The testing of the new gun continued, and various data were refined under the guidance of Hobert. However, Zhou Wen used professional tools to design and draw a new gun in the gun testing laboratory. This new gun could not be manufactured in the Taiyuan Arsenal.
Well, the gun he designed became the famous anti-tank gun that everyone knew in later generations and was famous in World War II.
Zhou Wen knew that during the Anti-Japanese War, the Japanese tanks were showing off their strength and power on the Chinese land, which was to bully the Chinese army's backward equipment and lack of effective individual anti-tank weapons. They could only use people with bomb packs or cluster grenades to brave the hail of bullets.
Long-distance blasting means sacrificing human life in exchange for it. Often hundreds or even thousands of lives are sacrificed, but it may not be possible to blow up a Japanese tank.
Does that mean that Japanese tanks are very powerful? In fact, it is not the case. Although Japan was a powerful country in Asia at the time, compared with Western industrial powers, it could only be regarded as a semi-industrialized country, with limited industrial production capacity and scale. In addition, its industrial focus was in
In terms of naval construction, the army's equipment cannot be compared with that of powerful countries such as the United States, Germany, Britain, France and the Soviet Union.
There were three main tanks equipped by Japan during the entire period before and after World War II, the Type 89 medium tank, the Type 95 light tank and later the Type 97 medium tank. In the eyes of later generations, both the Type 89 and Type 97 medium tanks should belong to the ranks of light tanks.
Because the weight does not exceed 15 tons, the thickest armored Type 97 medium tank has a maximum front armor thickness of no more than 25 mm. The Type 95 light tank with a measly 12 mm front armor thickness can actually only be regarded as an armored vehicle.
But if these models were put into a head-on battle with the Soviet-German tank cluster in Europe, they would be like the lingering snow in winter meeting the shimmering summer light tanks and armored vehicles that would melt away without a trace even before the bubbles could bubble up.
, but it was rampant and invincible in the battlefields of China and Southeast Asia.
This can only show that China was really backward and poor at that time. Poverty and backwardness will naturally lead to beatings.
Zhou Wen wanted to use a simple method to add an individual weapon to the anti-Japanese army seven years later that could effectively fight Japanese tanks. In later generations, there were many ways for individual soldiers to deal with tanks, such as anti-tank missiles, rocket launchers, and recoilless rifles.
, anti-tank mines, etc. But Zhou Wen can’t build these. He only knows how to play with guns and rob.
He knew that during World War I, Germany made an enlarged version of the G98 rifle to fight against the water tank (tank) invented by the British. It was the world's first anti-tank gun, which was later called the elephant gun.
The elephant gun is the Mauser 1918 T-Gewehr anti-tank rifle. The long barrel type has a total length of 1.69 meters. Small infantrymen are not taller than this gun. Even the short barrel type has a length of 1.58 meters.
The gun barrel has a caliber of 13.2 mm and a muzzle velocity of 805 meters per second. It adopts a single-shot loading and firing mode. The effective armor-piercing distance is 150 meters. It can penetrate 25 mm of armor at a distance of 200 meters.
In combat status, the weight of the long barrel type is 15.8 kg, and the weight of the short barrel type is 16.6 kg. Even Germany requires two people to use it. As the world's first large-caliber anti-tank firearm specifically used to fight tanks, it is
The wartime emergency military products do not seem to have any outstanding highlights. They are just an enlarged design of the Mauser G98 rifle.
But Zhou Wen knows that several countries, including the German Mauser Company, are still developing new anti-tank guns. The main problem hindering their technological development is how to reduce the huge recoil without losing the kinetic energy of the muzzle. You must know
The Elephant Gun was also called a two-shoulder gun at the time, which meant that one shoulder could only withstand the recoil of one shot. After two shots, both shoulders would be strained or even dislocated. This shows how amazing its recoil was.
Zhou Wen, who happens to be familiar with various anti-equipment large-caliber sniper rifles in later generations, knows how to improve this problem. One is to install an efficient muzzle suppressor, which on the one hand reduces the forward flow of gun gas through the central bullet hole, thereby reducing the impact on the weapon.
Recoil force; on the other hand, it flows out from the side holes to change the direction and size of the airflow, and sprays to the sides and rear, thereby giving the weapon a forward reaction force. The second is to use barrel gas-guided semi-automatic shooting, and use the recoil force to complete the action of ejecting the case and loading the chamber.
, and offset part of the recoil force at the same time. The third is to use a spring method to delay the recoil force from affecting the gun body. The recoil force first acts on the spring, and then the spring is compressed and delayed for a little time before being released to the gun, so that the bullet has already shot out of the barrel when the recoil force takes effect.
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Zhou Wen believes that after citing these three technical improvements, the new anti-tank gun not only greatly reduces the recoil, but also improves the range and accuracy. Although it cannot be compared with the famous guns such as the Barrett in later generations, it can be fired in this era.
It is enough to hit the thin-skinned tanks of Japan, and it can also hit turrets and simple bunkers, and even hit people directly, tsk tsk! Zhou Wen thought of the scene of a 13.2 mm explosive shell hitting a person, would it be directly smashed? In short,
This kind of gun has a very wide range of functions and is especially suitable for the Chinese battlefield.
Zhou Wen knew that anti-tank guns achieved certain results on the European battlefield in the early days of World War II, but were unable to cope with the various thickened armors from various countries in the later period. But it was different in China. Little Japan did not have any good tanks throughout World War II.
, if this gun is successfully trial-produced in Germany, the National Government will definitely purchase it in large quantities, and the Chinese army will have effective equipment for individual soldiers to fight against small Japanese tanks.
Zhou Wen also had a purpose in using the caliber of the elephant gun. During World War I, the elephant gun was an effective weapon against tanks. No matter how many shortcomings it had, Germany still produced many, especially to effectively penetrate steel armor.
, Germany has developed and produced many 13.2 mm caliber rifles. If the new gun can use those original barrels and rifles, I believe Mauser will be very interested, which will greatly shorten the development process and
Reduce costs.
Because the barrel, other parts, and gun required for this gun cannot be produced by Chinese arsenals at present, it can only be trial-produced and tested by the German Mauser Company.
Time waits for no one. Before the Spring Festival, Hobert will return to Germany with the drawings and data of the semi-automatic rifle and the prototype gun, as well as the drawings and technical data of the anti-tank gun and rifle defuser designed by Zhou Wen. And Delman
He will also return to Germany as Zhou Wen's personal representative. He will negotiate various prices and details of the technology buyout with Mauser on behalf of Zhou Wen. He will also help Zhou Wen purchase the equipment and weapons on the list.
There is no other way. Zhou Wen has no other foreign channels. He can only trust these two Germans. Even if he is cheated, he will not lose much. Anyway, the semi-automatic rifle is successful. If he cannot get German goods, he will use the Taiyuan Arsenal to produce them.
The product is not invincible. Of course, Zhou Wen still trusts Delman. After all, they understand each other to a certain extent.