"Your Royal Highness, we are going to war with the Russians in the future, right?" Count Schelling finally held back for a moment. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

"Yes, if nothing else, we will kill Russia." The prince replied calmly.

"Then why did you go out of your way to help the Russians raise their armaments?" Count Schelling asked after much deliberation.

"Because all this equipment is outdated! Everything we are doing at the moment is to get Russia to invest its limited funds in those outdated equipment! And then let the Russians fight to the death with the Japanese in the Far East with hope! The prince said with a smile.

"I gave these things to the Russians because I had something better!" The prince said confidently!

Is a normal heavy machine gun any good? This thing is really good to throw in the Russo-Japanese War, but in the 1st World War, the dawn period when countless new weapons are about to appear, ordinary machine guns are still enough to deal with infantry, but whether it is a simple reinforced civil bunker or those big birds flying in the air, the effect of ordinary machine guns is not so good, if the combat vehicles in the army directly under the prince are to be equipped with machine guns, then ordinary machine guns are definitely only one of the alternatives, not the only one, and even if it is only to deal with various bombers of Britain and France in World War 1, You need to study a high-powered machine gun, after all, there are also big guys with a maximum take-off weight of 13 tons in World War 1!

And now, the first weapon that the prince wants to come up with and can play a big role in World War 1 is the famous Browning M2 12.7mm machine gun in later generations! With this thing, if nothing else, at least the British MK series tanks and the French Renault and the like are left without a living head! The armor-piercing warhead of the M2 machine gun weighed 46.2 grams and fired at a muzzle velocity of 884 meters per second, piercing 22mm thick armor at a distance of 100 yards! As for the M20 tracer armor-piercing projectile and the M8 armor-piercing incendiary projectile that were later studied, the penetration depth is even higher!

What's more, the machine gun is very lightweight, and the basic M2 machine gun weighs only 27.7 kg (just the body, not the bracket). Even with the use of a heavy barrel, the machine gun has a good fire continuity, and it is only 36.7kg. Of course, if you add a cooling water tank to the machine gun, then the weight will increase a lot, and the final weight is about 45kg with empty water. And immediately after filling it with water, the weight is 55kg!

And this machine gun can be used now, and after it is made, it can be used as a classic product for more than 50 years! You can put all kinds of chassis on him, and it's also great to put it on the plane to shoot or strafe the infantry. You don't see the 2nd World War 2 The United States, whether it is a fighter or a bomber, most of the weapons are Browning M2 machine guns, and some are just changing the name or barrel, almost changing the soup without changing the medicine!

The M2 machine gun, which adopts the principle of short recoil and closed boring, also has good accuracy, and the effective firing distance is about 1.5 kilometers when facing a single target. The surface target is about 1.8 kilometers. Unlike ordinary 7.92mm machine guns, which can only shoot suppressively at kilometers away, the M2 machine gun can still maintain a relatively stable dispersion at about 2 kilometers, which may not work when a sniper rifle, but it can still effectively kill targets with short bursts by relying on good dispersion! It can be said that the effective range of this weapon is much stronger than the existing 7.92mm machine gun!

(During the Vietnam War, it is said that there was a man named Cross. Using an M2 machine gun with a 10* UNERTL50* scope, Hithkak's sniper killed the opponent's ...... from 2,286 meters. ）

Is there a problem with this weapon? There are still some of these, the biggest problem is that the initial model cannot quickly change the barrel, which makes even the M2HB machine gun with a heavy barrel overheat after continuous firing. Machine guns, why do you use them for non-continuous shooting? It's not a cannon again! So from this point of view, the M2 machine gun is slightly flawed. In addition, the structure is somewhat complicated and the maintenance is somewhat difficult.

However, in this plane, the prince will naturally transplant the ace skill of the German machine gun to the M2 machine gun with a quick replacement barrel. As for the structural problem, there is no need to make a big change, after all, the United States is known as the first in science and technology, and has not moved the basic disk of the M2 machine gun for more than 50 years, which completely shows that the M2 machine gun is indeed not easy to change, and the M2 machine gun has been an aviation machine gun, and it can be used normally in the case ......of high altitude and low position and high overload, which means that the stability is not bad, and the prince is afraid that he will make it unrecognizable with a few files.

The most important reason why the prince decided to develop the M2 machine gun, in addition to its excellent performance, is that it is very suitable for the needs of the battlefield. There are a lot of good weapons in the world, monoplanes are okay, but before the First World War, they were not suitable for it, because the engine was too coffee table, and the lift of the aircraft was not enough, so it could only use double wings and three wings to ensure buoyancy!

First of all, this machine gun is very suitable for the use of the Bavarian army on the Eastern Front, the Russians are poor, and the production of rifles and bullets is not guaranteed. Naturally, there won't be so many building materials to build a sturdy bunker! And after rushing through Poland, the Russian army has been retreating, they simply do not have enough time to build a consolidated front, with the penetration ability of the M2 machine gun can completely take out most of the fire points, a simple sandbag and civil offensive will still be penetrated in the face of continuous fire from the M2 machine gun. This thing can even replace small artillery complex to remove the firing point when covering the attack of the troops.

On the Western Front, although these M2 machine guns were of very limited use against the British and French defensive lines that had been reinforced for several years, this machine gun was a great trouble for any tank of the same era in history, even deadly! You must know that the armor of the tank at that time was almost all knotted together, and even if it could not be penetrated theoretically, it would still cause it to crack. What's more, it seems that Britain and France didn't have particularly strong tanks at that time, right? If you make a tungsten carbide core bullet, or a hardened steel core bullet, it is not a big problem to penetrate the British and French tanks, and the extremely excellent long-range accuracy of this machine gun itself allows them to be deployed in the rear of the battle line, which has a great advantage when firing at the opponent's machine gun! After all, both in terms of long-range accuracy and power, the advantages of the M2 machine gun are too great!

In addition, this machine gun is also very good if it is used as an anti-aircraft weapon, you know, there is no 20mm level anti-aircraft gun in the 1st World War, because according to the Hague International Convention of 1899, the weight of the explosive shell cannot be less than 400 grams, so the smallest gun can only be 37mm. None of the countries can develop 20mm artillery, and it is clear that Bavaria cannot break this convention and commonly known rule, since artillery is not good, then it is not said that machine guns can't be used, right? The 50 machine gun is a good way to fill the gap between the 7.92mm machine gun and the 37 level gun!

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