The current caliber of the gun barrel is only 0.24 mm larger than before!
Just increasing the caliber by such a small amount, how much impact does it have on the firearm?
As far as combat is concerned, the impact has been huge. After all, a good gun can have its parts structure very simplified, and the key barrel must be precise. A good gun that is always accurate must have the right caliber of the barrel and the negative lines of the rifling.
The structure of the yang line must also be perfect. If you want to kill an enemy a thousand meters away in one fell swoop, the barrel of the gun must meet these rigid conditions.
The gaps in the barrel of the "Model Worker" gun are too large, and coupled with the deformation of the negative rifling lines, it is impossible to expect the accuracy of the bullets fired by the gun. Although there is no further experiment, Yang Mingzhi believes that the bullets coming out of the chamber will inevitably shift the front sight.
The bullets also hit walls everywhere in the barrel, and the wear rate of the barrel will increase rapidly, and the final result will be an explosion in the chamber.
There is serious accumulation of greasy substances and serious wear and tear on the barrel. Maybe even a heavy machine gun will encounter a similar situation if it fires 3,000 rounds of ammunition in a short period of time.
For heavy machine guns such as the Maxim, the military does not require them to be accurate, and the accuracy requirements are not even very good. Times have changed. In actual combat, the biggest task of this type of heavy machine gun is fire suppression and fire coverage, so as to
Find the tilt of a large number of bullets in a short period of time, and rely on the number of bullets to complete the killing.
This tactic resulted in the fact that during World War II, it took 25,000 rounds of bullets to destroy an enemy. In the Vietnam War in the 1960s, the U.S. military calculated that it took 600,000 rounds of bullets to destroy an enemy.
The machine gun, because soldiers from all over the world know its terrifying capabilities, was unparalleled in cutting grass during World War I, and became an artifact of fire suppression in World War II.
Perhaps with the change in the form of war, all types of automatic weapons can no longer be relied on to accurately strike, and they mainly rely on them for fire suppression in battles. In the end, various artillery, rocket launchers, and missiles will deal with enemies suppressed by fire.
It is also for this reason that the Soviet army is desperately equipping submachine guns and frantically producing Tokarev pistol bullets. Knowing that soldiers holding submachine guns are shooting wildly, it is impossible to expect it to shoot accurately when it fires pistol bullets. The Soviet army has already tasted "
The sweetness of street fighting is "infantry fire suppression, accompanied by tanks knocking out fire points". As far as street fighting is concerned, and only in terms of standard equipment, the German army will definitely be at a disadvantage.
"Except for the firearm with the most bullets, assemble all the other nine." Yang Mingzhi continued to order.
"Yes, Director." Popov asked: "What is our job next?"
"Don't ask too many questions, just do this first!"
Before assembling the gun, the designers must first wipe down all the parts and then apply some anti-corrosion gun oil.
Originally, according to the agreement, during the shooting range test, the designers had the opportunity to get hands-on, but the opportunity was taken up by a few professional shooters provided by the military.
It would be a pity not to be able to personally shoot the firearms that I participated in the research and development. There should be opportunities, but I don’t know when.
Yang Mingzhi smoked two cigarettes outdoors, taking advantage of the cold wind to calm down his messy head.
"Director, we are done." Popov hurried to the door.
"Good job, let me come in and have a look."
The firearms were placed in a wooden box for the time being. Yang Mingzhi looked around and continued to give instructions: "These sample guns will be sent to Moscow soon. We all have to take good care of them before they are transported to the military columns."
"Director, you can rest assured about this," Popov said confidently.
"Of course I'm relieved." Yang Mingzhi paused, "Now, we should start a new job. Dobroff!"
"arrive!"
"Get a few people to move the boxes to the warehouse. Go quickly. Come back as soon as you are done. I will assign new tasks to all of you."
The three of them carried the boxes and ran back at a 100-meter pace, just to not delay the director's time.
The sun has set in the west and night is not far away.
All the incandescent lights in the large and spacious office were turned on, making the whole room much brighter. Yang Mingzhi had made up his mind that from now on, the drawings of the other two firearms must be sorted out quickly.
How to achieve speed? Just rely on the drawing masters sitting in this room.
All the designers held their proud chests high and listened attentively to the director's new orders.
