Quality is life, and quality is the odds ■ Yang Huan The quality of weapons and equipment is related to the lives of officers and soldiers and the outcome of the war. *** This is of great significance for finding out the performance base of weapons and equipment and ensuring the quality of weapons and equipment. Weapons and equipment are the material and technical basis of combat effectiveness, and we must adhere to the supremacy of quality. The ancients said: "on the day of using the army, if a weapon is not refined, it will kill a soldier's life." If there is a quality problem with weapons and equipment, it will pay the price of bleeding and lose the war. A scene in the film "the wind and rain of the 1895-1895" left a deep impression on us: the shells fired by Zhiyuan ship did not explode one after another. Deng Shichang ordered someone to pull out the warhead fuse. As a result, what poured out was not gunpowder, but sand. The gunner could only beat his chest and feet when facing the enemy ship. The lessons of history are not far away. We must not take the quality of weapons and equipment lightly. We must not allow weapons and equipment to be loaded into the army and go to the battlefield with quality problems. "There must be a way, and then it can be done." The quality construction of weapons and equipment has its own laws. If the key technologies are not bottomed out, the test verification is not in place, and the problems are not fully exposed in the development process, the quality will be difficult to guarantee. He Liangchen, a military strategist of the Ming Dynasty, said in the "array Ji": "if the manufacturing method is not accurate, blame the craftsman." When making weapons, the ancients required that the responsibility should be assigned to each person, strict accountability and strict military law. According to historical records, the bricks used in the Ming City Wall in Nanjing are of high quality, although they were fired by more than 150 governments (prefectures) and counties. An important reason is that the names of the supervisor, kiln maker, brick maker and promotion officer are engraved on the side of the brick. If something goes wrong, who should be responsible is who should be responsible. The implementation of the requirement of quality first is inseparable from the scientific system. A scientific and reasonable system has great power. During the Second World War, a company produced parachutes with a pass rate of 99.9%, which was not easy at that time. However, the military believes that such a qualified rate means that one person will die due to product quality problems for every 1000 paratroopers, and insists that the qualified rate of parachutes must reach 100%. To this end, the military changed the inspection and acceptance system. During the delivery and acceptance, the military randomly took a parachute from it, and the person in charge of the production company personally took the parachute and jumped from the plane. After the implementation of the system, the company had to do everything possible to improve the quality of parachutes. Finally, the parachute qualification rate reached 100%. Quality is life, and quality is the odds. Relevant departments should deeply grasp the characteristics and laws of equipment work, establish and improve the weapon and equipment management system and mechanism in accordance with the principle of facing the army and actual combat, implement the quality requirements in all links of weapon and equipment development, production, training and technical support, and truly realize the whole life cycle quality management. Based on the development trend of equipment informatization and intelligence, improve the working mode of test and appraisal, and further improve the working system close to actual combat, flexible strategy, agility and efficiency. At the same time, we should improve the responsibility system, establish a lifelong accountability system for the quality of weapons and equipment, ensure that the responsibility is implemented to individuals, that people can be held accountable for problems, and make solid preparations for weapons and equipment, so as to provide strong material and technical support for fighting and winning wars. (author unit: 63936 troops) (outlook new era)