Chapter 543: Be extremely cautious when modifying the production process

When the meeting was adjourned, the comrades from the armored forces were all delighted. If the successful imitation of the 5DL gave them a handy weapon, then if this second-generation tank was made according to this plan, then it would not be a matter of handiness, it would be far ahead!
They expressed their sincere gratitude to the designers of the tank and shook hands warmly one by one, from the chief designer to the ordinary designers, especially Gao Zhendong, who was responsible for the design of the command vehicle and reconnaissance vehicle not long ago.

When Gao Zhendong was leaving, the leader of the Defense Work Committee said goodbye to him and said with a smile: "The running on the ground is almost done."

If you think about it carefully, it is indeed similar. Except for artillery, the larger army weapons have basically taken shape. As for artillery, well, it is still pretty good now. With the help of the Russians, these pieces of iron are basically on the same level as the world's leading level, or in other words, there are no obvious shortcomings and flaws.

Individual weapons, anti-tank weapons, and armored equipment have all been systematized, and with the help of Gao Zhendong, they have all gained a 5 to 20 year lead. Of course, others do not know about this 5 to 20 years, only Gao Zhendong himself knows it.

Even in terms of artillery, it is not completely without support. At least in the large-scale artillery confrontation, the anti-artillery radar that has been activated can give the enemy's supporting artillery group a little shock.

Now that the long-range support artillery has been suppressed, the rest is actually easy to solve.

Even though the fighting in the S1 trench was fierce and lively, what actually determined the outcome was the artillery groups that never met each other and could only greet each other warmly with shells.

——Modern warfare is an artillery battle.

At least that was the case in 1960, when the Air Force could not play a decisive role.

However, Gao Zhendong felt something was not right after hearing this. Leader, what do you mean by this?
The Army's affairs are almost settled. Are you suggesting that I should look at the Air Force and the Navy?
It's happening, it's happening, you know it.

Although he didn't know whether this was what the leader meant, Gao Zhendong's head turned directly in that direction.

The reason is simple - the army alone is not enough.

However, as typical high-tech military branches, the navy and air force are not simply a waste of money and resources, and are extremely difficult.

What's so coincidental is that Gao Zhendong's advantage lies in high technology. If he spends money well, it can have unexpected effects while not costing much.

According to Gao Zhendong's own analysis, the window period is still there.

On Saturday, March 61, Gao Zhendong, as one of the researchers, attended the official finalization meeting of the Type gun family.

This time the finalization will be very smooth. After all, it has gone through many tests and the Syracuse Experimental Center has also given a complete evaluation.

The terminology used in Snow City is very objective, but it is backed by excellent performance. The more objective the terminology is, the more it can illustrate the goodness of this family of guns. As the old saying goes, a good blacksmith must rely on his own strength.

As for the bullet, there is no need to say much, it is 7.62*39 and this cannot be changed.

"In summary, the proportion of common parts in this family of guns is as high as 75%, which enables the commonality of the weapons and ammunition supply of the squads. It has good accuracy within 400 meters and high reliability. It can be reliably used throughout the country and is easy to operate in the vehicle."

Professor Liu was giving a report. This sentence, which can be used reliably throughout the country, represents the hard work of the experimenters who traveled all over the country, including the northern and southern parts of the country, the plateaus, the extreme cold and heat, the desert and Gobi. Oh, yes, there is also the classic quicksand river water.

At this time, there are many projects that can be tested in Xuecheng, but they are not enough. Sometimes we have to use local methods and conduct on-site tests.

Fortunately, our territory is large enough, with various terrains and climates. Except for the fjord terrain, we have all the terrains in the world. But it doesn’t matter if we don’t have the fjord terrain. We are here to defend ourselves, not to invade others.

"...The rifle-mounted grenade launcher that comes with the gun family has a vertical armor-piercing performance of 65mm, a shrapnel killing radius of 10 meters, an effective range of 100 meters against armored targets, and 400 meters against personnel. While being able to effectively serve as infantry support firepower, compared to rifle grenades, it has a long range, high accuracy, light weight, large ammunition capacity, and is easy to operate..."

A middle-aged army comrade who attended the meeting, while listening to the report, fondly touched the Type 61 assault rifle in his hand and said with emotion: "This gun is good, and it is also good to have grenades on it. It is a cannon in the hands of infantry! If I had this set of things back then, let alone attacking the county town, hehe..."

Apart from the report and introduction, basically no comrades raised any objections during the whole finalization meeting. Instead, a middle-aged comrade from the army made another request: "Professor Liu, we have all seen the test results of Xuecheng, and we can see that the product is very solid. But this is a finalization meeting, how can it be called a finalization meeting if we don't try it ourselves? Can you arrange for us to try it out? I will just take a look if it is a mule or a horse."

Hey, Chief, how can we not know what you are thinking?

