The rise of great powers: starting from military industry

The militiamen were stunned by the power of the new heavy machine guns.

Liu Tao was quite dissatisfied.

"The recoil is too great and the magazine capacity is a little smaller." Liu Tao frowned slightly.

He has continuously upgraded this machine gun, and now it is considered a very successful heavy machine gun. Looking at the heavy machine guns equipped in the entire army, no one can compare with it.

Even if you look at the world, this heavy machine gun is at the advanced level.

The entire heavy machine gun has a simple and compact structure, is more convenient to disassemble and combine, and is convenient for service and use. The gun consists of a gun body, a tripod, a bullet chain, an ammunition box and accessories. The gun body is composed of six parts: the barrel, the receiver, the bolt, the transmitter, the charging handle, and the butt. It is in an incompletely disassembled state. There are no independent parts underneath, making maintenance easy.

The entire gun is 1640 mm long and the barrel is 1003 mm long. As for the weight, a soldier in the army can carry it forward.

But now there are two aspects that don't satisfy him. On the one hand, the recoil is so strong that ordinary soldiers cannot operate this heavy machine gun. Only specially selected heavy machine gunners must undergo continuous training to be able to operate this heavy machine gun. On the other hand, the magazine capacity is small, only 50 rounds, and the theoretical rate of fire is 450~600 rounds per minute, which means that one magazine can be fired in less than 10 seconds.

This involves a trade-off. If the magazine capacity is large, the magazine will be heavy.

The total weight of the 12.7 mm machine gun bullet is 131 grams, and 50 rounds of bullets weigh 6.55 kilograms; if there are 100 rounds of bullets, the weight of the bullet alone will reach 13.1 kilograms!

"Increasing the magazine capacity is a bit inappropriate, but the recoil can be improved and optimized!" Liu Tao thought to himself.

Later, Liu Tao asked the militiamen to carry the heavy machine gun back, and he produced the heavy machine gun again.

This heavy machine gun is very powerful, but also very expensive.

The cost of a heavy machine gun is as high as several thousand yuan, and the bullets are also very expensive. The production cost of ordinary heavy machine gun bullets reaches 3 yuan. As for armor-piercing bullets, armor-piercing incendiary tracer bullets, and armor-piercing explosive incendiary bullets, the cost is even higher. You can even get 100 yuan per shot!

Just to research heavy machine guns, hundreds of thousands of yuan were spent!

Liu Tao is now the director of the factory. Otherwise, even if Wang Tiezhu was the director before, he would still have to scold his mother and scold him as a prodigal.

But in Liu Tao's view, all the expenses are worth it, because the income generated by this heavy machine gun is tens of thousands of times the investment!

Not to mention, it is just equipped with armor-piercing bullets, armor-piercing incendiary tracer bullets, and armor-piercing explosive incendiary bombs. In the future, the most valuable thing will not be the heavy machine gun, but the specially equipped bullets.

The next day, four o'clock in the afternoon.

Liu Tao stroked the heavy machine gun in his hand, and a virtual panel appeared in the corner of his eye:

[Item: ‘78’ heavy machine gun]

[Manufacturer: Liu Tao]

[Item level: LV10 (cannot be upgraded)]

[Upgrade Points: 100]

[Item status: intact, parsable]

After design, the defect of large recoil was solved, and this heavy machine gun was finalized. It has reached the current material limit and can no longer be upgraded.

"System, analysis!" Liu Tao thought silently in his heart.

Suddenly, the design drawing of this heavy machine gun was automatically formed on the virtual panel, including the process flow chart.

And all 100 upgrade points were deducted.

"This heavy machine gun is ready to be finalized. I think it can be used on the front line to kill more monkeys!" Liu Tao thought to himself.

Now all the troops on the eastern and western fronts have been withdrawn.

Last month, as the withdrawal order was issued from above, each unit took turns to cover the retreat, blew up and destroyed all military and political facilities in the occupied area, took away all the machines and equipment that could be taken away, and recovered a large amount of supplies that had been provided to the monkeys back then.

There are still a large number of troops on the front line to deter the monkeys.

But Liu Tao knew very well that the monkey would continue to jump up and down and cause bloodshed, and the war would definitely resume next year.

And the heavy machine gun, which he named the 'Type 78', will become a weapon on the battlefield, harvesting the lives of monkeys.

"But if you want to make more money, you have to export. Only by exporting and earning foreign exchange can you make a lot of money." Liu Tao was thinking in his mind.

According to published data, the country’s foreign exchange reserves last year were only US$167 million.

At the Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in December last year, it was officially proposed to implement the policy of domestic reform and opening up to the outside world.

This allowed Liu Tao to see the opportunity to earn foreign exchange through exports. This era was not a peaceful one. There were wars breaking out. But in war-torn places, there was no need to sell weapons and equipment, and he could earn a lot of foreign exchange. U.S. dollars and gold could be used in weapons and equipment. in exchange.

Africa, the Middle East, and South America are all Liu Tao's goals.

In the future, wars such as the Afghanistan War, the Iran-Iraq War, the Falklands War, the Fifth Middle East War, the Gulf War, etc. will break out one after another.

Not to mention, the war in Africa has never been extinguished.

The arms market is quite huge.

The United States and the Soviet Union eat meat, but Panshan Machinery Factory only needs to drink soup and live a happy life.

As for whether it can be exported, Liu Tao is not worried at all.

In this era, China is crazy poor. It can be said that it is as poor as ghosts. It costs money to study abroad at public expense, to buy production lines, and to import various industrial products.

This money is not RMB, but foreign exchange.

Foreign exchange is not just US dollars and rubles, but Japanese yen, Hong Kong dollars, pounds, francs, and German marks are all foreign exchange.

China is so short of foreign exchange that in order to earn foreign exchange, it even dares to export Dongfeng-3 missiles.

Not to mention the export of such small arms!

Liu Tao still remembers that he once saw a news. During the Iran-Iraq war, the exported weapons and equipment covered various fields and levels from light weapons to heavy equipment, from land to sea and air, from conventional to missiles. The export value was almost 150. One hundred million U.S. dollars.

So much so that on the battlefield, there are a large number of Type 69 series main battle tanks, hundreds of rescue tractors, hundreds of J-7 aircraft, Hongjian-8 anti-tank missiles, and Feibao-1 rockets.

Heavy weapons can be exported, and there is no problem exporting light weapons.

Now it is not a question of whether weapons can be exported, but whether export channels can be found.

Although Panshan Machinery Factory is now benefiting from these infantry weapons and equipment and has made a lot of profits, Liu Tao still understands the principle of taking precautions.

"I need to go to the provincial capital sometime and talk to the director." Liu Tao muttered to himself.

If he wants to do this, he always has to report to his superiors.

Moreover, after he concludes the business, the export must be coordinated by his superiors. Yun Province is a landlocked country with no outlet to the sea. If weapons are to be exported, they must be shipped to Guangdong Province.

As for taking the land route, that is not advisable at all. Whether or not there is a road to transport it from Yun Province to Pakistan is one thing. Even if there is a road system, it is definitely far from being comparable to that of later generations.

In later generations, it took decades of unremitting infrastructure work to build a transportation system extending in all directions.

As for now, even the provincial capital of Kunming City, let alone other cities, has shabby roads.