Reborn In 17th century India with Black Technology

Thinking about this, his eyes lit up, and his tapping abruptly stopped. Vijay became excited because, in this way, he does not have to do everything by himself, Not only saving a lot of brain cells, but also exercises the innovative capabilities of the Bharatiya scientists to the greatest extent.

As for whether Vijay is worried if the scientists will be able to come up with such advanced theories and designs, it is actually the least thing Vijay is worried about because people seem to forget that he has a gift due to his reincarnation, time travel, or transmigration—whatever it may have been—and that is to bless people with seeds of inspiration, where when doing research or working on something related to the seed of inspiration, the people will feel enlightened and will get a flurry of new ideas which point them in the right direction.

The only constraint in this arrangement may be that it will be hard to find the right people who are capable of researching such advanced technologies in an empire spanning over 4,000,000 square kilometers, but Vijay quickly came up with a solution for this too, and it is not even a clever solution—it was rude and simple. Just gather all the top military design firms and bureaus in the Bharatiya Empire that have the highest security clearance, which is solely based on loyalty and nothing else, like the Asthra Dynamics of Naveen Ambani, Garuda Defense Labs of Bajarang Dharini, Vajra Technologies of Indrasena Reddy, Agni Precision Systems of Gangadhar, Shastra Innovations of Narasimha Nayak, Rakshak Defense Works of Lachit Borpukhan, Threshold Arms Consortium of Gangadhar and Narasimha, Indira Forge of Major Arun Verma, Varuna Designs of Devendra Rao, Vyuh Strategic Solutions of Officer Ramachandran, Sri Manjunatha Research Firm of Commander Akhil, and finally, Sai Design Bureau of Sai.

Under one roof, like when Vijay led the development of the steam engine, he planned to have all those highest security clearance research firms, with all their resources, research the new generation of ordnance for the Bharatiya Empire together. In that way, he would only need to visit the facility once in a while and constantly bestow the seeds of knowledge to the researchers. Your journey continues with My Virtual Library Empire

Having a clear plan in his mind, Vijay decided to act on it right away.

He first started with putting forward the requirements and sketching down the rough technical drawings of what the weapon should look like on a draft paper.

"First things first, let me classify all the weapons of the Bharatiya Empire into different categories and subcategories."

Categorization of weaponry in the Bharatiya Empire wasn't a necessity because there wasn't diversity in weaponry to begin with, which made categorization a little useless—just like having a CEO, CFO, and COO for a company with only three people. Until now, that is, because this time around, he was looking to bring forward nothing less than a small industrial revolution in the arms industry.

Vijay started by drawing a chart,

"Small arms can be put under a single category, and muskets can be a subcategory under it."

"The Shakti rifle (Brown Bess) is already a very advanced rifle, which the British used even until the 19th century, so this does not have to be replaced by any other rifle since this is already very close to the peak of what a muzzle-loading musket rifle can perform. Iterative development should be enough for this weapon to be effective on battlefields for several more decades, not to mention most of the empire's military is using this weapon and its variants. Suddenly replacing it, even for the rich finances of my empire, is not an easy thing."

"Moving on, rifles can be a separate subcategory, and let's see... with the current manufacturing capabilities of the empire, with some effort, the Springfield Model of 1861 of the US Armory, which was used during the American Civil War, should be able to be produced. It's settled—let's call it the Dhanush 61 Project."

"Let pistols be a separate subcategory on their own." For this subcategory, Vijay did not have any doubt about what weapon he wanted to choose. He immediately picked the Colt Model 1851, a reliable and accurate revolver for both naval and land use developed by Samuel Colt, and he renamed it Project Vajra.

In such a way, he made a subcategory for a carbine. He took the Sharps Carbine of 1859, developed by Christian Sharps, in order to use it as a breech-loading rifle, selected it, and renamed it Project Tarangni.

Breech-loading rifles were a completely different subcategory, and he chose the Martini-Henry rifle developed by Friedrich von Martini and Alexander Henry in 1871, combining breech-loading with rifled barrels. Vijay renamed the project Simha Astra.

