Chapter 967 Besieged on all sides
It’s not my method that is good, it’s the method of my predecessors, Gao Zhendong thought to himself.

"Well, let's take these and form an overall plan first. We'll talk about more specific things when we start the actual work." Gao Zhendong felt that it should be about right.

"Okay, this is more than enough as an overall plan, and some parts have even entered the detailed design stage."

Professor Liu put away his notebook. This matter is settled! He is now full of confidence.

The elastic gun frame, finite element analysis, gun frame weight reduction, the overall configuration and automatic principle of the gun body, and the weight reduction of the heaviest part were all taken into consideration. Moreover, the elastic gun frame had the help of the Russians, which at least proved that this approach was feasible. Otherwise, the Russians would not have been able to finalize the PK machine gun.

Although we touched the Eagle Sauce more later, the Russians are still touched more frequently these days. As for the fact that we had to touch the PPT in the end, that is another matter.

After seeing Professor Liu off, Gao Zhendong sat down. As for the machine guns, they would be enough for decades. There were 30kg 12.7 heavy machine guns in the battalion, imitation PKMs in the company, and 61 squadrons. Even a god would tremble at the sight of this firepower configuration.

Gao Zhendong will definitely not just imitate PK. Wouldn't it be better to just do PKM in one step?

As for the accuracy issue, Gao Zhendong was not worried. He knew that the dispersion of the machine gun was not bad, it just had more stray bullets. But who among the enemies would dare to bet on stray bullets?
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In the north, at the Russians’ home, they were staring blankly at the latest intelligence from Northeast Asia and South Asia.

"The northeastern state of Sindhu announced its secession?" An old Russian frowned as he looked at the document in his hand. This kind of intelligence did not require the comrades in the Lubyanka to take action. The local organization was eager for the news to spread as widely as possible.

"It's just an announcement, but the organizations in the northeastern states don't have complete control over the northeastern states. The areas they control are roughly 70% to 30% of those controlled by the Sindhu government. They control more rural areas, while the Sindhu government controls more important places and cities."

Hearing this proportion and this somewhat special structure, everyone gasped. Vladimir, this proportion and structure looks familiar.

"So even if they announce their separation, it is only verbal. Whether it is the environmental conditions or the actual control capabilities, they are temporarily insufficient to achieve their ultimate goal." An old Russian shrugged.

"But this is almost fatal to the Sindhu people. They give their opponents a card."

"I don't know how the northeastern state of Sindhu could have become like this in just over a month. Do their troops there only eat curry?" An old Russian couldn't understand. The situation in the northeastern state of Sindhu had been deteriorating for more than two months from the end of October to now. If we start counting from the time of their great defeat in the Weinan area, it has actually been less than one or two months.

"The Sindhu people's throat corridor was cut off. In order to save their own face, they had to transfer a large number of mobile forces from the northeastern states to the Weinan area, where they were completely wiped out by comrades in the south."

Manpower and mobile force are two different things. Taking the situation of the Sindhu people in the northeastern states as an example, they have ten pot covers and ten pots, which is just right. If any part of them are withdrawn, they will fall into a dilemma of being stretched to the limit.

Zang San still hasn't figured out the relationship between the eight words "save people and lose land" and "save land and lose people".

"Are their negotiations with the Southerners still going on?"

"Yes, until the negotiation is completed, they dare not send any troops to the northeastern states. First, they may be caught by the southerners in the throat corridor. Second, the southerners warn them that any troop movement will undermine the status quo and may lead to further actions by the southerners."

"I suggest that we send representatives to mediate the negotiations between the two sides."

"What are you asking us to do? Are we asking our southern comrades to give up the land they conquered? Don't forget that our southern comrades' army has always adhered to their claim line and has not crossed it. If all this could have been negotiated before they attacked the Sindhu people, it would be very difficult to change that line now."

We can learn a lot of interesting things from the way the Russians call us.

"No, no, no, my Dawari, what I mean is to make the Sindhu people give up their unrealistic fantasies. I have some channels. Since they moved the administrative core to Bangilu, the people who stayed in New Delhi have new ideas. Moreover, their northwest is not peaceful. Its neighbors on the east and west seem to be waiting for good weather."

Although they are called the East and West sides, they are actually referring to the same country, except that the East side is mainly responsible for setting the atmosphere.

It is most appropriate to describe Zang San's current situation as being surrounded by enemies on all sides.

For Zang San, who had the idea of ​​"How could the Bharakshasa Emperor have any descendants?", the combination of staying in New Delhi and the core going to Bangiru was simply a perfect opportunity.

"Sokabuli! This is really bad news."

“Warn the Sindhu people as soon as possible. They must reach a compromise with the southerners as quickly as possible.”

"Can't we help them fight another war with the Southerners?"

