I manufacture weapons in the Middle East and am wanted globally?

Chen honked the horn three times toward the gate—short, long, short.

The iron gate was pulled open from the inside, and a head popped out—it was Chiang Kai-shek.

Chiang Kai-shek, wearing oil-stained overalls and carrying a steel pipe, saw Chen Zheng's car, slammed the pipe on the ground, and shouted inside, "Gurgle!"

The iron gate was pushed open.

Chen Zheng drove the truck in and parked it at the factory gate.

He jumped off the truck and patted the door: "Unload!"

Chen Zheng pulled a notebook and a pen from his pocket, turned to a new page, and said, "Count everything, stack them in bundles, and put them on the shelves in the materials area, Chiang Kai-shek!"

Chiang Kai-shek walked over carrying a steel pipe: "Goo?"

"Take Niu Si's unloading equipment." Chen Zheng pointed to the milling machine and grinding machine in the truck bed. "Be careful when handling these two big machines, don't bump or knock them."

Chiang Kai-shek grunted and turned to tell Niu Si to get to work.

Chen Zheng stood to the side, opened his notebook, and began to take notes.

"40Cr bar stock..." he muttered, his eyes fixed on the bundles of steel that Baldy and Niu Er were unloading from the truck.

The bald man carried a bundle of 40Cr steel bars to the material section shelf, pushed it with both hands, and the whole bundle landed steadily on the shelf, stacked neatly.

Niu Er followed behind, carrying two Q235 steel plates under his arm. He put them on the ground with a loud bang, and the ground shook.

He scribbled rapidly in his notebook:

40Cr bar stock – approximately 4 tons.

Q235钢板，6mm厚，2m×1m——100张

Brass rods, φ60mm, 1m - 60 pieces

Carbide cutting tools – 12 boxes (specific specifications to be checked)

Imported CNC cutting tools - 12 boxes

Measuring tools/gauges/cutting tools - 12 boxes

He paused here, looking up at the milling machine that Niu Si and Kaishen were carrying down together.

X6132 horizontal universal milling machine.

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He was very familiar with the machine's specifications—320 mm wide worktable, 1320 mm long worktable, spindle speed range of 30 to 1500 rpm, and spindle motor power of 7.5 kW.

In China, this would be standard equipment in a vocational school training workshop; in Syria, it's the core equipment of an arms factory.

In other words, vocational schools > military industry (just kidding!).

You rarely see things like this anymore, right?

The grinding machine next to it also came down—the M1432B universal cylindrical grinding machine, with a maximum grinding diameter of 320 mm and a maximum grinding length of 1000 mm. This machine is used to grind the outer diameter of gun barrels and to finish shaft parts, with an accuracy controllable within 0.005 mm.

And that press—the J23-63-ton open inclinable press—is perfect for stamping, blanking, and forming, making stamped parts like magazines and receiver covers.

Chen Zheng took a deep breath and continued writing in his notebook:

X6132 Horizontal Universal Milling Machine – 1 unit

M1432B Universal Cylindrical Grinding Machine – 1 unit

J23-63 ton open inclinable press – 1 unit

This is fucking robbery.

No, you can't make that much money even by robbing someone.

When you rob someone, you at least have to pull out a gun, but he didn't even pull out a gun and just took less than $4000.

It's cheap in China, of course, but in a war zone, money is worthless.

Including those ingredients, the price is even cheaper.

can only say…

As expected of the industrial powerhouse, the price is incredibly low!

Chen Zheng walked to the desk in the corner of the workshop, plopped down in the chair, threw his notebook on the table, put his hands behind his head, and stared blankly at the ceiling.

He can't sleep at all right now.

I'm so excited!

He sat up and turned on the computer on his desk.

He spent a lot of money to get this computer from Damascus. It's a Dell workstation with decent specs, specifically designed for running CAD/CAM software.

Chen Zheng opened his browser and skillfully entered a website address.

This forum, called "Gunsmith's Corner," is an international forum for gun enthusiasts. It's a melting pot of all sorts of people, from American gun collectors to Pakistani gunsmiths, from Swiss civilian firearms designers to Syrian Free Army armorers.

His forum ID is "DesertSmith", and his profile picture is Patrick Star!

Chen Zheng opened the forum's search function and entered "AKM blueprints".

A whole bunch of search results came up, but the more he looked at them, the more his brow furrowed.

Most posts are like this—

Title: Complete AKM blueprints! Military version! Absolutely accurate!

Contents: Cloud drive link, password: 123456

Chen Zheng downloaded it, unzipped it, glanced at it briefly, and then closed it.

The dimensions on the drawings are a mess, tolerances are nonexistent, the cross-sectional views look like a joke, and the shapes of some parts are clearly made up by the drafter. Forget about machining, it wouldn't even be suitable for 3D printing.

