marry? Forget it, it's impossible to get married in this life. Even if I jump from the Andes, I, Saint Jose, won't be able to get married.
But if you really want to run for city councilor or even mayor, marriage is essential, even if it is just a pretense.
And if I want to help Argentina’s population double in the future, in addition to introducing immigrants, the growth rate of the country’s population is essential.
And to take a step back, if Argentina wants to form national cohesion, it is necessary to have a considerable main body of the country's population.
Argentina is different from the United States. The United States can siphon global elites. It would be great if Argentina could attract some foreign immigrants without losing them. The economy is so bad now.
Even in order to do a good job in publicity and setting a good example, Mr. Ten or Eight? But having children is actually very troublesome, and as far as marriage partners are concerned, only Elena is the most suitable at the moment.
St. Jose's mind was full of thoughts and he thought a lot randomly.
But soon he was delayed by other things, and people from Rennes Military Industry came over.
In fact, the overall progress of Rennes Military Industry last year was still great. In addition to the lack of orders from the Ministry of Defense for the MG-52 assault rifle, other good news continued. In December last year, it first developed the 107 rocket launcher, and in November it developed a new type of mortar. Cannon fire.
Moreover, this time San Jose secretly bought several obsolete tractor and tank production lines from the United States, and they are about to arrive in Rio de Janeiro.
The models of Sherman tanks produced in World War II are very complex. There are 700 companies in 130 cities in 20 states. They manufacture tanks and related equipment for the US Army.
This gives St. Hesse operating space. Even the eliminated tank models and converted models are very suitable for the research and development and production of Rennes Military Industry. After all, the most advanced tank models are not available.
Moreover, it can be said that the development of tanks has reached more than half, and if it continues to be developed, it will only be so.
St. Hesse's method at the time was to set up a bunch of shell companies, and then move around like ants, constantly shipping out the tank production lines that could be purchased. After all, it was too cheap and rich.
He set up several tractor shell factories to produce crawler tractors, acquired abandoned tank production lines, and then went bankrupt in a few years.
Anyway, there are too many tank production lines. During World War II, the United States had at least thousands of supporting factories, and more than 100 factories could fully produce tanks.
In early 1942, the United States truly had a prototype tank industry. In July 1941, the first tank factory was built.
The M4 medium tank is a medium tank developed and manufactured by the United States during World War II. It was named by the British and originated from William Tecumseh Sherman, a famous Northern Army general in the American Civil War.
The Sherman tank was one of the most produced tanks in World War II, with a production volume of 49,234 units.
But in peacetime, other than the Soviets, no other country needed so many tanks. He still remembered that the Soviet army had more than 50,000 tanks in service at its peak, and this did not include the reserves of tanks and tanks under construction at the Ural Depot.
The Soviet Army's armored cluster "Steel Flood" strategy is the strongest in the world, which is why so many tanks are needed.
During the Stalin period, the Soviet Union adopted an active defense policy towards the United States. It was not until the Corn Emperor that it began to pursue a policy of competing for hegemony with the United States.
The US military prefers to develop its navy and air force. Tanks do not need to be too powerful for Americans. The American naval strategy is to develop a more advanced aircraft carrier fleet.
The Americans are smarter than the Soviets in that they realize that maintaining a large army in peacetime is a serious burden on the national economy. Starting from Eisenhower, they pursued a nuclear weapons strategy and mainly developed the navy, supplemented by the air force, and did not maintain a large army. Huge armaments.
Beginning in the autumn of 1945, the United States began large-scale disarmament that lasted until 1948. A total of more than 9 million troops were disbanded, and the total military strength dropped rapidly from 12 million to more than 1.5 million.
The number of tanks needed by the Americans dropped rapidly after the war. Many tank factories went bankrupt, and most of the inventory was not sold. After all, it would cost a lot of money to transform a tank into a tractor, and it was not as cost-effective as a real tractor. , often left idle or transformed into tractors.
A total of 4,070 M24 light tanks were produced. It was a product of the 1940s. It is a traditional turret tank. Its firepower and armor protection are pretty good, and its maneuverability is also okay.
Of course, it is almost outdated now, but it is very suitable for Rennes Military Industry, which has a relatively weak technical foundation.
