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Chapter 45, Tritium Tube Scope

The next day, after Wang Duoyu and his friends had breakfast, they took a bus to the Bingcheng Camera Factory. However, Lin Dehong did not say a word during both breakfast and the bus ride. It was not known whether it was because of the blow he suffered last night.

Wang Duoyu didn't know that Lin Dehong was very conflicted at the moment. Why? Because yesterday, he had thought that if Wang Duoyu agreed to join the army, he would introduce his daughter to him. In the end, Wang Duoyu didn't agree. Although he was very sorry, he could only accept the fact.

But last night in the bathhouse, Lin Dehong suddenly changed his mind. For his daughter's happiness, perhaps he should introduce Wang Duoyu to his daughter.

After all, Wang Duoyu has good conditions, with a height of 1.85 meters and handsome looks. There is nothing much to say about these external conditions. Although the college entrance examination results have not come out yet, he is so confident that he will most likely be admitted to university. But the key point is that he is already a well-known writer and is also very talented in firearms design.

Just these alone put me ahead of many of my peers.

However, the car had already arrived at the camera factory, but Lin Dehong still had not made up his mind, so he simply stopped thinking about it.

In the office, the director, technicians and others of the camera factory were all sitting upright, listening quietly to Wang Duoyu's explanation of the scope of the new assault rifle.

In the late 7.62s, that is, between 7.62 and 14.5, the State-owned Factory No. developed the Type mm sniper rifle scope and the Type mm sniper rifle scope. Both of these scopes adopted the working principle of my country's Type mm anti-aircraft machine gun flat-fire scope and were equipped with a handwheel shooting table.

The Type 63 automatic rifle's special scope was developed by the State-owned Factory 338. The State-owned Factory 296 also participated in part of the research and development work. Only six sets of samples of the above three scopes were produced. In the end, they were only used as technical reserves and were not further developed.

However, the state-owned Factory No. 296 is in the mountain city, and the Factory No. 338 is in Huaying Mountain in Sichuan. In other words, these two places are thousands of miles away from Bingcheng. This is why Wang Duoyu and his team did not go there directly, but came to the Bingcheng Camera Factory.

"The technology behind the scope is very simple. The scope I'm introducing combines fiber optics and tritium tubes to illuminate the reticle without the use of batteries."

"In white light conditions, the reticle is illuminated by optical fiber, and in complete darkness, tritium provides illumination. In addition, the optical fiber can automatically adjust the brightness of the reticle according to the ambient light intensity, ensuring that the shooter can clearly aim in any lighting condition."

"You don't need to worry about tritium tube technology, because tritium is a radioactive substance that can emit light on its own, and its half-life is 12 years, so it is a technology that is very suitable for long-term field operations."

At this moment in the conference room, Lin Dehong, who didn't understand the technology in the first place, became even more confused when he heard Wang Duoyu's detailed introduction of tritium tube technology. He felt confused and impressed.

Even though Wang Duoyu said that the tritium light tube is actually a light-emitting device made using the radioactivity of tritium, an isotope of hydrogen, its main structure is that tritium gas flows into a sealed borosilicate glass tube, and the electrons released by tritium during β decay hit the phosphor coated on the inside of the glass tube, emitting fluorescence.

This thing is commonly seen in luminous watches in daily life in later generations. Of course, because tritium is very expensive, even if the tritium content on a watch does not exceed ten micrograms, the price of the watch becomes very expensive, so this thing only appears on high-end watches.

Tritium has a wide range of uses in the military. Tritium and lithium tritide-6 are one of the main raw materials for making nuclear hydrogen bombs. On the Sam side, according to their laws, the production, transportation and sale of more than ten grams of tritium gas are strictly controlled.

The scope was for military use, so Lin Dehong would definitely be able to apply for tritium. After all, a tritium tube only needed 20 micrograms of tritium at most, or even 10 micrograms. As for the manufacture of the tritium tube, there was no need to worry about it; the higher-ups would take care of it.

The director, technicians and others of the Bingcheng Camera Factory were also confused and looked at Wang Duoyu with their mouths wide open, only to feel a halo shining behind his head.

"I need your help in developing the lenses needed for the scope. The technical requirements for this lens are not low, so it requires everyone's efforts. Does anyone have any questions?"

Of course no problem!

Wang Duoyu immediately smiled and nodded to express his gratitude. When they walked out of the camera factory and sat in the car, Lin Dehong suddenly pointed at the design drawing and asked how to install the scope on it.

"Boss, look here. There's a guide rail that can be installed on it. You might not have noticed it before, but the 626 Factory can help produce this kind of guide rail. It's not too important."

"Well, that's fine. I thought you hadn't noticed this. If this scope is produced, can the assault rifle also be used as a sniper rifle?"

"Leader, theoretically there's no problem. Based on the barrel length I designed, you've already seen that this improved assault rifle has an effective range of 400 meters, but the actual range is definitely over 800 meters. At that distance, it's difficult to see clearly with the naked eye unless you're a truly skilled sniper."

Hearing the other party's question, Wang Duoyu smiled slightly and explained:

"To be honest, it's extremely difficult for ordinary soldiers to become snipers. I heard you say before that the special scopes for the Type 63 automatic rifle were just kept as a technical reserve and not supplied to the relevant troops. I think the scope we've developed this time is unlikely to be very successful. But I'm an ordinary person and I really want one of these scopes."

Hearing this, Lin Dehong couldn't help but say again:

"Comrade Xiao Wang, how come you're so interested in hunting when you don't often handle a gun? Hunting doesn't require such a fine weapon. A Type 56 rifle is more than enough. A single-shot rifle is more suitable for hunting, don't you think?"

"Leader, you really don't know the hunger of a hungry man when you are full," Wang Duoyu couldn't help but say, "I have lived in the mountains since I was a child, and I often go hunting in the mountains. I encounter many complicated environments. One of my relatives was hunting wild boars in the mountains, but he was bitten in the end because of insufficient firepower."

After a pause, Wang Duoyu continued:

"Besides, rifles like the Type 56 are generally not allowed to be owned by ordinary people. If I hadn't happened to meet you, my leader, I would definitely have to continue using my homemade rifle."

(End of this chapter)