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133

Factory 133 under the General Technical Department is the “hospital” for various kinds of armed forces’ guns in the North. Guns of various kinds often undergo technical maintenance as well as minor repairs at workshops of military regions, army corps, arms and services. When they need major repairs, however, they are sent to Factory 133. Here the guns will go through a process involving general examination, disassembling, repairs, reassembling, painting, test firing, etc. With love for the job, the “doctors” at the “hospital” have helped increase the life span of many different kinds of weapons, contributing to improving the quality of training and operations of guns of different kinds.

With achievements in combat, combat and labor in the past 50 years, Z133 Factory has been awarded many noble awards by the Party and State: Victory Medal, First, Second, Three; Labor Medal, First and Third Class; National Defense Order, Second Class; Littlexala Medal (awarded by the State of Lao PDR in 1988). Especially in 2000, the factory was honored by the Party and State with the title of Heroic Unit of People's Force.

Referring to the Z133 Factory (General Engineering Department) is to mention "the craftsmen with talented hands, creative minds, the heart of love for the profession who is dedicated, enthusiastic to work, overhaul guns and firecrackers. and optical weapons "for the entire army". As a predestined relationship, "infiltrating" the factory, we met Colonel Pham Minh Tuan, Director and Colonel Nguyen Manh Vung, Secretary of Party Committee, Political Commissar of Z133 Factory while the two men were discussing passionately in the room. Traditional factory ...

After the resistance war against the French colonialism, to meet the requirements and tasks of the revolution in the fierce and fierce resistance against the American imperialist invasion, on May 25, 1966, Deputy Prime Minister Le Thanh Nghi signed Decision No. 269 / CN-TM approving the "Task of overhaul design (overhaul) of X25 guns and artillery". This is the first strategic weapon repair unit of our Army and is the largest weapon repair unit, especially guns, heavy artillery in the country. In 1968, the factory overhauled the high-gun gun, named the X25, Session was established V133 (the forerunner of the later Z133 Factory). Since then, the officers and soldiers of the whole army have happily called Z133 "the gun hospital, the last line of the army".

Despite the lack of facilities and the dispersed forces, with the spirit of solidarity and determination, the factory's staff, employees, and workers always successfully complete all assigned tasks. . From 1969 up to now, the factory has repaired nearly 30,000 guns, firecrackers of all kinds and thousands of optical weapons; can produce tens of thousands of replacement parts, hundreds of tons of weapons, technical materials. The factory's weapon repair level has been raised. Colonel Nguyen Manh Vung for example: "The factory has carried out complicated" major operations "of guns and artillery, such as the replacement production of the" heart "of the cannon as the repel, push up" the cannon's "eyes are the optical viewfinder".

As the "last line hospital" of the weapons of the whole army, the staff, soldiers, factory workers always determined: Weapons and equipment are precious assets to ensure military training units, SSCs. If weapons and weapons reach Z133 and cannot be repaired anymore, that precious asset is only blocks of scrap. Therefore, the creative spirit is always at the forefront in gun and firecracker repair.

During the war against the US, the factory researched and installed 37mm high-beam cannon on ZIL 157 car; project of improving, installing a 14.5mm-4 barrel gun on SU-76 armored vehicle; improving and installing the DKB bullet launchers to create smoke to create fake artillery battles; successfully researched and manufactured two groups of barrels and locked the barrel of 160mm mortar (according to the model of the Soviet Union M160mm mortar) ... During the war to protect the southwest and northern border, the Z133 factory had Many subjects and initiatives have been applied by the units, notably: The topic of mounting the gun barrel 85mm-Ð44 on the price of 105mm American cannon, the topic of improving the MK-19 gun. In particular, during the renovation period, the factory had 9,479 innovations, technical improvements, 43 scientific topics at grassroots level have been effectively applied in implementing tasks. In which, many difficult and complex clusters, groups and details have high technical requirements, such as: repel, push-up clusters, balancing artillery; barrel winch cluster 130mm M46; gun sight: 85mm-Ð44, 37mm high-beam, 105mm American cannon ... previously imported, up to now the factory has produced, has high reliability, meets the requirements for training tasks. ready to fight of units.

Mobile repair is also a prominent advantage of the Z133 Factory. Only since 1986 up to now, in addition to repair at the unit, the plant has organized 904 mobile repair missions. Z133's soldiers and workers were present at all border points and remote islands of the country. Colonel Nguyen Van Hung, Technical Manager, High Command of Marine Police said: “Factory Z133 has cooperated very well with the Vietnam Coast Guard in ensuring technical work, especially technical work. Military air. Recently, the factory has transported, installed and successfully commissioned 23mm artillery system on some Coast Guard ships ”.

Mobile repair is a proud tradition of the factory. During the war against the US, the factory had organized many mobile repair missions to fight in battlefields (Quang Tri, Thua Thien-Hue, the southern battlefield), on that silent front, Many officials and employees of the factory have bravely sacrificed. Today, the factory's general mobile repair teams operate across the S-shaped strip of land of the country, from Ca Mau cape to Mong Cai headland.

In order to ensure that the factory completes its tasks in the new situation, according to Colonel Pham Minh Tuan, next time, the Party Committee, the Board of Directors of Z133 Factory will continue to focus on improving technical management. in the factory, synchronously implementing 8 contents of technical management, in which focusing on developing factory human resources, especially workers specialized in guns, firecrackers and weapons. In the past as well as today, the factory always "owns" the workers "with talented hands and creative heads, dare to think, dare to do". That is a strength that the factory needs to cherish and preserve.