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Mr. Zhong suddenly raised his head from the drawing, and stared straight at Tang Hua with his eyes behind the thick glasses.

"Minister Tang Hua, you have already thought about the concept of this rocket, haven't you?"

Tang Hua smiled and spread his hands, "I just think that we need such a rocket launcher from the perspective of the actual situation and tactics of the troops - mobile warfare and mountain warfare, but the specific engineering design is up to you, Mr. Zhong."

"I know, I know," Mr. Zhong said, "I went to the North China Liberated Area in 47. In the first year of my arrival there, the North China People's Liberation Army was marching non-stop every day, retreating, blocking, and often went up Mountains. So what I have been thinking about is how to make the PLA have heavy artillery like the national army. Today, I heard you talk about rocket launchers for mountain warfare, and I suddenly realized that the two paths are the right way.”

Mr. Zhong stomped into the office and started shaking the phone.

"Xing Bureau, I want a group of people, the six young men from Workshop No. [-], report to me now. It's a research and development task of the General Administration of Ordnance Industry."

"I asked Feng Caifa, and told Zhong Lin to look for him, and told him to come to my place quickly."

"Wu Yunduo? Xiao Wu, I want to develop a new rocket launcher. Come and help me if it's convenient for you."

Tang Hua's eyes widened when he heard the word Wu Yunduo.

"Wu Yunduo...is he in good health?" Tang Hua asked.

Wu Yunduo, the first generation of worker writers in New China, the author of the autobiographical literature "Dedicating Everything to the Party", China's Paul Kochakin, is also an "fanatic" weapon manufacturing expert.Now Wu Yunduo has lost four fingers, three toes, one eye, and left knee. Although he was sent to the Soviet Union for treatment, there are still seven or eight pieces of shrapnel in his body that have not been removed.

"I went to the Soviet Union for treatment for more than a year, and I came back to Dalian to continue to recuperate for a while. It's okay," Mr. Zhong said. "A few months ago, I asked him if he would go to the Zhuzhou Arsenal of the Southwest Bureau as the factory director. He said he would stay in Dalian. So now I am the deputy director of the fuze factory. I will start making this rocket launcher immediately, starting this afternoon."

"Okay, then I'll stay here too," Tang Hua said, and went out to call out to Secretary Wu who was standing in the distance: "Secretary Wu, drive to get my luggage and find another set of bedding."

Mr. Zhong has already taken out the drawing board and started to design the propulsion system of the rocket.Tang Hua does not know the parameters of the propellant and propellant produced by the Dalian plant, so he can only watch Mr. Zhong draw pictures and mark data on paper while checking the manual.

"Minister Tang, the results of my preliminary calculations," Zhong Lao said, "Because the rocket motor is deflected and installed, to achieve a range equivalent to that of the 102 rocket launcher, the diameter of the rocket must be slightly enlarged. At least 3mm."

"The caliber I envisage is 100 to 110 millimeters, within this range."

“扩大3毫米是105毫米……不行，和105榴口径一致，易混淆。”钟老从东北兵工厂到现在做了20多年兵工，对弹药口径太熟悉不过。“106毫米……也不行，和无后坐力炮冲突。107毫米是化学迫击炮的口径。108毫米。108毫米你看行吗？”

Tang Hua nodded in agreement.

Ah, because our army still has captured 107mm mortars in this era, so is the world-renowned 107 rocket launcher going to become the 108 rocket launcher?

In the design room, Feng Caifa, an engineer from the artillery factory, and Wu Yunduo, an engineer from the fuze factory, saw that Mr. Zhong had determined the caliber and shape of the rocket, and immediately picked up the blueprint to make a copy, and then took the copy to the workshop.

"Old Wu, Lao Feng, are you going to turn on the machine tool to make rocket casings soon?" Tang Hua asked.

"Of course, parts are designed one by one, which is always the case in the past."

Tang Hua looked at Mr. Zhong who was sitting across from him in the design office, bowing his head and drawing pictures.

... This efficiency is a bit scary.Did Mr. Zhong find a bunch of lunatics?