The Americans sold World War II supplies, and tanks were basically sold for about half of the cost. The cost of modification was actually not worth it, and some were simply scrapped. In 1952, the United States still had two to three thousand tanks in stock. Or because the war with Goryeo consumed a lot of money.
St. Jose actually preferred the latest version of the M41 light tank from the United States, but it was impossible to obtain the production technology. He only obtained the tank technology from the 1940s that was available. After all, it was outdated and the confidentiality was not good.
This is a major benefit for Rennes Military Industry, which can only produce light industrial equipment. For now, it still cannot get many orders for light weapons equipment, but if it can develop some cost-effective weapons, it can do well. Yes, you have to eat the meal in one bite.
In fact, the Argentine military does not need any medium and heavy tanks. Apart from a fight with the British, there is no other so-called opponent. The Brazilians would have fought with Argentina. It was possible 100 years ago.
What do you gain by fighting in South America?
resource? Almost all are in excess.
population? Modern states are no longer able to plunder.
territory? Can you hold it?
In fact, all you need is an excellent light tank, at most a medium one.
Because it is almost impossible for Argentina to engage in foreign wars, it is actually very bad to purchase tanks produced abroad, which is not conducive to the development of its own defense industry system.
The Argentine Army is currently equipped with the British Firefly Sherman tanks and M3 half-tracks as well as the American version of the Sherman tank. After the end of World War II, it gave up the use of its own Jaguar tanks, and it only built Got 12 cars,
It can only be said that small countries are really ruined when they build tanks and the like, and the idea of making them worse than buying them is very popular.
The DL-43 Jaguar tank is the Argentinian version of the Sherman tank. It also uses some technology from the American M3 Lee Grant medium tank, which is similar to the Canadian Ram tank.
In the 1960s, Argentina also used the chassis of the German "Weasel" infantry fighting vehicle to manufacture the TAM medium tank, which it also cooperated with Israel.
It can only be said that there is no eternal hatred or eternal friendship between countries.
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Rennes-Fleitz factory, head office.
In the six months since Sanjesé left, the R&D team has developed rapidly. The total number of employees in several design bureaus has almost tripled to more than 200. R&D work has also been carried out faster. The new employees are basically based on Argentinian People dominate.
Saint Jose and Horst were chatting,
"Boss, this is the development report of Rennes Military Industry in the past half year. Please take a look."
Saint-Jesse picked up the complete report and read it carefully. Rennes Military Industry's sales in the second half of last year reached 17 million US dollars, and it achieved several set goals.
The "Storm Rifle Design Bureau", responsible for the MG-52 assault rifle, has completed
"Rennes Artillery Design Bureau", managed by the Rennes Artillery Factory, is responsible for the development and mass production of the 107 rocket launcher.
The "Ren Pistol Design Bureau" is under the management of the Flats Factory and engages in the research and development of new pistols.
"Boss, this is the MG-52 assault rifle we developed based on your development ideas."
Horst held a new rifle with a silver-gray appearance and handed it to St. Jose. His eyes couldn't help but light up. It was really handsome.
St. Jose took it over. It was not very heavy. He pulled the bolt and took a brief look. It was made of stamped steel, wood, plastic, and accessories. It was lightweight.
Lighter and better quality than the original German version, it pulls the bolt smoothly.
"Boss, take a look at this bullet and this new rifle."
Horst looked like a magic trick and took out another simpler, more perfect-looking rifle from the wooden box, much more refined.
"Oh, my God, is this a 5mm bullet? Have you really developed it?"
St. Jesus saw the caliber of the bullet at a glance, and then touched the bullet. It felt cold and without any burrs.
After looking at the butt of the bullet, it seemed that it was really a 5.56mm bullet. It felt familiar and perfect.
As you can see, the development of bullets is not just as simple as changing the caliber.
In fact, the process of early rifle bullets is not complicated. However, it is very complicated to produce standard equipment bullets with excellent and stable quality and performance that can serve in the army and achieve good results.
Currently, there are less than 15 countries that can produce standard bullets. Except for the United States and Canada, Japan has the production capacity but is banned. The others are the Soviet Union and a handful of European countries. Argentina is barely one that can produce standard bullets. Even Brazil and Mexico currently make them. Without qualified standard bullets, they mainly rely on imports.
