Director Zheng said: "Master Wu, if this is said by one or two people, then forget it, but everyone is saying this!" Wang Wenwu said: "But French machine guns are different from machine guns in other countries.

, the rifle you bought from me. The French rifle ammunition can be used with the machine gun. If you change it to another country, it will be two kinds of bullets! What a trouble! Besides, I still have Hatch.

Do you want a machine gun?"

"How can I afford a machine gun if I can't even afford a pistol?"

"No, this Hotchkiss machine gun is a Hotchkiss light machine gun, not a heavy machine gun."

"Aren't Hotchkiss all heavy machine guns? When will a light machine gun come out?"

"Isn't that heavy machine gun too heavy? It's difficult to move, so the French came up with the Hotchkiss m1909 light machine gun. After the war, France also began to develop new light machine guns. After the war, many countries

Remove the m1909 light machine gun from the front-line troops and replace it with a new machine gun. Otherwise, where would I get the gun? This gun has another biggest advantage!"

"Oh, what is it?"

"Like the Lebel m1886 rifle, it uses 8x50mmr Lebel bullets. Look! You see, you only need to buy one kind of bullet and you can use both. Isn't it a good deal?" Director Zheng was obviously moved and asked: "Now

What’s the price?”

"The Hotchkiss heavy machine gun costs 2,400 dollars, and the Hotchkiss light machine gun costs 800 dollars. Although my thing is used, I will replace it with new ones for you.

They are all new, even the barrels have not been fired."

"But isn't the price too high?"

"Oh, my Director Zheng, hey, this is too high. A Maxim is produced in the arsenal in Shanghai. It costs 2,900 oceans!, but mine only costs 2,400 oceans. It's a whole five bucks cheaper.

Hundreds of oceans!”

"No, can't you make it cheaper?"

"Yes, but the barrel is not new! If you are willing, I will give you another three hundred dollars less."

"No, my barrel is not new anymore, and you only have three hundred dollars less."

"My guns with the worst barrels are 80% new. If there is a lower barrel, I will definitely replace it for you. Isn't that true?"

"Fire four of the Hotchkiss light machine guns. Please give me more bullets."

"Okay, but the machine gun will come later!"

"It's okay. Just tell your warehouse and I'll pick it up then."

"I won't bother you anymore, Director Zheng! I have something else to do, so I'll take my leave now. See you later!"

"Hello, let's go! See you later!" The Shaosha machine gun really hit my hand. Apart from buying a few in the beginning, the reputation of this gun has completely spread.

Due to the long stroke of the rear seat and the large mass of the moving components, the rate of fire of the Shaosha light machine gun is quite low, and the too low rate of fire affects its tactical performance, making it impossible to fire a dense enough amount of bullets to cover moving targets in a single burst.

Moreover, the barrel of this gun is long, and the recoil principle is to extract the shell during the retraction process of the barrel. The energy of the brake during retraction is obviously not as great as that of the recoil, so the extraction and ejection of the gun are prone to failure. In addition, the gun

The recoil is also very strong, and continuous firing will cause the gun body to vibrate violently, so its accuracy is low.

People who have used the Shaosha light machine gun call it Miss Shaosha. As a eldest lady, Miss Shaosha must be difficult to operate.

The center of gravity of the gun is relatively forward, and the magazine layout is very inconvenient. This causes the shooter to hold the gun body tightly when shooting. If the gun body is not fixed stably, it may even cause the machine gun to be unable to complete the automatic action normally and directly strike.

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When shooting from the prone position, the normal shooting posture will form

The consequence of "shooting in the face" is equivalent to punching yourself in the face when you shoot, and then the Shaosha light machine gun is called a slap gun.

In addition, the guns in Wang Wenwu's hands were all produced by France during the war. Therefore, in order to reduce costs and save time during wartime production, the structure of the Shaosha light machine gun was simplified, and the processing standards of each part of her parts were different.

In terms of the barrel recoil bushing and the moving parts of the bolt, she maintains her aristocratic character and is precision milled and ground from high-quality steel, with high interchangeability of parts.

But the barrel collapsed. It was directly shortened by using the barrel of the Lebel 1886 rifle, which was not conducive to continuous shooting.

The barrel cooling sleeve is made of cast aluminum, and the receiver shell and other parts of the firearm are stamped from ordinary metal plates, which makes it look awkward.

What is particularly intolerable is that the side plate of her bolt is directly fixed with screws, which may cause it to loosen when fired for a long time.

For example, an aristocratic lady's family is poor. Although she still wears some real gold and silver jewelry, her clothing has begun to be reduced. Not only are unimportant parts directly covered with curtain cloth, but the inner lining is even directly covered with cardboard.

When these components of varying quality are combined together, it is naturally more difficult to ensure the stability and reliability of the firearm.

What's even more serious is that due to the overload of French arsenals during the war, the production of Chauchat light machine guns was directly subcontracted to private enterprises.

At that time, two temporarily transformed private enterprises, Gladiator Company and Siddam Factory, were mainly responsible for production tasks.

This Gladiator company mainly produced motorcycles and cars before the war. There was a huge gap between the processing accuracy and product control of professional arsenals. The tolerances of the firearms produced were large, and the sights were often misaligned. Then there was what French veterans said

Yes, you can often see soldiers grinding machine guns on the battlefield, but it is the American Chauchat that completely ruined the reputation of Chauchat. When the American Expeditionary Force traveled across the ocean to join the war in France, it purchased Sausage from France because of the lack of automatic weapons.

Sand light machine gun and Hotchkiss heavy machine gun, and also proposed changing the caliber to the US military's 30-60 rifle ammunition.

The Gladiator factory met this requirement, but only made a simple and rough modification of the original French 8mm version, and provided it to the US military without further compatibility design. Since the taper of the .30-60 rifle bullet is normal, the

The gun was changed to a 16-round curved magazine and was called the 1918 Shaosha light machine gun.

However, the power of this American-made rifle bullet is much greater than that of the French 8mm Lebel rifle bullet. In addition, the motorcycle factory's poor processing technology has led to frequent malfunctions of the American Chauchat machine gun.

Among the 19,000 Type 1918 Shaosha light machine guns, four layers were judged as substandard products by the US military quality inspectors stationed at the factory, and the remaining six layers were also considered defective weapons.

All in all, almost every Chaosha that was delivered to the US military had malfunctions, and the battle damage to parts, especially the bullets, was very serious.

Therefore, in actual combat, the gun can only be used as a bolt-action rifle. The key is that it is still a bolt-action rifle that often jams!
Chapter completed!