Reborn in Brazil As a Plutocrat

  Chapter 192 Summoned by the Minister of Defense

  Brazilian Ministry of Defense in Rio de Janeiro, Office of the new Secretary of Defense.

   After attending the inauguration ceremony of the new president, Fang Lang drove directly outside the minister's office, waiting for General Morais to summon him.

   Waited until more than four o'clock in the afternoon before General Morais arrived late.

  After seeing General Morais return to the office, Fang Lang, who had been waiting outside the office, quickly got up and saluted, not daring to show any dissatisfaction.

  General Morais greeted Fang Lang very enthusiastically and said:

   "Haha. Colonel Fang, we have met. Don't be too polite! Come in and let's talk."

   After finishing speaking, he patted Fang Lang's arm, and strode into the office first.

   After entering the office, he directed Fang Lang to the sofa in the reception room to sit down, then picked up the coffee pot with his own hands, and made coffee for Fang Lang.

   This made Fang Lang feel a little flattered, and quickly got up to help.

  But was stopped by General Morais:

   "Just sit down, I must brew this cup of coffee myself."

  Fang Lang has also dealt with General Morais twice, and he understands that this kind of treatment is obviously not for everyone.

   Seeing the other party's firm attitude, he didn't continue to decline, but just showed a flattered expression appropriately.

  General Morais didn't make Fang Lang wait any longer. After brewing coffee, he brought it to Fang Lang and said:

   "This time Mr. President's inauguration, I heard that your company has been able to produce American 105MM howitzers.

   This is pretty amazing.

  I think when we were communicating about naval construction, you could have offered to build our own modern shipyard in Brazil.

  Your promises have been fulfilled, which makes me very relieved.

   Today I want to ask you, if your shipyard is allowed to undertake the task of building warships, can it be completed. "

   Fang Lang felt relieved when he heard that it was such a good thing.

  However, he knows that there is still a big difference between building a container ship and building a warship, at least there is a big difference in the steel used. Therefore, I dare not brag.

   can only honestly say:

   "Your Excellency, our family's shipyard has just started, and we are accumulating construction experience through the manufacture of merchant ships.

  If we are building a warship now, I am worried that something will go wrong due to lack of experience, and our family will die.

  And, most importantly, our family has not yet found the material formula for armor steel for warships.

  I went to Germany this time to see if I could have a chance to find the formula for ship armor steel.

  However, due to time constraints, there is no harvest yet. "

  After hearing Fang Lang's words, General Morais was obviously disappointed, but he disappeared soon, and continued:

   "It's okay, I believe we will succeed. If there is anything that requires me to come forward, please be sure to tell me directly. I will definitely do my best to help you achieve it."

  Fang Lang was still very moved by General Morais' sincere concern.

  Although Fang Lang also understood that the other party wanted him to quickly allow Brazil to have its own warship construction capabilities.

  After thinking about it, Fang Lang said:

   "Don't worry! If there is no way to get the required formula from Germany, I think I can think of a way from Italy."

  During the conversation just now, Fang Lang suddenly remembered that when Universal Shipbuilding acquired the shipyard in Genoa, Italy, there was a military shipyard next to it.

  And it seemed to be mentioned at the time that many engineers from Italian military shipyards were recruited by Italy's Universal Shipyard.

Now that the Minister of Defense has mentioned that he wants to build ships independently, the design capabilities of Brazil's domestic shipyards will begin to improve. Perhaps engineers and designers with experience in warship construction will be drawn from Global Shipbuilding's shipyards around the world. , and soon the design team for the Brazilian Navy's shipbuilding will be set up.

   Then you can start designing warships according to the needs of the Brazilian Navy.

  Actually, Fang Lang didn't want to start the construction of warships so early, because he knew that the current warships would soon be obsolete, and the future would be the era of missile ships. It would be a waste to start building warships now.

   Fortunately, after General Morais heard that the technical problem of expert steel had not been solved, he stopped talking about the topic of independent shipbuilding. Instead, he changed the subject:

   "Today I heard General Letta tell me that you plan to set up a small arms company by yourself?"

  Fang Lang did not expect that General Leta would report this matter directly to the Minister of Defense.

   Suddenly, he was a little caught off guard, and he couldn't figure out what the purpose of General Morais's asking about this matter was.

   It will not be Mr. Minister of Defense who wants to participate in a share!

   If General Morais wanted to take part, Fang Lang would not refuse. After all, being able to get in touch with General Morais would definitely be of great benefit to his future in the army.

   "Yes, Your Excellency General. This time I happened to meet a very good gun designer in Germany, and chatted with him about some gun design concepts and development trends.

   I was accidentally persuaded by him, and I was thinking about whether I could support his research, so I moved my mind and established a small arms company in Brazil. "

  General Morais was obviously interested in what Fang Lang said.

   "Oh! I wonder if you can talk to me about how you think about the development trend of firearms, and what kind of design philosophy this designer has."

   This made Fang Lang a little bit blind. How do I look at the development trend of firearms? I know a lot!

