Chapter 420 Target T34 tank, Li Yunlong is here
From the 1950s to the 1970s.
In order to ensure the technological R&D and manufacturing capabilities of the Republic's national defense industry system, the Ministry of Machinery Industry, an agency of the Ministry of Ministries and Commissions, has systematically established eight departments of Machinery Industry.
However, the layout of the industrial system is like a piece of fabric that does not know the size of the customer.
The sewn gowns always don’t fit. If they are too big, they are cut to make them smaller. If they are too small, they are made larger by adding cloth.
In the process of development, the eight ministries of machinery industry have gone through several divisions and mergers, and the entire defense industry of sea, land, air, conduction, and electricity has become independent.
Civil machinery, telecommunications, shipbuilding industry (First Machinery Department), weapons, tanks, aviation (Second Machinery Department), aviation (Third Machinery Department), electronics (Fourth Machinery Department), weapons (Fifth Machinery Department) , Shipbuilding (Sixth Machinery Department), Aerospace (Seventh Machinery Department).
In addition to the later short-lived Eighth Machinery Department (Agricultural Machinery) (later merged into the Seventh Machinery Department).
At this point, the system of the domestic military industry has basically taken shape.
The environment at home and abroad was complex at that time. In order to keep the secrets of the development of the national defense industry, the eight military industrial enterprises affiliated to the Ministry of Machinery Industry generally had 3-4 digit code names or mailboxes, in addition to the factory names that could be disclosed to the outside world. If the number is published to the public, the specific address may be classified as secret or top secret.
There is such a factory near the West Peak of Zhoukoudian, more than a hundred miles away from the capital.
It is under the management of the Second Machinery Department. It is located in a remote wilderness, surrounded by a large yard. There is no sign and only a lonely mailbox.
The number 5411 is written on the mailbox.
Self-driving tourists in later generations often think that this factory is a third-tier factory. This is actually a fallacy.
The third-line factory was in 1964, when "imperialism will never die in destroying us", "we are not the chief of staff of imperialism, we don't know when it will go to war.", "we must prepare for war", etc. Under the instructions of others, factories were built under the vigorous construction boom in various places.
The state-owned 5411 Factory has been completed in the past four years and shoulders the sacred mission of producing anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft gun shells for the country.
The Type 55 37mm anti-aircraft gun it produces is the first domestically produced anti-aircraft gun equipped by our army.
The Type 55 37mm anti-aircraft gun is used on the northern battlefield to mainly attack enemy aircraft at low altitudes, and has the ability to attack aircraft flying at high altitudes.
When using radar for command, cluster shooting has a higher killing efficiency and shot down a large number of old American aircraft, making great contributions to the victory of the war.
The battle with Laos and the United States also made us understand that in the absence of fighter jets and the inability to have air superiority, the best way to gain the initiative in war is to develop air defense firepower.
Therefore, the state-owned 5411 Factory became a key factory within the Second Ministry, and together with the "Suixi Survey Team" located in Baotou, it shouldered the task of developing the Type 59 100mm anti-aircraft gun.
In the state-owned 5411 factory, leaders at all levels and many technical personnel come in and out of the "I-shaped building", "grey building", "octagonal building" and "big workshop";
There are garrison sentries standing guard in front of office buildings, residential buildings and production workshops.
Facilities such as auditorium, canteen, hospital, kindergarten and bathhouse are all available.
Every weekend, "internal reference films" and other open-air movies are often shown in the auditorium and square.
In the telephone switchboard, outpatient department and club, there are also young female soldiers, and I don’t know which gay man is being taken advantage of.
This is a small world independent of the outside world, where countless people with lofty ideals use their youth to contribute to the cause of national defense.
In the early morning at the state-owned 5411 Factory, there are only two colors in the factory yard.
One is the blue color of the Type 50 military uniform worn by the soldiers, and the other is the gray color of the Mao suit worn by the researchers.
They were walking on the path, talking with different accents, as if they were doing morning exercises.
At this time, they are no longer the leaders and researchers of the Academic Affairs Department, Scientific Research Department, Political Department, Military Affairs Department, Equipment Department, and Intelligence Institute of their original units;
They are no longer the leaders and researchers of the Northwest Field Army, Second Field Army, and Third Field Army. Soldiers from the Third Field Army, the Northeast Field Army, and the Guangxi and Guangxi Columns.
