The total length of the heavy machine gun on the drawing is as high as 1625mm, the barrel length alone reaches 1070MM, the designed gun body mass reaches 33.5KG, and the weight of the wheeled gun frame is as high as 102KG, not counting the weight of the steel shield.
Faced with such a heavy machine gun, Grunov's previous assessment of the big guy couldn't be more accurate.
Such a large size and weight are actually extremely disadvantageous for an infantry battalion-level support firepower. Once the firepower is exposed, the possibility of being destroyed by enemy artillery fire is extremely high.
But the big guy's next various parameter designs made Grunov's eyes gradually become serious.
'Caliber 12.7 mm, bullet muzzle velocity 850M/S, maximum range 5400M, maximum air firing height 2500M, theoretical rate of fire 600 rounds/min, combat rate of fire 125 rounds/min, direction of fire: 360 degrees for high fire, 120 degrees for horizontal fire,
Armor-piercing bullets, armor-piercing incendiary bullets, and ordinary bullets can be used.'
All skills are futile in the face of absolute power! At this moment, Grunov actually had such a sentence in his mind.
Because this was the impact this large-caliber heavy machine gun gave him.
This is not only a heavy machine gun that can be used to provide support firepower to infantry, it can even be used to shoot at lightly armored targets, and it can also be used for low-altitude defense. It is an absolutely versatile heavy machine gun.
Yes, this machine gun is exactly the famous DSHKM heavy machine gun produced by the fighting nation.
The predecessor of this machine gun, the DSHK heavy machine gun, proved its strength in the second world. The ultra-long barrel gave it powerful armor-breaking capabilities, enough to penetrate 15MM thick steel plates and ordinary sandbag fortifications at a distance of 500 meters.
It's like a paper lake in front of its bullets.
However, with such a strong armor-piercing ability, it also possesses an extremely high rate of fire, so that once a fighter jet passing over its head at low altitude is shot by it, the aircraft will suffer heavy damage.
The war-type technology tree of the fighting nation is generally a bit outrageous, and this heavy machine gun is no exception. Its excessive weight and overly complex design are the shortcomings of this machine gun, but its huge power also makes the enemy frightened.
Tang Dao took into account that the Japanese army had sufficient air superiority. Whenever they engaged in large-scale offensive and defensive battles with Japanese infantry, the Japanese fighter fleet would drop heavy aerial bombs. If there were not enough preparations to dig a large number of anti-gun holes, the casualties would be heavy.
The Oerlikon 20mm cannon currently equipped in large quantities by the Fourth Line Regiment has a gun weight of up to 200 kilograms, which is destined to have insufficient maneuverability. If the entire Fourth Line Regiment is dispatched, it can also provide air defense cover for the entire regiment, but if the infantry
What about battalion-level battles? How can an air defense company follow an infantry battalion all the time?
A large-caliber heavy machine gun that can break armor and simple fortifications and has low-altitude defense functions is an urgently needed tactical weapon for the Fourth Line Regiment. This heavy machine gun developed by Fighting Nation is extremely suitable for the current combat needs of the Four Lines Regiment.
The ability to break 15MM of armor within a distance of 500 meters is completely sufficient. The armor thickness of the Type 94 light tanks heavily equipped by the Japanese North China Front tank squadron is only 10MM. If the two sides are to shoot at each other, they will use the 7.7mm heavy machine gun mounted on the Type 94 tank.
, it’s really no match for this 12.7mm heavy machine gun.
Moreover, regardless of the total weight of 100 kilograms with the wheeled gun stand, if it is replaced with an anti-aircraft gun stand or a tripod, the total weight will not exceed 60 kilograms, and it is completely feasible to transport it by packhorse or even manpower.
Tang Dao has secretly made a plan. If the underground arsenal that has invested huge amounts of money can imitate this heavy machine gun, then each infantry battalion will be equipped with 9 guns, which can not only provide fire support to the infantry company, but also have air defense functions.
