy operation. Among the large amounts of information Liu Gen learned about rocket launchers, he learned that a rocket launcher with the simplest structure is very simple to manufacture and operate.
There are two ignition methods, one is electric start, and the other is to use a igniter to ignite the rocket fire transmitter to launch.
The rocket launcher that Liu Gen is interested in is the Type 63 107mm light towed rocket launcher. Based on the conditions of the Huangyadong Arsenal, there may be some problems that need to be solved in directly manufacturing this rocket launcher, but if you want to produce this rocket launcher
It will be much easier.
What Liu Gen values most about this rocket launcher is that while it is powerful enough, it does not require careful maintenance and is actually very simple to operate. This rocket launcher has no machined parts, just a steel pipe structure, even if it is smaller
The handicraft workshop can also be used for processing and production. Even low-quality rocket launchers can be manufactured.
It can be said that even if this rocket launcher is produced in this era, it will not be too difficult. For Huangyadong Arsenal, the biggest problem in producing this rocket launcher is the insufficient supply of steel. If there is enough steel supply
, then this rocket launcher can naturally be easily mass-produced.
However, Liu Gen still has a headache if there is an engine inside the rocket. It may take a lot of effort to make the engine inside the rocket.
Finding Director Xu working in the office, Liu Gen took out the drawings of the Type 63 107mm light towed rocket launcher. However, after Director Xu carefully looked at the drawings, he could not see much joy on his face.
But for the Eighth Route Army, rocket launchers don't seem to be that necessary. More grenades and mortars are what the Eighth Route Army troops need most. What's more, after looking at the drawings, Director Xu also discovered that there are many problems in manufacturing rocket launchers and artillery shells.
The difference is that the engine needs to consume a lot of energy.
The engine required in the rocket, and the size of the rocket shows that the amount of gunpowder loaded exceeds the ordinary artillery shell. It is conceivable that the cost of a rocket is much higher than that of an artillery shell.
The most important thing is that Director Xu did not see the advantages of the rocket launcher from the drawings Liu Gen took out. The range of the rocket launcher is good, but this does not mean that the artillery cannot achieve such a range. Judging from the drawings,
, maybe the only advantage of rocket launchers compared to artillery is that they are much lighter.
"Director Xu, is there a problem?" Liu Gen couldn't help but ask after noticing that Director Xu's expression was wrong.
Director Xu nodded, put down the drawing in his hand, and said directly: "Genzi, the drawing you took out is good, but I can't see what the advantage of rocket launchers is. I know that the Soviet Union also has rocket launchers, but they still have rocket launchers."
The power of rocket launchers has not been proven. When it comes to equipping troops, they still mainly rely on artillery."
The Katyusha rocket launcher was only officially equipped with the Soviet Red Army in 1939, and was not put into actual combat applications during this period. However, from the information about the rocket launcher in his mind, Liu Gen knew that in August this year, the Soviet Katyusha rocket launcher would be officially
When applied in practice, it became a nightmare for German soldiers.
The Type 63 107mm light towed rocket launcher Liu Gen took out looks a bit crude, but it is quite powerful. As long as it can be manufactured, it will definitely become one of the main weapons equipped by the Eighth Route Army units in the future.
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Although rocket launchers are less accurate than mountain cannons, their firepower is much stronger than mountain cannons. Especially in fierce mountain battles, the firepower of a single salvo of rocket launchers is equivalent to 8 to 10 times the number of mountain artillery troops.
, can easily suppress the firepower of artillery.
"Director Xu, in my opinion, rocket launchers will be the mainstream on the future battlefield. Compared with artillery, rockets have very obvious advantages."
"In the battle with the Japs, what our Eighth Route Army lacks most is fire suppression, and with rocket launchers, it will be able to easily suppress the Japs' firepower. Of course, every salvo fired by the rocket launchers costs money, and we may not be able to
But in critical battles, if we use rocket launchers, it will definitely be worth the money!" Liu Gen looked at Director Xu and said with an extremely serious expression.
Director Xu frowned. He could see the seriousness on Liu Gen's face, which made him a little unsure. Is the rocket launcher really as powerful as Liu Gen said?
"Genzi, I have seen your design on the drawing. If you want to use rocket launchers to generate sufficient firepower, you should need more than five rocket launchers. This is a huge burden for our arsenal."
"It's not bad that rocket launchers are as powerful as you say, but if they are not as powerful, or even worse than artillery, then you have to take responsibility. Our arsenal consumes a lot of steel every day, so we really want you to make rocket launchers
, it will definitely have a big impact.”
"Let's do it this way. We will call the heads of each department tonight and everyone will vote. As long as it passes, we will let you build a few rocket launchers directly." Factory Director Xu thought for a moment and decided to take this matter to the next level.
Discuss at the meeting.
It is true that Factory Director Xu cannot make a decision alone. Liu Gen's manufacturing of rocket launchers will definitely consume a lot of steel and will affect various departments of the arsenal. As long as other departments have no objections, then Factory Director Xu will naturally have no problem.
Leaving the office, Liu Gen was a little helpless. He didn't expect that his desire to make rocket launchers would be hindered by Director Xu. Although Liu Gen was a little helpless, he also knew that Director Xu did the right thing. Making rocket launchers was not the right thing to do.
For a simple matter, it is still necessary to discuss it with the heads of various departments in the arsenal.