They have only one identity, military researchers and production workers.
They come from all corners of the country and gather here without any request from anyone, just for the same goal, which is to research and produce the most advanced anti-aircraft guns.
The sun gradually rises.
The number of people in the "exercise" team gradually decreased, the soldiers entered the production workshop, and the researchers returned to the research room.
In the back seat of the jeep.
Li Aiguo leaned in front of the car window, looking at the situation outside, with infinite passion in his heart.
After bringing Zhou Que back to the armed department of the locomotive depot, several gray tunic suits suddenly came to the locomotive depot and loaded Li Aiguo and the rocket launcher into the jeep.
The black curtains of the jeep were closed all the way.
It wasn't until he entered the factory that Li Aiguo was allowed to open the curtain.
There was a click.
The jeep stopped steadily in front of an office.
A comrade in uniform came over, opened the door, and said with a smile: "Comrade driver, please wait here for a moment."
As soon as Li Aiguo got off the car, there were two A man in a gray tunic walked behind the jeep and carefully took down the rocket launcher.
It looked like it was going to be taken for a test. Li Aiguo took out the documents he had prepared long ago from the canvas bag and handed them over.
"Here are the specific instructions for use."
".Thank you!" The two men in gray tunic suits thought of Li Aiguo's thoughtful consideration. After a moment of silence, they reached out to take it.
After the two left, Li Aiguo was taken into an office.
It is said to be an office, which should be similar to a house under house arrest. There are armed guards guarding the door, and the windows are welded with steel bars.
Li Aiguo was not in a hurry. He picked up the enamel jar and drank tea comfortably.
Wang Xianke is nearly fifty years old this year.
Graduated from the Ordnance Manufacturing Department of Jinling Ordnance Technical College. In 1947, he went to Laos for a technical inspection. He returned to China in 1949 and served as chief engineer at the No. 21 Arsenal in Shancheng.
After the fight with Lao America in the north, Wang Xianke responded to the call of his superiors, gave up his well-paid chief engineer position, and came to the state-owned 5411 Factory to develop a new generation of anti-aircraft guns.
He is one of the few artillery experts in the country these days.
Enter the office.
There were various drawings placed on the table. Wang Xianke gathered the drawings. Before he could sit down, his assistant pushed the door open and came in.
"Mr. Wang, there is a new thing in our factory. It is in the testing room now. The leader invites you to take a look."
"New thing? Don't go!"
Wang Xianke frowned and waved his hand.
Now, Lao Wu, the first chief engineer of the No. 2 Machinery Factory and the founder of the ordnance industry known as the "Domestic Paul", has led 107 engineering and technical personnel to Lao Maozi's counterpart ordnance industry enterprise for study.
After Lao Wu and others return from their studies, the research and development of a new generation of anti-aircraft guns will begin.
Comrades like Wang Xianke who remain in China must make preparations to meet the upcoming challenges.
The assistant had long been used to Wang Xianke's temperament and explained calmly: "That thing is a rocket launcher similar to RPG-2."
Wang Xianke once participated in the dismantling of RPG- 2. He is the expert who knows the most about rocket launchers in the state-owned 5411 Factory and is responsible for replicating domestically produced Type 56 rocket launchers.
Bazookas have always been highly praised and believed to have great potential in future wars.
Sure enough.
Wang Xianke frowned: "RPG-2 rocket launcher? The disassembly of that thing has been completed, we don't need it anymore."
"It's not RPG-2, it seems better than RPG-2 More advanced. It's just a king's work. You'll understand if you see it for yourself." The assistant didn't know how to describe that weird weapon.
Wang Xianke suddenly became interested.
The most advanced rocket launcher in the world now is the RPG-2.
Even the Type 56 rocket launcher, which has not yet been copied, is not much more powerful than the RPG-2 rocket launcher.
Another rocket launcher appeared somewhere.
Following the assistant to the research room on the first floor, Wang Xianke frowned subconsciously when he saw the strange artillery on the table.
Forget it is dark, who drew a crooked five-pointed star on it with red paint?
“The designer gave it a name, called Red Star RPG.” The assistant explained promptly.