Not only can the infantry battalion use it, but Cheng Tietsou's anti-aircraft company will eliminate all Oerlikon machine guns, and a whole cannon platoon will be replaced with Suloton twin-mounted machine guns purchased from Krupp. The other two All platoons were equipped with this 12.7mm large-caliber heavy machine gun.
Of course, it is slightly different from the one used by the infantry battalion. In the future, this machine gun will be magically modified again...
For example, double-mounted type, or quadruple-mounted type!
Tang Dao had personally witnessed the moment when a quadruple-mounted heavy machine gun developed by a war-torn country spit out four tongues of flame, and the American cowboy's Apache helicopter gunship that was racing at high speed in the valley was shot straight into a honeycomb.
As for the thin skin of the Type 96 fighter currently equipped by the Japanese army, it can only be said to be nothing when faced with a quadruple machine gun firing hundreds of bullets at full speed.
"This heavy machine gun can not only support ground firepower, but also defend low altitudes. It is a very comprehensive tactical machine gun!" Grunov was amazed. "I am really looking forward to talking about the genius you are talking about. The moment the designers met.”
"I have also mentioned your name to her, Doctor, and she is also looking forward to it. In fact, if it were not for the war, she would have arrived at the Royal Academy of Heidelberg to start her doctoral studies by now." Tang Dao secretly smiled and continued. Dan.
If this person knew that the pirate boss was right in front of him, I don't know what his expression would be like.
Of course, the most important reason why Tang Dao was so confused was that he believed that Teacher Xiao He would never expose his lies.
Following the Four Lines Group along the way, she saw the miserable state of her compatriots struggling in the flames of war. Teacher Xiao He, who had a tendency to become "black", was running wild on the road of designing various firearms. As long as she could kill the Japanese, she would not care. The blueprint of how Tang Dao came to be.
"No wonder!" When Grunov heard the name of this college, he already believed 99% of Tang Dao's nonsense.
The Royal Academy of Heidelberg was one of the top academies in the German Empire, and its Institute of Nuclear Physics was the crown jewel.
Countless Germanic elites wanted to study there but were unable to do so. For a Chinese to be admitted there to study for a doctorate, you can imagine how outstanding he is. Compared to this, these two extremely excellent firearms were designed by such a genius. It's normal.
With this psychological expectation, the third drawing did not surprise me at all.
It was a small-caliber mortar with a caliber of 60 mm, which was 10 mm larger than the 50 mm grenade that the Japanese army currently mainly equips front-line infantry squads with.
This time, Tang Dao did not pirate the fighting nation, but pirated the famous Type 63 60 mortar of future China.
For this engineer from the German Empire, the 60MM caliber small gun was completely unattractive. The German Empire Army's 75 mountain guns were equipped in large quantities at the infantry regiment level. An infantry regiment has 12 mountain guns, and the infantry battalion is also equipped with more With large-caliber mortars, once the frontline infantry encounters obstacles, they will call regiment and battalion-level artillery fire to attack the target. Basically, the prototype of modern warfare has been formed.
But on the Chinese battlefield, for a second-rate military power to face an army that is basically inferior and relies on numbers, small-caliber artillery is very important for front-line infantry.
In time and space, it was not until the fifth year after the start of the Great Patriotic War that China, which finally succeeded in imitating the Brand 60 mortar, began to mass-produce what was later called the Civil 31 Type 60 cannon. By the end of the war, a total of more than 30,000 mortars were produced. , manufacturing more than 4 million rounds of artillery shells, fully displaying the trait of relying on quantity without quality, and naturally made great contributions to winning the final war.
According to statistics, nearly 100,000 Japanese soldiers were killed by large- and small-caliber mortar fire equipped by the Chinese army.
During the entire war, only 400,000 Japanese infantrymen died or were missing on the Chinese battlefield.
Mortars can be said to be one of the most powerful anti-war weapons for the Chinese military and civilians.
Moreover, this may be the only piece of Chinese artillery equipment that surpasses the Japanese artillery of the same caliber in terms of artillery performance and power.
