Rebirth of the 1980s: The Military Industry Empire

As night fell, the unit's cafeteria buzzed with lively noise.

"We haven't waited these three days in vain!" Leader Fang said happily, "Our Factory 960 has successfully trial-produced an advanced sniper rifle with performance far exceeding the original SVD sniper rifle. This is the pride of our entire system! Now, let us raise our glasses together to Factory 960!"

"Leader Fang, we are undeserving of such praise," Qin Baoguo said. "We are just a third-tier military factory, almost abandoned by the times. Now, let us raise our glasses to wish our military research and development progress steadily, to wish all our colleagues' products gain the army's recognition, and to wish our motherland prosperity!"

"That's the content for the next few drinks. Based on these two sniper rifles developed by your factory alone, you are qualified!" Leader Fang said, raising his glass, "You down it, I'll take a sip."

Alright, Qin Baoguo could only raise his head and drink the wine.

"For this second glass, we must celebrate the emergence of a genius military expert within the system!" Leader Fang, still with the same glass of wine – that's the privilege of a leader – looked warmly at Qin Yang, "We also celebrate Lao Qin having a good son!"

"Leader Fang, by saying that, you're putting our father and son on the fire to roast!" Qin Baoguo couldn't help but say.

On the way back, Leader Fang had asked enthusiastically who designed these two guns. As a result, Qin Baoguo blurted out his son's name. Now, the father and son had become the target of envy, jealousy, and hatred from who knows how many people!

Qin Yang also stood up helplessly and glanced around. Fortunately, there were no sarcastic remarks. Yang Zhaojun was already too ashamed to come to dinner, after all, this dinner was a celebration banquet.

"Leader Fang, I was a bit reckless today and said a lot of rash things. I hope you won't take offense."

Qin Yang's words suited Leader Fang's taste, and he said with a smile, "Young people should be enterprising. If you were timid and didn't dare to question the military experts, I wouldn't have looked at you in a different light."

"That's right, our country is reforming, and our military industry system is also transforming. Your Factory 960 has done very well. Other units in our military industry system will have to learn from you in the future!"

Qin Yang turned his head to look at the speaker, who was none other than Elder Duo he had met during the day. He quickly shook his head, "Elder Duo, you're praising us too much. We're just a small third-tier military factory, not worthy of everyone's learning. When our factory leaders go to the meeting at the end of the year, they will definitely introduce all our transformation experience to everyone. Poverty is not socialism; we must develop together!"

"Well said!" Leader Fang said, "Let's raise our glasses together! This time, you down it, and I'll down it too!"

After drinking the second glass of wine, Elder Duo looked at Qin Yang, "Young man, you haven't said why you know me yet?"

"Elder Duo, you are the most senior veteran in our system, of course, I know you," Qin Yang said. "Your old photo is still hanging in the honor room of our factory!"

Qin Baoguo frowned slightly. Qin Yang was talking nonsense. Their factory didn't have an honor room! Where did the photo come from?

However, Elder Duo didn't know that. He nodded, "I don't have much ability. In recent years, we have been doing preliminary research on small-caliber rifles, but there has been no progress. Huashuo, what do you think of small-caliber rifles?"

"Lao Duo, our Factory 960 has always been located in the deep mountains and hasn't seen the world. How would we know anything about small-caliber rifles? Don't test Yangzi," Qin Baoguo said, afraid that his son wouldn't know and would make a fool of himself.

"You are in the deep mountains and forests, but you have developed a sniper rifle with higher precision than the SVD!" Elder Duo said. "Qin Yang's eyes are on the whole world! We just want to hear Qin Yang's opinion."

"Elder Duo, then I'll just say a few simple words. If I say something wrong, please don't blame me," Qin Yang was certainly not afraid of being tested. "The caliber selection of a weapon is of great importance, and all countries are very cautious. After the baptism of World War II, both the Eastern and Western camps once unified the caliber to 7.62mm. However, in actual combat, the power of developing weapons of this caliber is still too great. The bullets are large, heavy, and the number carried is small. Therefore, in terms of power and quantity, both major camps chose the latter."

As a military expert, how could Qin Yang not understand these things: "Among them, the United States chose 5.56mm, the Soviet Union chose 5.45mm, as for us, the selection of small-caliber was not late either. It started in the 1970s. After careful comparison, we finally chose the 5.8mm caliber."

Elder Duo looked at Qin Baoguo with a smile, "Lao Qin, you have been protecting your son all the time. What doesn't your son know?"

"Yes, we have already selected the 5.8mm caliber, but this is only the first step of a long journey. There is still a lot of work waiting for us," Leader Fang said. "The higher-level leaders have always been skeptical about the power of our rifles of this caliber. After all, having come from that era, they have a deep understanding of the lethality of the Japanese 6.5mm caliber rifles."

Being shot by a Japanese Type 38 rifle, many times even the bullet wouldn't stay inside, it would just fly through. All that was needed was disinfection and bandaging, and you could even continue fighting. But, if you were shot by a Hanyang rifle, you would lose half your life.

In fact, this is not just the fault of the caliber. The main reason is that the Japanese have always pursued high precision, and the muzzle velocity of the bullet is too high, making it difficult to tumble after entering the human body.

"This is also easy," Qin Yang casually provided a solution in a few words, "In the composition of our infantry squad, most of them are equipped with small-caliber automatic rifles. They only need to deal with enemies at a distance of two to three hundred meters. For longer distances, it will be handed over to our squad machine guns and sniper rifles. After this type of sniper rifle is finalized, it can be assigned to the infantry squad. One marksman per squad is enough."

Each infantry squad will definitely not have a sniper, but it is enough to find the person with the best marksmanship to act as a marksman.

Small-caliber rifles are responsible for enemies at a distance of two to three hundred meters, and sniper rifles can extend the firepower to beyond five hundred meters, which is more than enough!

Leader Fang nodded, "Yes, this is a way to solve the problem! In the future, with sniper rifles, the firepower configuration of infantry squads will be more scientific!"

"In this case, the bullets of an infantry squad will not be universal!" Someone raised a question.

"The marksman only needs to carry his own special bullets. To deal with long-range targets, 7.62mm full-power ammunition is more suitable. Of course, if you have to play universal, you can also develop small-caliber sniper rifles in the future," Qin Yang continued to provide opinions easily.

"Speaking of bullets, the trial production of our small-caliber rifle bullets is still facing major problems," Elder Duo continued to talk about this topic.

Small-caliber rifle bullets? I'm most familiar with this! Qin Yang was overjoyed.