So car parts are not a problem. As long as Mao Xiong still needs X2, the Eighth Route Army will never need to worry about car parts.
Regarding this, Lai Menluokov was still a little surprised: "Comrade leader, why don't you just import the whole vehicle? This may be much easier and less troublesome!"
Lai Menluokov's words are correct. What Wang Xuexin did did add a lot of troubles. For example, the Eighth Route Army needed to produce its own engines, and the quality of the engines was not necessarily guaranteed. After the parts were shipped to China, they still needed to be assembled, etc.
If the whole vehicle is transported from Mao Xiong, it is driven directly from the production line. It does not even need transportation capacity and can also transport some things, such as some medicinal materials urgently needed by the Eighth Route Army.
Wang Xuexin replied lightly: "We always have to learn, don't we? If the entire car is imported from Mao Xiong, how can we learn to produce cars in the process?"
Lai Menluokov nodded slightly in agreement.
In fact, he only agreed conservatively, because he believed that learning depends on when.
If it were peacetime, then of course the Eighth Route Army would have to learn how to produce cars. As a member of Mao Xiong, he knew very well that a country can only be prosperous and strong through industrialization.
But now is the period of the Anti-Japanese War, a moment of life and death for China. At this time, shouldn't we use the shortest possible time to accumulate as much strength as possible to defeat the Japanese first? At this time, wasting time, resources and manpower to study...isn't it putting the cart before the horse?
What Mongrokov didn't know was that Wang Xuexin also had considerations in this regard.
The reason why he must produce his own car engines and insist on importing parts from Mao Xiong instead of complete vehicles is, on the one hand, to cultivate talents and build industry for China, and on the other hand, it is also to defeat the Japanese.
Because the complete vehicles imported from Mao Xiong... neither cars nor half-tracks meet Wang Xuexin's requirements.
The batch of half-track vehicles in Yuncheng have already undergone several modifications.
At this time, Mao Xiong did not pay attention to the development of half-track vehicles, or it can be said that their combat mode and habits were different from those of the Eighth Route Army:
The Eighth Route Army emphasizes the preservation of vitality, regardless of the gains and losses of a city or a place.
At this time, the furry bears... they pay more attention to bravery and the spirit of not being afraid of sacrifice. Otherwise, they are cowards and cowards, and will be scrutinized and even transferred to a punishment camp.
Under this circumstance, Mao Xiong will not spend too much effort on research and development and modification... Even if the modification is made in a different direction.
Therefore, if the complete vehicle is imported from Mao Xiong, it means that the Eighth Route Army will have to dismantle it and modify it.
From this point of view, it is better to directly import parts and assemble them yourself. The manpower and time are about the same, but there is much room for improvement.
To put it simply, because the imported parts are assembled and produced by himself, Wang Xuexin can overturn the entire shape of Mao Xiong’s armored vehicle and change it to what he wants, as long as the chassis remains unchanged.
This is also the purpose of Wang Xuexin coming to Alexei this time.
After Wang Xuexin arrived at Alexei's office, the first thing he did was to take out the design drawings and discuss improvement plans with him.
"First!" Wang Xuexin pointed to the drawing and said, "We need to slightly heighten the armor on both sides..."
"But Comrade Commander!" Alexei interrupted Wang Xuexin: "That is a steel plate. If it is heightened like this, the center of gravity of the armored vehicle will move upward and the weight will increase. The resulting impact may reduce the performance!"
"No!" Wang Xuexin replied: "Its weight will not increase!"
As he spoke, Wang Xue picked up the pen, dug out vertical strips of perforations on the side, and said: "By opening these gaps, the weight of the increase can be offset!"
Alexey couldn't help but be puzzled when he looked at the perforation. He frowned and said, "But what's the point of this? Let the soldiers hide in the car and shoot?"
No wonder Alexey asked this. At this time, he didn't know that the Eighth Route Army had been equipped with AK47.
Military secrets are often like this. Sometimes this kind of equipment has been put into the battlefield and the enemies know it clearly. However, because there is still no order to lift the confidentiality within the army, many of our own people know nothing about it.
If the Eighth Route Army used bolt-action rifles, whether they were 38-type rifles or Springfield rifles, then indeed, as Alexei said, there was no point in doing so.
Because the bolt-action rifle is too long, the 38 cap is 1.27 meters and the Springfield rifle is 1.09 meters.
If such a long thing is mounted on a perforation hole, it will be difficult to move even an inch in a small carriage and there is almost no possibility of movement.
Therefore, it can only control its upper body to shoot from a standing position in a larger space outside the armor, and then retract its head to reload after firing the bullets.
However, the biggest disadvantage of this type of shooting is that the target is too large when the soldiers stretch out their upper bodies... When the soldiers perform this shooting action, they are even more dangerous than the enemies on the ground.
The reason is that most of the enemies are lying down or even hiding behind bunkers or obstacles, and they are still in low places.
If a soldier on an armored vehicle stretches out his upper body to shoot, it will be a half-body target hanging in mid-air and will become an excellent shooting target for the enemy.
At this time, the steel plates on the armored vehicles basically had no protective effect on them.
This is also the reason why in previous battles, the Eighth Route Army's mechanized troops suffered heavy casualties even though they had an absolute advantage when fighting the Japanese.
Wang Xuexin replied: "We are equipped with a new rifle, Comrade Alexei! Its total length is only 0.87 meters. If the gun head is extended out of the shooting port, only a short section will remain in the carriage, that is,
Said, it can be used in the carriage!"
Alexei's eyes lit up when he heard this: "0.87 meters?"
Alexey is indeed a mechanical worker. He probably made a gesture with both hands, which was almost the length of the AK47. Then Alexey used this length to lean on his shoulders, and then nodded and said: "This length is indeed
You can do it, Comrade Commander, but... do you hope they can fight on a moving vehicle? Is this too high a requirement?"
Wang Xuexin asked strangely: "Why is it too high?"
"I mean..." Alexey replied: "Marksmanship, you know, in a moving car, it is almost impossible to hit the target outside the car!"
This is the same principle as the tank cannot hit the target while moving, so the bistable system was invented.
Of course, tanks can use a bi-stable system, but there is no need for infantry to use a bi-stable system.
Wang Xuexin understood after hearing this. Alexey thought that this new rifle was a single shot like a bolt-action rifle...
Wang Xuexin smiled and replied: "Comrade Alexei, the new rifle has a 30-round magazine and can be fired continuously!"
This shocked Alexei to death. He had never heard of such a rifle.