Clicked on another one—

Title: AK47/AKM Technical Drawings, including all parts, PDF format

This one looks a bit more respectable; at least it's a scanned document, and it looks like it was scanned from a technical manual.

The problem is that the resolution is too low, some dimensions are not visible, and several pages are missing, with the crucial drawings for the barrel and bolt completely absent.

Chen Zheng scrolled through more than a dozen posts, and the results were all similar.

It's either drawn by an enthusiast with precision and tolerances determined arbitrarily; or it's a scanned technical manual with missing pages and codes, making it unusable; or it's simply a scam to get replies, with empty links when clicked.

"Damn it..." Chen Zheng cursed, leaning back in his chair.

What he needed were genuine military blueprints, not amateur drawings or scanned copies with missing pages, but a complete set of blueprints with clear annotations that could be directly processed.

These kinds of blueprints are hard to find online.

It's not that they don't exist, but those who truly do won't casually post about it on forums.

They're waiting to sell.

Chen Zheng thought for a moment, then sat up straight and started typing on the keyboard.

He posted a new thread—

Title: [Request for blueprints] Complete machining blueprints for AKM or other Soviet-style rifles, with tolerance markings, payment is welcome.

Contents:

As the title suggests. I need a complete set of AKM drawings, including the three views, cross-sections, dimensions, tolerances, and heat treatment requirements for all parts. Other Soviet-style rifles are also acceptable, such as the AK-74 and RPK. The drawings must be clear and complete.

Payment is possible; please contact me privately to discuss the specific price.

If you have blueprints for other firearms (AR series, SVD, etc.), we can discuss that as well.

After posting, Chen Zheng added a line at the end:

Telephone: +963-XXX-XXX-XXX (PS: This is a backup phone.)

After posting the message, he refreshed the page, and the post was already in the latest list.

He waited a few more minutes, but no one replied.

Just as Chen Zheng was about to close the browser, his phone suddenly vibrated.

He picked it up and looked at it—there was a message on WhatsApp from an unknown number.

"DesertSmith?"

Chen Zheng replied, "Yes."

The other party replied instantly: "I have what you want."

"Complete set, all parts, including barrel, bolt, receiver, trigger assembly, gas system, and sight mount. Three-view drawings, cross-sectional views, dimensional tolerances, material requirements, and heat treatment processes are all included. Scanned copies of original Soviet technical documents, clear enough for printing."

"What's the price?"

对方发来一条消息：「AKM全套200美金，AK-74全套500美金。SVD全套2000美金，打包一起2500美金。」

To be honest, this price isn't expensive.

Especially SVD blueprints, which can sell for over a thousand US dollars on the black market.

Chen Zheng replied, "I want them both. I'll transfer them to you through an underground bank tomorrow."

"No need for that. I'll give you an eBay page; you can just buy one of the items."

Chen Zheng: "I don't have an eBay account... I'm in Syria."

The other party fell silent again.

A full five minutes passed before the message arrived: "Where in Syria?"

"It's not convenient to talk about that."

"Okay." The other party sent a phone number. "This is my person in Cairo. Have someone from the money exchange call him and withdraw the cash offline. After I receive the money, I'll give you all the blueprints; I'll give you the AKM one first."

"it is good."

"Hold on."

About ten minutes later, Chen Zheng's phone vibrated again.

He opened it and saw it was a private message notification from the forum.

He opened the private message; inside was a compressed file with a filename consisting of a string of Russian letters.

The compressed file is small, only about 40 megabytes.

He double-clicked to extract the files, and a folder popped up, containing hundreds of files densely packed together—PDFs, DWGs, and several TIF scans.

Chen Zheng casually opened a PDF, which was the AKM's receiver blueprint.

His eyes lit up.

This is a genuine Soviet original technical drawing, with the Soviet State Standard (GOST) logo on the frame. All the dimensions are so clear that it looks like it was just printed yesterday, and the tolerances are accurate to three decimal places. The material column says "Сталь 3", and the heat treatment requirements and surface treatment requirements are all included.

He's obviously an insider!

We have all the heat treatment data, which is something many external drawings don't have.

However, when the Soviet Union collapsed, a great many of these blueprints were lost.

He then opened a DWG file and used SolidWorks—it was a 3D model, drawn with an older version of AutoCAD, but all the features were complete and could be directly imported into CAM software to generate a machining program.

Chen Zheng flipped through several more documents: barrel, bolt, gas piston, hammer, trigger, sear, magazine catch, safety lever... Every part had its own drawings and models, and even the pins and springs had detailed specifications.

These are genuine military blueprints.

Chen Zheng almost burst out laughing.

He suppressed a laugh, picked up his phone, and sent a message to that WhatsApp number:

"I received the blueprints. The quality is very good. I'll go to the underground bank tomorrow and let you know when the money arrives."

