Rebirth of the 1980s: The Military Industry Empire

Fangbei Industrial Company Headquarters.

"It's good to be back, there's no place like home," Qin Yang said as he pushed open the door, sat on the comfortable sofa, and crossed his legs.

"Home? You treat this place more like a hotel," Leader Dong said with a smile, standing up to pour a glass of water and placing it on the coffee table next to Qin Yang: "But you've been quite tired lately. And you've achieved a lot. You managed to negotiate the introduction of the German diesel engine in one go, and you also appeased Factory 616. Not easy."

"Uncle Dong, these are all things I should do. Who told me to be the general manager of Fangbei Industrial Company? In the future, we can rely on being the agent for the 396 diesel engine to bring good revenue to the company."

This project was initiated by Fangbei Industrial Company, and they are now the general agent for MTU's 396 diesel engine! Tangshan Locomotive Factory has purchased a batch, and other locomotive factories will quickly follow suit. In the future, they can earn a lot of money from intermediary fees. The Iron Giant is very rich.

"Yes, even though we are a shell company, our company's income is the envy of many units," Leader Dong said: "I don't know how many units want to invite you to join them."

"I already hold several positions. I don't want to be like Zhuge Liang, working myself to death at Wuzhang Plains," Qin Yang said: "Next, I have to stay at the Capital Agricultural Tool Factory for a while. I can't neglect my main job."

Engaging in foreign trade is just a side business. Qin Yang's main job is military industry!

"By the way, where are the people in the backyard? What have they been busy with lately?" Qin Yang asked.

"They run to your Factory 960 every day. They should be helping out," Leader Dong replied.

Helping out?

These two people are engaged in electronic systems. Our Factory 960 is currently only mechanical. Wait…

Qin Yang suddenly thought of something, and his heart was filled with excitement. He picked up the water glass in front of him, gulped it down in one breath, and then wiped his mouth: "I'll go to the factory to take a look. Xiaoqian, the work report and everything else is up to you."

Nie Xiaoqian has now become Qin Yang's most handy secretary. After returning, Qin Yang crossed his legs and chatted with Leader Dong, while Nie Xiaoqian had already started working at her desk. Now, hearing Qin Yang's arrangement, Nie Xiaoqian nodded, not feeling anything inappropriate.

As for Lin Heping, absence makes the heart grow fonder. After returning to the capital, he went straight back to the factory.

Qin Yang came to the factory and, after asking a few people, went straight to Workshop Six.

"It's done? So fast?" A voice came from outside the crowd: "Let me see."

"Who are you? Oh, Engineer Qin? Engineer Qin is back!"

The crowd immediately opened a path.

Qin Yang walked to the front and looked at the two identical automatic loaders on the ground. One of them had a metallic luster and had not been painted yet. It was the one imitated by the factory.

"Engineer Zhang, Engineer Xu, you've worked hard," Qin Yang said.

The technical personnel of this era are the most dedicated. Qin Yang did not assign them tasks, so they found things to do themselves! When they were eating in the factory cafeteria, they heard the team working on the automatic loader complaining that they didn't understand anything about electronic control, so they volunteered to join this technology research and development project.

"Engineer Qin, we can't take wages for nothing. You didn't assign us any tasks, so we ran over to help out," Zhang Yue said: "Anyway, it's just surveying and imitating. We are most familiar with this."

"That's right. This is not difficult for us. However, although we have surveyed and imitated it, there is one place we don't understand," Xu Guohua said: "How is this ammunition selection achieved?"

Tanks are the main force in offensive operations. They can use armor-piercing shells to penetrate enemy armor, or they can use grenades to bombard enemy fortifications. They can fire training shells for training, and even the old Maozi has special gun-launched missiles.

If it is manual loading, then the selection of ammunition is left to the loader. How does the automatic loader identify the type of ammunition?

In later generations, when we entered the computer age, as long as a barcode is attached to the butt of the shell, the computer can read the barcode and know what type of shell it is. But now it is not so smart.

For the past few days, they have been thinking about the ammunition selection switch. How is this achieved? They couldn't figure it out.

"Select ammunition? This is very simple," Qin Yang introduced: "Make a special ammunition marker on our lower turntable…"

After speaking, Qin Yang was in high spirits: "In the next few days, I will stay in the factory and make the tank gun and supporting shells by the way. After putting them together, you will understand the specific principle."

On the distant grassland, it is still covered in ice and snow, but tall chimneys are smoking, and large factories are working in full swing.

Factory 447.

"Currently, our preliminary demonstration has been completed," Zhuang Shuren said with a serious face in the conference room: "First of all, the length of our tank gun is set at 52 calibers, which is 6240 millimeters, with an internal chamber pressure of 540 MPa. In this way, the kinetic energy of the shell leaving the muzzle is definitely greater than 10 megajoules, and firing the armor-piercing shell we developed ourselves can guarantee a penetration depth of 500 millimeters at a distance of 2,000 meters!"

They must aim at the data of Factory 960 and manufacture a more advanced tank gun than them! In terms of gun manufacturing, Factory 447 is the best!

What does Factory 960 have? A gun maker actually came to steal their gun-making business. How can they tolerate this?

"At the same time, we have also considered the weight of the shell, so we need an automatic loader," Zhuang Shuren said.

As soon as he said this, everyone present was stunned.

Their biggest advantage with the 120mm gun is manual loading, reducing the complexity of the machinery. Now, they are actually going to develop an automatic loader? They have no experience at all!

"Why?"

"Because our shells are too heavy," Zhuang Shuren also realized this problem after calming down: In order to make the performance of the 120mm gun surpass the 125mm gun, they decided to increase the chamber. After the increase, the shell became heavier.

Moreover, they are using fixed ammunition. A normal loader definitely can't move it!

Zhuang Shuren said: "As long as we set the indicators, it is not a big problem to use L7's technology to manufacture such a 120mm smoothbore gun. Therefore, I will personally lead the team to develop a tail-cabin automatic loader, which is related to the success or failure of our bidding. The design of this equipment is very complicated, and everyone must brainstorm ideas, especially the problem of ammunition selection, which is the most tricky."