Wu Guanlin is a professional veteran officer, when Lin Ziran talked about crossfire, he came up with the relevant scene in his mind, and then he knew that in order to form this kind of crossfire, the requirements for the number of machine guns would be relatively high.

At present, the machine gun establishment initially formulated by the army of the Daheng Unified Army is that each infantry regiment is equipped with a machine gun company with six heavy machine guns, and a whole division is only equipped with 24 machine guns.

The cavalry division was slightly smaller, with twelve heavy machine guns expected.

Rao is like this, the whole army also needs more than a thousand heavy machine guns.

This is not counting the navy, the navy has also determined a large number of heavy machine guns to be used as close fire for warships, and the initial demand of the navy is at least hundreds.

Combined, the army and navy would need more than two thousand heavy machine guns if they were to meet the existing initial strength.

At present, the heavy machine gun has just entered the mass production stage, and the monthly output is about 100 units, even if the production capacity can be expanded in the future, but if you want to achieve the full strength of the existing troops, I am afraid it will take more than half a year or even longer.

In the event of the mass adoption of the crossfire mode, further requirements are placed on the number of machine guns.

But the problem is, there aren't so many heavy machine guns!

When he was thinking about this, Wu Guanlin had already begun to consider whether it was possible to concentrate the heavy machine guns of various units and use them, for example, in a certain battle, the heavy machine guns of the whole division should be concentrated and assigned to a regiment to use in order to concentrate firepower.

And Lin Ziran is obviously not going to consider these details like Wu Guanlin now.

He only had to come up with some forward-looking ideas, and how to do it was a matter for the technicians and the generals under him.

At this time, since Lin Ziran talked about this heavy machine gun, it was natural to talk about barbed wire: "I also told you about barbed wire some time ago, which is the kind of barbed wire with barbs.

If we erect a barbed wire defense line in front of our position, it can effectively prevent the enemy from crossing quickly, leaving enough time for our soldiers to shoot, and it should be able to further highlight the power of the heavy machine guns. ”

"Just imagine, if the enemy charges us, halfway to the barbed wire fence, although they can destroy these barbed wire fences through some methods, but it takes time, and during this time, our heavy machine guns can continuously pour bullets at them, and the enemy is afraid that he will die as many as he comes!"

Lin Ziran naturally knew the powerful power of heavy machine guns, barbed wire, and trenches!

Over the years, he has made trenches, breech-loading rifles, artillery, and now even machine guns, and naturally he will not forget the barbed wire.

At the beginning of the year, he asked the ordnance department to make this kind of barbed wire, and there is basically no technical difficulty in this thing, the only limitation is the steel production capacity and processing capacity, and this steel production capacity and processing production capacity are not a problem at all for the current industrial system under Lin Ziran's control.

At this time, Wu Guanlin said: "In fact, we have been officially equipped with barbed wire since last month, and the situation on the northern front was tense before, and a batch has been produced and sent to the northern front, but there has been no large-scale actual combat effect feedback." ”

Lin Ziran said: "This exercise is also added!" ”

Lin Ziran felt that it was necessary to continue to emphasize the particularity of warfare in the new era!

"It's different now than before, in the past, we used to use smoothbore guns in wars, but now both sides have rear-loading rifled weapons, and those people in the north are now equipped with a lot of rear-loading guns."

"The times are constantly advancing, weapons are constantly changing, tactics are also constantly changing, we must always pay attention to this change, keep up with this change in time, and even lead the change!"

Because barbed wire had to be added temporarily, today's scheduled exercise needed to be postponed for a few hours, and Lin Ziran was not in a hurry, so he took advantage of this time to first go to see a live-fire training of the machine gun unit.

A person from the Ordnance Department said: "This is the official production model after many improvements based on the prototype machine gun, which is still collectively referred to as the 53-year heavy machine gun, and compared with the early prototype gun, the current official production model has improved reliability." ”

"At the same time, in order to save costs and reduce the difficulty of mass production, part of the structure was redesigned, and some materials were replaced, and the accuracy of the mass production model was slightly reduced, and the weight was slightly increased."

"But after these simplifications, we are able to reduce production costs by at least 20 percent, and at the same time increase production capacity by more than 30 percent!"

Lin Ziran nodded and said, "Considering the cost and production capacity, such a performance reduction is acceptable!" ”

In fact, a weapon does not necessarily have to be the top performer, but it is necessary to make trade-offs between performance and cost and production capacity, and it is best to be cheap and easy to use......

A similar situation is common in the Daheng United Army, such as rifles, in fact, Fuyuan Ordnance Factory has made a lot of new technologies very early, several of which can effectively improve accuracy and barrel life, but it has not been used until now, why?

Because this will greatly increase the production cost of the existing Roan III rifle, because the improvement of the process, it will also affect the production capacity.

If it applies a lot of new technology, it is better to focus on the new 11-millimeter rifle to improve the performance of the Roan III rifle

In fact, last year, the Firearms Department of the Ordnance Department already had several new rifle designs, and selected one of the new rifles with an 11-millimeter caliber as the scheduled next-generation standard rifle, which was initially finalized as the Luoan Type 4 rifle.

This is an eleven-millimeter caliber, which still follows the Roan III rifle in many designs, in fact, to put it bluntly, it is a reduced caliber version of the Roan III rifle, which can be seen from the name, Roan IV rifle.

Many old designs are used, not for performance considerations, but to reduce the cost of modification required for conversion, especially the time cost, and also to accelerate the time required for research and development.

The Roan IV is currently undergoing final experimental testing, and if nothing else, it will enter small series production in the near future.

However, if we want to mass produce it, it will take a long time.

On the one hand, this 11mm Roan IV rifle has a higher production cost, and the overall cost will be more than 30% higher than that of the Roan III rifle.

The cost alone is not a big deal, but the most important thing is that it takes more man-hours, which means that you get fewer new rifles for the same amount of man-hours!

At this point, the military has a lot of worries!

Because the demand for new rifles is too great, the production of the Roan III rifle is now somewhat insufficient, and they are worried that the rifle will not be enough......

It is also very important that if the new rifle is to be fully put into production, the existing production line will be modified and upgraded on a large scale, which will directly affect the production of the existing Roan III rifle.

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