In the Finnish coniferous forest, a ray of sunlight shines through the branches on the thick snow. For the creatures on this land, this is the beginning of another day.
"Pah, pah, pah"
The sound of gunfire echoed in the dense forest, clear and rhythmic.
This is Simon testing the gun. After getting the gun yesterday, he carefully disassembled it, wiped the German gun oil off all the parts with a linen cloth, and then replaced it with the best low freezing point gun oil he could find.
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By the time he finished the work, it was already dark. After all, the darkness in Finnish winter comes early and goes late.
So, Simon simply chose to have a good night's rest, wake up early, pick up the new version of the sniper rifle lying next to him, find an open space and start test firing.
But when Simon pulled the bolt and pushed the bullet into the chamber for the first time, she discovered what was special about this rifle!
Compared with the weapons he had used before, its gun movement was so smooth and convenient!
Not caring about too many emotions, Simon impatiently raised his gun and aimed at a birch tree 500 meters away.
This birch tree was too conspicuous among a group of coniferous trees, so it naturally became Simon's shooting target.
The new gun has been calibrated before leaving the factory and can be tested directly. Coupled with the Zeiss 8x scope, Simon can easily see his target clearly.
After pressing the crosshair to the center of the tree trunk, Simon slowly adjusted his breathing, and then gently pulled the trigger...
"Crack!"
After a gunshot, the bullet hit the center of the tree trunk just as Simon expected.
Just the first shot hit the target successfully!
But in Simon's view, his first emotion was not that he was proud of his high hit rate, but that he calmly discovered that the recoil of the new gun that now uses 8.5 mm bullets is significantly greater than that of the Mosin-Nagant rifle that was commonly used before.
However, there is a thick rubber cushion on the butt and a grip with a thumb hole, which makes shooting more comfortable than the Mosin Nagant.
Furthermore, the accuracy of this gun far exceeded any rifle he had ever seen!
The diameter of the target birch tree is about 50-60CM, which is slightly larger than the width of the human body.
Since it can accurately hit the center of the tree trunk at a distance of 500 meters, it means that the difficulty will never increase too much when hitting someone.
At this distance, it is difficult for other rifles to maintain accuracy.
As Simon continued to test fire and increase the distance, the gun still maintained good accuracy.
As for what Hans said about hitting the head at 800 meters and hitting the chest at 1,000 meters, Simon felt that he was really sure to do it.
At the same time, he also discovered another unique feature of the special 8.5mm bullet used in this gun - one is that the trajectory is very straight, unlike the Mauser 98k that German instructors love to use, which has an obvious arc when shooting at long-distance targets.
Furthermore, the 8.5mm bullet has a high muzzle velocity and good storage velocity, making it easier to hit moving targets at longer distances and less susceptible to crosswinds.
At the same time, the good speed storage performance and the heavy warhead also ensure the lethality beyond a thousand meters. As a sniper, Simon fell in love with this gun instantly!
Speaking of which, the origin of this gun is quite interesting.
A few years ago, Reinhard ordered Mauser designers to make a semi-automatic rifle to enhance the firepower of infantry squads.
Mauser soon developed a prototype gun and informed the head of state.
Originally, the follow-up work of this kind of matter did not need to be seen by the head of state in person. However, Reinhard had never touched a gun in his previous life, and there were not many opportunities to shoot guns in this life, especially after he became the head of state!
In order not to miss such a good opportunity, the enthusiastic Führer arrived at Mauser Company with a group of cronies and a company of SS guards, shocking everyone in the company.
Upon closer inspection, the head of state's motive for mobilizing troops and mobilizing people was actually "playing with guns."
Finally, after test-firing a round of newly developed semi-automatic rifles, the head of state expressed his satisfaction. The tentative model was the G38 semi-automatic rifle. At the same time, he asked Mauser to find ways to increase reliability and reduce production costs, otherwise it would be difficult to equip them in batches.
When he heard this, Mauser's chief designer immediately became a little unconvinced. We have worked hard to develop such a good weapon. What do you mean if you don't equip it? Are you kidding us?!
This means that history has been changed. If this designer had encountered a mustache, he would have been sent to a concentration camp to die. Because now the German head of state has always had a good temper, especially when it comes to technicians, he is even more kind.