Argentina can produce rifle bullets, mainly some large-caliber old-fashioned rifle and pistol bullets.
"To be precise, it's 5.56mm. It was made according to your wishes, boss, and cost more than half of the money. The current output of the bullet production line is not much, and the equipment needs to be renovated and upgraded, which also requires a lot of money,"
"Let's go and test the power. It seems that the Storm Rifle Design Bureau has made great achievements this time. Don't worry about money. Let's go and test the power first."
San Jose came to the live-fire training ground,
Holding the 7.76mm version of MG-52 in his hand, he started shooting live ammunition. The recoil was smaller and the shooting accuracy was improved a lot. Saint Hesse changed five magazines.
Saint Jesé didn't make any comment, picked up another small-caliber rifle, and fired suddenly and continuously.
It feels a bit similar to the Type 87 rifle. It has good power, higher shooting accuracy than the 7.76mm, and has smaller recoil and is lighter.
"It's very good. It has been achieved to this level. If we optimize it further, we will prepare for mass production. Don't worry about sales."
If you have a good product, you don’t have to worry about selling it, and assault rifles are now a seller’s market.
"Yes, boss, let's go visit the mortars next? The Artillery Design Bureau has designed two mortars."
"Let's go and try. Can you design and produce two mortars?"
"It's amazing, let's go take a look,"
Mortar has always been an effective suppressive weapon to support infantry operations and is an extremely important conventional weapon.
"Boss, this is an 81mm mortar, and there is also this 60mm mortar. Let the launcher test fire it? We can't solve the strength problem of the 120mm heavy mortar for the time being. It has something to do with the steel barrel."
Mortars are divided into three types: light, medium and heavy, with different calibers and different powers.
The mortar has the characteristics of simple structure, lightness and flexibility, large fire coverage area, strong lethality, short minimum range, high rate of fire, and low cost. It is a typical smoothbore gun.
"Okay, I also want to see the mortars we produce."
Saint Jose looked at the powerful mortar with no expression. The production and development of mortars is the simplest of the three major weapons.
He is more optimistic about rocket launchers.
But it can't even handle the 120mm heavy mortar barrel, and the 107mm rocket launcher should be about the same.
"Boss, the strength of the steel pipe of the 107 rocket launcher produced according to your idea can actually meet the requirements, but it is a bit ugly."
Saint Jose saw the gray-painted 107 rocket launcher, which looked a bit crude and could be described as "earthy" in one word.
"Although this thing is a bit ugly, its power should be considerable."
"Yes, it is incredibly powerful and very easy to transport. I think it is a very excellent combat weapon."
With the sound of booming and booming, the feeling of artillery fire finally came, more powerful than mortars, a weapon suppressed by artillery fire.
This is a light mountain rocket. With the drawings and various data provided by San Jose, it can be developed in less than a year. It is neither too fast nor too slow.
"That's good, I can reward you. As for the steel pipe problem, don't worry. We will have our own steel factory and stainless steel factory soon, and we can produce some high-strength steel by then."
The various guns currently in the hands of St. Hesse do not have as high strength requirements as those above 100mm.
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storm rifle design bureau,
Rennes held a meeting with all members of the Storm Rifle and Rennes Pistol Design Bureau. After welcoming the new members, Saint-Jesse began to introduce his rifles and even submachine guns, as well as the overall idea of the pistol.
"The next goal of our rifle design bureau is to develop and adopt modular structure design ideas."
Of course, St. Hesse will not be satisfied with the excellent rifle MG-52. After all, it was made by the Germans. Ten years have passed. Maybe Rennes Military Industry can come up with a better rifle, which is the modular design idea of later generations.
The research and development time will definitely be far longer than that of the current model. After all, the original MG52 was only improved and optimized. The general idea is still the original old idea, just picking up the wisdom of others.
For Saint Jose, he needs a more advanced rifle, even more advanced than the AK-47, to cope with the large arms demand in future local wars and wars of independence.
World-famous guns such as HK 416 and SCAR were developed using modular thinking.
Modular firearms are like building blocks. Various rifles can be assembled by "building blocks". The modularity of firearm parts is extremely high.
The AUG automatic rifle launched by the Austrian Steyr-Manlicher company in 1977 was the first military rifle in history to be officially installed and actually adopt a modular and bullpup style.