“Red Star RPG has such a strong tone.” Wang Xianke said, picking up Red Star PRG and observing.
I just looked at it twice and made a comment.
"There are only a few sticks tied on the outside as protection. It's just nonsense. Don't the people who made this thing know that the temperature of the gun barrel can reach 3,000 degrees Celsius?"
"Also , this craft is just nonsense, with this welding craftsmanship, I guess this thing will fall apart after just a few shots.”
"And."
Wang Xianke picked up the RPG and was about to continue talking, but the rest of his voice was choked in his throat, and his expression became solemn.
As an expert in imitating RPGs, Wang Xianke has dismantled the "Iron Fist" anti-tank rocket launcher, anti-tank RPG-2 rocket launcher and the more powerful heavy-duty anti-tank SG-2 rocket launcher. He found that this Red Star PRG had various shortcomings.
But whether it was design or structure, it was different from any RPG he had ever seen.
Especially its tail pipe adopts a particularly weird design.
Although the craftsmanship is very rough, Wang Xianke, as an expert who can write down the RPG-2 drawings, can see at a glance that if this kind of tail nozzle is feasible, it will provide the grenade with the weapon at the moment the grenade leaves the launch tube. Provides additional thrust and thus range of the rocket launcher.
The emphasis on artillery weapons is that they are farther and stronger.
Super long distance means being able to fire before the enemy, thereby achieving the final victory.
Wang Xianke became more and more amazed the more he looked at it, the Red Star PRG was much more advanced than the RPG-2 in every aspect.
The assistant saw Wang Xianke hugging Red Star PRG tightly, and then carefully took out a suspected grenade from a wooden box.
“According to the designer, the tail of the grenade adopts a two-stage gunpowder structure, and the range can reach 400 meters. If rocket range extension technology is used, the range is expected to reach 600 meters.”
“ Rocket range extension technology."
Hearing this term, Wang Xianke's expression gradually became serious. The designer of this thing knew that this kind of technology was definitely not civilian technology.
Is there a new genius in weapons design in China?
He took a deep breath, suppressed the shock in his heart, and asked: "Who designed this thing?"
"The specific name is unknown. It only gave a code name, driver. Comrade driver is in our factory now." The assistant said and took out a drawing and handed it to Wang Xianke: "This is the instruction manual for the weapon." Wang Xianke looked at the document and spoke. Twitching twice: "This driver is very thoughtful. He didn't have a sighting device, and he actually made two points and one line."
He put down the document, looked at the assistant and said: "Since they have already fed us the food Speaking of which, it would be shameful if we didn’t eat it. We’ll know if it’s a delicacy or a pile of shit when we try it later!”
“Go to the weapons test now! Field, arrange the experiment!”
"Yes!" The assistant saluted.
Just as the assistant was about to leave, Wang Xianke hesitated for a moment and called to him again.
"In this test firing, let the driver comrade also participate."
"Yes!"
The assistant was surprised.
The weapons testing site is a top-secret point in the factory. Generally speaking, outsiders are not eligible to enter.
It seems that this RPG is really an amazing thing.
“Comrade driver, please remember that no matter what you saw at the weapons testing site, you are absolutely not allowed to leak it to the outside world!”
“Don’t worry, I am also an old comrade in the organization. Understand the confidentiality regulations.”
Li Aiguo followed the two uniformed comrades towards the weapons testing site, and he was also full of curiosity.
What exactly is there in the testing ground deserves their repeated warnings. It’s hard to believe that our family has come up with some big killer weapon.
When he entered the steel gate of the test site, Li Aiguo suddenly laughed in surprise.
In the northeast corner of the test site, a rusty medium tank was parked, with bullet marks all over the tank's armor.
From the vaguely visible Russian letters on the tank and the design of the sloped armor, Li Aiguo determined that it was a Soviet-made T-34 tank.
It seems that they should be the group who retired from the northern battlefield.
The reason why this tank is placed here as a target is that it is obvious that the superiors have long felt the threat of the Lao Maozi tank and are preparing to develop targeted weapons.
This is also the reason why comrades in uniform have repeatedly warned us.
After all, there are still many old experts in the country. If it spreads, it may cause unnecessary trouble.
“This is the king engineer in charge of artillery development in our factory.” The uniformed comrade helped Li Aiguo make the introduction.
