Chapter 1155 Standard Setter (Second update, please subscribe)
After Li Guoren left, Li Yian stood by the window and stared into the distance. The sea and sky in the distance looked extremely vast.
Sometimes, Li Yian likes to look at the boundless sea, and then just sit in a daze quietly.
Just in a daze.
I don’t know how long it took, Li Yian walked slowly back to the desk, paused for a moment, took out a cigar from the wooden cigarette box, and lit one. While lighting the cigar, his eyes couldn’t help but It fell on the desk calendar.
There are only a few thin sheets left.
New Year is coming soon!
Muttered to himself, and then started smoking silently. The aroma of the cigar when it was lit filled the study room. It was not the choking smoke, but the smell of sweet cream and chocolate. The sweet smell. It also has a slightly nutty aroma.
This is why he likes to smoke cigars.
After a while, the door of the study room was pushed open, and Zhao Xuezhe came in with Yu Xiangdong.
Zhao Xuezhe is the manager of a defense company. Seeing him, Li Yian smiled and gestured.
“Sit!”
Then, he walked to the desk, opened a document, and said:
“I noticed that you have completed the test of AR15. ”
Zhao Xuezhe quickly replied:
"Yes, Your Excellency, this is indeed a very good weapon!"
More than good!
Two famous guns from another world!
Looking at the defense company’s test report on the AR15, Li Yian didn’t even read the above content. He knew what it said without reading it - they would find that the AR-15 is small in size and Light weight, more flexible and faster to use. Of course, they will also find some shortcomings of this weapon.
This is inevitable. After all, the current AR15 needs to be further improved before it can be improved into the M16, and then further improved into the M16A1, which then became the symbol of small arms in the United States and many Western countries during the Cold War.
"Your Excellency, according to our tests, this weapon has room for further improvement, and after testing we found that the 5.6 mm ammunition it uses, although small in caliber, is extremely lethal. Therefore, the technicians believe that in addition to the range, It is a very promising weapon."
After the compliment, Zhao Xuezhe looked at Your Excellency and said:
"Perhaps, we should introduce it to further improve the AR-15. The design, I believe, will be better than the K50! But the premise is that it will have a future only if the US military adopts it. Otherwise, there will be no future.”
Despite the performance of the K50 assault rifle. Excellent, and very popular with customers, but because of its special caliber, it has become a piece of cake - excellent performance, but no market. Except for Nanyang, only a few countries purchase it in small quantities, because it uses not It is of NATO caliber, and Malaya and Siam, which use it extensively, rely entirely on military aid from Southeast Asia. As for the use in Saigon, they also rely on military aid.
Because of this, Zhao Xuezhe clearly realized that in the context of the Cold War, unique weapon calibers had no future. After all, countries would either choose NATO calibers or the Soviet Union's AK47.
"Indeed, whether the US military adopts a weapon of this caliber determines whether it will be adopted by NATO. Only if NATO adopts it will it become NATO's standard ammunition. This weapon..."
Looking at the report, Li Yian said:
"The US military will purchase it, but it requires us to do some work. My suggestion is to buy its franchise and overseas sales rights."
In fact, if possible, , Li Yian hopes to buy them all. Historically, up to now, Fairchild has spent millions of dollars on the development of AR-15, and there seems to be no end in sight. As a result, they decided to stop researching the AR-15, and in order to repay their debts, they sold the design, production and sales rights of the AR-15 to Colt Small Arms Company at the end of the year for US$75,000 in cash and a 4.5% future sales commission.
After a series of public relations efforts by Colt, the M16 was eventually adopted by the U.S. military, and Colt made a lot of money. Li Yian wanted to imitate Colt, but the problem was...he was Colt.
Colt can persuade the US military and conduct various public relations to get the US military to abandon the M14 that has just entered service and replace it with other companies, and it is also a foreign company. It is definitely impossible, let alone impossible, it is impossible to let this This ammunition became the standard ammunition of the US military.
There is nothing new under the sun.
For Nanyang Defense Company, it is enough to be able to take a ride and make some money while Colt is making a lot of money in the United States. Besides, Li Yi'an's ambition Not here either, he was staring at another target.
"At the same time, we need to make some improvements to it, such as..."
Li Yian smiled as he opened the drawer and took out a bullet.
"Such as this!"
"This is it?"
Looking at the bullet in your hand, Zhao Xuezhe asked tentatively:
"6.5 mm?"
"6.5×55 Swedish bomb,"
Li Yian threw the bullet to Zhao Xuezhe and said:
"The ballistic performance of this bullet is very good. Of course, I am not talking about using this bullet, but developing a 6.5 mm bullet with the same length as the AR15 The bullets used are the same, but the bottom edge can be slightly thicker, similar to the Soviet M43 bullet. Well, the specifications of 6.5×39 can be used with new propellants. It should be a method that can improve the accuracy and accuracy of AR-style rifles in long-range shooting. A new type of ammunition with a killing effect. "
In fact, Li Yian is talking about the 6.5 Grendel bullet. The ballistic performance of this rifle bullet is very excellent, better than 6.8SPC. If you look at the performance alone, 6.5 Grendel seems to be a better 5.56 replacement. However, since the manufacturer is only a small company and does not have "people in the government" like large companies, this kind of caliber is currently only popular among the private sector.
