Russia had only three rifle factories before the outbreak of World War I, namely Tours, Izhev, and Shestrach. www.biquge.info In 1913, 6 to 65,000 rifles were produced! Of course, this is a non-mobilization situation, and the production capacity of the Russians after mobilization is still terrifying, but it is still not enough! At the beginning of the war, the production capacity of these factories at full capacity was 525,000 rifles, and by 17 years, the production capacity had risen to 1.7 million, but even so, after importing 2.5 million rifles, the Russians still had a shortage of nearly 7 million rifles from the theoretical number! And in 1901, the gap was certainly even greater!

Not to mention, the Russian military is ready to equip a large number of semi-automatic rifles to strengthen firepower, this thing has not been mass-produced by the Russians, although it is taken over and made in Germany, and it can be copied after being disassembled, but the cost and quality of mass production are difficult to say. And to build a production line, it costs not only money, but also time! The Russians do not know when Japan will start a war, but they know that the Japanese will definitely start a war before the Trans-Siberian railway is repaired!

"I think the problem of mortar shells can still be solved, right? After all, cast iron can be used as a cartridge case, and the internal structure is also very simple, except for a fuse, there is nothing that requires technology. Kuropatkin said with a frown as he looked at the documents sent by his men requesting an increase in arms orders. Leaving the fuse to someone else should save a lot of money. ”

"Your Excellency, Your Excellency, even according to your plan, we still need to buy a large amount of supplies from foreign countries. Not only do we need technical fuses, we don't even have enough explosives and explosives-related chemicals! For example, toluene, a key ingredient in the production of ******* explosives. We are all imported ...... from Germany. With a pop, Kuropatkin spat out all the water on the table!

This subordinate is right, don't say that now, even before the war, Russia's explosives and chemical production was quite sad, for example, toluene, in 1913, the entire Russian toluene production was only 1000 pood, if converted into a unit that everyone understands, that is, 1 pood is equal to 40 pounds, about 16.38KG. The Russians produced only 16.38 tons of toluene ...... in 1913. Toluene is very easy to produce, but the German chemical industry is too powerful, if it weren't for the outbreak of war, the Russian chemical industry would not be able to get up at all!

The production of phenols, the raw material of another explosive, was even more tragic, and before World War I, Russia produced almost no phenols. (This is not something else said, it is from Russia's own sources.) It was not until 1916 that 6,400 poods of phenols were produced.

"Just from the point of view of producing shells, the cost of a completely self-produced shell is higher than that of a shell produced with a foreign fuse and charge, and the production cost of assembled shells is higher than that of an imported shell, and if I were Chancellor of the Exchequer Witte, then we would necessarily choose to import from abroad rather than import raw materials for production." The last words of his subordinates shattered Kuropatkin's dreams, unless he wanted his artillery to run out of shells, or he intended to shoot solid shell......s.

When the Russian munitions production officer submitted this information, it was not the Chancellor of the Exchequer who went crazy, because this dude was well-informed, and he had already seen Kuroputkin's plan to replace the army artillery with 65.6 million pounds. (This is a fact.) Of course, it is difficult to say how much it will be implemented, but the Russians had the advantage in the total number of artillery in the Russo-Japanese War. But the Russian General Staff, because they have suddenly discovered that at the current rate, it will take Russia 20 years to complete its preparations for war, even after the Trans-Siberian Railway is built.

"Then go buy it, the French have enough money to support this war, we are bound to win the Far East, no matter who stands in front of us, whether the Japanese or the British, we will crush them to pieces! Russia's double-headed eagle is bound to dominate Eurasia! In the end, Tsar Nicholas II made a decision.

So now the question is, where do you buy it? When the Russians are looking for buyers all over the world with a lot of francs (yes, you read that right, it's the franc!). They suddenly found that there are not many manufacturers that can supply a modern army of 500,000 to 600,000!

After all, a peaceful country will not be idle to expand its military production, and a country that is at war will not sell weapons to the Russians! There are only a few big countries in the world, and the British are busy fighting with the Boers, and they are in dire need of all kinds of arms, and even if they do not make peace with the Boers, they will not sell them to the Russians.

The French were at peace, and although France and Germany had been a little nervous about the Portuguese colonies in Africa, the industry was only tense and not to the point of war. And if you buy weapons from the French, the cost is also higher, (the same shells are at least a third more expensive than those produced by Krupp) The Russians do not want to give the French an extra ruble, except for the share that must be purchased as a loan from France!

The Americans' industrial strength is very strong, and it seems that they are indeed fighting with the British, but the people are using German weapons, and their own military industry, especially the army equipment, is almost at a standstill, and the American Army is too comfortable to have almost no need for expansion, of course, the Americans can provide raw materials such as phenol, toluene, and explosives, but these things seem to be ...... higher if they add freight.

As for the semi-automatic rifles, machine guns, and other weapons that the Russians continued, it seems that there is only one that can supply cheap products in large quantities, and that is Bavaria! The reason is very simple, these weapons are designed and produced in Bavaria, and giants such as Krupp and Rheinland can indeed provide them, but they need to pay royalties....... In this way, the cost is very problematic.

Of course, Bavaria may not be able to produce enough new weapons in a short time. But the Russians recently received news that Bavaria was ready to renew their army, with a large number ......of machine guns, semi-automatic rifles and ammunition on sale.

That's right, Bavaria has to deal with munitions, because with the new machine guns and submachine guns, the old ones will be obsolete. And the original vintage rifles and semi-automatic rifles will also be processed. (Don't think that the Russians only have Mosinagan, in fact, before World War 1, the Russians still had a large number of old single-shot rifles in their warehouses.) These old goods, which are a little lower than new, are very suitable for the Russians now, although the caliber may be a little troublesome, but the quantity is more! And it's available in large quantities right now! Just get a few German-style equipment troops!

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