During the past few days of drawing, Liu Gen did not lock himself in the room all the time. He carefully observed the current situation of the arsenal and knew that the arsenal really consumed a lot of steel every day, as Director Xu said.
In order to ensure that the arsenal has enough steel, soldiers would send some steel from time to time, which was bought from the people in the anti-Japanese base areas. Due to the crazy raids of the Japanese in the anti-Japanese base areas, the Eighth Route Army units were unable to attack the Japanese railways.
It is very difficult to get a large amount of steel in a short period of time.
But under such conditions, workers in the arsenal worked hard to overcome numerous difficulties and continued to produce weapons and ammunition.
It was still some time before night, and Liu Gen had not returned to the room. In the past few days, he had been staying in the room to draw drawings of rocket launchers and rarely wandered around. Now that the drawings of rocket launchers were completed, Liu Gen would have enough
Take time to relax a bit.
But because Liu Gen was worried about the rocket launcher, it was difficult for him to calm down even if he was wandering around.
Liu Gen knew this clearly and wanted to find something to do in the arsenal, but found that the workers cooperated very well. Joining them rashly would probably only affect their work efficiency. Originally, Liu Gen wanted to return to the factory.
The lathe department helped repair the machine tool, but when he returned, he found that he still couldn't intervene.
After meeting Liu Gen, Foreman Qi immediately started talking to Liu Gen, leaving Liu Gen unable to help repair the machine tool. Even if Liu Gen proposed to repair the machine tool, Foreman Qi refused.
Liu Gen finally returned to the arsenal, how could he let Liu Gen do such a thing?
Besides, it’s not like there’s no one in the lathe department who can repair. After Liu Gen left, the lathe department also trained some young people to help.
After realizing that he really couldn't find anything to do in the lathe department, Liu Gen talked with Foreman Qi for a while and then chose to leave. Unable to help the lathe department repair the machine tools, Liu Gen's continued stay here would only affect the lathe workers.
Work efficiency of everyone in the department.
After leaving the lathe engineering department, Liu Gen simply left the arsenal and headed towards the cliff behind Huangya Cave, where soldiers from the special service group were on guard.
In the past few days after arriving at Huangya Cave, Liu Gen discovered that the soldiers of the special service regiment were on very tight daily alert, with both open and hidden sentries arranged. On the cliffs on both sides of the east entrance to Huangya Cave, the service regiment also arranged suspension bridges.
There are soldiers patrolling the suspension bridge. When ordinary soldiers walk on the suspension bridge, they will be worried that they will fall from it.
After greeting the patrolling soldiers, Liu Gen walked onto the suspension bridge. Walking on the suspension bridge, Liu Gen could feel the suspension bridge swaying. Occasionally, a gust of wind blew, and the suspension bridge swayed even more. Liu Gen lowered his head and looked downward.
Looking over, I could see very few soldiers patrolling the passage below.
Leaving the suspension bridge, Liu Gen looked at the patrolling soldiers with obvious admiration in his eyes. The courage of these soldiers who persisted in patrolling the suspension bridge every day was undoubtedly worthy of recognition.
Liu Gen casually wandered on the cliff. He carefully observed the surrounding environment. It is true that Huangya Cave is an easy-to-defend and difficult-to-attack terrain, but even so, one cannot take it lightly. During this period, the Japanese anti-Japanese base areas were very infiltrated.
Awesome, the entrance to Huangya Cave has a lot of potential to be exposed.
On the cliff, Liu Gen could see that there were many stones prepared by the soldiers. These stones were divided into piles and placed in piles. If there was a battle, these stones would become a nightmare for the Japanese troops.
"Genzi, why are you here? I heard that you seem to have been in the room with you in the past two days." While Liu Gen was wandering on the cliff, Captain Ou came to Liu Gen.
Liu Gen was a little surprised to see Captain Ou coming to him. He didn't see Captain Ou just now. Could it be that Captain Ou had just come up? Looking at Captain Ou in front of him, Liu Gen
I realized that Captain Ou was looking for me for something, but I just didn’t know what Captain Ou was looking for.
"Captain Ou, why are you here?" Liu Gen asked with a smile.
Captain Ou also laughed, "I was patrolling here just now and saw your figure, so I followed you to take a look."
"You are so brave. You dare to cross the suspension bridge alone. If you really fall from the suspension bridge, you will die without any body parts. I just saw that you were very calm when you were crossing the suspension bridge.
, I don’t see any fear at all.”
Liu Gen shook his head and said: "Compared with the comrades who patrol these patrols every day, my situation is nothing. They are more courageous."
Looking at the soldiers on patrol, Liu Gen could see that these soldiers were not affected at all by the arrival of Captain Ou. They were still patrolling seriously. Noticing this, Liu Gen realized that the daily training of the headquarters' special agent group was very good.
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"There is nothing we can do about patrolling over the suspension bridge. There are cliffs on both sides, but if some Japs troops sneak up on it, the arsenal will be in trouble."
"Every day the soldiers strengthen the suspension bridge to avoid any problems on the suspension bridge. When it comes to the safety of the soldiers, our special agent team has never relaxed." Captain Ou explained seriously to Liu Gen.
As the head of the headquarters' special agent group, Captain Ou does a lot of things every day, and he also pays enough attention to the soldiers in the special agent group. Every day, Captain Ou comes to the suspension bridge to personally check the condition of the suspension bridge to avoid any negligence on the part of the soldiers.
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"Well, I can see that Captain Ou is very attentive to the soldiers, and you have worked hard."