Chapter 54, I have never seen such an accurate rocket launcher

Dalian is in midsummer in August, but the climate is much more livable than Beijing.During the day, Tang Hua ran back and forth between the offices and workshops of the two factories, inevitably sweating profusely. But at night, when he walked out of the forest hut used as a dormitory, he put the recliner in the grove, enjoying the cool breeze and two bottles of iced green tea at hand. , a bag of potato chips is on the table. Although there is no wifi or mobile phone, it is quite comfortable.

Lie down in the grove, take a walk on the edge of the factory area, and think about the architecture and details of the next generation of computers.You can see the sea not too far away.Dalian has been stationed by the Soviet Army for the past few years, and the local government has been under the control of our party. In addition, China Resources has successively invested in four labor-intensive enterprises here. The settled Dalian economy has developed well. Fishing boats and small cargo ships on the sea come and go. , near the coast, seabirds are leisurely circling in the sky.

Looking at the seabirds circling in the sky, Tang Hua admired them first, then frowned.After returning to the hut, I drafted a telegram to send back to Beijing:

"The anti-aircraft missile development project has been fully rolled out, but the missile test and the site selection of the test site did not seem to be fully considered. Dalian is close to the sea, and missile tests near Dalian are easy to be snooped by enemy aircraft and ships, thus losing technical confidentiality. It is recommended to set up a missile test site in the inland area from the west of Beijing to Inner Mongolia, and then use it for testing various anti-aircraft missiles and army tactical missiles.”

Although Dalian Jianxin Company is the largest contractor of air defense missiles, it seems that the missile system must be transported from Dalian to Beijing for testing.Fortunately, the entire system of this medium and low-altitude short-range air defense missile is carried by trucks for road mobility, and rail transportation is not troublesome.

……

In the middle of the night, Tang Hua, who was lying on the bed, vaguely heard waves of mechanical noise.

Now Tang Hua knows that the firearms factory has implemented two shifts, and the workers have voluntarily increased their daily working hours from 8 hours to 10 hours. The firearms factory cannot be quiet at night, and the production line is working at full capacity from 7:[-] am to [-]:[-] am. run.But there seems to be no factory with two shifts in this district, right?

After batching the clothes, Tang Hua walked from the hut to the factory area of ​​Factory 52.The road is not too far, and within a few minutes I arrived at the door of the workshop.Sure enough, the workshop was brightly lit, and when one opened the door to enter, six or seven people were busy in front of the three machine tools.

Isn't it Wu Yunduo who is limping and still pushing the shell of the rocket from one lathe to another?

Aren't the others the workers and technicians of the seventh workshop of the shell factory that Mr. Zhong hired?

"Minister Tang" "Minister Tang"

The people in the workshop also noticed Tang Hua who walked in with sleepy eyes.

"Old Wu, don't call me Minister Tang, just call me Tang Hua. I remember that according to my plan, I don't need to work overtime now?"

"The design work of the rocket is basically completed. In fact, we can already produce a batch of shells for the test according to the design drawings. If the test is carried out early, it can be put into production early."

Tang Hua calculated the development and test progress. If he worked overtime to build the test bomb, it seemed that the process could be compressed into one day.But when setting a time limit for the development plan, Tang Hua had already given enough time for mass production and distribution. Before the volunteers entered the DPRK, they would definitely be able to distribute troops.

With this desperate team, no, it must be Lao Wu who inspired the passion of this team.

"...Come on, I'll come, Lao Wu, get out of the way." Tang Hua stepped forward and took the rocket from Lao Wu's hand. The rocket without gunpowder and propellant weighed several kilograms. Tang Hua exerted all his strength. , put the rockets into the trolley. "I'll carry the shells, you just need to push the cart."

8 people, planing, turning, and polishing. It didn't take long, and the bodies of 200 rockets were manufactured.Seeing that the time was already 01:30, Tang Hua hurriedly blasted people and drove these workaholics back to the dormitory.In addition, it is also specially instructed that it is okay to work overtime at night, but the pyrotechnics operations such as rocket propellant loading and warhead assembly must not be carried out in the evening shift.