Normally, there would be no need to fire the guns in this kind of meeting, as the comrades who should be shot had already been beaten to the point of vomiting.

However, Beijing University of Technology was very well prepared. Some comrades just wanted to try, so the shooting range had already made preparations.

Seeing that there was no problem at all with the official development of this thing, all the comrades attending the meeting relaxed. Since there were middle-aged comrades who wanted to have some fun, they decided to go and try it out together.

At the shooting range, all the comrades fired freely, but looking at their carefree shooting style, it seemed that it had little to do with the finalization test.

On the contrary, the middle-aged comrade who suggested to have some fun was very serious. He tried assault rifles, machine guns, single shots, short bursts, long bursts, and continuous shooting one by one. The smile on his face became more and more intense as he tried.

"Awesome!" "Enjoyable!"

"Hey, it's accurate! It's accurate!"

"This is good, this is good!"

Words like this never stopped coming out of his mouth.

When he learned how to operate the grenade mounted on the gun under the guidance of the staff, and smashed all the balloon targets within a ten-meter radius of the target 400 meters away with a long shot, the smile on his face reached the largest.

"Good! Good! Great! I didn't expect that we could use this thing! It's powerful and accurate. If we learn it well, it won't be difficult to shoot holes from a hundred meters away."

As he laughed, his laughter became lower again and his eyes flashed, as if he remembered the figures holding explosives and blasting tubes, rushing or crawling in the hail of bullets.

Some of them succeeded, but more of them failed in that short distance of a hundred meters.

The comrade touched the still hot transmitting tube and said: "Good, good! We must popularize it, and we must popularize it quickly!"

A comrade next to him said softly, "Commander, this can also be hung on a semi-automatic."

"Good! Professor Liu, you guys are very thoughtful in making this thing! Good!"

Professor Luo, who developed the rifle-mounted grenade, did not dare to take credit for it. He pointed to Gao Zhendong, who was shooting next to him and never missed a shot: "This rifle-mounted grenade was developed under the guidance of Comrade Gao Zhendong."

The army chief looked at Gao Zhendong and said with a smile, "Well, I know him. He's a soldier from the army! Good job!"

Although I have never met Gao Zhendong, I know his reputation. Now I see that he is indeed worthy of his reputation. Look at that gun, he is really accurate!
After a while of lively chatter, everyone returned to the venue.

Gao Zhendong basically didn't say much during the entire meeting, and there was no need for him to speak. The facts spoke for themselves. He just came here to take advantage of the situation.

However, in the final follow-up work suggestions, Gao Zhendong took the initiative to mention a requirement: "All manufacturers shall not modify the manufacturing process of firearms without review and technical appraisal."

The production process of the Type 61 has taken production convenience into consideration as much as possible, and a lot of reasonable simplifications have been made based on the AK-47 and its imitation models.

Contrary to its reputation of being "cheap and plentiful", the AK-47 was not cheap at all in its early days. Its production process was actually quite complicated, and it even had a wooden stock.

The ones that are really cheap are the later improved and imitation versions, such as ours.

The good reputation of the imitation version has been given to the original version. How the hell is this reasonable?
The technology of Type 61 has been simplified to a reasonable limit based on Gao Zhendong's suggestions and Professor Liu's research. If it is simplified any further, problems will arise.

The suggestion made by Gao Zhendong was obviously directed at the sequelae caused by the combined rifle and submachine gun in his previous life.

That gun actually had a pretty good foundation. Putting aside its slightly outdated combat concept, at least its reliability shouldn't have been that bad. Even decades later, the precision sniper rifles that various countries have put into their squads are essentially no different from that gun.
Although the Citigroup's M14 has been retired long ago, its descendants have never disappeared from their army. In fact, the roots are similar.

But the gun was ruined by the arbitrarily "optimized" production process.

Gao Zhendong, who was foresighted, took the opportunity of the finalization of the 61 gun family to write this requirement into the official document. If not to completely eliminate it, at least to curb the occurrence of this phenomenon to a great extent, this was what he had to do.

At that time, no one realized the seriousness of Gao Zhendong's request if it really came true, but they thought that Mr. Gao's suggestion was very good. The production process has rules, and these rules cannot be broken at will.

Although they felt that Gao Zhendong was a little overly concerned, they all agreed that this request was reasonable and appropriate, and wrote it into the appraisal report.

The Type 61 rocket launcher and the Type 61 squad gun family, which later became the legendary three treasures of the infantry, now only the Type 61 individual anti-tank missile remains.

Gao Zhendong returned home happily, but Lou Xiaoe arrived before him.

As soon as she saw Gao Zhendong coming home, Lou Xiao'e walked up happily, put aside her usual hot tea, and took out a stack of papers.

"Zhendong, look what I brought back?"

(End of this chapter)