Problems and Countermeasures of China's Military General Firearms Packaging Application

Submachine guns, machine guns, etc., commonly known as general-purpose firearms, are light weapons in weapons and equipment, and have the characteristics of large consumption and large reserves. In order to adapt to the high suddenness and high mobility of modern warfare, it is required that the packaging of firearms can not only achieve good product protection, but also ensure that the products are in a good state of technology at all times, but also have good environmental adaptability and high reliability. With ease of use and maintenance, it improves the rapid logistics support capabilities of the force.

1 Current status and problems of our general firearms packaging
1. 1 Current status of general-purpose firearms packaging in our army The packaging of firearms is one of the important guarantees for the performance of firearms. The development of our military firearms packaging is very slow, and the overall level is far behind the foreign gun-arms packaging technology, and it is not very good to realize the packaging of firearms. The "Five in One" design philosophy and tactical principles of loading, unloading, transportation, storage, and use are particularly difficult to meet the requirements of rapid replenishment and ease of use of modern warfare.

The development of our armed firearms has gone through four stages: copying, imitation, research, and independent innovation. At present, our military's gun design technology and manufacturing technology have basically reached the international advanced level. However, the packaging of firearms mainly follows the old packaging of tens of years ago. For decades, wooden box packaging remained the same. Only the inner packaging had some minor improvements. During the development of the firearms, the performance of heavy products and light packaging was very prominent. The packaging seriously lags behind the product development. Most boxes are wooden boxes. Filling the sealant at the joint is extremely inconvenient in the warehouse maintenance and unpacking inspection. Unpacking requires both special tools and time, and it is easy to damage the lid. The packaging structure is seriously unreasonable. Many of the inner packagings are still coated with oil and plastic film or kraft paper, and the card board is limited. The rust-proof performance is poor, and the buffer protection performance is not good. Many local firearms have had local rust soon after they leave the factory.

In recent years, the domestic emerging packaging industry has developed rapidly. A variety of excellent packaging insulation materials, cushioning materials, and wood substitute materials have been put into production in succession, providing necessary material conditions for moisture-proof sealed packaging and wood packaging for firearms. The use of firearms is being promoted and used, and engineering plastics, fiberglass and wood-based plastics are being gradually used as outer packagings for guns. Learn from foreign advanced technology, use soft composite plastic moisture-proof packaging bags for internal packaging, use foam as cushion material, and use vapor-phase rust-proof plastic film, vapor-phase rust-proof composite paper and other gas-phase storage technology for firearms and various types of light and heavy weapons. Rust seal packaging.

1. 2 Problems with Our Military General Firearm Packaging
1. 2. 1 Poor protection performance The firearms are packaged in wooden boxes. Thick oil seals still exist. The inner packaging is wrapped with plastic film and kraft paper. The moisture barrier and rust resistance are poor. The oil removal is inconvenient and does not provide good buffer protection. , Logistic support for a long time, brought a serious burden to the combat troops, and even delay the fighter.

1. 2. 2 Low degree of standardization The current packaging structure and size of the Chinese firearms are extremely inconsistent. The manufacturers of firearms do their own thing and the sizes and packing weights (quantities) of the packing boxes and spare parts of different manufacturers of the same type of firearms are inconsistent. It is also different, even in the same factory, the same year, the same batch of products also appear similar. According to statistics, there are seven types of product boxes and spare parts boxes for the 67 -1 type 7.62mm heavy machine gun. The external dimensions of the packing box are 1360mm × 450mm × 330mm, 580mm × 510mm × 200mm, 850mm × 370mm × 340mm and 990mm × 450mm × 260mm, 1230mm × 380mm × 230mm, 178mm × 128mm × 56mm, 1060mm × 450mm × 260mm, the heaviest weight of the box is 84kg, the lightest attachment box is 1. 1kg. 77 Type 12. There are also 7 types of product boxes and spare parts boxes for 7mm high-strength machine guns. This situation brings a lot of inconvenience to handling, transportation, stacking operations, and warehouse service management. Not only is it labor-intensive, it has low work efficiency, and it cannot implement pallet assembly according to the requirements of the national military standard, which is not conducive to mechanized loading and unloading operations.

