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"The HK1904 will be able to equip the troops in large quantities after completing the reliability test, and this machine gun will be very suitable for our current infantry assault tactics." After walking out of the small arms test site, Schlieffen told Jochen: "The more automatic weapons the infantry has, the greater the ability to suppress the enemy in engagement, and I hope that after the mass production of this machine gun will be able to equip the army." The Marine Corps is now fully equipped with the G3, and the individual firepower is much stronger, and the machine gun MG3 is also a priority for the Marine Corps, so now the HK1904 should give priority to the Army. ”

For Schlieffen's snatching of equipment, Jochen can only nod and acquiesce, after all, the number of Marines is small, it is easy to change clothes, and the Marines are very valued by Jochen, and the United States Marines in World War II are completely different from the state of the mother's mother, and the German Marines are now completely their own sons.

While the GEW.86 was still in use in the Army, the riflemen of the Marine Corps already had an HK98 semi-automatic rifle in their hands, and after almost 4 trials in the KSK and SGS, this semi-automatic rifle was finally officially adopted and put into mass production.

The mass-produced version uses a 20-round magazine, which improves the manufacturing process and changes the cutting process from the original cutting process to the stamping process, which saves man-hours, reduces material waste, reduces costs, and greatly improves reliability.

The official designation was called GEW.1903, or GEW.03 for short, but Jochen always liked to call it G3, and over time the people around him did the same.

As a pro-son, the Marine Corps is equipped with a large number of G3s, and the army is extremely unhappy. The officers in the Army don't say anything like some guy who goes against the tide and says that the only role of a semi-automatic rifle is to kill their own logistics. Not to mention the good response of the special forces after 4 years of continuous trial, the Army simply can't bear the fact that the Marine Corps wants to cover all the production.

However, the Navy finally snatched all the share of G3 production so far on the grounds that the Marine Corps had a small number of various heavy equipment and could only improve the infantry firepower in order to make up for it.

In addition, the MG3 machine gun to replace the MG90 Makqin also started with the Marine Corps, so the disgruntled army now sees the HK1904, of course, they have to grab this piece of fat into their own bowl first.

In fact, there is another thing that Schlieffen did not say, but the army also has ideas. That is, the Marines were fully equipped with semi-automatic pistols, and because they were not satisfied with the power of the Parabellum 9x19 pistol cartridge, at Jochen's request, Browning developed a semi-automatic pistol with the existing Bergman 9x23 pistol cartridge and 10.6x25 pistol cartridge as standard bullets.

At Jochen's intervention, the pistol adopted in 1902 had the shape of the famous Browning M1911, using a 10.6x25 pistol with a magazine capacity of 8 rounds, and a 9x23 pistol model with a double-row magazine with a magazine capacity of 13 rounds, which served as a gun for ordinary soldiers and officers.

But after all, Germany is not the United States, and it has a gun culture. It is normal for a soldier to have a pistol in his hand. Originally, only officers were a little psychologically unbalanced when they saw the German Army, which was qualified to be equipped with pistols, and the special forces, and the marines began to have a pistol, not because they recognized the advantages of pistols in close combat, but because they couldn't get over it purely on the face.

As a result, there are a lot of complaints within the army about the treatment of the Marine Corps' own son, so Jochen decided to agree to Schlieffen's request, although the Marine Corps is his own son. But if the army is too thin, the army will be anxious, and his ears will not be clean, so this matter will be at the will of the army.

"Boom"

An explosion not far away caught Jochen's attention: "Shells? The explosion was close. Isn't it unsafe to place the artillery test site so closely? ”

"Your Majesty, please rest assured, the artillery test site is far from here, and the explosion you heard is coming from the infantry explosives test site." The major on the side immediately explained.

"Infantry explosives? Grenades, mortars, these? Check it out. With a wave of his hand, Jochen and the group marched towards the infantry explosives test site.

As he watched the shooting demonstration at the proving ground, Jochen and Schlieffen were discussing around a thick pipe.

"The length is more than 1.5 meters, and the total weight is more than 40 kilograms. It's still too long and heavy, it's still a bit clumsy for infantry to carry, and the caliber power of 60 mm is not very ideal. Jochen looked at the tube and frowned.

"Your Majesty, although it is indeed a bit heavy as a weapon carried by infantry, it is already a very good direct fire for the front-line infantry of the army responsible for the attack. It can be disassembled into two parts when marching, the gun body weighs about 20 kg, and the bracket can directly use the tripod of the MG88, with a firing range of more than 400 meters, which is more convenient than our 37mm field guns for direct fire support fire.

The power of 60 mm shells is not weak, if it can be equipped in large quantities, it will greatly improve the ability of front-line infantry to attack fortifications, and even cancel the 75 mm field guns as support firepower to improve the infantry's ability to move. The only problem now is that the army does not dare to officially adopt it because the reliability of this completely new method of launching has yet to be verified. Schlieffen explains.

