Red Moscow

  Chapter 199 Assault Rifles Available in Advance (Part 1)

  Faced with the chief engineer's doubts and disdain, even the clay figurines became angry. Sokov looked into the eyes of the chief engineer, and repeated what he said just now without being humble: "Comrade chief engineer, you have no right to speak without investigation. You didn't even read my drawings, so how did you know the rifle I designed? Is it suitable for deployment in the army?"

"Comrade Commander," seeing Sokov showing signs of running away, the chief engineer showed an embarrassed expression on his face, but he still bite the bullet and said: "The design of weapons is not based on impulse. Very rigorous work, without relevant knowledge reserves and years of practical experience, it is almost impossible to design a gun suitable for troops. I may be too straightforward, but this is all true. I I see you should take back your design." After finishing speaking, he planned to return the blueprint in his hand to Sokov.

Sokov did not accept the drawings handed back by the chief engineer, but put his hands behind his back, and continued: "Comrade chief engineer, I implore you to take a look at this drawing. If you still insist on your original drawing after reading it If you don’t have a point of view, I have nothing to say. But if you don’t even have a drawing, it’s a bit too hasty to draw conclusions casually.”

  Nikolaevich had seen the drawings, and he was very interested in the firearms drawn on them. So as soon as Sokov finished speaking, he immediately chimed in and said: "Dear Yevgeny Vasilyevich, I suggest you take a look at this drawing. At least, after I read the drawing, I think this is exactly what we A new rifle needs to be developed."

The chief engineer heard that the factory manager was saying good things about this new rifle, and felt that if he didn't look at the drawings, everyone would be unable to step down, so he took out reading glasses from his coat pocket, put them on, and put the drawings together I looked carefully in front of my eyes. He initially had a contemptuous expression on his face, but as he watched, his expression became serious.

  After he finished reading the drawings, he looked up at Sokov and asked, "Comrade Commander, what caliber of bullets do you intend to use for this new rifle, why is it not marked on the drawing?"

   When Sokov was drawing yesterday, he intentionally omitted the data of bullets and magazines. The purpose of his doing this is to confirm whether the person looking at the picture is really looking at the picture seriously, or it is purely perfunctory. At this moment, when the chief engineer asked this key question, he knew that his blueprint had already impressed the other party.

  However, Sokov did not immediately answer the chief engineer's question, but instead asked: "Comrade chief engineer, before I answer your question, can you tell me how about the new rifle I designed?"

"How should I say it?" The chief engineer took off his reading glasses, stuffed them into his jacket pocket, and said thoughtfully: "From the drawings you drew, this is a pretty good rifle. If the gun can successfully pass various tests, I believe it will be deployed in the troops in the shortest possible time."

Seeing that the chief engineer approved his design, Sokov said: "Comrade chief engineer, I plan to use 7.62mm caliber, fire 7.62×39mm intermediate power bullets, and use a capacity of 30 bullets. The curved magazine feeds."

  After listening to Sokov's words, the chief engineer turned to look at the factory manager behind the desk, and asked, "Nikolaevich, have you heard of the intermediate powerful bullet?"

  Nikolaevich shook his head and said, "Never heard of it?"

  After getting a reply from Nikolaevich, the chief engineer asked Sokov again: "Comrade commander, I would like to ask, where did you hear about the intermediate power bullet?"

Fortunately, before crossing over, Sokov had read a book introducing intermediate powerful bullets, so when he heard the chief engineer's question, he said casually: "I once read in a book that the famous firearms expert in our country Fedorov believed that the 7.62×54mm M1891 ammunition of our army was too powerful as ammunition for automatic rifles, so he developed a 6.5×50.5mm caliber automatic rifle in 1916 and defined a new one for it. The name of the gun—automatic gun.

  Fedorov personally supervised the work in the arsenal, produced a small batch of M1916 automatic guns, and distributed them to a company composed of strictly selected officers and soldiers belonging to the 189th Infantry Regiment, and tried them out when they went to the front line to fight. I remember when he equipped the troops with this kind of automatic gun, he once said: the future individual weapon may evolve into two types of firearms, one is the combination of submachine gun and light carbine, using new bullets; As a light automatic rifle, you should use a more powerful bullet..."

After Sokov finished speaking, the chief engineer sighed and said, "Comrade commander, there are not many people who know Fedorov now. Not to mention ordinary people, even those in the military industry know Fedorov. There are very limited people, not to mention the intermediate power bullet he proposed back then."

   After a pause, he asked again: "So, have you read Fedorov's book?"

Sokov knew that Fedorov had published two books, and he happened to know the names of these two books, so he said cheekily: "That's right, Comrade Chief Engineer, I have read "Automatic Weapons" and "Automatic Weapons" written by him. "The Evolution of Small Arms" two books."

   "These two books are good." The chief engineer waited for Sokov to finish speaking, and then continued: "If you want to become a qualified weapon designer, these two books are must-read reference books."

   Seeing that the chief engineer agreed with the blueprint of the new rifle, not only Sokov was relieved, but also the factory manager. He was afraid that his chief engineer would be stubborn and deny this good new rifle. He stood up and asked, "Evgeny Vasilyevich, according to this blueprint, how many days will it take to produce a prototype gun?"

The chief engineer looked at the blueprint in his hand and replied: "If it is just to make a sample gun, it can be completed before dawn. But the intermediate power bullet mentioned by Comrade Major is relatively troublesome, and it will take half a month at the fastest." to be manufactured."

"No, half a month is too long." Nikolaevich shook his head and said, "The two commanders can only stay here for a few days, they can't wait that long. I'll give it two days , we must produce the intermediate power bullets, even if only one hundred rounds are produced, we can try the power of this new type of rifle.”

  The chief engineer carefully folded the drawings, put them in his coat pocket, turned around and walked outside. But when he walked to the door, he seemed to think of something, turned around and walked back to Sokov, stretched out his hand, and said friendlyly: "Comrade major, let's get to know each other formally, I am the chief engineer of the machinery factory." Yevgeny Vasilyevich Bazarov."

Seeing that his "design" was approved by the chief engineer, Sokov quickly reached out to hold the other's hand, shook it twice, and said with a smile: "My name is Mikhail Mikhailnovich Soko." Husband, a major in the field army."

Chief engineer Bazarov obviously had a crush on him. He held his hand tightly and refused to let go. He promised, "Comrade Major, I will immediately arrange for someone to redraw your drawings, and then Then assemble the sample gun. If everything goes well, you will be able to see the sample gun at the same time tomorrow.”

  (end of this chapter)