Faced with the doubts and disdain of the chief engineer, even the clay man became angry. Sokov looked at the chief engineer's eyes and repeated the words just now: "Comrade Chief Engineer, there is no right to speak without investigation. You didn't even look at my drawings. How could you know that the rifle I designed is not suitable for assembly in the army?"
"Comrade Commander," saw Sokov's sign of running wildly, and the chief engineer showed an embarrassing expression on his face, but he still said with a tough bullet: "The design of weapons is not a temporary impulse. This is a very rigorous job. Without relevant knowledge reserves and years of practical experience, it is almost impossible to design a gun suitable for the troops. I may be too direct in my words, but this is all facts. I think you should take back your design." After that, he planned to return the drawings in his hand to Sokov.
Sokov did not take the drawing handed back by the chief engineer, but put his hands behind his back and continued, "Comrade General Engineer, I beg you to look at this drawing. If you still stick to your original point of view after reading it, I have nothing to say. But if you don't even have a drawing and just make a conclusion casually, it would be a bit too hasty."
Nikolayevich had read the drawings, and he was very interested in the guns drawn on it. So when Sokov finished speaking, he immediately said, "Dear Evgeny Vasilyevich, I suggest you look at this drawing. At least, after I looked at the drawings, I felt that this was the new type of rifle we need to develop."
When the chief engineer heard that the factory manager was talking nice things about this new rifle, he felt that if he didn't look at the drawings, it would probably make everyone unable to step down. So he took out reading glasses from his top pocket and put them on, put them in front of him and looked carefully. He initially had a contemptuous expression on his face, but as he looked, his expression became solemn.
After he finished reading the drawings, he looked up at Sokov and asked, "Comrade Commander, what kind of caliber bullets are you going to use for your new rifle? Why aren't it marked on the drawing?"
When Sokov was drawing yesterday, he deliberately omitted the data of the bullet and magazine. The purpose of his work was to confirm whether the person who was looking at the picture was really looking at the picture seriously or was purely perfunctory. At this moment, when the chief engineer asked this key question, he knew that his drawing had touched the other party.
However, Sokov did not immediately answer the chief engineer's question, but asked back: "Comrade Chief Engineer, before I answer your question, can you tell me first, how about the new rifle I designed?"
"How do you say it?" The chief engineer took off his reading glasses, stuffed them into his top pocket, and said thoughtfully: "From the drawings you have drawn, this is a very good rifle. If the sample gun is made, it can pass various tests smoothly, I believe that it will definitely be equipped with the troops in the shortest time."
Seeing that the chief engineer recognized his design, Sokov said: "Comrade Chief Engineer, I plan to use a 7.62mm caliber to fire 7.62×39mm intermediate power bullets, and use an arc-shaped magazine with a capacity of 30 rounds to supply bullets."
After hearing Sokov's words, the chief engineer turned his head and looked at the factory director behind the desk and asked, "Nicolaevich, have you heard of the middle-type power bullet?"
Nikolaevich shook his head and said, "Never heard of it?"
After receiving Nikolayevich's reply, the chief engineer asked Sokov again: "Comrade Commander, I want to ask, where have you heard of the intermediate-type power bullet?"
Fortunately, before Sokov traveled through time, he read a book introducing intermediate-type powerful gun bullets. Therefore, when he heard the chief engineer's question, he said nonsense: "I once saw in a book that the famous gun expert in our country, Federov, believed that the 7.62×54mmM1891 gun bullet of our army, was too powerful as the ammunition of an automatic rifle. Therefore, in 1916, a 6.5×50.5mm caliber automatic rifle was developed and defined a new gun name - automatic gun.
Federov personally supervised the work in the arsenal and produced a small batch of M1916 automatic guns, and distributed them to a company of strictly selected officers and soldiers belonging to the 189th Infantry Regiment, and tried it when he went to the front line to fight. I remember when he was equipping the troops with this automatic gun, he once said: In the future, individual weapons may evolve into two types of guns, one is a submachine gun and a light carbine, and use new gun bullets; the other is a light automatic rifle, which should use more powerful gun bullets..."
After Sokov finished speaking, the chief engineer sighed and said, "Comrade Commander, there are not many people who know Federov now. Not to mention ordinary people, even those in the military industry, there are very limited people who know Federov, let alone the intermediate-type powerful gun bullet he proposed back then."
After pausing for a moment, he continued to ask, "So, have you read Federov's book?"
Sokov knew that Federov had published two books, and happened to know the names of these two books, so he said with a shameless face: "Yes, Comrade General Engineer, I have read the two books he wrote, "Automatic Weapons" and "Evolution of Light Weapons".
"These two books are good." As soon as Sokov finished speaking, he continued: "If you want to become a qualified weapon designer, these two books are must-read reference books."
Seeing that the chief engineer agreed with the drawing of the new rifle, not only Sokov was relieved, but the factory manager was also relieved. He was very afraid that the chief engineer would be stubborn and denied this good new rifle. He stood up and asked, "Yevgeny Vasilyevich, according to this drawing, how many days can the sample gun be made?"
The chief engineer looked through the drawings in his hand and replied, "If it were just to make a sample gun, it would be completed before dawn. But the intermediate-type powerful gun bullet mentioned by Comrade Major is relatively troublesome, and it will take half a month to manufacture it at the earliest."
"No, half a month is too long." Nikolayevich shook his head and said, "The two commanders can only stay here for a few days, and they can't wait that long. I'll give you two days to produce the intermediate power bullets, even if it's only a hundred rounds. We can try the power of this new type of rifle."
The chief engineer carefully stacked the drawings, put them in his top pocket, turned around and walked outside. But when he walked to the door, he seemed to remember something, turned around and walked back to Sokov, took the initiative to extend his hand, and said friendly: "Comrade Major, let's get to know you formally. I am Yevgenivasilievich Bazarov, the chief engineer of the machinery factory."
Seeing that his "design" was recognized by the chief engineer, Sokov quickly reached out and held the other party's hand, shook it twice, and said with a smile: "My name is Mikhail Mikhailnovicsokov, he is the major of the field army."
Chapter completed!