"Everyone is here." Yang Mingzhi, who was standing in front of everyone, glanced at it and said straight to the point: "We have completed the basic version of the assault rifle prototype. Although our superiors have not yet given us a production license, Novosibirsk has tried to make it ourselves.
, those factories are already in operation.
Next, we are going to develop some variants of this basic version. As for what kind of variants, you already know.
Yes! That’s the squad machine gun and short assault rifle!
We want to develop a family of guns. All firearms use the same intermediate power bullets. Now let's develop other family members.
First of all, I will personally lead the team, and we will first draw the technical drawings of the squad machine gun."
As soon as he finished speaking, the atmosphere in the office was filled with enthusiasm.
The director started the research and development work as soon as he arrived. As assistants to the director, those who completed the basic prototype gun also carefully looked at the director's other drawings.
The squad machine gun is neither a light machine gun nor a heavy machine gun. According to the director, it is a new type.
It is a weapon equipped to the infantry squad. This weapon must be the backbone of the infantry squad's firepower, taking into account both firepower and accuracy. In the opinion of Popov and others, the director must have made reference to the German squad configuration when he proposed this idea.
A standard German infantry squad has ten soldiers serving a universal machine gun. Fighting in the wilderness, each squad has one mg34. The firepower is indeed strong. However, the disadvantage of the mg34 is that the rate of fire is too fast, so the firepower is strong.
Ordinary infantrymen also bear a heavy burden.
There are drawbacks. The reason why the German army has been able to tolerate it for a long time is because the tactical advantage it gives to the infantry squad is too great.
Today's ordinary Soviet infantry squads simply do not have such firepower. Many of the newly formed infantry squads of ordinary infantry divisions have ten soldiers and eight Mosin Nagants. In addition to the squad leader holding a submachine gun, the only machine gunner is also a Jaeger.
Garev machine gun.
There are 47 rounds of ammunition in the large carousel, and an infantry squad often carries four large trays into battle. In contrast, in the German army, the infantry squad often carries five magazine boxes containing 300 rounds of ammunition.
In the wilderness combat mode, the Soviet army clearly had the upper hand.
Popov pondered that when assault rifles began to be equipped on a large scale, Soviet infantry squads would also have great tactical advantages when fighting in the wilderness.
The German mg34 has a very fast rate of fire. As an infantry squad weapon, it is not doing its job properly. Shooting in the air is its main job. Popov is fully aware of the principle of its high rate of fire, so he discussed it with the director in the swamp.
By cutting the springs, the rate of fire of a batch of captured mg34s was reduced to 900 rounds per minute.
Even that is too fast.
An excellent weapon should not fire too fast. The bullets it fires must be accurate. The speed of fire, recoil, and muzzle tremor should be able to be controlled by a soldier weighing only 70 kilograms. If the battle is fierce,
At the same time, it should also be able to pour out firepower.
In terms of rate of fire alone, Popov felt that the old-fashioned water-cooled Maxim produced in Tsarist Russia and even the Soviet Union, with its rate of fire of 600 rounds per minute, was probably the best choice between firepower and logistical pressure.
The cold wind is howling outside, and there are no clouds in the sky. Today's climate is indeed abnormal!
The sun has set halfway, it is already the so-called autumnal equinox, and the climate is undoubtedly winter. From today on, the nights in Novosibirsk will become longer and longer, until the limit of the winter solstice.
It was only half past three in the afternoon. Popov looked at his watch, then at the director who was working at his desk with a big white paper, thinking that he should wait to say something later.
Each designer is assigned a task, but of course Yang Mingzhi is still doing the core work.
Popov himself also had a job, that is, as a supervisor, supervising ordinary designers to complete auxiliary drawings.
Since the shooting range test has been successful, the new gun has even gone through a crazy test of firing three thousand rounds in a row. This is the fact that even if the rifling is shortened and slightly deformed, it will not affect the continued shooting. The test that the scrapped gun underwent,
It has proven to be very easy to transform into a squad machine gun.
Of course, even if the operation team fights with machine guns, the shooter cannot fire out 3,000 rounds of ammunition in two hours!
The shooter is not stupid, and the shooter's comrades also carry limited bullets, and the enemy will never be able to attack the machine gun position in a dense formation like they did in the Battle of Tannenberg.
I'm afraid that in this world, only some Japanese soldiers who worship the spiritual theory of victory and invincibility will engage in suicidal attacks.
In the end, only one of them killed 80 enemies and suffered a loss of 10,000.
