Rebirth of the 1980s: The Military Industry Empire

A few days later, at Institute 201.

"Engineer Qin, you really did it! With your improvement, our Type 66 howitzer can fight for another twenty years!" Old Zhu looked at Qin Yang excitedly: "I, Old Zhu, have been studying artillery for most of my life, and I haven't achieved the performance of your improvement. How did you do it?"

Although Qin Yang had briefly explained the principle on the train back, the principle is one thing, and practice is another. I don't know how many projects will get stuck in the process of transforming from principle to practice. Some even take decades to complete this path. But Qin Yang? He figured it out in no time!

"Actually, I saw Dr. Bull's research results and then copied them. I didn't expect it to actually work," Qin Yang said.

Looking at Qin Yang's rise, people can't help but sigh: This person seems to have only spent a few days transforming from an unlearned second-generation factory worker to a military industry expert. Suddenly, he knows everything.

Making guns, making bullets, making cannons, how can he do everything? Is he a child prodigy?

Qin Yang had to explain that the things he made were all because of his broad knowledge and erudition! He was standing on the shoulders of giants!

"Dr. Bull?" Old Zhu also became curious: "Who is this person?"

"This person is a genius of artillery, or rather, a madman of artillery. His ultimate ideal is to launch satellites with cannons…"

Qin Yang nodded: "That's right."

"In addition to being a famous ammunition expert in our country, Wei Man is also the deputy director of Factory 9123 and also serves as the head of the technology section. I heard that after he returned from the shooting range, Factory 9123 began to vigorously raise funds and borrowed a lot of money from the bank to purchase a large amount of shell materials. They purchased two hundred tons of shell steel alone."

Two hundred tons? It seems they took the bait. A smile couldn't help but appear on Qin Yang's face.

"Engineer Qin, your expression is not right. Aren't you worried that they will survey and imitate your shells?" Old Zhu said: "Factory 9123 is now in a difficult situation. If they imitate the shells, the higher-ups will support the military in purchasing them in large quantities. No one will care about your intellectual property rights."

Old Zhu had to remind Qin Yang that research and innovation require funding. They spent a lot of money and energy, and the result was that others imitated what they made and made a lot of money. Qin Yang would suffer a loss.

The higher-ups are in charge of the overall situation. Anyway, Factory 960 is already very brilliant now, so it doesn't matter if they suffer a little loss. Factory 9123 has to be helped.

"Old Zhu, in the field of military industry, being able to imitate is a skill. If Factory 9123 can imitate it, then I, Qin Yang, have nothing to say. Let them produce this kind of shell," Qin Yang said: "If they can't imitate it and end up losing everything, I, Qin Yang, am willing to help them. When the time comes, I will buy back their defective products as scrap to reduce some of their losses."

Old Zhu immediately understood: There is a trap here! Can the things Qin Yang invented be so easily imitated?

Since Qin Yang was prepared, he didn't need to worry about it.

"Okay, then let's continue to talk about the engine. This time you guys negotiated the American Jaguar project. Do we also have a share of the engine prototype?"

"Of course, the engine and gearbox can be disassembled and studied."

…

Factory 9123.

"Old Wei, have you figured it out yet? How are these four small bumps installed on the shell?" Xing Fubin didn't know how many times he had come. Every time he saw Wei Man holding four processed raised pieces and the warhead, he was a little anxious.

After they reported it, the higher-ups attached great importance to it and coordinated the bank to lend them a large sum of money. In the 1980s, it was easiest to borrow money from the bank, because the bank was worried about how to lend the money out every day!

With this money, they purchased a large amount of raw materials and produced them according to the drawings given by Wei Man. Now, the things have been produced, but how to install them has become a problem.

In the past, producing shells was just a series of processes such as blanking, heating, forging, machining, and heat treatment, and a shiny shell was made. There was no need to worry about how to install it.

But now? Although the shape of this warhead is complicated, they can also make it, but how to install these four small bumps on the shell?

"Old Xing, what are you anxious about?" Wei Man glared at Xing Fubin with bloodshot eyes: "I'm studying it, I haven't closed my eyes for three days and three nights. I won't sleep until I solve this problem!"

"Engineer Wei, is it the simplest welding process?" a technician asked.

"No, welding will cause the surface of the shell warhead to experience another annealing process, which will change the performance of the steel. When it explodes, it will not be able to break open in the original determined way. We have tried welding several times, but we couldn't do it."

At that time, they only focused on measuring various data and didn't observe how the various parts were combined, and now they encountered trouble.

"What kind of process is that? Could it be using 502 glue?"

Qin Yang's glorious deeds of using 502 to help Factory 447 unload shells have spread throughout the military industry system. Now, everyone is expanding their thinking and thinking in this direction.

"502 is not omnipotent." Wei Man continued to shake his head: "It melts after being heated."

"It's okay, the shell stays in the barrel for a very short time. Even the plastic driving band is not afraid of melting, so this 502 will not melt either."

"What about after leaving the barrel?"

Wei Man was very powerful to be able to rise from the grassroots to become an ammunition expert. The driving band only plays the role of sealing the propellant gas and driving the shell to rotate in the barrel. Because the time is short, there is no need to consider the melting problem. But these four bumps are different!

The Type 66 howitzer is a low-chamber-pressure cannon. The speed of the shell leaving the barrel is only 655 meters per second, but even so, it is close to Mach 2. At this speed, the surface of the shell rubs against the air, and the temperature will reach above 100 degrees Celsius. 502 will have failed long ago at this temperature.

These four bumps must be installed. They should be the key to the shell flying farther!

"This is not it, and that is not it, how is this done? Is Qin Yang Sun Wukong, who can perform seventy-two transformations?" Xing Fubin became anxious.

"Although we don't know how Qin Yang did it, we can develop our own new technology." Wei Man saw a screwdriver in the hand of a technician and suddenly had an idea.

"What technology?" Xing Fubin asked anxiously.

"Tightening screws."

There are only so many fixing methods. If it cannot be welded or glued, then just tighten the screws!