But it is definitely an ammunition with extremely good performance.
The reason why Li Yian took out the Swedish bullet was because its 144-grain, which is a 9-gram heavy bullet, is the warhead of the Swedish bullet directly used. Learning from its warhead can shorten the development time. "When the U.S. military tested the AR15, they thought its penetration was poor, and they requested larger ammunition. However, this time they proposed .258 inches, which is 6.55mm. The arms department said this was the best The caliber of ammunition..."
History is so wonderful. The US military believed that 6.55mm was the best, but did not give the AR15 time to improve, and lost interest in the AR-15. But later, after being taught how to behave by AK47 in South Vietnam, Just like seeking medical treatment in a hurry, under Colt's research, he directly used the AR15. As for the 5.56mm, which was born with defects, it has been used in the new century.
On this issue, Li Yi'an certainly didn't want to play with the US military all the time and regretted it together, so he invited Zhao Xuezhe to come over. On the one hand, he wanted to get the authorization and overseas sales rights of AR15 - after all, during the Cold War, During this period, millions of M16s were exported. This was not AK-style free assistance, but an export of real money.
It doesn’t matter whether the M16 is good or not.
The important thing is, it can really make money!
Even in the new century, the AR series is still the most popular rifle in the American civilian market.
Of course the more important thing is to set standards - NATO caliber standards, which are very valuable!
Li Yian has never been opposed to making money.
Not to mention anything else, in the past ten years, Nanyang has been formulating standards, especially in new industries, such as jet airliners. The standards set by Nanyang are becoming the standard for post-war jet airliners. Standards - you don’t have to adopt them, but relying on the first-mover advantage, the C717 and 707 have established corresponding standards at airports around the world. Even Boeing, as a latecomer, can only abide by them.
And standards cost money!
It is precisely because of this that the current suggestion is made. In fact, to put it bluntly, I just don't want to be fooled by the Yankee's emergency medical treatment. Otherwise, it will not be his turn to worry about such a trivial matter.
So, we can only go all the way to the end on the road of standard setter!
“So, I think we can conduct research in this area and study a new rifle with a caliber of 6.5mm, a streamlined high ballistic coefficient warhead, a weight of 8 grams, a muzzle velocity of more than 820 meters, and excellent ballistic performance. bomb in order to choose to join the US military in the future.”
You don’t need to participate, you just need to convince Colt to adopt it.
After all, in a few years, when the unnecessary U.S. troops who were tortured by AKs in South Vietnam are rushed to the hospital for treatment, the AR15 will be seized by the U.S. military participating in the war like a life-saving straw, just like in history. A large number of M16 He rushed to the Vietnam battlefield to put out fires without completing sufficient testing. The corresponding 6.5mm caliber ammunition will also become an "improvised weapon" for the US military.
Then, the temporary becomes permanent, and finally the entire NATO will adopt this caliber - NATO pays attention to intellectual property rights, and if you adopt this caliber, you will definitely have to pay!
Historically, the SS109 developed by the Belgian FN company was adopted by NATO. After it became the NATO standard ammunition, FN company obtained hundreds of millions of dollars in returns just through patent authorization. In the following ten years, because More and more countries are adopting it, and licensing fees are increasing.
Don’t miss out on big money, don’t waste small money either.
"Your Excellency, this..."
Looking at the bullet in his hand, Zhao Xuezhe hesitated.
"We suffered a lot with the K50. At that time, we thought that the standards proposed by the British would be adopted, but..."
"That is the British. The British want to influence the American-led NATO?"
Li Yian shook his head, smiled, and said:
"Is this possible?"
Why did the 7mm caliber ballistics developed by Nanyang solve the problem of long-range invasion? The problem of poor performance has still not been adopted. To put it bluntly, it is the concept of "America First" in the minds of Americans.
"But this is what we developed, and Americans will still resist it."
"It's different,"
Li Yian smiled proudly,
"Sometimes, The reasons why they made some choices are not necessarily their original intentions. Now the United States is increasing its intervention in Saigon, but the M14 is not suitable for the rainforest battlefield. They will definitely need a small and lightweight fully automatic rifle as an emergency response. Is there a more suitable weapon besides AR15? "
This is a bit of a secret, but what Li Yi'an said is true. Even Zhao Xuezhe knows that the situation in South Vietnam is very different from a year ago. Same, he thought for a while and said.
"Then, let's give it a try first."
"Go ahead and do it. In addition, pay attention to cooperation with American companies. After all, in the end, we still have to rely on their strength."
Sometimes, the world is like this. It is not enough to rely on Nanyang alone. In certain areas, it is always necessary to rely on the power of outsiders, such as the iron ore in Brazil.
As early as half a year ago, Peggy sent a report... They had found the iron mine in the Amazon region and completed the acquisition of the land.
But is this all right?
That's Brazil!
Not to mention being the backyard of the United States, Brazil is still a major country in South America.
This is doubly difficult!
It’s really difficult to eat this piece of fat!
Thinking of this, Li Yian frowned and said to himself:
"I don't know if Peggy has found a suitable partner after such a long time?"
(End of Chapter)