Rebirth of the 1980s: The Military Industry Empire

In the suburbs of the capital, in a conference room at a certain military base.

Personnel from various military factories had arrived, and everyone was enthusiastically conversing.

"Oh, isn't this Engineer Qin? I heard your Factory 960 has been thriving recently." Yang Zhaojun, a firearms designer from Factory 296, greeted Qin Baoguo immediately upon seeing him: "I heard your 'Lion Brand' air rifles are very popular. You've even developed specialized rifles for shooting teams, reaching world-class levels."

"Not at all, not at all. The military industry doesn't provide us with enough to eat, so we can only rely on civilian products to make ends meet. If we can get the SVD sniper rifle imitation task from the higher-ups this time, we can stand alongside you with our heads held high," Qin Baoguo said.

"You're just being modest. I heard you've even opened up export markets and earned several million in foreign exchange. It's truly enviable. What's good about our military industry? Too many monks and not enough gruel."

As the two were exchanging pleasantries, a voice came from the podium.

"Alright, everyone, please be quiet for a moment. The reason we've called you all here today is to gather your collective wisdom, thoroughly understand the design of the Soviet SVD sniper rifle, and then imitate it." Leader Fang from the Fifth Ministry of Machinery Industry, who was in charge of hosting the meeting, said.

What collective wisdom? Inviting so many people here was purely to create competition and find the most outstanding one! Everyone understood this in their hearts, but no one dared to say it out loud.

"First, let's have the leaders of our troops talk about the origin of these guns and the necessity of imitating them," Leader Fang said.

"The battlefield is the touchstone of weapons. This saying is absolutely correct. Only after we went to the battlefield did we realize that the Type 56 carbine in our hands was simply unable to compete with the enemy. Therefore, we quickly equipped the Type 56 assault rifle to maintain the firepower continuity of the front-line troops. However, in combat, we discovered that the greatest threat to us was still the enemy's sniper rifles. Only one or two shooters, hiding hundreds of meters away, would shoot at us, one shot, one kill. And our soldiers, because the range of their rifles was not enough, could only stare blankly and do nothing. Compared with the previous sniping distance of two or three hundred meters, the enemy's sniper rifles had already increased the range to beyond five hundred meters. This time, we raided the enemy's sniper team's nest and completely seized three sniper rifles. We hope that our military experts can imitate them as soon as possible and hand them over to the soldiers at the front," Leader Wang of the troops said in one breath.

"The serial numbers of the three guns are 68668, 68777, and 74919," Leader Fang introduced. "Let's first study the structure of the guns, and then go to the shooting range to test them out, so that everyone can feel how advanced this professional sniper rifle really is."

At this time, Qin Baoguo suddenly felt emotional.

What Qin Yang considered not even a sniper rifle was already considered quite advanced in the eyes of the troops and these military personnel. After all, there was no professional sniper rifle in the country yet!

"Its barrel is so long!" The person who received the gun immediately exclaimed.

The longer the barrel, the more work the propellant does, the greater the kinetic energy of the bullet flying out, the higher the initial velocity, and the farther the bullet flies.

If a sniper rifle wants to snipe at long-distance targets, the longer the barrel is naturally the better. The barrel length of the SVD sniper rifle is a full 620 millimeters. In comparison, the barrel of the AK47 is only 415 millimeters, a full half more.

The stock, scope, etc., all looked very strange.

The 74919 gun ended up in Yang Zhaojun's hands. He studied it back and forth for more than ten minutes before handing it to Qin Baoguo beside him.

Qin Baoguo's hand touched the wooden stock, he took a deep breath, and then his hands moved quickly.

Scope, dust cover, receiver, barrel, gas piston... Amidst the rustling sounds, the sniper rifle that was supposed to be for everyone to admire was actually disassembled by Qin Baoguo!

"Engineer Qin, what are you doing?" Yang Zhaojun immediately shouted.

The leader asked everyone to take a look at it, and you actually disassembled it directly?

"Didn't the leader ask us to admire the structure of the gun?" Qin Baoguo said: "How can I admire it if I don't disassemble it? We are all in the business of firearms, are we afraid of breaking it down?"

They were really afraid of breaking it!

Originally, Leader Fang only wanted everyone to take a look first, and then study how to disassemble it together after they had finished looking at it. Who would have thought that Qin Baoguo's hand speed would be so fast!

Wait!

After a moment, everyone realized that Qin Baoguo was showing off his skills!

"Okay, if you're afraid of breaking it, I'll reassemble it!"

Rustle, rustle, there was another burst of light sounds. By the time Leader Fang came over, the gun had already been reassembled.

"Engineer Qin, are you familiar with this gun?"

"Well, I think its basic structure is not much different from our Type 56 assault rifle." Qin Baoguo said what Qin Yang had analyzed for him, and the simple structural diagram that Qin Yang had drawn also appeared in his mind.

The two were just acquaintances who said a few words when they met. Now these actions were related to which factory would get the imitation task, so Yang Zhaojun had to make a severe criticism here.

"Reduced accuracy? How is that possible?" Qin Baoguo said: "We are all in the military industry, how can we make such a mistake? After my assembly, the accuracy of this gun should be even higher."

"What? Engineer Qin, even if you are doing this so that your factory can get the imitation task, you don't have to brag like this, do you?" Now Yang Zhaojun was even more unconvinced.

Everyone was indeed in the military industry. Disassembly and assembly were no problem, but it was impossible for the accuracy to be improved after disassembly and assembly! There was only the possibility of reduced accuracy due to improper installation, and absolutely no possibility of improvement!

"Engineer Yang, if you don't believe me, we can go out and test-fire it," Qin Baoguo said: "The accuracy of this gun that I just disassembled and assembled must be higher than the other two!"

"That's impossible!"

Leader Fang watched the two arguing with interest and said quietly: "Okay, let's go out and test-fire it and see if Engineer Qin is right."

The reason for setting up the meeting here was to facilitate test firing. They could go to the shooting range by walking.

Everyone came to the shooting range together. Qin Baoguo looked at the target opposite and said: "We are testing sniper rifles, even if we don't hit targets at eight hundred meters, we should at least put the target five hundred meters away, right?"

The targets of the troops were all one hundred meters or two hundred meters. Now they had to test-fire sniper rifles, so they had to change it.

"Okay, then put it five hundred meters away, and find three of the best shooters to shoot at the target!" Leader Fang said.

After three gunshots, the voice of the scorer came.

"Target number one, one ring."

"Target number two, off the target."

"Target number three, five rings!"

Target number three was shot by that 74919! It was so accurate?

"I don't believe it, let them exchange rifles and shoot!" Yang Zhaojun shouted.

Exchange, re-test firing. This time, the other two rifles both hit two rings, but that 74919 rifle hit four rings!

"How is it? Do you believe it now?" Qin Baoguo's face was full of excitement. His son was right about everything.