Young engineer discovers bullet fire particle technology for modern military

In the organize of infantry, artillery and mortar bullets, the particle of fire is an important and indispensable part because it acts as a trigger for active bullets and is considered the heart of the weapon.

The pioneer

As one of 10 typical young faces of the entire army in 2019, engineer Nguyen Tien Hung (SN 1984), employee of Enterprise Engineering II, Factory Z121, General Department of Defense Industry shared his motto of dedication: “Sticking to production, constantly learning, creating, daring to think, dare to do and not be afraid of failure in scientific and technical research”.

Mr. Nguyen Tien Hung said that he undertook many roles and tasks such as being in charge of electromechanical work of Enterprise II, ensuring all the best technical, technological and equipment conditions to meet the unit’s plan on organization of production of national defense goods.

He is also the Captain of the Young Science and Technology Team of the factory with the task of assaulting the difficult stages on the production lines, promptly proposing innovative solutions, technical innovations that contribute to ensuring safety for people and equipment in the production process, improve the working environment, reduce labor effort, increase productivity and improve product quality.

As the Secretary of the Technical Committee of the Branch, he shows the role of the young leader in always taking the lead in implementing science and technology tasks and the topics of Mechanization – Automation of the unit.

Since 2015, he has presided over 4 projects, 32 technical innovation solutions and participated in the implementation of 14 works and innovative solutions with a total benefit of about 15 billion VND per year, contribute to ensuring the safety of people and equipment in the production process, improve product quality to meet the production plan of defense products.

Currently, he has 2 initiatives registered for the Vietnam Technical Innovation Award (VIFOTEC) and the 2019 Creative Youth Award in the Army, etc.

“I strive to have more works and technical innovations with the goal of bringing automated equipment to replace manual labor to reduce the risk of unsafety and increase labor productivity and product quality.

I am determined to have at least one Mechanization – Automation project participating in the Creative Youth Award in the Army ”, Mr. Nguyen Tien Hung said.

Trying to research and improve “the heart of weapons”

Talking about the project “Research, design and manufacture of paper cushioning equipment to enhance the capacity of SK fire particle production” to receive the Creative Youth Award in the Army in 2017, Hung said that this is one of the most successful, etc. The state of the art fire manufacturing technology is currently the most modern, first successfully researched and manufactured at Z121 on newly manufactured equipment.

According to Mr. Nguyen Tien Hung, fire particles used in infantry, artillery and mortar bullets are difficult products and have a high technical content. Therefore, it requires strict quality requirements, technical specifications are carried out very closely inspected, at the same time, it must be packed with highly sensitive explosives, containing many dangerous factors so safety and quality must be a top priority.

To solve this problem, after a period of studying scientific documents and product standards produced by advanced countries, combined with sample products imported from Belgium, Russia, China, etc.  Science and Technology Team Hung’s children researched the technology and the ability to use suitable materials and semi-finished products available in Vietnam to complete documents, proceed to design equipment and technology for the production of SK fire particles.

The creativity of this topic is that the authors have researched on the plant’s existing line of 219B fire particle production technology, combined with breakthrough improvements in tools and equipment, to successfully produce firearms bullets without investing in additional procurement of new technology equipment and equipment.

At the same time, the authors have successfully researched and manufactured paper-cutting equipment and paper-pushing device; Along with that, streamline and change the technology to produce firearms, ensure simple and safe operation for the production process when an explosion occurs and improve labor productivity.

“The benefits that the study brings are many, but the most striking is the capacity of the plant’s existing SK fire production line enhanced without affecting existing features, the conversion Product categories on the same easy and fast production device.

Price compared with foreign countries is reduced but still ensure the features of the product. Economically, productivity increased by 3.55 times compared to the old technology, making an annual average benefit of over VND 2.6 billion, etc.” said Mr. Nguyen Tien Hung.

From the efficiency of the above project, Nguyen Tien Hung and his colleagues continue to introduce the project “Researching, designing and manufacturing equipment to remove fire particles using compressed air and rearranging technological steps, aiming at ensuring safety and improve defense production capacity” participated in the Creative Youth Award in the Army in 2019.

After nearly 3 months of hard research and design, the authors have successfully researched the device to remove fire particles on the machine and changed the technology of manufacturing fire particles with the most advanced and advanced features in Vietnam.

Productivity and Quality Office