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Meppon, a small town in Hanover where the Haze River flows into the Emes River, is a small town with a small population, and it is a common town in Germany, but it is unusual in that it has a forbidden area 50 kilometers outside the city.

The 100-kilometre area is surrounded by barbed wire, and there are three blockade lines in a 3-kilometre blockade zone with a dense minefield in between. Signs on barbed wire that read "No Entry" and the occasional sight of heavily armed soldiers passing by the blockade make it seem mysterious.

Cars driving on the road into this area, every time they pass through a blockade line, they need to stop for inspection, and each checkpoint has a lookout post built with a rapid fence system on both sides of the road, this kind of Jochen copycat the foldable frame of the future Hesco Fort defense system in the United States can be filled with sand after the support is opened, it can quickly make a sand column with a length and width of 1 meter and a height of 1.5 meters, and the sand pillar can be quickly formed into a wall, which is easy to use and convenient.

Next to the post is a firing point built by the same equipment, the Maxim machine gun in the two firing points can block the entire road, and in the middle of the road is a metal pile that can be raised and lowered by an electric motor to prevent vehicles from rushing through.

Behind the three blockades is the core of the area, which is also surrounded by a fast wall system to block the view, and each outpost is connected by telephone, and a battalion of army troops stationed in the core is responsible for guarding the area.

Every qiē makes it look like a secret military base, but in fact it is nothing more than a German national weapons testing ground. The reason why it is made of this virtue is that there may be some special things to be tested here, and it is not very convenient for others to see, so it will be too troublesome to raise the level of vigilance at that time, so it is simply built according to high standards. But in reality, the guards here don't have to tighten their nerves.

The reason why the weapons test site was chosen here was because the artillery test site of the Krupp company was located here, so it was simply requisitioned and expanded on the original site. The future German Maepen weapons test site is also here, and Jochen is estimated to be built here to save trouble.

After the convoy drove into the wall, there was a well-equipped, large-scale site, with rows of orderly buildings, and people in military uniforms coming and going here, looking no different from ordinary military camps. But the sound of gunfire from a short distance and the sound of explosions from a distance away make this place a little different.

Jochen was not notified of the arrival of the test site, so the entire test site was not mentally prepared for the sudden arrival of the emperor, and everyone was taken aback by the sight of a huge motorvoy entering the test site and jumping a whole platoon of soldiers armed to the teeth from the trucks behind the convoy.

Because it was a surprise attack, all the personnel in the test site were carrying out their work in an orderly manner, and Jochen did not plan to gather everyone to give any speech, so he briefly inquired about the daily work of the officer in charge of the test site who had arrived in a hurry. After a few words of encouragement, he asked him to accompany him to visit the test site.

Since Jochen is here, of course, he will not just look at the tank prototype and leave, today's itinerary is to take a circle around this venue.

"陛xià. Here are two new machine guns that we are testing. A major in charge of small arms testing explained the equipment to the group, and the two machine guns on the shooting range were being tested for continuous firing, and the side of the machine guns was already piled up like a hill of bullet casings.

Both machine guns Jochen knew each other, both were products of HK Company, and the performance indicators did not need to be introduced by others at all, so he asked: "Don't talk about performance or anything." These two guns are tested here to see how well they work, how do they feel, and what are the problems? ”

"Your Majesty, both machine guns use an air-cooled design, and the barrel is prone to overheating when firing continuously. However, the problem was much better when HK switched to a heavier barrel with thicker walls and reduced the rate of fire. Although the rate of fire has been reduced, it is easier for experienced shooters.

First of all, there is the HK1904, this machine gun we evaluated and thought it was very good, without the use of a tripod, the bipod mounted on the heat slap on the barrel reduced the weight and also reduced the amount of items that the secondary shooter had to carry, so that he could carry more ammunition.

What's more, most of the parts of the machine gun are compatible with the MG3 machine gun that we are now retooling. We believe that Tong Guò can be used as front-line infantry equipment immediately after acceptance. ”

MG3 is a gas-guided long-piston stroke air-cooled machine gun made by Browning, similar in appearance to the M1916A4 heavy machine gun that also came from him in history, and the finished product after Browning began to develop the air-guided machine gun is naturally a water-cooled machine gun like M1917, but the M1917, which also uses water-cooled cooling, has basically no competitive advantage in front of the MG90 Maxim, which has been heavily equipped with troops, so it has not been valued by the army.