"What are you fantasizing about, my comrade? The attitude of the Americans towards the Sindhu people is the same as ours, but look at them now, are they taking any action? Absolutely nothing. Putting military aid in the hands of a group of sheep is useless except for being wasted."

Another old Russian said: "Besides, the current southern comrades are much more important to us than the Sindhu people. This cannot be ignored."

There is another more important point that no one has mentioned. They have missiles with a range of 3500 kilometers, and are equipped with high-kill warheads.

"I agree." "I agree."

"..."

Just as the Russians reached a consensus and were about to adjourn the meeting, one of them caught up with his comrades.

"Dawali, the southerners bought this from us, take a look." He handed a note to his comrade.

"Ha, machine guns? Sell them, sell them. There's no need to be on guard. It's come to this. What's the point of keeping such a weapon that has no major use? Davari, you don't need to tell me about the light weapons used by the infantry anymore. Do you understand?"
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"Professor Gao, can you come to the school now? The PK has arrived." This was a call from Professor Liu. In fact, it had only been a few days since they last communicated about the 12.7mm heavy machine gun, and it was not yet time for Gao Zhendong to go to Beijing University of Technology again.

Gao Zhendong put down the work in his hands and rushed over; he liked this thing.

When we arrived at the shooting range, there was another comrade next to Professor Liu.

"Professor Gao, this is Engineer Zhao, who is in charge of replicating the PK machine gun at a certain factory. Comrade Zhao." Professor Liu first introduced Gao Zhendong.

"Hello, Chief Engineer Gao. This time, according to the requirements of the Defense Work Committee, I was originally planning to visit you at your unit, but I just happened to send some PK machine guns and our early test results to Professor Liu, and have a good exchange with Professor Liu and his team. Professor Liu said that you might come to visit, and I'm very happy to meet you in advance."

When you hear the name Chief Engineer Gao, you can tell he is not a comrade from school.

Mr. Zhao was very enthusiastic. While shaking hands with Gao Zhendong, he explained that it was not because they were arrogant that they wanted you to come, but they just wanted to meet you in advance.

Gao Zhendong smiled and shook hands with him, then turned and asked, "Where's the gun?"

"It's been prepared there for a long time. I know your habits. Do you want to try a chain?" Professor Liu said with a smile.

"Of course, I have to try it out."

Gao Zhendong lay down directly in front of the machine gun. After a burst of gunfire, Gao Zhendong stood up.

"Yeah, this feels good to play, hahaha."

150 meters away, a comrade quickly brought the target paper over.

Engineer Zhao was shocked when he saw it: "Chief Engineer Gao's shooting skills are great, much better than the gun testers in our factory."

Professor Liu waved his hand and said, "Professor Gao's shooting performance is enough to cause people to misjudge the performance of firearms. We should just take a look at his shooting results and not take them to heart, haha."

"Yes, yes, Professor Liu is right. Professor Liu, you just saw the data. Our factory has tested this gun and found that its failure rate is extremely low. It is so exaggerated that the barrel may fail before any failure occurs."

The failure rate of PK/PKM is almost longer than the barrel life.

"Yes, this gun is very worth learning from. This elastic gun mount is also good. It looks very light, but the accuracy is good." Professor Liu became more confident about the elastic gun mount that Gao Zhendong mentioned.

Gao Zhendong smiled and shook his head: "Yes, but I think this gun rack can be reduced."

Still losing weight? Professor Liu already feels that he is already light enough.

But Engineer Zhao had different ideas. The Defense Work Committee had originally asked him to go directly to Gao Zhendong after receiving the sample gun and testing it. There was still a big difference between 9 kilograms and 7.5 kilograms.

Since Chief Engineer Gao said it can be reduced, then it should be generally possible.

"Chief Engineer Gao, how do we reduce it? I think it's already very light. If it's any lighter, it will be hard to guarantee its performance." Engineer Zhao still had his own ideas. He didn't believe everything Gao Zhendong said. He at least had to give a reason.

Gao Zhendong repeated the story about the elastic gun mount, and then said, "This PK actually already uses an elastic gun mount, but probably because it's relatively early, it's not perfect yet. Actually, it can be done this way."

He drew the PKM tripod he had seen in his previous life on paper. Although there were no detailed dimensions, the structure was roughly the same.

"Let's adopt this form, but I suggest you work with Professor Liu on the specific size and thickness. I will then summarize the key points of the elastic gun mount design and the relevant techniques of finite element analysis for you. With these, plus the help of computers, I think it shouldn't be a problem."

"Okay, we will change the tripod of PK in this direction. But how do we reduce the weight of the gun body?" This is the big issue. In the assignment that Engineer Zhao received, the weight of the gun body was the top priority.

(End of this chapter)