This has also emboldened many scientists and researchers to speak out immediately if they are dissatisfied.
But Reinhardt was contradicted after all. How could he bear this? He had to find a chance to get his face back!
As for how to regain face... arrest him and beat him on the ground? No, no, this is too low-level and undermines the demeanor of the head of state.
Besides, we were also good young people of the new century in our last life. We never ate pork or saw a pig.
I have never touched a real gun in my life. But we have fought CS at least, haven’t we? We also carefully understand the guns inside, and I won’t scare you to death if I just take one out!
So, Reinhardt found a piece of paper, used his engineering drawing skills, sketched out a rough outline of the big sniper awm in CS, marked the rough parameters and design concepts, and handed it to the chief designer of Mauser Company.
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At first, this guy was very dissatisfied, thinking that the head of state knew nothing about firearm design.
But when he took the picture and looked at it carefully, his eyes were straight!
After all, the chief designer is not a fool, and he can still understand the sketches and the annotations on them that the head of state drew casually.
He understood that this gun was simply an epoch-making product!
Although the German writing of the Führer is rather ugly and sloppy, the drawings are quite good.
Unconvinced now, the chief designer quickly bowed his head and gave in, asking for advice.
Faced with people asking for advice, Reinhardt was a little panicked. After all, he had played CS and he really didn't know anything about gun design.
But the designer doesn’t know, and the people around him don’t know either!
In order not to show any cowardice, Reinhardt had no choice but to discuss some of the details he knew with the designer, and then decisively changed the subject to how to reduce costs.
Therefore, Reinhardt changed the subject and hyped up the superiority of stamping manufacturing, and "instructed" designers to change the current MP series submachine guns from cutting manufacturing to stamping manufacturing, while the mg series machine guns continued to be stamped.
Reinhard explained clearly that this would not only greatly increase production efficiency, but also save materials, and it must be implemented as soon as possible.
After he started quoting and adding nonsense, the designers of the entire Mauser company praised him again and again as if they were enlightened.
No wonder he is the head of state, look how much he knows! (Reinhardt: If I weren’t a time traveler, I’d know nothing! In my world line, the Third Reich was destroyed for me to see, can I accept the lesson?
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Faced with the chief engineer's humbly asking for advice, and seeing that this was one of his subordinates after all, the head of state, who had regained his face, did not pursue the previous disrespect, and even tried to discuss the use and development of small arms with the engineers.
Thus, the research on a truly epoch-making weapon began—that is, the assault rifle. Coupled with stamping manufacturing, it would be strange that this kind of weapon would not be equipped on a large scale in the future! The future of Mauser Company is infinitely bright.
The guns were fired, and the weapons were loaded enough. Before leaving, Reinhard also described a simple new weapon to the designers, and promised that if the development was successful, it would be equipped on a large scale - that is, the 40mm grenade launcher, reference
The prototype is the m79 used by the United States during the Vietnam War.
This thing can make up for the area-killing firepower gap between mortars and grenades, and it also has a sight. Compared with the Japanese 50 grenade launcher based on feel and experience, it is much easier to operate!
Reinhardt’s idea was to just make an M79 first. As for how to make it lightweight and how to mount it on an assault rifle, that was a matter for the future.
Because the difficulty of research and development is relatively low, and Germany has had similar weapons before, but it used flares instead of grenades, so this result came out quickly. Although it did not catch up with the Polish campaign, it was sent to Finland for trial not long ago.
Well received.
As for the sniper rifle in Simon's hands now, it was a by-product that the Mauser factory carefully tried based on Reinhardt's sketches and his description at the time.
Although this project was Mauser's own research and development project, after the war, Mauser received a large number of orders and was considered wealthy, so he could directly invest a lot of manpower and material resources to try to create such an epoch-making weapon.
After the prototype gun was made, it was immediately sent to Berlin for the Führer to see.
And Reinhard felt that this weapon, which was at least 40 years ahead of its time, should be given to those who can bring out its value first. Just when the Soviet-Finnish War broke out, Simon Heine, the future White God of Death, was about to rise.
So the head of state waved his hand, and the gun was quickly sent away.
As for how much he regretted the next day after sending it away, only he himself knew: What a good thing! Why did I just give it to the Finns like this... No, I will definitely find an opportunity to extort a large sum of money from them in the future!