The other party replied instantly: "OK, happy to cooperate."

"It's a pleasure working with you."

Chen Zheng put down his phone, stood up from his chair, and walked into the workshop.

Baldy and Chiang Kai-shek were debugging the newly arrived X6132 milling machine. The two foremen leaned against each other, muttering something. Baldy pointed to the spindle box of the milling machine, while Chiang Kai-shek shook his head and pointed to the workbench. The two seemed to be discussing some technical issues.

"Bald guy! Chiang Kai-shek!" Chen Zheng shouted.

The two laborers turned around and looked at him.

Chen Zheng walked to the desk, picked up his laptop, turned the screen towards them, and pointed to the AKM receiver blueprints on it: "Can this be made?"

The receiver is the main part of a firearm (except for pistols).

It is the basic component of the entire rifle, connecting the main parts into a whole. In bullpup rifles, the receiver rests directly against the shoulder, which is used to shorten the length of the rifle, reduce weight, and improve shooting accuracy.

It's basically just a skeleton!

The bald man leaned closer, squinted at the blueprints on the screen, and then turned to look at Chiang Kai-shek.

Chiang Kai-shek joined them, and the two laborers leaned against each other, whispering and discussing for quite a while.

Then the two laborers turned to Chen Zheng at the same time and nodded to him.

"Gurgle."

Chen Zheng smiled: "Then let's begin."

Baldy and Chiang Kai-shek exchanged a glance, then turned around at the same time and walked towards the materials area.

Chen Zheng stood in the center of the workshop, hands on his hips, watching the two laborers get to work.

The bald head took a φ50mm 40Cr bar from the shelf, carried it to the Baoji SK40P machine tool, inserted the bar into the spindle hole, adjusted the chuck, and began machining the outer diameter.

The lathe spindle began to rotate, cutting fluid gushed out, and iron filings rolled down from the cutting tip like ribbons.

Kai-Shen walked to the computer, opened SolidWorks, imported the AKM chassis drawings that Chen Zheng had just copied, and began to use CAM software to generate the machining program.

His fingers flew across the keyboard, and tool paths were generated one by one on the screen, densely covering the three-dimensional model of the casing.

Niu Er and Niu San were sorting the steel they had just brought back in the materials area, classifying and stacking it according to specifications.

Niu Si squatted in the corner, using a piece of sandpaper to polish the worktable of the M1432B grinder, grinding away the rust little by little.

Throughout the workshop, machines roared and iron filings flew everywhere. Five laborers were busy with their respective tasks, working with great enthusiasm.

The bald man had already machined the 40Cr bar into the rough shape of a gun barrel blank.

He used a Kennametal indexable insert with a depth of cut of 0.3 mm, a spindle speed of 800 rpm, and a feed rate of 0.1 mm per rpm.

The iron filings that rolled off the cutting tip were light blue, indicating that the cutting temperature and cutting parameters were just right.

The bald man cranked the handwheel while listening to the cutting sound, and started working without even using calipers!

He machined this gun barrel blank in less than 15 minutes!

After finishing the machining, the bald man removed the workpiece from the chuck, wiped the surface of the cutting fluid clean with cotton yarn, held it in both hands, walked up to Chen Zheng, made a sound, and handed it to him to look at.

Chen Zheng took it and weighed it in his hand.

The outer diameter of the gun barrel blank has been machined to the specified dimensions, and the surface roughness is as smooth as a mirror when touched by hand.

He measured several cross-sections with calipers, and the dimensional tolerances were all within 0.002 millimeters.

"Beautiful," Chen Zheng couldn't help but say.

The bald man grinned, turned around, placed the gun barrel blank on the workbench, and began to prepare to drill a deep hole. This was the most critical step in gun barrel processing, with a depth-to-diameter ratio exceeding one hundred to one. If it deviated even slightly, the barrel would be ruined.

On Chiang Kai-shek's side, the CAM program has been generated.

He walked up to the X6132 milling machine, took out a set of combination clamping plates from the toolbox, and fixed a blank onto the milling machine's worktable. Then he took a φ20mm carbide end mill from the tool magazine, inserted it into the spindle taper hole, tightened the pull rod, and closed the safety door.

Chiang Kai-shek pressed the start button.

The spindle began to rotate, the worktable began to move, and the moment the tool tip touched the surface of the blank, it emitted a sharp screech.

Iron filings flew everywhere.

Chiang Kai-shek stood in front of the control panel, one hand on the feed rate knob, his eyes fixed on the cutting area, his ears twitching slightly like an alert cat, carefully listening to the cutting sounds.

everything is normal.

Chen Zheng stood in the middle, watching all of this, and a feeling he couldn't quite put into words welled up inside him.

There's a sense of accomplishment!

It feels just like the fun of farming games when I was a kid!

……