In one month, more than 300,000 rounds of bullets for the DP light machine gun can be produced. This arsenal is currently located in northern Jiangsu.
Its monthly output of bullets alone, that is, M1 Garand bullets plus DP light machine gun bullets, has reached a monthly production capacity of six to seven million rounds.
Such a number, even if all the other arsenals of the Eighth Route Army were added together, would not reach one-tenth of the arsenal in northern Jiangsu.
It can be seen how big the gap is, especially now that there are no worries about raw materials, this output can be further increased.
When raw materials are sufficient, the more machine tools, the higher the output. Of course, it does not necessarily have to be complete machine tools.
Even materials related to manufacturing machine tools are fine. After all, Su Bei has the technical drawings of the machine tools, as long as the materials are in place.
Then they can make it into machine tools themselves. Generally speaking, these scattered materials are easier to obtain than complete machine tools.
Machine tools were strategic materials during this period, so they were difficult to obtain without a certain relationship, but the raw materials for making machine tools were different.
This kind of thing can be obtained by ordinary people as long as they are willing, but the quantity may be smaller at most.
But if you have connections, it will be relatively easy to get these scattered raw materials.
It is precisely because of this that the chief sends people to continuously deliver a lot of raw materials to Northern Jiangsu every now and then.
Using these raw materials, workers in the arsenal will manufacture them into ordinary machine tools and more advanced machine tools.
There are also equipment used to make bullets. Otherwise, if only complete machine tools are considered, the output will be reduced by at least two-thirds.
Almost half of the machine tools were made by Subei themselves.
On the other side, when the leader on the other end of the phone heard this output, he was extremely satisfied.
"Okay, okay! Xiao Su, I really saw you right. Now you have given me such a big surprise. It doesn't matter that the quality is high. I didn't expect the output to be so high."
"Speaking of which, the two to three hundred DP light machine guns you sent to me in the past half month have been assigned to various units below."
"For this light machine gun, the feedback from the troops below is very good. They all say that it is much better than the little devil's crooked light machine gun. The most important thing is that it contains more bullets."
"It can hold more than a hundred rounds at a time. When fighting, the machine gunners will be very happy. The range, accuracy and power are all excellent."
At this moment, the chief seemed to have thought of something, and then continued to speak with a strange look on his face.
"Xiao Su, the DP light machine gun you designed has no problems in terms of performance, but it is in terms of appearance."
"It's a little different. It's completely different from the light machine guns we've seen before. When the soldiers below got this light machine gun for the first time."
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"Everyone feels weird about the unique appearance of this DP light machine gun, but for a gun, performance is the most important, and appearance is secondary."
In fact, what the chief said was a euphemism. You must know that when the chief saw this DP light machine gun for the first time, an idea came to his mind.
It’s hard to explain why this light machine gun is so ugly. Fortunately, after some testing by the commander, it was discovered that the only shortcoming of this light machine gun is its ugly appearance.
Apart from this, there is nothing to fault about the rest, and in fact this was indeed the case when the troops below got this DP light machine gun for the first time.
Many people also complained about the appearance, but once they got their hands on this DP light machine gun, they were very satisfied.
Slowly, I began to accept this weird appearance design. There was nothing wrong with what the chief said. The most important thing about a weapon is its performance, and appearance is secondary.
When Su Bei heard this, he shook his head and immediately smiled bitterly.
"Chief, you don't know something. When I was studying abroad, I came into contact with weapons and equipment from many countries, like this DP light machine gun."
"I got some inspiration from the weapons of other countries and researched them. As for that weird appearance."
"Its characteristic is that big disc with a lot of ammunition. Although it does look a bit unsightly, the ammunition capacity is very good."
"If this big disc is removed, the appearance may look better, but the ammunition capacity will be greatly reduced."
Whether it is the M1 Garand rifle or this DP light machine gun, Su Bei said that it was inspired by some weapons from other countries.
Because these weapons have already been manufactured, if Su Bei was in this situation, he would say that he had developed these weapons himself.
It will be interesting later if the Eighth Route Army sees weapons from other countries that are the same as those developed by Subei.
So at this stage, Su Bei is saying that it has been inspired by weapons from other countries and will wait until the second-level mall.
There will be technical drawings of weapons in the next ten years or so. These weapons have not been developed yet, such as the AK47 automatic rifle.
107 rocket launchers, RPG rocket launchers and other weapons, Su Bei can be said to have developed them all by himself.
There is no need to worry about colliding with weapons from other countries. Even Northern Jiangsu can name these weapons after themselves.
But that's all things later. The products in the first-level mall now are all weapons that have appeared in this period.
Therefore, Subei cannot say that it was developed by itself, but that it got some inspiration from the weapons of other countries.
On the other side, the chief also said very seriously when he heard Su Bei's words.
"Xiao Su, you are right. The first thing to consider with a light machine gun is the ammunition load. It certainly cannot be said that the light machine gun's ammunition load is reduced just for the sake of good appearance."
"You have done a very good job in this regard. If you castrate the performance of the weapon for the sake of its appearance, you are undoubtedly putting the cart before the horse. This is a very stupid approach."
"By the way, Xiao Su, are the workers I arranged for you still enough? Do you want me to send you another group of people?"
Speaking of which, this was the first time for the Eighth Route Army to mine a mine, especially two mines at once.
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