Chapter 1063: Starting a New Weapon Project
On May 11, the second year of Da Ming, in early summer, Lin Fei from the research institute personally brought two double-barreled shotguns to Hanyang City to meet Luo Chong. The two met in the study of Luo Chong's house, and Lin Fei introduced the work of producing shotguns to Luo Chong.
"Chief, in view of the relatively low chamber pressure of shotguns, we used a molybdenum steel alloy with a molybdenum content of 7% to produce the barrel this time. There is no rifling in the barrel, and the receiver and other parts are still made of carbon steel, but the overall structure is much simpler than the military shotgun.
"In addition, the chief asked me to select the personnel to form a weapons project team, and I have also selected some. If the chief needs it, he can start a new project at any time. "
Lin Fei reported the situation to Luo Chong, while Luo Chong was playing with the double-barreled shotgun with a black and gray barrel in his hand. These two shotguns were the extra products from the previous batch of custom-made ones, and they were also the first batch of firearms made of molybdenum steel in the Han tribe.
Judging from the appearance and touch alone, the difference between molybdenum steel and carbon steel cannot be directly distinguished. If you really want to distinguish them, perhaps you can only distinguish them based on mechanical properties, wear resistance, hardness and heat resistance.
However, Luo Chong did not dwell on this. He put down the shotgun and asked casually, "Has this batch of weapons been sent to Heyuan County?"
"They have been sent, according to the leader's order. There are a total of 2,000 double-barreled shotguns. The ammunition is of the same caliber as that used by the Shen Ce Guards, so there is no need to transport the ammunition separately. At that time, we only need to ask the Shen Ce Guards to leave a batch of ammunition before they come back.
"We used a small flying fish sailboat for transportation, and I believe it will arrive in Heyuan County soon." Lin Fei replied again.
"Well, you did a good job." Luo Chong nodded and asked again, "You just said that you can start a new R&D project at any time. Does that mean that the engineering vehicle project no longer needs a large number of people?"
Lin Fei frowned slightly, and he thought for a while and said, "Need it or not. The leader has placed a lot of orders for engineering machinery vehicles, and of course a large number of workers are needed to produce them. We can't complete the orders without enough people.
"But now the R&D work of each sub-project of the engineering vehicle has been completed. For example, the tractor has been finalized, so the R&D personnel of the original tractor group can be temporarily withdrawn or assigned to other related groups to help.
"But now most of the R&D work on engineering vehicles has been completed. Of course, we have a great demand for production workers, but most of the researchers have been idle.
"Regarding this batch of researchers who have completed the task, I have arranged them to other groups, such as the machine tool group, steam engine group, train group, etc. These are our permanent research projects. If the leader wants to start a new project now, then of course there is no problem. Although we don't have many idle technical workers now, we have a lot of researchers. Even if the new project cannot be mass-produced, there is no problem with the initial research. "
Lin Fei immediately reported on the current operation of the institute, which also gave Luo Chong a general idea of the status of the institute.
After listening, Luo Chong nodded and said, "Okay, then we will formally establish a new weapon project, and temporarily set up a light weapon project team and a heavy weapon project team. You select the right people, and these two research groups may become independent in the future and become a dedicated weapons research institute.
"As for some parts of the weapons project that you can't handle, I will let the comprehensive research institute cooperate with you. Let's not talk about anything else first, let's make the new ammunition first, and then develop new weapons based on the ammunition."
To study firearms, you must first study ammunition. Is there anything wrong with this logic?
In fact, there is a very famous question about which came first, the chicken or the egg. This question is really difficult to answer, but when it comes to firearms, it is much easier. Looking at the history of firearms development in Luo Chong's previous life, the evolution of firearms has always been behind the evolution of ammunition.
Even when firearms were first invented, gunpowder came first, and then muskets. As for the later muzzle-loading period, the ammunition also changed from ordinary black powder to granular black powder, and then to the structure of Minié bullets plus paper-wrapped fixed charges. The development of firearms during this period was also very slow, just from the matchlock gun to the matchlock gun, and then to the flintlock gun. In fact, the changes were not big.
If there were no new percussion powder first, there would be no percussion gun.
In the later industrial age, when the metal fixed bullets of smokeless gunpowder appeared, the ammunition specifications also came first, and then the corresponding firearms appeared. This is still the case even in modern times.
So there is nothing wrong with what Luo Chong said about making ammunition first and then weapons.
"Chief, what about the sub-projects corresponding to the weapons project?" Lin Fei nodded at first, indicating that he agreed to start the new project, and then asked about the sub-projects.
The Power Research Institute in charge of Lin Fei has been fully trained from the initial single R&D project to the later comprehensive type of large projects. It can now plan similar large-scale comprehensive scientific research projects with multiple projects in parallel.
"Regarding the research and development of new weapons, I have already made a list and given the corresponding R&D direction, as well as some detailed drawings. When you leave, I will send a team of guards to personally escort the information.
"In addition, I will also send people to protect the various R&D teams of weapons for a long time. These projects must be kept absolutely confidential to the outside world. All researchers involved in the project will also sign the corresponding confidentiality agreement. Once the secrets are leaked, they will be dealt with according to the Han law. You will have to tell those people when you go back." Luo Chong immediately began to make arrangements.
"Okay, chief, but I still think that the chief is a little too worried. In my opinion, even if we give the drawings of those weapons to others, they can't produce them. In this world, except for our institute, no other county in the Han tribe has the ability to manufacture them. "Lin Fei said with some pride.
Luo Chong certainly understood this problem, because it was just as Lin Fei said, without even machine tools and qualified steel, what could others do?
But one thing is one thing, the new firearms involved Luo Chong's ruling status and national security. Even if there was no threat, Luo Chong would not let these confidential information become known to everyone.
"This is not negotiable, including you. Everyone involved in this project must strictly implement the confidentiality agreement. This has nothing to do with whether there are opponents or not, but a matter of system and rules. Anyway, you just follow orders." Luo Chong emphasized the confidentiality again.
"Okay, I'll tell them, then leader, when will I go back?" Lin Fei agreed, and then directly expressed his intention to leave.
"You go back first, I'll have someone send you the information, and then you can hold a meeting to confirm the confidentiality agreement, and then discuss the grouping, and then start research and development." Luo Chong nodded and said.
"Yes! "Lin Fei bowed and agreed, then turned and left.
First of all, I want to apologize to everyone. There are a lot of things to do at the end of the year. The author has been sick these days, so I have been mumbling for a few days. I don't mean to stop writing. This book has more than three million words. I have to finish it no matter what. Otherwise, I will be sorry for my efforts in the past two years, so don't worry.
(End of this chapter)
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