8 month 14 day.

Seventeen days, only seventeen days. The 108mm rocket launcher conducted its first test firing.

Of course, Tang Hua knows that the 40mm rocket launcher is much more complicated than the rocket launcher, and it is normal for the development of the 108mm rocket launcher to be faster than the 40mm rocket launcher.Among them, Mr. Zhong's skillful design skills saved at least 5 days, and Wu Yunduo and the workers in Workshop No. 2 who were infected by his desperate spirit saved at least [-] days.

A convoy of several trucks is traveling on the road. The 108mm rocket has a range of 7700 meters, which is actually similar to the 75mm light howitzer previously produced by Dalian, so the test site is in Pulandian, dozens of kilometers away from Dalian.

Even the gun mount and tires of the 108mm rocket launcher are directly borrowed from the 75mm light howitzer. The barrel and retreating machine are removed, and the height machine, steering machine and 12 directional tubes are replaced, and the job is done.

The truck towing the rocket launcher drove into the launch site, and after the towing hook was released, the four soldiers easily pushed the 12-barrel rocket launcher into the launch position.Take 12 rockets from the truck, load them one by one, and then the rockets roughly point to the deserted mountain.

The shooting range of the rocket launcher has not yet been formulated, and the range is also a theoretical estimate, but let's do a round of test firing first.

Zhong Lin shouted the command to "shoot", and a soldier at the launch site waved a small flag. Two seconds later, the rocket launcher made a deafening sound, and the first rocket flew away from the launch pad, dragging orange-red The tail flame and white smoke flew to the foot of the mountain 5 kilometers away.Then came the second one, and the third one...Through the telescope, Tang Hua could see that the moment the rocket flew away from the launch tube, the tail flames of the turbine engine formed a backward radial pattern.

Within 10 seconds, all 12 rockets were fired.There were bursts of explosions and flames at the foot of the mountain.

"Two rounds were abnormal, and the remaining 10 rounds were very concentrated!" Zhong Lin was also very surprised when he saw the results of this shooting range.He had never seen a bazooka hit so accurately.Holding the telescope in his left hand, he tried to distinguish the craters made by the 10 rockets with his eyes, and did a simple distance measurement. He came to the conclusion, "After removing the abnormal bombs, its spread is only about one-third of that of the A3 rockets!"

Tang Hua also nodded, the effect of the first test firing was indeed very good.But it may also be that many parts of the test bomb are handmade, and the workers are meticulously crafted and naturally have high precision.In the future, it will be put into mass production, and the quality control of parts still needs to be done well.

"Comrades," Secretary Li walked to the middle of the launch site, and said to a platoon of soldiers who got off the train, "The second test of our rocket launcher is to dismantle this cannon."

It was the technicians from the seventh workshop who dismantled the rocket launcher.They are most familiar with the structure of this gun. In less than 10 minutes, they disassembled the rocket launcher into eight pieces, two tires, one wheel axle, 12 launch tubes, height machine, steering machine...

The soldiers who came to participate in the (cooperation) test saw that the rumbling rocket launcher just now became a pile of parts, which was also very fresh.Next, Zhong Lin asked them to carry a part each and walk two steps on the test site.

After disassembly, a single part of the 108mm rocket launcher does not exceed 32 kilograms, and the size is just enough for people to carry it on their backs.When carrying each part, it is satisfied that the top does not fit the neck, the bottom does not fit the hips, the width does not fit the shoulders, and the center of gravity is as close to the back of the shoulders as possible.

However, the main consideration for the dismantling and carrying of the 108mm rockets is the transportation by mules and horses. With a weight of 32 kilograms on the person's back, the person can basically only carry this part, and the gun, bullets, and water bottles and dry food probably have to be thrown away.But if mules are used, about three to four mules can take away a rocket launcher, and then bring a few more mules to transport rockets (one mule can carry 12 rounds), and a complete rocket launcher is pulled away like this.