"I know what you're thinking!" Sparkin raised the Bobosha in his hand and smiled with a knowing expression: "You may think that we only need to replace the bullets of the submachine gun with the bullets of the rifle...... Then we can both deal with enemies from afar and use bullets for melee combat! No, Comrade Shulka, that's a machine gun, you can't hold a machine gun and fight in close combat with the enemy! ”

Sparkin was right, it was true that he couldn't hold a machine gun in close combat with the enemy, and its recoil made it impossible to shoot like a submachine gun, and it could shoot at any time while rushing forward.

But that's not what Shulka was talking about.

"No, Comrade Sparkin!" Shulka took out a bullet and held it in his hand and said, "I mean, it's time to develop a new bullet!" ”

Sparkin couldn't help but be surprised: "Develop a new bullet? ”

"Yes, Comrade Sparkin!" "There are generally two types of ammunition for small arms, one is rifle and the other is pistol. The former is used in rifles and machine guns, and the latter in pistols and submachine guns.

Rifle cartridges are no problem for machine guns, they can provide long-range firepower for troops, but for ordinary soldiers there is always a problem of overpower! ”

"Too much power?" Sparkin looked at Shulka suspiciously.

This is another practical problem, and it's no wonder Sparkin doesn't know about it.

"Yes, there is too much power!" "It's a question of the First World War, to be exact. In the First World War, the enemy and the enemy fought more trench warfare, far away from each other, and each other hid in the trenches to aim at the target, so they asked for a rifle with a long range and high power! ”

"Isn't that a good thing?" Sparkin asked, puzzled.

"Of course it's a good thing!" Shulka replied: "But the consequence of this is that rifle bullets cannot be fired in bursts like submachine guns!" ”

Sparkin let out an "oh": "You mean to say that we should find a balance between rifle and pistol rounds?" Not only can it have a long range, but its recoil is within the range of a single soldier's burst! ”

"Yes!" Shulka nodded, it was easier to talk to smart people.

This is the intermediate power bullet, which is the bullet used in assault rifles.

Compared to the development of assault rifles, bullets are more important.

There is a saying called "look at the gun first look at the bullet", that is, if you want to know whether a gun is a good gun and how the performance is, the first thing to look at is the bullet rather than the gun, the bullet determines a lot of things, such as power, rate of fire, etc., the gun is actually a tool for firing bullets, if there is not some kind of major defect, its performance is determined by the bullet to a considerable extent.

And if you don't develop an intermediate power bullet and try to develop an assault rifle on the basis of the two existing bullets, it is basically impossible and meaningless...... The use of rifle cartridges turns into recoil machine guns, and the use of pistol cartridges turns into submachine guns with insufficient power and short range.

The Soviet Union's thinking in this area lagged behind, and they waited until the Germans used the assault rifle, the STG44, on the battlefield and was captured by the Soviet army, and then suddenly realized that they should start developing "intermediate power bullets".

As a result, the AK47 did not make it in time for World War II, which was developed almost two years after it ended.

This question has to be dug deeper, and it also involves the tactical problems of World War I and World War II:

There were no tanks in World War I, to be precise, tanks did not appear until the end of World War I, but there were basically no infantry and tank coordination and were not used on the battlefield on a large scale.

At this time, the battle between the infantry, in addition to hiding in the trenches and shooting at each other, was an uncovered group charge.

In the case of a cluster charge, the battle tends to take place at a greater distance...... From a distance, the enemy began to charge in groups, and the other side bombarded with artillery and raised guns, and it was too late to get close.

Soldiers naturally demanded rifles with a longer range and greater power, so rifle cartridges with a range of up to 1,000 meters were commonly used in all countries.

In fact, a thousand meters did work at this time, thousands of rifles were fired, and a dense number of bullets flew towards the enemies who charged in groups, and a blind cat could kill several enemies when it touched a dead mouse.

But the development of the war to the Second World War was different.

The difference between World War II and World War I was the massive use of tanks, and the cluster charge was abandoned by various countries.

As a result, a rifle with a range of 1,000 meters quickly lost its effectiveness...... With skirmishers and even tank cover, the enemy was no longer able to hit targets or suppress the enemy from a distance, as in World War I.

Even with the coordination of tanks and other equipment, the combat distance has become closer and closer.

According to statistics, 70 percent of the battles in World War II took place within 400 meters.

This distance is awkward for the existing equipment:

The rifle is too powerful and has too long a range, so it is a big waste...... A bullet with a range of 400 meters is sufficient, so why do you need a range of 1000 meters? Anyway, if you can hit the target and kill it, does it matter if a bigger hole or a smaller hole is a smaller one?

Waste is secondary, after all, war is to fight attrition, and the focus is on its recoil so that it has no room for improvement.

Submachine guns are too powerful to have a short range, and most of them have a range of only 150 meters.

As a result, a gap in fire was created between 150 meters and 400 meters.

Sparkin thought about it for a moment, then said, "That's a big problem, you know?" ”

"Yes, I know!" Shulka nodded.

Of course, he knew that the development of a new type of bullet would mean rebuilding a whole production line, and even after that, there would be three types of bullets in the army, which would be a new logistical problem.

"But I think it's worth it!" Shulka said: "It must also be the trend of the development of the war!" Because...... The research and development of weapons and equipment is to serve the war, not the other way around, hoping that the war or the soldiers will adapt to the outdated equipment system! ”

Sparkin nodded silently: "If you choose the latter, that is, you want to adapt the soldiers to the outdated equipment system, then they will be defeated by the enemy, that is, eliminated by the enemy!" ”

"Yes, Comrade Sparkin!" "This is survival of the fittest, nature's law of the jungle," Shulka said. Many people think that we humans are beyond this law, but nothing else! Humans are nothing more than ...... I'm just playing this game in a war situation! ”

Sparkin let out a long sigh, looked at Shulka with appreciative eyes, and said, "That's right, Comrade Shulka! So, if you don't want to be eliminated by the enemy...... I think it's better to start the development of this new bullet now! ”

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