Basically, rocket artillery is fired at an elevation angle of 45 degrees to achieve the maximum range of eight kilometers as designed. This value is only an approximation, and small differences in the proportion of propellants, wind speed and humidity will greatly affect the results.

Like the Katyusha rocket launchers, which were already massively used by the Soviet army, their accuracy was so bad that they could only be compensated for by numbers.

In Yang Mingzhi's plan, the biggest significance of the rocket artillery produced by Novgomel is to launch at the city, for example, the troops infiltrate a certain forest outside Kyiv, set up a position, and withdraw after firing one. In short, as long as rocket artillery explodes in a city, its political significance is far greater than its military significance.

It's a pity that the target of the army's attack is not Kyiv for the time being, and Yang Mingzhi is also like "anti-aircraft guns fighting mosquitoes", and he wants to use this weapon to shoot directly at the moving train.

He stood next to one and tried to pick it up.

"Very good, it feels about fifteen kilograms, and the soldier is completely moving on his back."

Rygushkov hurried back: "Yes! The arsenal is assembled in strict accordance with the design drawings. The final one is filled with picric acid, the total weight of which is about fifteen kilograms. ”

Yang Mingzhi nodded: "This weight soldier can afford it, let's take a look at other weapons." ”

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It would be nice if the arsenal and the weapons design bureau could make a disposable bazooka! For example, the Soviet Union in that time and space, its imitation of the RPG26 produced by American products is very good! It does not occupy the preparation at all, because the launch canister is made of lightweight resin material, and the overall weight is no more than one kilogram. A soldier can carry several on his back!

Due to the times, this kind of thinking can only be an idea for the time being, unless the war is over!

Yang Mingzhi was very satisfied with the status quo, and he asked Rygushkov a crucial question: "Are all the rocket-propelled grenades to be issued to the troops ready?" ”

"Of course! It's all in place! They are stored in another room. ”

RPG launchers and warheads, which can be considered the fist products of the arsenal. The left fist is an RPG, and the right fist is a recoilless cannon!

RPG has high mobility beyond imagination, and now it is divided into three types: armor-piercing, high-explosive and fragmentation according to the different types of warheads.

The recoilless gun is much less mobile, and its advantage is that it can be used as a long-range support weapon for grassroots companies, and its warhead type is the same as that of RPGs.

Because they are convenient for mass casting, their warheads are very similar in size, and they are cast in the same batch.

For Rygushkov, the order given by the commander this time was a big gesture. He only knew that the 284th Division relied on more than 500 RPG warheads on the outskirts of Minsk last year to destroy one of the main tank regiments of the German army.

At that time, the army commander was still a battalion commander, and his battalion had 600 people, almost one warhead per person.

Looking at the commander's order, although it is impossible for everyone to carry a warhead, the troops participating in the operation this time are also an average of three people.

One battalion carried two hundred rocket-boosted grenades, one weighing less than two kilograms. To be honest, in terms of the overall weight of the soldiers, two kilograms is not much, and once the war starts, this weapon is widely used, and the charging enemy will suffer a bloody blow equivalent to dozens of 70-mm field guns.

Yang Mingzhi, as the planner of the operation and the executor who led the team, knew that he had the obligation to personally inspect these weapons to ensure that the troops could be equipped smoothly! War does not tolerate a little sloppiness, and with these neatly stacked warheads of exactly the same specifications, who else will doubt the combat effectiveness of the troops?

Yang Mingzhi pointed to the warhead placed in the matrix and said: "My factory director! This victory will come back to you, and you will be indispensable. According to the plan, you have to provide 800 warheads, but I counted, you have at least 2,000 here! It's unbelievable. ”

"Of course, the total amount stored in this small warehouse is 2,300 pieces. There are three more warehouses like this, and the total number of them has exceeded 9,000! ”

He never mentioned this matter at the meeting, and Yang Mingzhi had little time to count the overall inventory of the arsenal in the past month.

This time, Yang Mingzhi was really scared!

He had to ask with suspicion: "Is this all true?" We have so many warheads? ”

"Is that fake?" Rigushkov patted his chest and assured: "I guarantee with my life, the total number of warheads in our 70-mm category has exceeded 20,000 rounds!" Could it be that the governor thinks that the large-scale production campaign he has called for is only a rapid improvement in agriculture? No! The same is true for the military aspect!

It's been almost three months since the beginning of February, and where has the arsenal stopped? All 24 hours a day, our workers work in two shifts.

Besides, apart from the expansion of the military operation that Balzen was responsible for, he did not use many shells after all! It can be said that in almost three months, we produced 20,000 rounds, and with such an efficiency, the chief is probably not shocked, but condemned the production too little!

Therefore, I am afraid that raising these things at the meeting will cause public opinion to be chaotic! ”

Yang Mingzhi had to take a closer look at this middle-aged man with a beard, "I really can't see it, you are still very scheming." ”

"Of course! If I were a mediocre person, I wouldn't have been the village chief for so long! Even if I'm not the village head now, the prestige still exists. Speaking of which, Rigushkov had to name Kavitsky.

"That comrade was very active at the meeting, and I think he wanted to show his presence. After all, he is too young, and he also has a heart for victory. I think he's doing really well in the job he's doing now, and he really needs results for his own benefit after the war. ”

Yang Mingzhi waved his hand: "I'm not responsible for this matter, this is Salinchikin's business!" You just mentioned Balzen. Indeed, I never expected the operation at the end of March to turn into an offensive battle of more than 1,000 people! If I had come across these, I'd have equipped them with more heavy weapons! What a pity! That guy is a madman! ”

Yang Mingzhi looked down at these warheads and sighed: "So this time I can't repeat the mistakes of the past, if it becomes a big melee of tens of thousands of people again!" This time I have a lot of rocket-propelled grenades, and a lot of large-caliber rockets, and I have to show the Germans what it means that the earth is burning! ”

If Balzen had been equipped with a large number of RPG warheads for later offensive operations, the casualties would have been greatly reduced. The most critical was the retreat in the later period, because of the lack of heavy weapons, the troops had to use light weapons to shoot at the enemy in a series of operations. In Yang Mingzhi's view, his own people are first-class in the Soviet army,

And the Germans were not idiots. If there are idiots, and German commanders are idiots, the grassroots soldiers are not beginners with poor marksmanship. This kind of simple shooting, the elite of the Soviet army could not take much advantage, and in the end it was only an irreparable loss of personnel.

Therefore, for this operation, the equipment of the Soviet army had to be heavy.

The average rifleman, armed with Mosin Nagant, was to be armed with three base numbers of ammunition, i.e. one hundred and eighty rounds. If you are equipped with SVT40, you need to equip five bases, that is, three hundred rounds.

The submachine gunner was six bases, or four hundred and twenty rounds.

The machine gunners who are guaranteed firepower, their equipment is even more insane. Nowadays, many MG34s have been modified, the experimental rate of fire has been reduced to 900 rounds a minute, and the actual rate of fire has also plummeted, and the situation of more than a dozen triggers no longer exists. Therefore, in addition to the paratrooper battalion, Balzen's reconnaissance battalion and Joshua's women's battalion were logically equipped with such machine guns.

One cartridge cartridge is five hundred rounds, and the machine gun squad armed with MG34 carries ten such cartridges.

In addition to the MG34, the Soviet light machine guns remained the traditional Degegalev, and the captured MG13 and ZB26.

Yang Mingzhi naturally likes the ZB26, it is a star on the Chinese battlefield, but it is not good in terms of continuous firepower, and it can even be said that it is more like an automatic rifle.