  My thoughts are all judged from the fact that those weapons in later generations finally became the mainstream. Now you ask me how this trend came about.

  How do I know!

  But now it is the Minister of Defense asking, not brothers and friends bragging together, so I can’t say it, I guess!

  After thinking about it, Fang Lang still said:

  “I also heard from the designer that I don’t have any mature ideas, but what he said really convinced me.

   If there is something wrong, I hope you will not blame it. "

  General Morais heard Fang Lang's words, took a sip of coffee, and gestured to Fang Lang with a smile on his face to continue:

   "This trend is mainly based on the fact that the German army used the G43 semi-automatic rifle in the war, which exposed the shortcomings of insufficient firepower in the face of machine gun suppression.

   And the range and accuracy of the submachine gun can't provide much help.

  Using a light machine gun is unacceptable for its weight and huge supply pressure.

  In the latter part of the war, the German elite infantry squad began to equip a STG-44 assault rifle. In actual combat, Allied soldiers using semi-automatic weapons had almost no chance of winning when they encountered German soldiers equipped with automatic rifles.

  Automatic rifles rely on their fierce firepower, higher accuracy, longer range, good ergonomics, and mature and reliable technical performance to completely crush semi-automatic weapons.

   Therefore, we believe that the future development trend of rifles must be automatic rifles with more powerful firepower, that is, assault rifles. "

  Fang Lang's words made General Morais deep in thought, and he asked after a while:

   "Then have you considered the ammunition consumption of using a fully automatic rifle?"

   After all, he is not a rich man in the United States, and Brazil's economic conditions are not good, so the first problem that General Morais thought of was the terrible ammunition consumption of fully automatic rifles.

   Fang Lang can't always say, the more ammunition consumed, the more I earn!

   can only nod and say:

   "Formally based on this consideration, I didn't make a big deal about this matter. I only planned to use part of the funds to support the research of new equipment."

  Hearing Fang Lang's words, General Morais's eyes were full of appreciation, and after thinking for a while, he asked:

   "Have you considered that if the automatic rifle adopts the burst mode, the powerful recoil will instantly send the rear bullets into the sky? Wouldn't the accuracy of the automatic rifle you mentioned be lost?"

   After all, it is an old army. General Morais easily discovered the shortcomings of the current automatic rifles.

  Actually, Fang Lang has already discovered this problem, but he is going to wait for Ludwig Folger to come to Brazil before proposing a change.

   After all, the rifle bullets used by various countries are basically full-power large-caliber bullets, especially the 7.92mm*57mm full-power bullets used by Germany.

  This kind of bullet is used as a bolt-action rifle or a semi-automatic rifle. There is no problem with a range of more than 800 meters.

  However, bullets for automatic rifles are obviously overpowered.

  All the calibers used later by the Soviet Union or NATO are 7.62MM calibers.

  The Soviet Union used intermediate-power bullets earlier than the United States, so the AK47 uses intermediate-power bullets with a length of 39MM.

   NATO used 51mm NATO rifle ammunition, which led to the effective range of the G3 assault rifle using NATO standard ammunition of 400 meters, which exceeded the effective range of 300 meters of AK47.

   Of course, the effective range is mentioned here! The standard range of AK47 is 800 meters, and the maximum lethal range is 1,500 meters.

  Fang Lang also knew that most of the rifles of later generations used 5.56mm caliber, and later he disliked the poor armor-piercing ability of 5.56mm, and began to study 6.8mm caliber bullets.

   These are things that will happen half a century later, and it is impossible for Fang Lang to do such advanced things.

   After all, what is good for future generations may not be the most suitable for the present era.

   In Fang Lang's mind, a bullet of a certain specification had already appeared in Fang Lang's mind.

  That is, Czechoslovakia has a 7.62mm*45mm intermediate power bullet, which Fang Lang thinks is very good.

  Although the recoil may be slightly larger than that of AK, it is definitely less than the recoil of using NATO standard ammunition.

   If it doesn’t work, just remind Ludwig Folger to add a muzzle brake in front of the gun!

   Isn’t such recoil and power more appropriate?

   "Your Excellency, this requires us to change the full-power bullets into intermediate-power bullets."

  As soon as these words were spoken, General Morais immediately understood what Fang Lang meant, but changing bullets was much more stressful than changing firearms.

  The manufacture of firearms generally revolves around bullets.

   Fortunately, Brazil does not have its own bullet standards.

  However, all the bullets of the Brazilian army are American 7.62mm*63mm rifle bullets, which are the standard bullets of the American M1 Garand rifle.

  If the bullets are to be replaced, it means that all the bullets in stock in the country will be scrapped, and the loss will be huge.

  Suddenly, General Morais became in a dilemma. Of course he wanted to support Fang Lang in the localization of light weapons, but if he wanted to change the caliber of bullets, this kind of thing would affect the whole body.

   It is impossible for him to decide with one word.

  Although General Morais has not yet confirmed whether the development trend of light weapons mentioned by Fang Lang is correct, this does not affect Morais's desire to support Fang Lang.

  (end of this chapter)