Although the maximum range of the civilian 31-type 60 gun is only 1,000 meters, the 1.3KG heavy shell charge far exceeds the Japanese 50mm grenade. It also serves as platoon-level support firepower. When the two meet, the former is almost crushed. Type sling grenade barrel.
The Type 63 60 mortar developed based on the Civilian Type 31 has an overall barrel length of 618MM and an overall gun weight of 12.5 kilograms. It can be carried by a soldier, and its maneuverability is no less than a grenade.
But it is much more powerful than its basic model. The longest range is 1400 meters and the shortest range is 70 meters. The standard anti-personnel grenade used weighs 1.33KG and can be loaded with 0.11KG explosives. The effective killing radius of shrapnel can reach 10.2M. The damage area of a Japanese grenade grenade is several times larger.
Another feature of the Type 63 60 mortar is that its maximum rate of fire can reach 30 rounds per minute. That is to say, a skilled shooter can fire at a rate of 2 seconds per round, as long as a gun squad consisting of 3 mortars , when there are enough artillery shells, a covering artillery bombardment of 90 artillery shells in just one minute can completely create a death zone in front of an infantry platoon's 200-300 meter defense line.
It's okay if the enemy doesn't charge. Once they charge, they will encounter a storm-like blow from this small-caliber artillery, which is much scarier than a heavy rainstorm.
Moreover, the Type 63 60 mortar is also equipped with an optical sight. The scope has a direction screw and a scale screw, which is enough to allow the shooter to send the shells more accurately to a thousand meters. This is comparable to the grenades used by the Japanese. The accuracy of the barrel is much better controlled by the long-term practical experience of the grenade barrel hand.
Especially in mountain warfare with complex terrain, the 63-type 60 gun, which weighs only 12.5 kilograms, can be maneuvered and flexible, and does not choose the launch site. It is simply an excellent mountain warfare weapon. Even in the future counterattack in the southwest jungle, Company and platoon-level infantrymen who were responsible for penetrating behind enemy lines all carried this small cannon, and it played a great role.
With the design drawings in hand, based on the industrial standards of the German Empire, even though the artillery design came from 20 years later, it is not too difficult to manufacture. Tang Dao has also been planned, and this small-caliber mortar will be used as the The highest priority equipment manufactured in the underground secret arsenal.
By then, these 60MM small-caliber artillery will be sold to the entire Chinese army as products of Dakouzidong Military Factory. Not only is the price not high, it can also be offset by various materials, even bullet casings.
Even after paying a certain fee, Tang Dao can provide drawings for imitation by military factories under government control.
At that time, the 60MM mortar will enter the battlefield four years in advance. It may still not affect the victory of this war, but it will definitely cause greater casualties to the Japanese infantry.
Especially those belonging to the 80th Group Army, which is infiltrating behind the Japanese defense lines in large numbers. If those company and platoon-level elites are allowed to carry 60 troops, with sufficient fire support, they can attack Japanese troops who dare to leave the city at any time based on the terrain. Come on, if there are not enough troops and infantry artillery, the safety of Japanese troops below the infantry squadron level will be worrying when entering the countryside.
As for the past time and space, a certain Xiaogang village who served as the commander of Japan's North China Front three years later racked his brains to come up with the 'cage policy' in order to compress the living space of the Eightyth Army. It used trenches as lines, bunkers as points, and Killing ordinary people created an artificial no-man's land, and inflicted heavy losses on the 80th Army in guerrilla warfare mode in the early stages. It was purely bullying the 80th Army because it did not have powerful enough direct-fire weapons.
There is no need to wait three years. With Grunov as a real firearms designer and German precision manufacturing, the heavy machine gun pirated from the fighting nation must have come out.
In fact, to put it bluntly, this small version of the 'machine gun' is actually prepared by Tang Dao for all Chinese troops who will start to fight guerrillas in the future.
