The kinetic energy of the M2 heavy machine gun is quite strong. When using standard ammunition, the initial muzzle velocity at the moment of launch is approximately 908 meters/second, and the kinetic energy of the muzzle is approximately 22,000 joules.
Let's make a comparison. In later generations, the AK-47 automatic rifle, which has the most equipment in the world, has a muzzle kinetic energy of about 2,000 joules (some say 1,398 joules, let's just make a comparison).
With this comparison, you can intuitively feel the concept of the power of a weapon that can produce 20,000 joules of energy. Coupled with the thick barrel of 1143 mm and the warhead weighing 45.94 grams, the bullet can
The ballistic trajectory is very stable and straight, and the accuracy is naturally not bad.
On the Vietnam battlefield in later generations, the American M2 heavy machine gun once set a kill record of 2,000 meters. At that time, an M2 machine gun was replaced with a special sniper barrel and used a high-power sight. A US soldier shot
This m2 machine gun was used to snipe and kill a Vietnamese soldier from 2000 meters away. This shows its excellent accuracy.
Moreover, since the caliber and weight of the bullet are just there, can you imagine the effect of such a weapon hitting a person?
That is a power that can almost "break" people. Yes, it is not just as simple as killing people, but directly crushing them, or directly "wiping them to ashes".
So you don’t have to aim at the fatal part of the person at all. Just aim at the torso with the largest bullet area. The bullet with huge energy will leave a huge "hole" after passing through the human body. This "hole" may
will exceed your own cross-sectional area.
And if it hits a bone, the broken bones will absorb most of the kinetic energy of the bullet, and these broken bones will move at high speed after gaining energy, so that the person will be "broken".
I don't know if the 'jade broken' that the little devil kept talking about has been fulfilled in this powerful machine gun. Anyway, Zhou Wen knows that as long as the mercenary group is equipped with this kind of heavy machine gun, then the little devil's short body will definitely
It will 'break'.
Moreover, its powerful power is one of the most important reasons why the M2 heavy machine gun is favored by the military and can serve for hundreds of years. Another reason is its versatility.
After the advent of this weapon, almost all tanks of the US Army will be equipped with several such heavy machine guns, and this weapon is not only the favorite of the US Army, there are also many variants of the M2 on the platforms of the Air Force and Navy.
, especially during World War II, most American fighter jets and bombers used modified versions of this weapon as attack or self-defense weapons. And the navy's warships are equipped with a large number of equipment for close-range air defense of ships.
It can be seen from this that the M2 heavy machine gun also has a very important use in air defense.
As long as the machine gun is installed on the anti-aircraft gun mount, the M2 heavy machine gun becomes a reliable and powerful anti-aircraft machine gun. The armor-piercing incendiary bombs and armor-piercing incendiary tracer bullets it fires are enough to tear apart and ignite this period.
The airframe of any aircraft used.
Zhou Wen, who suffered a lot from Japanese aircraft during the Great Wall War of Resistance, felt that the power of the mg-13 machine gun alone was relatively weak in air defense.
Even if there are German machine guns with better performance in the future, the caliber of 7.92 mm is still small, and the range and lethality are not enough to protect the safety of the mercenary group. What's more, if a small-scale air force is to be established in the future, airports must also be considered
air defense security issues.
As for the disadvantage of the M2 heavy machine gun being too heavy, Zhou Wen can basically ignore it.
Based on the equipment of the mercenary group, let alone pack horses, if road conditions permit, even semi-mechanization is not a big problem.
Moreover, with the current level of training of the mercenary group and the strong bodies of the officers and soldiers, it is not impossible for several people to carry a machine gun weighing 30 kilograms.
In battle, including the tripod, it weighs 58 kilograms, which is only 3 kilograms heavier than the Little Devil's 92 heavy machine gun. Four people can still move freely on the battlefield while carrying it.
Although the weight is similar to that of the Xiaojiizi 92 heavy machine gun, its range, power, and rate of fire are like a father beating his son.
At the beginning, Zhou Wen promised to equip his air defense expert Wang Zhili with better anti-aircraft weapons, which meant the M2 heavy machine gun.
Although it is impossible for little Henry to buy directly from the United States due to the U.S. arms embargo against China, with the help of Mandel, an old friend and arms dealer, he believes that sooner or later he will have the opportunity to buy this favorite heavy machine gun.
And now, the opportunity has come.
What Zhou Wen is eyeing is the second-hand pistol that has been eliminated by the American soldiers.
Despite the fact that the U.S. Army experienced massive disarmament after World War I, it currently only maintains a level of hundreds of thousands.
But I can't bear it. The Americans are rich and wealthy, and the treatment of the military is even worse than during World War I. Especially for overseas troops like those stationed in the Philippines, the treatment is even more luxurious.
Zhou Wen knew in his previous life that after the outbreak of the Pacific War, Japan occupied the Philippines in a short period of time. As a result, the Japanese army could arm three divisions of the Japanese army with the guns and cannons stored by the American army captured in the warehouse alone.
There is more than enough, and all kinds of logistics materials are piled up like mountains.
Remember, this only refers to the inventory in the warehouse, and does not include the equipment brought by the hundreds of thousands of surrendered Miffy coalition troops.
Moreover, the Japanese army was surprised to find that in a warehouse of scrapped weapons to be processed, not to mention the rifles that were on the street, among the hundreds of machine guns that were declared scrapped, nearly half of them could be dragged out and used.
, even the Japanese did not understand why such a good machine gun was sold as scrap? Maybe it was because an officer or even a soldier didn't like the gun, so he threw it into the ranks of scrap.
American soldiers don't care about these equipment, but Zhou Wen does!
Moreover, Zhou Wen also knew that the Americans' way of dealing with these scrapped equipment was also very simple and crude, that is, they disposed of it on the spot.
Who should handle it?
Of course they are those American companies in the Philippines.
These scrapped weapons will be sold to American factories in the Philippines for scrap metal for dismantling and recycling. But will some of them be lost to the arms market? Zhou Wen's guess is yes.
Moreover, the management of the army in peacetime is just like that, and there must be many cases where the superiors and subordinates have their own hands and enrich their own pockets.
Qichang Company is the largest US trading company in Southeast Asia and the company most involved in the construction and operation of US military bases in the Philippines. There are many places where it can operate.
Therefore, Zhou Wen took a fancy to those gunboats that the American soldiers looked down on, maybe they were just a little rusty on the outside, and maybe some unlucky guy accidentally got his toe stubbed during training, so he took it out of sight.
The M2 heavy machine gun was classified as scrap.
And if you want to get these things through Qichang Foreign Company, you need to have a relationship. Of course, this relationship can only be Mr. James.