1. 2. 3 Service and maintenance are not convenient Most of the packaging boxes for firearms are packed in wooden boxes. Use wooden screws or iron nails to connect the cover and inject sealant at the joints. In the warehouse service inspection, not only special tools, but also time, but also easy to damage the lid, increased maintenance costs and time of the warehouse, some of the firearms packaging structure is unreasonable, such as the gun and accessories for class firearms are 10 It is very inconvenient for a branch or 20 sticks to be packed in a single box. With the oiled package, the troops need to spend a lot of time to remove oil, which is inconsistent with the high efficiency and quick and flexible mobility requirements of modern warfare.

1. 2. 4 Wood resource consumption Large weapons packaging consumes about 600,000 m3 of high-quality wood each year. The consumption of wood in firearms packaging is second only to ammunition packaging. China is a country with extremely depleted forest resources and consumes a lot of wood. It will inevitably aggravate the further deterioration of China's ecological environment. Imported timber needs to consume foreign exchange reserves. Moreover, most countries in the world attach importance to the protection of forest resources, and it is increasingly difficult to import timber.

1. 2. 5 Slow application of new technologies. At the end of the 1970s, they learned from foreign technology and developed a vapor phase corrosion inhibitor and a thin layer of anti-rust oil sealed semi-automatic rifle, 12. 7mm high-firing machine gun, and obtained technological and technological success. Experience, but this new type of anti-rust material and storage technology has not been widely used. In the 1980s, the 81-gun family had proposed a series of firearms packaging solutions. The individual firearms were planned to use a single gas-phase sealed internal packaging, replacing the outer packaging wooden box with engineering plastics to facilitate distribution and management, with a view to comprehensively improving the quality of firearm packaging. Because there is no financial support, it is only on paper. According to the survey, currently China's gunry packaging wooden box thick oil seals accounted for roughly 50%, wooden boxes plus thin oil seals accounted for 28.6%, and wooden boxes plus plastic bags plus gas phase corrosion seals accounted for 21.4%.

2 Our General Firearm Packaging Development Strategy
2. 1 Reinforce the Application of Various New Technologies on the Packaging of Guns and Arms There are many deficiencies in the current gun packaging of our army and there is a big gap with foreign advanced developed countries. Many new packaging technologies that have been successfully developed have not been applied and promoted. In response to the current status of gun packaging, it actively conducts investigations and studies, learns advanced foreign technology and experience, attaches importance to the development of packaging materials, and develops composite materials, buffer materials, rust-proof materials, recycled plastics, and substitute wood materials that have excellent performance and low cost. Actively carry out optimized design of packaging structure, develop various new types of protective packaging technologies, and apply a variety of dry sealing and packaging technologies, vapor phase rust-proof packaging technology, envelope packaging technology, humidity control packaging technology, and various new functionalities such as anti-static and anti-electromagnetic waves. The packaging materials are specifically applied to the packaging of firearms, so that the firearms packaging can have good protection performance and environmental adaptability, and improve the level of our artillery packaging technology.

2. 2 Strengthen the tray packaging technology research of the firearms packaging The tray packaging technology of the firearms packaging is directly related to the logistics support ability of the troops. The tray packaging has the characteristics of more loading capacity, convenient management and use, and saving transportation costs. . Many U.S. ammunition packages use palletizing technology. In order to improve the logistics support capabilities of our military, to meet the requirements of modern high-tech warfare, various palletizing technologies have been actively researched for the use of firearms packaging.

2. 3 Strengthen the standardization and serialization research of the firearms packaging In view of the poor standardization of China's firearms packaging, actively carry out serialization and standardization research of the packaging, so that our military firearms packaging has a unity, enhance the operability of the firearms packaging, Universality, changing the current chaotic situation in the packaging of firearms, will have realistic significance and significant military and economic benefits.

3 Conclusion <br> With the development of the new military revolution, higher requirements have been put forward for military logistics support capabilities. Weapons packaging plays a decisive role in the logistics support of modern warfare. As a kind of light weapon with large consumption and large reserve, general-purpose firearms should be packaged, handled, transported, stored and used.

"Five in one" requirements for the current status of our military general purpose gun packaging and existing problems, tracking foreign advanced technology, focusing on the future, starting from materials research, optimization of structural design, system technology integration, etc., to seek packaging improvement, to further improve The quality of our armed guns packaging and the benefits of integrated systems are of far-reaching significance. This is also an important scientific research topic for China's light weapons and equipment.