If the penetrating power of a 15MM steel plate that can be broken within 500 meters is as close as 200 meters, how strong must the Japanese bunkers be to stop such crazy heavy machine gun fire?
Even if it works, Tang Dao has yet to come up with the blueprints for a thing that will be called 40 Fire in the future.
The reason why it has not been taken out yet is that Tang Dao is also worried that the Germans will leak the secrets and develop this weapon before launching a war to change history. If possible, this epoch-making weapon that can change the pattern of tanks dominating the land battlefield should be left to Teacher Xiao He It is best for them to develop independently.
Anyway, unless it is poured with concrete half a meter thick, any bunker will become futile in the face of 40-degree fire.
"I am Tang Dao. I am currently the commander of the Colonel Infantry Regiment. On behalf of all the officers and soldiers of China's Second Theater District, I welcome you, Dr. Grunov, to join you!" Tang Dao read through the three weapons carefully before Grunov After designing the drawings, he solemnly extended his hand to Grunov.
After hesitating for about ten seconds, Grunov stretched out his hand and held Tang Dao together: "Colonel Tang, is this considered compulsory recruitment?"
Tang Dao's meaning is very clear. If he agrees, except that he will not be included in the establishment and will not be awarded a military rank, he will almost be regarded as a member of the Chinese army and will not have much to do with Krupp. All his previous promises will definitely be fulfilled.
This has the unique toughness of a soldier, but also a sufficiently honest character. Tang Dao hopes to have an engineer with sufficient talent under his command, but he never wants this foreign engineer to be able to make money that belongs to the Chinese people.
, and still want to do things for his own country.
Don’t we have a saying among Chinese people? It’s better to say the ugly things first, rather than being ambiguous and ambiguous, and then the two parties have different ideas and then break up.
After serious consideration, Grunov did not disappoint Tang Dao, and even expressed his response to Tang Dao's slightly tough attitude in a rare and humorous way.
Obviously, the fact that this bricklayer who is not a fan of Krupp does not like him does not mean that he has low emotional intelligence. It is simply that his metal stamping design concept is too advanced and is difficult for mediocre people to accept.
Of course, the appearance of the MG42 machine gun that will shine in the future is indeed too crude. In the words of Western weapon experts, it is "broken copper and iron". Even the aesthetic preference is "thick and clumsy" but it is extremely
The durable and durable military designs of fighting nations are much more beautiful than that.
"Haha! Dr. Ge is joking, but when the day comes when China wins the Patriotic War, our Chinese nation will never forget the help our international friends gave us, and I believe that Dr. Ge and Mr. Rostav will not regret it.
Today’s choice.” Tang Dao smiled and replied meaningfully.
Except for Tang Dao, no one in this era would have known that the German Empire, which had been dormant for more than ten years and suffered hardships, would eventually fail again, and all those who had served in the war would be liquidated.
People with some reputations like Grunov and Rostav should not even think about running away. It might be better to fall into the hands of American cowboys who make war fortune. As long as they serve them, elite talents like Grunov can
It is said that there are no war crimes. Even if there are, there is no doubt about the crime. But if it falls into the hands of a fighting nation eager for revenge, it will most likely end up being shot. For the fighting nation, it has caused a lot of casualties to them.
The designer of the MG42 machine gun is more damnable than a ruthless machine gun shooter.
If they stay in China, not only will they not be convicted of war crimes for participating in an aggressive war, they will even be awarded medals for supporting the Chinese army.
As for who is just and who is unjust, does it really matter? War between countries has always been the law of the forest.
Just like the Sino-Japanese War, it was precisely because the elephant in China was weak that the jackals dared to stretch out their sharp claws and fangs. When the elephant regained its vitality that day, the jackals did not even dare to howl and could only stay away with their tails between their legs.
Of course, Tang Dao knew that after this battle, the people of the country would be more wary of the jackal beside them in the future, and they might smash the jackal's head with a hammer in the future.
Taking it back to the Stone Age, the scene of a group of young men wearing fur skirts dancing around a fire must be the most popular scene for Chinese people.
