mesbooks Chapter 262 Armalite, M14, and AR
Chapter 262 Armalite, M14, and AR
The synthesizer, nicknamed Root Pentium, smiled charmingly with his handsome face resembling Eastwood, extended his right hand, and asked:
"Lawyer Stroud, would you be willing to be our legal counsel for Texas Microcomputer?"
Attorney Stroud was overjoyed. He knew very well how promising the future of the patent he handled would be.
He personally believes that this patent alone is worth at least 5000 million dollars, no, 8000 million!
So he immediately stretched out his right hand, held Gen's right hand and agreed.
"It is my pleasure, sir."
Gen put away the paper documents and pointed to the bar across the street:
"Then let's go have a drink to celebrate. By the way, tell me about your junior at the University of Virginia Law School. His name is Robert Kennedy, right?"
"Oh, yes, he has a brother named John, who graduated from Harvard with honors, a smiling boy from Massachusetts, and now he works in the Pentagon." Lawyer Stroud put on his hat and said with a hint of sarcasm.
"It's said that ever since the Japanese invaded, he's been stuck with one night shift after another, with no overtime pay, just plenty of black coffee. Hahaha. I bet he can't laugh now."
Gen raised his eyebrows and looked at Stroud:
"Do you know him too? I'd like you to introduce him to me. Our company has a business deal we'd like to discuss with the Pentagon."
"Hey, sir, I have no choice but to help you. Don't forget, I'm already your legal advisor." Attorney Stroud clenched his fists and patted his chest. "But John works in the Foreign Intelligence Service. Can he really help our business?"
"My legal advisor, please believe me." Gen pushed open the bar door and walked in first. "In the future, our Texas Microcomputer electronic products will be omnipotent."
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While Gen Pentium was preparing to make early contact with the future smiling and imaginative White Eagle Le Zong according to Zhang Chi's orders, Zhang Chi was also planning for the next generation of rifles.
The M1 Garand, currently used primarily by the National Security Army, is an excellent semi-automatic rifle by World War II standards.
Its firepower density is indeed far superior to the mainstream bolt-action rifles of other countries in World War II - Lee Enfield, Mauser 98K, Mosin Nagant, Type 38, etc.
However, the huge recoil of the .30-06 is still a bit too much for most of the soldiers of the People's Army, and after all, the firepower density of a semi-automatic rifle is not as good as that of a fully automatic rifle, right?
Although the designer Garand himself has come up with a makeshift design of a fully automatic Garand plus a 20-round BAR magazine, Zhang Chi, as a time traveler, certainly would not look down on this forced design.
So Zhang Chi took a different approach and thought of Mel Johnson, the designer of the Johnson Model 1941 semi-automatic rifle (the one with Shunliu, the picture is at the end of the chapter as the author said), which was the loser in the competition with the M1 for the White Eagle standard rifle.
The latter will work as a design consultant for a little-known firearms company on the West Coast in the future. The name of this company is Armalite.
There was a relatively young designer in Armalite named Eugene Stoner.
At that time, no one could have imagined that this unknown young man of Indiana descent would one day become the king of guns, on par with Kalashnikov.
Except for Zhang Chi, the time traveler.
In this way, a Texas Armalite Firearms Design Company was established near the Texas Microcomputer Laboratory.
The company's registered capital is a luxurious 100 million gold knives. In addition to the synths sent by Zhang Chi, the shareholders behind it also include a series of famous and terrifying Tosla tycoons.
We will talk about how Zhang Chi pulled these big sharks onto his boat later.
In short, Eugene Stoner, Mel Johnson and other personnel currently affiliated with the White Eagle military successfully became employees of this firearms design company after some operations.
On their first day at work, they were given a design requirement: to create a "combat rifle" that could be fed by a 30-round magazine and could fire semi-automatically or fully automatically.
Regarding this new rifle, the synth boss, who goes by the alias Armalite, gave very clear instructions:
"The STG44 that the Hans made is a good gun, but their 7.92x33mm rifle short round is terrible. I can't accept that piss-like ballistics, so let's develop a short round first, and then make a new gun."
The design of Hans' STG44 is remarkable and worth learning from.
However, due to the problem of bullet propellant, the 7.92x33 short bullet does solve the problem of recoil in full-automatic continuous firing, but its range is also much shorter, only slightly longer than that of a submachine gun.
Its effective range of only 300 meters was too short for World War II and the subsequent Cold War.
Therefore, many designers still agree with the words of their boss Armalite.
But what they saw next when they faced their boss Amalet's behavior was not surprise but shock.
In front of all the designers, Armalite took out an M14 rifle as a reference and several hundred rounds of matching 7.62x51mm T65 bullets.
Faced with this rifle with its production markings scraped off, many designers were confused:
Boss, you already have such a mature rifle, why do you still need us?
This M14 is of course the crew self-defense weapon that Zhang Chi made from the newly purchased vehicle after developing the M44 155mm self-propelled artillery.
Zhang Chi naturally saw the poor performance of the M14 rifle in the Annan War.
The M14 did not perform well in the hot and humid Annan, and it certainly would not perform well in Pegu and other Southeast Asian regions where the Anan Army would fight in the future.
The problem is that the White Eagle people don't know about this situation, so Zhang Chi thought about it and decided to let these people from Armalite copy the M14 and sell it to the Pentagon to make money.
After all, at least from the perspective of World War II, the 7.62x51mm T65 bullet and the M14 rifle are still very tempting.
Zhang Chi estimated that Eugene Stoner, Mel Johnson and others would be able to come up with a rough idea quickly with the physical objects as reference, and get an order for hundreds of thousands of rifles from the Pentagon before the launch of "Operation Olympic" to land on the Japanese home island, and make some money.
As for the next generation of the People's Security Army's standard rifle, Zhang Chi still bets on the 5.56 caliber AR series rifle that Eugene Stoner will develop.
As for the Russians' M43 short bullets, AK47 and RPD machine guns, Zhang Chi was indeed envious, but the problem was that he was still a younger brother of the White Eagle on the surface.
The emperor is far away and the sky is high. It is natural for him to exchange glances with the Russians and engage in some trade while hiding in Southeast Asia, but if he completely replaces his equipment with the Russian standard equipment, it will easily make "big news".
So Zhang Chi had to secretly let the designers of the First Firearms Institute try to develop M43 short bullets, AK47 and RPD machine guns according to the technical data that he did not remember completely.
If the first firearms can be developed before the Russians, Zhang Chi will change his equipment in a big way, and then shamelessly declare that the Russian equipment is copied. At most, he will have a verbal battle with the Russians.
If you can't catch up, you can only wait for Armalite's AR to come out.
Who made his Golden Finger War Thunder system a vehicle design game? It can only exchange various vehicles, and the number of self-defense weapons on the vehicle is still too small.
The exchange coupons for the production line that can only be obtained by killing a general are too valuable. Zhang Chi is still reluctant to give it up just for an AK rifle that will be everywhere in the future.