Chapter 1209: Looking to the Future

In order to leave enough time for himself to deal with the business, Malashenko said goodbye to his beautiful wife who was reluctant to leave him early, and set off for Kotin's base camp in Nizhny Tagil with a group of people around him.

So Malashenko, who had a lot of things to do, did not stay in Kotin for only one day like last time and left early.

It was not until the early morning of the third day that Malashenko, who had breakfast in the canteen with the workers and did not eat special meals, put down the spoon in his hand, wiped his mouth, and immediately rushed to the independent office assigned to Kalashnikov by Kotin.

Kalashnikov's design draft has been carried out step by step. Kotin has assigned enough people to Kalashnikov to assist in the design as agreed with Malashenko.

The crooked drawings and the untrained Kalashnikov needed a special draftsman. Kotin directly assigned his assistant draftsman to help Kalashnikov, which surprised Malashenko but made him happy. This at least shows that Kotin is taking this matter seriously and is not trying to get rid of it casually.

On the other hand, this also proves from the side that Malashenko's previous idea is correct.

Whether it is now or in the distant future, places that can make guns cannot make tanks, but places that can make tanks can definitely make guns.

This is the inevitable result of a higher generation gap in heavy industry technology being crushed downward. With all the necessary equipment and lathe tools, although making guns in Kotin is not as handy as in a professional light weapons arsenal, there will definitely be no fatal problems. At most, it will take a little more time.

With Kalashnikov as the brain to guide the work, the assistants and technicians assigned by Kotin to Kalashnikov only need to do what is required. With the equipment and personnel in place, there will naturally be no big problems.

Moreover, the AK that Kotin wants to tinker with is also famous for its rough and simple design. Haven't you seen that the local workshops in the Middle East in the 21st century can make AKs by themselves with local craftsmanship? The tools and equipment they have are not even as good as the equipment in Kotin's production workshop at present.

At least there are lathes and all kinds of tools available here. The green uncles in the Middle East only have files, pliers, wrenches, saw blades and screwdrivers. Malashenko has reason to believe that Kalashnikov can complete the task objectives in a natural way.

"Yes, the measurement ratio of the aiming baseline is too high. The drawing needs to be corrected. Please move it down and modify the drawing. Uh, about five units. This should be fine."

Thumbs up, thumps up——

Kokin, holding his large notebook in his arms, was standing in front of the drawing board, discussing the modification plan of the sketch with the professional cartographer sent by Kokin. The sudden knock at the door interrupted Kalashnikov's words.

Kalashnikov subconsciously looked at the door when he heard the sound. He saw the man who helped him realize his dream standing at the door of the room that was not closed, smiling at him.

"Comrade General! Good morning, please come in, what's the matter?"

Malashenko did not comment, and did not directly answer Kalashnikov. Instead, he came to the drawing board and looked at the large-scale hand-drawn sketch fixed on it carefully, not missing any details.

The night before yesterday, Malashenko took time out to talk with Kalashnikov until late at night. He described the significance and role of assault rifles on the battlefield in the most straightforward language, and the great value and prospects it could play in the future. At the same time, he also briefly drew a blueprint for Kalashnikov according to the AK47 in his mind.

Malashenko was not sure what kind of changes his language could bring to Kalashnikov. The purpose of coming here was to see with his own eyes what kind of form Kalashnikov had understood.

At the same time, it was also to ensure that Kalashnikov would not turn the future king of ten thousand guns into a failed monster in advance.

Fortunately, the large-scale perspective sketch with internal structure on the drawing board in front of Malashenko at this moment did not have the outrageous difference of "looking like AR" from the existing AK47 in history.

Malashenko, who stood in front of the drawing board and carefully observed it for two minutes without speaking, finally spoke quietly when Kalashnikov himself began to feel a little unsure.

"It's a bit complicated, Kalashnikov, the overall design is still a bit complicated."

"Remember what I told you, assault rifles must be simple, and handy individual light weapons should not be designed too complicated and precise! Assault rifles should be as simple as bolt-action rifles. Soldiers don't have much time to carefully maintain weapons and eliminate potential faults on the battlefield. Remember this."

"In addition, there is this. The alternative markings of this open bolt can be deleted, and there is no need to draw sketches or make designs for it. Assault rifles have the advantages of submachine guns but are not submachine guns. Open bolts will not be suitable for intermediate power rifle bullets. Just follow this design and the long-range gas piston design I told you before."

Malachenko doesn't like to restrain Kalashnikov's design talent, but some designs that are obviously wrong and useless to try will only waste time unnecessarily are completely unnecessary.

The prototype rifles designed by a large group of famous Soviet gun designers have all been defeated by Kalashnikov in the existing history. A considerable part of the reason is that a large part of the weapons adopt the open bolt design that performs very well on submachine guns.

However, everyone in the development and exploration period did not expect that the open bolt design on the assault rifle would not be easy to use for the intermediate power rifle bullets of completely different ammunition types, and there were many failures. In the end, it was defeated by Kalashnikov who adopted the long-range piston gas-operated design.

In the current background of 1943, which is too advanced, Malashenko was somewhat surprised to find that Kalashnikov actually regarded the open bolt design as one of the alternatives for his own design. It is very likely that the wrong design will be adopted when the two plans are in parallel, which is not good.

In the face of Malashenko's direct PASS, Kalashnikov, who was not particularly sure about the parallel of his two design plans, immediately nodded and responded to Malashenko.

"I was just wondering if it's possible to design a shorter version. Considering the applicability of the open bolt in this version, this may not be appropriate."

Malachenko's ideal short version of AK is actually a family-oriented design, but Kalashnikov, who has never been exposed to such advanced concepts, obviously misunderstood what Malachenko really wanted to express.

Malachenko covered his forehead and shook his head, thinking that his expression might not be clear enough, so he picked up a pencil and began to explain it to Kalashnikov on the spot.

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