However, at the request of Jochen to reduce weight and weight again, the air-cooled model came into being, which was quickly loved by the army, and was adopted by the army in 1903, giving the official number MG1903, referred to as MG3. MG90, which was originally equipped with troops, began to switch to work such as stronghold defense and fortification firepower.

However, Jochen, who was still not very satisfied with this, continued to demand lightweight, which was used as a support firepower for the army's light infantry, the so-called light machine gun.

Therefore, on the basis of MG3, the current HK1904 was developed, of course, compared with several famous light machine guns in history, such as ZB26, Bren, M1919A6, which developed from heavy machine guns, can not be regarded as light machine guns in the real sense.

It weighed even 3 kilograms more than the Lewis LMG of World War I, but Jochen was still very happy with it. The same chain as the heavy machine gun was used, but in consideration of the weight limit of the infantry and the need to constantly change the firing position during the advance, a single chain of 75 rounds was used, and it was mounted in a canvas magazine directly under the intake on the side of the machine gun.

This is a far superior sustained fire capability to the ZB26 and Bren LMG with a magazine, and also better than the Lewis LMG with a small 47-round disc, although lower than the Lewis with a large 97-round disc. However, the chain supply is higher in terms of logistics and reliability, and it can even be used directly with the chain of heavy machine guns when needed.

And because it was developed from a heavy machine gun, the large number of parts and accessories also improved production efficiency. So even if it's slightly heavier than the traditional light machine gun, Jochen still thinks that this thing is worth more in World War I than all kinds of good light machine guns, after all, this thing is much lighter than the MG8 called a light machine gun by removing the tripod and welding a bipod directly on the water-cooled sleeve in history.

"But for the other model, the HK1905, we think it's too heavy and too powerful, and the infantry doesn't think very well of it." For another machine gun. Jochen heard a completely different assessment.

Jochen was noncommittal to this explanation, but turned his head to communicate with Schlieffen in a whisper: "Although it seems to be too powerful to shoot infantry, if it is used for targets such as armored vehicles, this machine gun is a sharp weapon." ”

"What His Majesty said is that this machine gun is very powerful and has a long range, and we are also considering whether it can be equipped with this machine gun on armored cars and airships, so that weight is not an issue. It should work well against enemy armored vehicles and airships, and can also be used as a ground-based anti-aircraft weapon. The effect is definitely better than MG90. ”

Schlieffen nodded, as the Chief of the Army's General Staff, he was obviously better able to grasp the situation in which equipment would be used more effectively. Ever since airships and airplanes began to appear in the German army's equipment sequence, the search for weapons to counter has been a constant priority, and Schlieffen can naturally see the benefits of more powerful ammunition.

Now the German Army has water-cooled MG90 as an anti-aircraft weapon, and it is also specially equipped with anti-aircraft gun mounts. However, the army is not very satisfied with its appearance, and its role is very limited due to the lack of high firing height, so in addition to developing anti-balloon guns that can be used to deal with high-altitude targets, the more powerful and high-firing anti-aircraft machine guns are also items that the army is more concerned about.

The machine gun that the two were chatting about looked very similar to the MG3, but was much larger. The barrel is longer, and the sound it makes when firing is not a crisp click, but a dull thump, and the bullets used are very large, which is also the source of its power and range.

This HK1905 is based on MG3, using 12.7x99 shells, the huge power can provide effective firepower for infantry when dealing with various lightly armored targets, and the ultra-long range and excellent ballistics can be used as good anti-aircraft fire and anti-aircraft firepower.

It is precisely because of these advantages that in Jochen's previous life, a weapon of the same type designed by the same designer could be used for more than 50 years in the sequence of the American army, where various equipment was updated as frequently as changing clothes, and was nicknamed Lao Gan Ma by soldiers, which was the M2HB heavy machine gun.

The HK1905 is designed on the basis of MG3 according to the idea of M2HB, which is indeed too powerful for the current infantry firepower, but Jochen was not prepared to let the main job of this thing be to shoot infantry in the first place, and fortunately, because of the appearance of airships, airplanes, and armored cars, Schlieffen realized its value. (A good event for pie in the sky, cool mobile phones are waiting for you!) Follow from ~ point / official account (WeChat add friends - add official account - enter dd), participate now! Everyone has a prize, now pay attention to the dd WeChat public account! (To be continued......)

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