He made a repeating rifle as a subcategory and picked the Spencer repeating rifle as the inspiration, which was invented in 1861 by Christopher Spencer to be used as a lever-action rifle with rapid-fire capabilities. He renamed it Project Ashwa Teer. Vijay paused, realizing that some rifles are more difficult and advanced to manufacture than others—for example, the Spencer repeating rifle—so he modified the data of other guns and rated it S and rated the Spencer repeating rifle, aka Ashwa Teer, as SS.

Long-range rifles were a subcategory, and Vijay opted to upgrade the current Shikhari rifles and has not chosen to replace them since they have worked really well for the Bharatiya military, especially the sharpshooters in all three special forces.

Artillery was made a category altogether, with smoothbore cannon, rifled artillery, mortar, field artillery and howitzer made into the subcategories.

For smooth-bore cannons, Vijay took the 12-pounder Napoleonic cannon as the inspiration and renamed it Gaja Natha. For rifled artillery, he took the Armstrong gun and Parrott rifle as the inspiration and renamed them Indira Krodha and Shakti Dhano, respectively. Rifled artillery played a very important role in the Bharatiya military, especially with the advent of rifled Culverin's, hence two variants were chosen, both for different purposes. He maintained the Coehorn mortar, which is currently produced in the Bharatiya Empire, but has opted to completely overhaul the production and renamed it Vajra Kundala. For field artillery, Vijay put all the 15-kilogram calibre and below artillery of the Bharatiya Empire in this subcategory, and he also put forward the design drawing of a 75mm Canon de 75 modèle 1897 field gun of the French and renamed the project Ghatotkacha. As for the howitzer, Vijay chose the 12-pounder mountain howitzer of the 1835 US Army ordnance for its lightweight design for mountain and frontier use. The howitzer was rated as SS, and the remaining were rated as S. Moreover, the Howitzer project was named Project Giri Vajra.

Vijay made a new category called Naval Weaponry and added the subcategory smooth bore naval gun, inspired by the Dahlgren gun, renamed Jal Rakshak, and a subcategory torpedo, inspired by the Whitehead torpedo, renamed Jal Astra.

He made a new category called ammunition, where he added the subcategory of metal cartridge ammunition and paper cartridge ammunition, under which several different cartridges will be developed.

Finally, with a lot of thought, Vijay wrote down the category of machine guns.

All the machine guns were rated SSS because the subcategories included conventional machine guns and volleyguns. Vijay put forward three different requisites for the machine gun—one inspired by the design of the Gatling gun, invented in 1862 by Richard Gatling; the other, the Mitrailleuse, invented in 1863 by the French Army as an early manually cranked rapid-fire gun, although this gun was not too successful in the Franco-Prussian War as the Prussians were able to deal with it easily, but its defensive capabilities were very impressive; and the last one, the German Hotchkiss revolving cannon, invented in 1872 by a German scientist, Benjamin B. Hotchkiss. They were renamed Chakra Shakti, Himalaya and Vajra Dhvani, respectively. As for the volley gun, it was inspired by the Nordenfelt gun, which was a lever-operated gun capable of firing multiple barrels in 1873, renamed Varun Teer.

The last category Vijay put forward was fortification weapons, which he rated SSS, and it had only one subcategory—that was breach-loading siege gun—and he undoubtedly picked a very popular Krupp siege gun, a masterpiece of the 19th century invented by Alfred Krupp himself, developed for siege battles. It was aptly named Asura Hunta.

Now, Vijay was not expecting the S-rated and double S-rated weaponry to come out anytime soon, especially since he would not be directly involved in the research, but he was still very hopeful and looking forward to the new variety of ordnance that would be researched in the Bharatiya Empire. Especially since he did not put forward any mechanical designs, he was eager to see how the researchers of the Bharatiya Empire would develop the guns according to his specifications, taking the local conditions into consideration.

"Maybe it will be better than my previous life, or maybe worse—either way, I can't wait," Vijay smiled as he leaned back comfortably after working for four hours straight.

"Ahh!"

Suddenly, a shrill scream was heard. Vijay immediately recognized the voice—it was undoubtedly Kavia's. His heartbeat immediately sped up, and he suddenly became nervous. He sprinted out of the room, unable to stay put.

P.S. I forgot my laptop at the farm, forgive me today for the ruff edit, and spelling mistakes