Rebirth of the 1980s: The Military Industry Empire

The internal working environment of a gun barrel is extremely harsh. It is subjected to the high temperature and high pressure of the propellant, the wear and tear of bullets exiting the chamber, and the erosion of wind, sand, and rain during daily carry. In some accidents, the gun may even fall directly into a mud pit…

Old Maozi's rifles are famous for their reliability, precisely because even if they fall into the mud, they can be picked up, shaken a few times, and still fire.

Speaking of gun barrels, to adapt to these environments, they are generally chrome-plated to increase reliability and service life.

However, chrome plating has inherent imbalance issues. Although it looks like just a thin layer of chrome, it varies in thickness and smoothness, which can affect the accuracy of the gun.

If it's just an ordinary rifle, it only needs to maintain a certain accuracy within 300 meters, so the thickness and smoothness of the chrome plating don't matter. But for a sniper rifle that requires precise shooting, this uneven chrome-plated layer will affect the shooting accuracy!

In order to win the bid, Factory 960 secretly cheated by not chrome-plating the barrel of the gun submitted for bidding to increase accuracy! No wonder its accuracy is so high!

However, we cannot imitate it because we need to win orders from the military and then produce in large quantities. If the produced barrels are not chrome-plated, they will definitely be scrapped early! This would be a serious accident, and I don't know how many people would be implicated!

Thinking of this result, Yang Zhaojun felt extremely disgusted. This is like falling into a pit!

"Yang, Engineer Yang, even if we chrome-plate the inside of the gun barrel, I don't think it will have much impact, right?" Xu Zhiqiang said from the side, "I guess Factory 960 was in a hurry when making the prototype gun and didn't have time to chrome-plate it."

"How can it not have an impact?" Yang Zhaojun said irritably, "We need to hit a coin at 500 meters. If we can't achieve that kind of accuracy, how can we convince the higher-ups to adopt our Factory 296's product?"

They are snatching Factory 960's order! They must be fast and send the prototype gun over before the relevant departments officially allocate funds to Factory 960 for procurement! Even if the accuracy cannot exceed Factory 960's prototype gun, it cannot be worse than Factory 960's.

What now? What should we do now?

"Let's manufacture a non-chrome-plated prototype gun for testing first, and then continue to find a solution for the chrome plating." Yang Zhaojun said, "First, survey and map the gun, draw blueprints, and then send it to the workshop to find the most skilled master craftsman for processing!"

Factory 296 is, after all, the leader in the industry, and there are many experienced master craftsmen in the workshop, definitely stronger than Factory 960! Therefore, they must focus on processing accuracy and strive to create a sniper rifle with higher accuracy!

"Impossible, this is absolutely impossible!" At this moment, another surveying technician shouted loudly, "The accuracy of this receiver is actually within two si!"

"Two si? Are you kidding me?" Yang Zhaojun was also surprised.

The receiver of a gun is actually the part that launches the bullet. A gun can be divided into the stock (the part that rests against the shoulder), the receiver, the handguard, and the exposed part of the barrel. Even the receiver of a bullpup rifle also serves as the stock.

It can be said that the receiver is the main body of the gun.

Its processing requirements are not high. In order to mass-produce it in the past, stamping and welding processes were even developed. However, generally speaking, the standard process is to mill it from a whole piece of steel.

This imitation SVD sniper rifle is very similar to the AK rifle's receiver. The most difficult step in the processing is to dig a hole 238 millimeters deep inside a blind hole with an inner diameter of 26 millimeters.

This processing technique makes even experienced master craftsmen frown. If their hand shakes even slightly, the resulting error will be very large.

Fortunately, the processing accuracy required for the Type 56 assault rifle was not high in the first place. Therefore, the processing accuracy of Factory 296, the best in the country, is generally within ten si. But now, it is actually only two si, which is 0.02 millimeters, thinner than a hair!

"In last year's employee skills competition in the factory, Master Liu from the Third Workshop made a receiver with the highest precision ever. The precision at that time was six si, which had already impressed everyone," Yang Zhaojun said, "How could they possibly make a precision of two si?"

"Perhaps they got lucky during the processing." Xu Zhiqiang continued, "Besides, the receiver doesn't need such high processing accuracy at all."

Lucky? That's right, it's just luck! Yang Zhaojun was trying to convince himself, what's the use of a receiver with high processing accuracy? It's just showing off!

"What's this screw?" At this moment, someone else shouted, "We've never seen it before!"

"Hmph, you can't stump us! We'll just make a special wrench!"

Looking at the special internal hexagon screw at the connection between the gun body and the stock, an ominous premonition surged in Yang Zhaojun's heart. This gun is strange!

While Yang Zhaojun and others were busy, Qin Yang and his father, Qin Baoguo, also finished their work in the capital and took a car back to Factory 960.

The 212 was driving on the road, and Qin Yang looked up at the newly replaced tarpaulin, saying somewhat proudly, "Out with the old, in with the new. This brand-new tarpaulin is much better than the old one!"

The upper half of the 212 Jeep is canvas, so the canvas can be removed on the battlefield to become a convertible. However, for other factories and government agencies, this would create an extra burden. Exposed to wind and sun, the canvas would age in a few years. If you want to replace it with a new one, you have to pay for it!

"Imitate?" Qin Yang smiled: "My gun barrel isn't chrome-plated, how are they going to imitate it?"

"Not chrome-plated? Then how do you guarantee the accuracy of mass production in the future?" Qin Baoguo became anxious all of a sudden.

"Of course…"

At the entrance of Factory 960.

"Comrades, Factory Director Qin and Engineer Qin are back! Let's welcome them with warm applause!" Zhu Zizhong shouted to the people around him when he saw the 212 approaching.

Crackling…

Boom, boom boom!

The fireworks that had been prepared long ago were also set off into the sky, it was almost like the scene during the New Year!

Qin Yang and his father got out of the car, feeling somewhat overwhelmed by the grand scene.

"Factory Director Zhu, we just came back from handling a small matter, there's no need for such a big show, right?" Qin Baoguo said.

"This is no small matter." Zhu Zizhong said, "This time we won the imitation task, our third-line military-to-civilian factory can finally make guns again! The cafeteria has received several slabs of pork, and we will have a celebration feast in the cafeteria tonight, we will eat and drink to our heart's content! It's really a breath of fresh air!"

Everyone was happy! Ever since the higher-ups issued an order for Factory 960 to engage in military-to-civilian conversion and fend for themselves, everyone had been holding back their energy. Now, in the civilian product project, the Lion brand air gun has made a name for itself and is even sold abroad! In terms of military products, they squeezed out Factory 296 and won the recognition of the higher-ups. It can be said that it is a double harvest!

Being so proud, of course, there will be a celebration feast tonight!

"Factory Director Zhu, how did you know?" Qin Yang was a little curious.

Communication was quite inconvenient in this era. Qin Yang and his father didn't contact the factory in advance when they came back, but the factory already knew?

"The military has already sent a military representative over."