The Bavarian 105mm artillery decided to follow the long-range and heavy weight idea, and the 150mm heavy howitzer also decided to take this path, after all, the heavy artillery that is not easy to produce needs to be deployed in a safer place. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Info And adhering to this principle, in order to make the artillery have a longer range, the historical German SFH13 series heavy howitzers were also thrown into the garbage heap of history by the prince, no way, this thing has poor performance.

SFH13 This gun is very light, only 2250kg, and the French M1913 type 105mm howitzer is a grade, but this product is definitely not as good as the latter in terms of suppression, the reason is simple, the range is too close! This gun has a range of only 8600 meters! What a hell of a thing to have a powerful 42kg shell that can't reach the opponent!

In the end, the prince chose the French M1917 155mm gun as the prototype, this gun is not only 3300kg ultra-light weight, but also has a range of 11300 meters with only 15 times the length of the barrel! You know, the length of the gun barrel of the German SFH13 is 17L. So continue to uphold the French drug abuse, plus the German long body tube. The prince's weight positioning of the division's 150mm guns was directly relaxed to about 4000kg, that is, as long as it can be below this weight, the longer the firing range, the better! Of course, in order to get a better firing range, the gun carriage had to be replaced with a bipod gun mount.

In the end, then, the quota for the number of barreled artillery of a German division was determined in such a way that the number of 14 artillery batteries in a division remained unchanged, 4 companies of medium-caliber rapid-fire guns, and 3 to 4 companies of 150mm large-caliber howitzers. The rest are 105mm light howitzers. Among them, the number of 150mm large-caliber howitzers in a company is between 4 and 6 guns, and the other artillery guns are all 6-gun batteries.

And if you count all kinds of mortars, Bavaria's regiments and battalions have their own mortars, and the company-level mortars are 60mm light mortars. The weight of the shell is about 2kg, and the firing range is around 1200 meters. The battalion level has an 82mm mortar, the weight of the grenade is about 5kg, and the effective range is km. Starting with battalion mortars, rifling has already begun to be carved into the barrels of mortars. The regimental level mortar is a 120mm mortar, although the firing range has not increased much, at most 4.5km, but the weight of the bullet has increased to about 15kg. And because of the rifling relationship, the accuracy has been greatly improved.

The prince has been wondering if there is a need to get a 160mm mortar, for example, similar to the Soviet MT13 heavy mortar, this mortar is really powerful, for example, the Soviet Union's MT13 mortar in World War 2 can shoot a heavy high-explosive projectile weighing 40.8kg out of 5100 meters. But the weight of this weapon is also not small, the total combat weight is 1170kg! It is already about the same as a small artillery, the firing range is still close, and the most important thing is that this heavy mortar has lost the biggest advantage of a light mortar - a high rate of fire.

Generally, mortars under 120mm can be loaded directly from the muzzle, and then rely on the weight of the gun itself to excite the firing pin and fire. But the 160mm mortar will not work, this thing is 3.3 meters long. Even if it is placed diagonally, there is a person as tall as a person, think about it, you alone lift a 40.8kg shell to this height, and then put it into the barrel, not to mention how dangerous the process is, how laborious, more than 40kg of shells directly against the firing pin, are you really sure that this artillery will not have problems? After all, the weight of the shell is almost 3 times heavier than that of the 120mm gun!

So historically, the Russians used this artillery in this way, after each shell, the gun had to be flattened from an angle of 40 to 80 degrees, and then ...... from the tail of the gun. In this way, it is more troublesome than the barrel artillery, after all, it takes a waste of time to shake the mortar flat, and at the same time, when the mortar is used, the number of pill packs is adjusted according to different ranges, which is completely different from the whole load of light artillery or a single cartridge. So, the rate of fire of this gun was very low, ...... 3 rounds a minute.

The accuracy is not good, the firing range is not good, and in the end even the rate of fire is not good, which is very chicken, of course, the biggest advantage is that it is cheap, relatively light in weight, used in defensive operations, or the density of the pile of firepower is still good. Therefore, the prince is very entangled, so he can only leave this to Prince Leopold and others in advance, after all, they are really rich in experience in the front line. People's military age is older than their own!

The basic firepower deployment had been finalized, but at this time, Viscount Schmidt came again, and he actually made this opinion to the prince: "Recently, in the experiment of the Iron Fort, it was found that the power of the 75mmL24 gun was somewhat insufficient, and I hope to replace it with a larger caliber gun." ”

“what？ You actually say that the 75mml24 gun is not powerful enough? What do you think? In terms of the power of high-explosive shells, this thing and the 1st World War are a level of the French Saint-Monzae tank, and in terms of penetration, who is stronger than the 75mml36 rapid-fire gun of Saint-Monzae and the 57mm naval gun of the British? You told me that there is not enough firepower? The No. 4 tank at the beginning of the 2nd World War, the No. 3 tank category, the mustache said that the brothers used this level of artillery at the beginning of the 2nd World War, and you told me that the power of the 75mml24 gun in the First World War was not enough? What do you think? The prince complained frantically in his heart. (Of course, because of technological progress, the actual armor-piercing power of the No. 4 75mm short gun and the No. 3 50 gun must have surpassed that of the current artillery, but the barrel and caliber are close.) ）

"Think of our Prussian colleagues, who now don't even need a 50mm cannon....... It's good that you have a 75mml24 gun. The prince said earnestly.

"I found an artillery, which has been developed, and it is very cheap, because the navy is already planning to replace it with a new artillery, which weighs more than 600 kilograms, but the muzzle velocity of the shell is more than 600 meters per second, and the weight of the grenade of the artillery is as high as 10kg!" Major General Schmidt said.

"Maybe the weight and the recoil are still large, but we can appropriately reduce the charge to reduce the recoil distance, and we can also appropriately reduce the length of the body tube, but in any case, it is much better than the current 75mmL24 gun." Major General Schmidt added. “

"I seem to remember that the Navy was armed with an 88mml30 gun in 1892, and it seems that this is the data." The prince said.

"Yes, it's this artillery, but now the Navy plans to replace it with a new 88mml45 gun, a large number of old guns that have been eliminated are actually not much use at all, and many guns have not even reached half life, if we buy it at a low price now, we can save a lot of money, and improve our equipment level!" Major General Schmidt bit the word money very hard, he knew the prince very well.

"Okay, then we can buy a few first, and if we can, we can eat all of them." The prince thought for a while and said, there is no need to research new artillery, and it is cheap, why not?

"Your Royal Highness, the chief carpentry engineer of the Bavarian Aircraft Design Bureau has called." Just after the prince had solved the problem of the future artillery of the Bavarian army, a telegram pulled the prince to the Bavarian aircraft test field.

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