"Hello, Mr. Wang!" Li Aiguo has always respected comrades who work on the front line of military industry research and development, and extended his hand enthusiastically.
"Little comrade, this Red Star RPG you made this time is really something amazing!"
Wang Gong marveled at Li Aiguo's youth, grabbed Li Aiguo's right hand, and shook it enthusiastically.
"I heard that you have already conducted a test launch and it was a great success?"
"That's true. The target was a shack, more than 300 meters away. All the shacks were blown up. Destroyed and killed one enemy," Li Aiguo said.
“Kill the enemy?” Wang Gong was surprised.
"The situation is like this. At that time, our locomotive depot was preparing to hold a banquet, and some bad elements were hiding in the shack to engage in cold shooting."
Because this case is not a confidential one, Li Aiguo I briefly introduced the situation at that time.
Listening to the entire process, Wang Gong was so shocked that he couldn’t even close his mouth.
“So you guys also conducted actual combat exercises!”
He was a little envious. Even though this test site has various goals, if he needs it, the factory can build one for him right away. building.
But after all, we can't find a few prisoners for him to test the power of the artillery. That would be inhumane after all.
"It's just a coincidence."
Li Aiguo exchanged RPG design issues with Mr. Wang for a while, and suddenly smiled: "Mr. Wang, our goal this time is that... A T34 tank? "
"Yes." Wang Gong pointed at the tank and said, "Since you can build this Red Star RPG rocket launcher, you must know something about the RPG series. >To be honest, the Type 56 RPG we designed based on the RPG-2 is far from able to penetrate the armor of this tank.
If your rocket launcher can complete the task, I promise to help you from above. Please take credit!”
Li Aiguo squinted and saw a few traces of grenade explosions on the armor of the tank, but the armor was still intact.
Although the T34 is just a medium-sized tank, the frontal protective armor is only 45 mm thick. Because of the unique sloped armor design, the protection is comparable to that of a shield with 70 mm protective armor.
Sometimes, I really have to admire the designers at Lao Maozi. They always come up with some wild but practical methods.
RPG-2 is the younger brother when it comes to dealing with tanks, so naturally it cannot penetrate them.
The RPG-7 is different. It uses parabolic projection, which can greatly increase the kinetic energy of the artillery shell. The penetration thickness of the rolled homogeneous armor is 350mm and 400mm respectively.
The 45 mm thick armor plate is not enough to look at in front of it.
In later generations, he set a record of destroying a T62 tank with one shot.
Although Li Aiguo failed to obtain a real anti-tank howitzer, it was enough.
Li Aiguo straightened his chest and said loudly: "General Manager Wang, I have confidence in my design!"
"Okay, okay! It's a mule or a horse, let's pull it out now!" "The more Mr. Wang comes to Li Aiguo, the more he likes him.
General Engineer Wang was preparing to set up experiments when a loud noise came from outside, and then the big iron door slowly opened.
The factory director walked in from outside, followed by two middle-aged comrades.
Although the two comrades were wearing casual clothes, they could not hide their unique military temperament.
The two of them were quarreling as they walked, not paying attention to the factory director at all.
"Old Zhao, please don't stop me this time. My superiors want me to make my own weapons. OK, you can't restrict my freedom. You have to have autonomy. You want me to be a good boy and I want to be myself." Trying to find ways to develop weapons while limiting my autonomy is unreasonable!"
"Old Li, this is the capital, you are here to learn, don't mess around with the new stuff. Just open your eyes and don’t make any mistakes.”
“Hey, Lao Zhao, it’s better that you understand me. I heard that I got a handful on my shoulders.” Artillery can destroy a house with one shot. If we had used this thing to attack Ping'an County, Xiu Qin might not have died."
Seeing the two people breathing heavily, Li Aiguo suddenly screamed. Eyes widened.
Aren’t these Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang?
Zhao Gang did stay in the capital after liberation, but wasn't Li Yunlong in Fu Jian?
Li Aiguo suddenly slapped his forehead when he thought of this.
In the original work, Li Yunlong was sent to BJ to study in 1956, and Tian Yu was also on vacation at this time.
So, the two people came to the capital to visit Zhao Gang and Feng Nan.
(End of this chapter)