After listening to Schlieffen's words, Jochen knew that he was using the eyes of a latecomer to evaluate the weapon in front of him, and Jochen's ideal was a thing with a length of no more than 1.2 meters, a weight of no more than 16 kilograms, a direct shoulder shot without a tripod, a caliber of more than 80 mm, and something that could be carried by a single soldier.

But obviously, this kind of standard stuff can't be done now.

"It was a genius idea to spray the ignited propellant gases backwards to counteract the recoil of the shot, so that the infantry could have the direct fire to shoot at close range." Schlieffen complimented, and by the way, he also patted his ass, because this is still a product of HK company.

But what Schlieffen didn't know was that this idea was proposed by Jochen and handed over to the designers of HK to realize. Because there is no rocket engine at all, it is impossible for the German infantry to learn from a certain great country in the future, and it is impossible for an infantry squad to bring 9 RPGs in a frenzy.

Jochen set his sights on the recoilless cannon, hoping to create an artifact like the M2CG, but now he was presented with something like the M18.

But something is better than nothing. It's better than having infantry drag dead field artillery and then build artillery positions.

While Jochen and Schlieffen were chatting, the shooting demonstration was over, the demonstration was quite successful, the grenade fired by the recoilless gun was average, and the effect was not necessarily stronger than that of the mortar, but the power of the bare-tipped armor-piercing projectile fired was quite good, the 30 mm thick steel plate was easily penetrated, and the 70 mm thick reinforced concrete wall could not block the direct hit of the shell, and Jochen was still very satisfied with such power.

"陛xià. In order to further improve the armor-piercing power, we are preparing to make a matching armor-piercing projectile with a hood hood, if the penetration depth of reinforced concrete targets can be increased to 150 mm, then ordinary fortifications will not be able to withstand the fire of this weapon. The technician on the side introduced.

"It's too much of a luxury to equip this weapon with armor-piercing shells from hoods and hoods." "The most important advantage of this infantry weapon is that it is cheap and massive, and the armor-piercing shells of the hood are too complicated to make, and the disadvantages in terms of price and production are too obvious," Jochen said. ”

"I'm really sorry, Your Majesty, but we didn't think it through." The technician who had been criticized by Jochen replied with a sincere fear.

"But it's also necessary to increase the power even further." Johen thought for a moment before instructing, "You guys try to make the cap and the main projectile body together. Although this will reduce some of the armor-piercing efficiency, it can save some man-hours by making one less projectile. This individual weapon is a consumable, and the production is even more important. In addition, some pioneering attempts have been made in other ways of armor piercing. ”

Making the cap and the main body into a whole was a way for the Russians to save man-hours and increase production during World War II, and although it was rough, it was obviously effective.

As for the pioneering attempt, although Jochen said that they were allowed to explore it on their own, he already had a direction in mind at this time. The armor-piercing ability of armor-piercing bullets is mainly dependent on kinetic energy and material. But the armor-piercing ability of another shell can be separated from the dependence on artillery, and the difficulty of making zuò is also lower.

The armor-piercing projectile relies on the explosive energy carried inside the projectile to complete the destruction of the armor, and the core of its armor-piercing is a high-temperature metal jet formed by the directional condensation of the explosive energy.

The armor-piercing ability of armor-piercing shells can generally reach 2-3 times the caliber of its shells, coupled with its characteristics that do not depend on the kinetic energy of the gun, so that the 60mm recoilless gun can also have quite amazing power.

When I got back, I wrote down the theory in more detail, drew a sketch, and sent it to the researchers for trial production. I don't want to be surrounded by people asking this and that.

"Even if a weapon of this power is equipped with troops, it needs to be kept strictly secret." Schlieffen was pleased with the possibility that the recoilless gun would continue to increase in power in the future, but also realized that the consequences of leaking the weapon would be catastrophic.

"We can call it a new mortar, put it on a tripod and put the barrel upright, and it's really like our 60mm mortar, isn't it?" Jochen smiled and said that the caliber was 60 mm, and they were all long tubes, as long as they didn't let others know the actual principle of recoilless guns, even if others knew that the Germans had new weapons, they didn't have to worry too much, and they could hide it by calling it a new mortar.

Because there are indeed many types of mortars in the German army, 60 mm, 80 mm, 105 mm and 150 mm four caliber mortars have become standard, and individual 60 mm mortars developed for special forces have also begun to be equipped.

This kind of man-portable mortar is not the kind of grenadier used by the Japanese, and the ammunition used is also common to the army's 60 mm mortar, but the gun carriage is canceled, and the seat plate is reduced to reduce the weight, which still belongs to the category of mortars, but the man-portable does not occupy the establishment, and it is an artifact for special forces with small-scale operations.

The German army now has a complete mortar system and a rich variety, so it is estimated that the recoilless gun is a new type of mortar that can still hide a large number of people who do not know the truth. (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......)