In order to meet the needs of many customers around the world, Datang's various thermal weapons are also quite rich.
Thermal weapons include matchlocks and flintlock guns, with calibers ranging from thirteen millimeters, fifteen millimeters, eighteen millimeters, and even twenty millimeters. In short, you can have whatever caliber you want.
Moreover, there are various models of backward and advanced models. There are several series of matchlock guns alone, and there are also many series of flintlock guns.
There are cast iron barrels, steel barrels, and even flintlock guns that are fired by flash caps. Although this kind of steel barrel is not good enough to be converted into a Minie rifle, it is still better than an iron barrel.
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The same flintlock guns sold by Datang can be divided into at least a dozen types according to different performance, and the prices are also from high to low.
For example, Datang launched a flash cap-fired flintlock gun just two years ago, specifically for high-end foreign customers. The price reaches more than 50 Tang Yuan per piece. This is still the local offshore wholesale price, not counting shipping costs.
At the same time, the supply is also restricted. Only some indigenous countries that have a good relationship with the Tang Dynasty and fully support the Tang Dynasty can purchase in small quantities.
The same situation applies to exported artillery. The exported artillery launched by Datang has calibers ranging from 50 mm to 150 mm. As for the larger caliber, it will not be sold. Smoothbore guns with too large caliber are also easy to attack large guns.
The Tang Dynasty itself posed a certain threat, so the Tang Dynasty never sold large-caliber artillery, even if it was just a smoothbore cannon, and as for cannons, they did not sell them if they were larger than 115 mm. They only sold short-barreled ones that were larger than 115 mm.
Howitzer, the kind with a range of within a thousand meters!
Over the years, the best products to buy are naturally a series of iron-cast front-loading smoothbore guns mainly sold by the Tang Dynasty arms dealers.
This type of cast-iron smoothbore cannon has a caliber ranging from 50 mm to 150 mm and a variety of barrel lengths.
For example, there are three types of main field artillery assigned to division-level troops: 80 mm, 100 mm, and 115 mm. There are also artillery 60 mm and 50 mm shotguns for battalion troops.
There are also 130mm and 150mm short-barreled howitzers.
This series of cast-iron artillery is cheap, such as an 80mm cast-iron front-loading smoothbore cannon (six pounds). One including the barrel, gun mount and ammunition cart only costs a mere 400 Tangyuan, and this effective
The range can reach more than 500 meters, and it can also be used with grenades sold with disc wooden fuses. This grenade is also cheap, costing only thirty yuan per shot.
Its barrel life is also quite good, it can reach 800 rounds, which is much stronger than many bronze cannons made by indigenous people, and slightly worse than the bronze cannons made by a few indigenous countries.
If the iron-cast artillery barrel has a short lifespan and a relatively short range, Datang's arms dealers will solemnly recommend to the natives the best-selling products of Datang in the past ten years: brand-new products made using many high-precision smelting and processing technologies.
A first generation bronze smoothbore cannon.
They are also available in various calibers and are sold with grenades.
The most important thing is that this new generation of bronze smoothbore cannon has a higher effective range and a longer barrel life. Taking the new generation of bronze smoothbore cannon with a caliber of 115 mm as an example, even if it launches grenades, its effective range is
It can also reach more than one thousand meters. If a solid projectile is fired with a strong charge, the effective range can reach more than 1,400 meters.
Arms dealers directly claimed that this new generation of new artillery was much stronger than the smoothbore cannons previously equipped by the Tang Army!
This is really a fact. The Tang Army has never been equipped with such a powerful smoothbore cannon in the past few decades!
Datang's last smoothbore field artillery piece attached to division-level artillery units, with a caliber of 115 mm, had an effective range of only about 1,200 meters when firing solid shells.
After this smoothbore field cannon, Datang directly entered a transitional period of several years with front-loaded rifled cannons. The effective range of that thing directly exceeded two thousand meters.
And after a few years of transitioning to front-loading rifled steel cannons, the Datang Army has fully entered the era of breech-loading rifled steel cannons. Now the main artillery of the division-level troops of the Datang Army is 75 mm caliber breech-loading rifled steel cannons.
The effective range of the gun is more than 4,500 meters.
The 100mm-caliber main cannon attached to the corps-level independent artillery regiment has an effective range of 5,000 meters.
The 120mm heavy cannon equipped by the army's heavy artillery force or the fortress garrison artillery force is even more exaggerated. The effective range can reach 6,500 meters.
The Army of the Tang Dynasty entered the rifled era prematurely, which resulted in the rifled smoothbore cannons later produced by the arsenal being only for export.
This new generation of bronze smoothbore cannon exported by Datang has an effective range of 1,400 meters of live ammunition, which is enough to sweep all indigenous self-cast artillery into the garbage heap of history.
What, you said that this artillery is too expensive. A 115mm artillery costing more than a few thousand yuan can't afford it. Even if you can afford it, you can't afford it.
Do you understand that this is a high-end product? This is a product specifically for high-end customers.
If you don’t have money, why are you asking?
What’s more interesting is that even if you are really rich, you can’t buy it. For example, a large number of princes in India are not short of money, but they can’t buy these latest artillery and flash caps.
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No matter how much money they paid, they could only purchase matchlock guns and early smoothbore cannons.
Because the three major arms companies believe that the Indian market still has potential to be tapped, and they can at least be upgraded five times. If they are not allowed to upgrade five times, it is absolutely impossible to supply these most advanced export products to the Indian market.
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In addition to market issues, we must also consider local regional relations and the relationship between the indigenous country and the Tang Dynasty.
Therefore, only a few countries are currently allowed to purchase these two new weapons, such as the Kingdom of Siam, the Kingdom of Spain, and the Kingdom of Sweden among the twelve Southeast Asian countries.
The Kingdom of Siam among the Twelve Kingdoms of Nanyang, their territory is miserable after all. When allocating the place before, the people of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Tang Dynasty made a mistake, and they were surrounded by several other kingdoms that migrated from Southeast Asia. In Africa
When life was difficult, they naturally clung to Datang's lap.
When their king presented a gift to the Holy Emperor Li Xuan, he already used the term "I kneel down to report". He called the Tang Dynasty "Daddy" every day, and the people in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs were embarrassed to refuse them to purchase these new export weapons.
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In addition, we really needed to give them some advanced equipment to maintain the strategic balance in central Africa, so we exported these advanced equipment to them in batches.
There was also Spain, which was supported by the Tang Dynasty in Europe and had the main force to resist the Tatars. The 300,000 Spanish army was the mainstay of the European coalition.
In addition, the empire was also interested in supporting Philip II, so it exported a batch of advanced equipment to him and had the equipment of the King's Division.