Rebirth of the 1980s: The Military Industry Empire

"President Qin, I really envy your brain; it's so much better than others'," Fu Ansheng said with admiration. "It's clearly just a simple little trick that can simplify the problem, but we just can't think of it."

"I just had a sudden inspiration, I hope it'll be useful," Qin Yang said.

Qin Yang does indeed have a creative mind, but he has even more experience. His way of handling things wasn't his original idea; it came from a grassroots artillery unit.

During an exercise, a certain artillery unit was using the kind that fired by pulling a rope. When it came to the last shell, the gunner didn't pull hard enough. The booming sounds all around made him think the shell had been fired. The squad leader noticed that the casing hadn't been ejected and assumed it was a malfunction. He didn't pay much attention. When the smoke cleared, he went to check and, damn, it hadn't fired! The shell was still inside!

Originally, if it hadn't fired, they could just fire it again. But the shelling had already ended. They asked for instructions from above, but the higher-ups said the leader was giving a speech and to wait. By the time they waited, damn, the barrel had cooled down, and the shell was stuck. It was a real pain!

No matter how they messed with it, it wouldn't budge. Finally, an old soldier came up with an idea: first, use 502 glue to stick the fuse and then remove it. Unexpectedly, it actually worked!

At this time, the unit leaders also came over from the 1224 gun carriage. They were quite curious, watching everyone clumsily use the shell extractor and apply 502 to the rubber cone part of the extractor.

"Our 960 Factory hasn't extracted shells before, we don't understand the technical work of shell extraction. But it is precisely because of this that we can be unconstrained and imaginative," Qin Yang said.

"Quick, rotate it, turn it!"

At this moment, Zhuang Shuren's voice shouted out, filled with excitement. It seemed like it was working?

The creaking sound came from inside the barrel. This was the sound of the shell fuse being twisted out!

Generally speaking, shells and warheads are shipped separately from the factory. This is, of course, for safety reasons. If they were assembled and a ammunition box fell off a truck during transportation, with the warhead facing down, it might explode with a bang.

Not to mention榴弹, even hand grenades are stored separately. When watching 'The Dawns Here Are Quiet,' you can see the male lead holding a hand grenade, shaking his head helplessly: he forgot to bring the fuse!

"Be careful, be very careful!" At this time, Zhuang Shuren began to direct everyone to pull out the screw of the shell extractor. Judging by the looks of it, the fuse had been twisted out.

"All leaders step back, be careful of accidents," Fu Ansheng urged everyone.

The shiny fuse was pulled out of the gun barrel. The conical part at the top was firmly glued to the rubber sleeve, only revealing the cylindrical part below. The cylinder had threads, which was the most common impact fuse.

Zhuang Shuren, unafraid of danger, continued to observe from the side. When he saw the specific state of the fuse clearly, he gasped: the cone at the front of the fuse was already deformed! This was the result of the crude shell extraction. Now, the state of the fuse was unknown. Continuing the shell extraction operation could cause an explosion at any time!

"Take it to a safe place and detonate it!" Zhuang Shuren said.

Watching the fuse being taken away, Zhuang Shuren jumped off the gun carriage and walked to Qin Yang's side: "President Qin, thanks to your suggestion this time, we successfully removed the shell fuse and avoided an accident. I, Lao Zhuang, am completely convinced by you!"

Even though Fu Ansheng had already admitted defeat just now, Zhuang Shuren hadn't been convinced in his heart. He always felt that he still had a chance, that the 960 Factory wasn't anything special.

However, Qin Yang's idea of using 502 glue to stick the fuse made him admire Qin Yang. Now that he saw the state of the fuse, he was even more afraid. This 120mm 榴弹 has a full charge of explosives. If it exploded, none of the people performing the shell extraction on site would escape!

It's like in American movies, when a special forces soldier tells his comrade: I owe you my life. Now, Zhuang Shuren felt that Qin Yang had saved his life!

"President Qin, with such a good idea, why didn't you say it yesterday?" A unit leader asked.

"Yesterday? I wanted to say it yesterday, but wasn't I shot down? After all, our 960 Factory has only just started making guns, and we have little experience. The 447 Factory is an old gun factory, and shell extraction is a technical job. How dare I teach my grandmother to suck eggs."

Hearing Qin Yang say this, Zhuang Shuren felt a little embarrassed. The technician who had refuted Qin Yang several times was even more embarrassed, walking out with a flushed face: "President Qin, it's all my fault, I shouldn't have said those things. Now, I apologize to you!"

"Alright, the fuse has been removed. Next, how should we extract the shell? President Qin, if you have any good ideas, please continue to share them," Old Huang said. "Now, everyone knows how capable you are, no one doesn't admire you."

"Well, I'm not too sure about the next steps, after all, we have little experience. However, since the fuse has been removed, the shell should be safe," Qin Yang said. "I just heard that someone is planning to use a gun truck to ram it?"

When it comes to explosives, people think of Nobel, who spent his life researching this stuff. In fact, there were explosives before him, but they were very unstable and could explode at any time. What Nobel created was something that wouldn't explode accidentally and would only explode when needed.

As explosives have developed to the present, their performance has become more stable. Take the common TNT, for example. This high explosive has tremendous power when it explodes, but it is usually stable. Even if it is directly hit by a bullet, it will not explode. Therefore, those anti-Japanese dramas are purely fictional. Anyway, since tearing devils apart by hand can happen, bullets exploding shells is even more common.

TNT needs a detonator to explode. It only becomes volatile when it encounters a detonator.

The same is true for other explosives, which require a special fuse to detonate. Now that the fuse has been removed, even if the shell contains five kilograms of explosives, there is no need to worry too much.

"Okay, then let's try it!" Zhuang Shuren said.

Using a screw to push the shell extractor is gradual, little by little. With a fuse present, you must not act rashly. Now that the fuse has been removed and there is no risk of the shell exploding, then simply try ramming it a few times. The impact of the collision may make it easier to extract the shell.

Qin Yang stood at a distance watching. He didn't think there was a problem. After all, in the world before his transmigration, the Kuwaiti-equipped PLZ-45 howitzer had done this when performing shell extraction, even without removing the fuse, bending several screws. Now that the fuse has been removed, there is nothing to fear.

Bang, bang, bang!

After three hits, the golden shell was ejected from the barrel!

Fuse

Twisting the fuse, a step before loading.