There are already signs of this. Gun familyization, which is commonly used in various countries, such as the famous AK family, is actually a low-profile version of modularization. Most parts of the gun family members can be used interchangeably.
It is very convenient to replace related kits so that they can fire different bullets to achieve different tactical purposes. At the same time, the high commonality of parts greatly reduces the burden of logistical support and production costs, especially for countries with insufficient strength.
Modular rifles will become increasingly popular in the future.
At the Storm Rifle Design Bureau, San Jose held a special meeting to introduce modular design ideas and the next development direction.
The current Rennes military industry is just a simple imitation and repetition, and does not have its own competitive products. It can be said to be a German "copycat factory", with high quality and low price, sometimes even better than the original version, but very messy.
His plan is also very simple, which is to develop his own brand products, develop his own rifles, pistols, and rocket launchers, and form a "Ren series" arms series production line.
"The future design idea of our rifle design bureau is to develop modular production technology, which is simply our Rennes gun family."
"You can take a look at some information about modular ideas."
Saint-Jesse did not give a long speech, but directly came up with the modular production idea. In order to make these designers better understand, he called the modular idea "rifle familyization."
These rifle design bureau personnel felt a little confused at first. They could understand modularity separately, but they couldn't understand it together.
Fortunately, I have some information about Saint Jose. After his explanation, I finally understood a lot, and my eyes became brighter and brighter.
It turns out that this is modular, and parts can even be replaced freely, and then it becomes another rifle.
Most of the staff in these design bureaus are young people.
The basic age is no more than 40 years old, which can be said to be the most creative stage in life.
And for things like assault rifles, there are no industry barriers or even generation differences. As long as they can be successfully developed, they will be world-class rifles.
Let Argentina produce the best rifles in the world,
And as far as the bullet production line is concerned, it is not difficult to solve. With the early foundation, we will soon be able to produce 5.56 mm rifle bullets. Just spend money. If it is not possible, continue to introduce them. He still doesn’t believe that small bullets can’t be produced. production line.
Small-caliber rifle rounds are powerful enough and far more powerful than submachine guns.
Submachine guns are far more powerful than pistols.
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After experiencing a variety of new toys, Saint-Jesse held a meeting with senior military leaders in Rennes to formulate the company's five-year plan for the next five years.
"We are going to develop a new five-year plan. For our Rennes military industry, in the next five years, that is, from 1953 to 1959, we will become the world's first-class military factory, an Argentinian factory capable of producing light and heavy weapons. At the same time, A large military factory with operating sales exceeding US$200 million.
This goal is very large and requires us to continuously develop various more advanced weapons and equipment,"
St. Jose's plan is not unrealistic. Soon it will be the peak period of colonial independence, so the war will be more intense.
Without war, where would the arms market be? Especially during the year of African independence, the war would be even fiercer. Africa was the territory of the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain and France.
Making them more chaotic will help contain some of their energy, and a gun that has not been tested in actual combat is not a good gun.
"By the way, next we will set up a tank design bureau. People in the artillery bureau can sign up with Manager Horst. Because the tank design bureau is newly established, the salary will increase by 10%. Everyone is welcome to participate."
Seeing that the conditions were ripe, St. Hesse finally stated his next plan. In addition to developing light weapons, he also had to develop the big thing of tanks.
He has some disdain for the shabby tanks in the country. As long as someone can really improve the M24 tank, then money will be used to pave the way.
It can be said that Argentina currently has no tank experts. The domestic tank production line is completely gone. The Jaguar tank factory closed down five years ago.
"Everyone is welcome to recommend tank technicians and tank experts. The salary is easy to say and can at least increase by more than 30%."
Why do you think Argentina has no one at the moment? Otherwise, the United States would have a lot of talent for tank design like this.
It is not easy to recruit people in the United States. It is very difficult at present. This is not just a matter of money.
"This time our tank design bureau will cooperate with Thunder Shield Heavy Industry."
The tractor factory of Thunder Shield Heavy Industry has been built a quarter of the way, and the tractor factory can indeed produce tanks.
In particular, the tracked tank factory can be easily transformed into a tank. This is no joke, but it is still not good in terms of power.
The Type 99 appeared in San Jose's mind, but unfortunately he only remembered the appearance, what was inside was the most important.
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