However, the reality is quite ironic. The Soviet army did too many things while ignoring casualties and charging desperately. When the long articles in "Pravda" praised the fearless and brave spirit of the young soldiers, what was concealed was the large number of people promoted from the front line.
The rigidity of the officers and the bravery of the Soviet army in charging are unquestionable. Therefore, the casualties in every battle are always at the disadvantage of the Soviet army.
For many Soviet troops, two casualties for one enemy enemy was already a great achievement.
Generally speaking, ordinary Soviet infantry divisions often receive only one order from their superiors, which is to attack a certain target, even if the German army has built a large number of fortresses. The military order has been issued, and the sense of consciousness as a soldier drives
Ten thousand young bodies went to hit the enemy's position.
Since orders are often like this, it is the Soviet army that systematically obliterates the power of grassroots troops to fight flexibly. Since they must use their flesh and blood to form skirmishers and attack the enemy's positions. Based on this situation, if you want to reduce your own casualties
, the only solution is to enhance one's own firepower.
Popov had such an association, so why not Yang Mingzhi?
Pencils, supports, rubber rulers, plastic slide rules, and other tools were thrown on the table. After two hours of continuous work, Yang Mingzhi drew the overall structure of the so-called squad machine gun very neatly on a large white paper.
Although it was only two hours of work, Yang Mingzhi never stood up or drank the first drink of water. Until then, it was the pain in his lower abdomen that drove his body to stand up.
Yang Mingzhi suddenly stood up, making Popov nervous.
"Ah! Director, do you want to go out?"
"Yes!" Yang Mingzhi turned around: "It will be dinner time soon. I will go to the toilet first, and you and everyone will continue to work. Do you understand?"
"Okay Chief."
Yang Mingzhi walked forward, and Popov, who was very curious, rushed to the big white paper, took out his reading glasses from his pocket, and cocked his head to look at the details of the picture.
As a military worker, all details must be perfect when making a weapon. A good gun recognized by soldiers may not be achieved overnight. No matter what, there will definitely be some problems, which require constant improvement. If there are many problems
If you can consider it at the beginning, you will have much less trouble later on.
Looking at this drawing, Popov keenly saw that the core of the firearm has not changed. There are three major modifications to it, namely, a longer barrel, a longer air guide, and the addition of a foldable bipod.
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The key barrel is nearly 400 mm. Since the steel buttstock is foldable and the gun is fully unfolded, its total length reaches 1100 mm.
In terms of length alone, the Deggarev light machine gun with the largest amount of equipment in the Soviet army has a total length of 1270 mm. The director's drawing gun is 1100 mm.
It is difficult for Popov to predict whether reducing the length will bring any tactical advantages.
However, one tactical advantage is that the weight of the entire gun is very straightforward.
The basic version of the assault rifle, with a magazine without bullets installed, has an empty weight of only 5.5 kilograms, but it contains thirty rounds of bullets. Soldiers will definitely be satisfied with the weight of just 6 kilograms.
Without him, the Popov with the magazine installed is already 6 kilograms! The Mosin Nagant is 1 kilogram lighter, but its magazine can only hold five rounds of bullets.
The weight of the squad machine gun will definitely increase, but there are really only three places that can bring significant weight increase: the longer part of the barrel, the bipod and the need for larger magazines or bullets.
Even so, what is the total quantity? The director did not draw the composition of fifty rounds of ammunition, although there are relevant sketches in his notebook.
Let’s assume that there can be 75 rounds of bullets. How much can a fully loaded bullet weigh? It’s only two kilograms at most!
In addition, how much weight can the firearm add? At most, it is only one kilogram.
After a little calculation, Popov came to the exciting conclusion that the prototype of the squad machine gun probably weighed only nine kilograms at most.
What is the concept of this? Deggarev's masterpiece, the empty gun weighs 9.1 kilograms. Its bullet tray is so heavy that when marching, the shooter carries the gun and the deputy shooter carries the bullet tray full-time.
The two of them were working together to assemble the firearm.
Based on these circumstances, Popov made an instant judgment in his mind. If the director said that gun battles almost always occur within a distance of four hundred meters, which is the distance of a submachine gun, and pistol bullets are equally lethal, then the intermediate power
It is also inevitable to kill the enemy with bullets.
In this case, does the Deggarev light machine gun have any advantages?