Chapter 446 The research plan of the portable machine gun
Beretta Arms Company, located in Brescia, is a well-known local military industrial enterprise. Beretta Arms Company has produced many weapons over the years, but the most famous weapon among them is the one designed by the chief firearms designer Baron Maxim.
Maxim heavy machine gun.
Although it was only adopted by Italy at first, as time went by, the reputation of the Maxim heavy machine gun gradually emerged in various countries. Of course, this also brought countless orders to the Beretta Arms Company, and with this weapon
Its reputation has made Beretta Arms one of the two major firearms companies in Italy.
Of course, Beretta Arms Company is very satisfied with the current booming business, but the Beretta people do not just rest on their achievements and do not want to make progress, but want to develop more new weapons to make Beretta more prosperous.
Pietro Beretta, the new general manager of Beretta Arms Company, recognized this very much. Therefore, under his leadership, Beretta Arms Company was very enthusiastic about the development of new weapons.
In the office building of Beretta Arms Company on Walton Street, Pietro Beretta is constantly busy.
"Kanava, give this document to Director Polik and tell them that I have agreed to their development plan for a new revolver."
"Okay, General Manager."
After handing a document signed with his name to the secretary, Pietro rubbed his face and picked up the phone to answer the call. "Hey, is this the administrative department? When will the report I want arrive? Tell them to hurry up.
Click, I’ll be waiting.”
He put down the phone and continued busy when he heard a knock on the door.
"Come in and put the documents on the table."
After Pietro finished speaking, he looked up and realized that the person who came was not from the administrative department, but Baron Maxim, the company's treasure. He quickly stood up and said, "Uncle Maxim, why are you here?"
Maxim sat down on the chair, and his loud voice echoed throughout the room. "Can't I come?"
"No way, uncle, you can come anytime and I will always welcome you."
How could Pietro mess with this great god? The best heavy machine gun currently sold by the company is still named after him.
"Uncle, why don't you recuperate at White Manor? The doctor said you are not well yet."
"I'm still cultivating. If I continue to cultivate, I don't know if I will have a role in the company's development of new weapons."
Hearing Maxim's words with a hint of resentment, Pietro felt regretful in his heart. He had made a mistake. It was a big mistake. It turned out that they had previously investigated the opinions of the armies of various countries on the use of the Maxim heavy machine gun, and they generally believed that this was a mistake.
It is a good gun for defensive positions. With it, the pressure of defense will be much less.
If there is any shortcoming, it is that this machine gun is too heavy and cannot charge with the soldiers. In fact, if you think about it, the Maxim heavy machine gun weighs 5.60kg, how can it keep up with the attacking speed of the soldiers.
Of course, in view of this, Beretta Arms Company has the opportunity to develop a machine gun that can keep up with the pace of infantry. At this time, the Ministry of the Army sent a notice that the Italian Army intends to purchase a machine gun that can keep up with the pace of soldiers.
It requires that the empty weight should not exceed 12kg and should be easy to carry.
This request from the Army Department made Pietro very happy, so he asked the designers to start developing this machine gun. At that time, because Maxim was not in good health and needed to recuperate, Pietro did not inform the company chief
Firearms designer, it seems this is a huge mistake at present. It would be terrible if it makes this master dissatisfied.
Although the Beretta Arms Company is the oldest weapons manufacturing company in Europe, and the Beretta family has always been responsible for running the company, the real controller behind the company now is the royal family. The relationship between this great god and the king does not need to be
Having said that, I also rely on this great god in many places.
"Uncle Maxim, this is my fault. I didn't think carefully before and just thought of my uncle's cultivation, so this is my mistake."
Pietro's words made Maxim's expression soften a lot. He was not an unreasonable person. Before, he was just angry that he was not informed of the development of a new weapon. Now that the other party has apologized, of course he
So I went down the steps.
After seeing Maxim's attitude softening, Pietro continued. "Uncle, since you are here, can you help me take a look at the plan for this weapon development."
As he spoke, he took out a draft of a weapon design and handed it to Maxim.
As soon as he received the draft, Maxim started to read it. This was a sketch of a gun case. It was different from the gun case he used on his heavy machine gun, although it was also a gas-operated gun case. The words came from
Since he invented the muzzle gas blowback gun magazine, other designers have modified and modified it based on it, and of course this gun magazine is no exception.
"This was designed by Jobani Gur from the design department, because we have considered continuing to use the gun case you designed before, but this time the army's requirements are too high and the important requirements for the gun are very stringent, so we can only
Re-adopt a design with a smaller kinetic energy."
Regarding the Army's request for a new machine gun, how could Maxim not know that the 12kg weight requirement does not allow the modification of the Maxim heavy machine gun to be adopted.
"This is indeed difficult to handle. The weight can only be 12kg at most, which is indeed a bit challenging."
"Isn't that right?"
Faced with Maxim's words, Pietro immediately spoke. "The current opinion of the design department is that the Army's requirements can only use an air-cooling solution. Water-cooling does not meet the requirements at all."
"But if it gets cold, it won't last long. Have you ever considered this issue?"
Maxim certainly knew the pros and cons of water-cooling and air-cooling for machine guns, and asked the key questions directly.
You must know that although air cooling can reduce the weight of the machine gun, the continuous firing rate of five to six hundred rounds per minute is destined to overheat the machine tube very quickly. Otherwise, he would be crazy and put a thick holster on the machine gun he designed.
If the cold barrel is not water-cooled, it will not be able to shoot continuously.
Faced with Maxim's question, Pietro replied, "We have considered this problem before, and we have actually discussed a way to solve it, which is to change the barrel."
"Replace the barrel?"
"Yes, this is currently our preliminary idea. It still depends on whether the design can be perfected. If not, then we can only use a short-term firing method to increase the firepower output time of the new lightweight machine gun."
That's right, for Pietro, if there is no good solution, then let people adapt to the weapon. After all, this new weapon is so light in weight, it is impossible to achieve the same performance as the Maxim machine gun. It can have other
