Note: In many movies and television, the machine gunner is tall and heroic, and when he gets excited, he grabs the machine gun with both hands and sweeps thousands of troops, which is very handsome and relieved.

In fact, machine gun shooters are very dangerous in this way, and on the battlefield, machine guns have always been the focus of rifles and even sniper rifles, and they are eager to shoot machine gunners at every opportunity.

Hiding in a machine-gun bunker and protected by the rifle machine guns of other comrades, the enemy is helpless against you, but if you want to stand up, I think as long as you are not stupid enemy, the first thing is to shoot this machine gunner.

Even if you take 10,000 steps back and say, you have a vajra bodyguard, the enemy can't hit you, but your hands can't stand it, the barrel of the machine gun is not a rifle barrel, there is a handguard, and it is not hot.

After a long time of machine gun fighting, the barrel will even change color as hot, and if you go with your bare hands, it will directly become a barbecue, and you can still grab it and shoot it? Is it the Iron Hand?

Unless it's a hand-held machine gun, there is a handle, but there is no wind in the film and television, even if you grab the bracket of the machine gun with one hand, and leave so far with both hands, the strong recoil of the machine gun, and a hand that has to pull the trigger can grasp it steadily? That's really the master of the masters.

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The last highlight of Instructor Li was the heavy machine gun, and he asked someone to move several heavy machine guns from the warehouse, just like his own treasures, proudly following everyone to tell the advantages and disadvantages of each baby.

Compared with light machine guns, heavy machine guns have a fast rate of fire, a long range, long continuous fire, and great power, and are mainly used to shoot at clusters of living forces, fire points, lightly armored targets and low-altitude aircraft.

The bullets fired by the heavy machine gun are like running water, and they can fire hundreds of rounds in a row within half a minute, which can form a powerful network of firepower.

It can be used to overwhelm the enemy's firepower points, block the enemy's course of action, and can also kill and injure group targets in large numbers to support infantry charges.

The world's first heavy machine gun was designed by the American engineer Maxim in 1883, so it was named the Maxim heavy machine gun, and the barrel was cooled with water.

The first one that Instructor Li talked about was the "30-section heavy machine gun", which was a copy of the American Browning 1917 heavy machine gun from the Hanyang Arsenal in the tenth year of the Republic of China (1921).

The Hanyang factory began mass production on October 10 of that year, because this day is October 10 of the 10th year of the Republic of China, so it is called the "old cattle".

The gun was a fairly sophisticated weapon at that time, with a caliber of 792, a body weighing 155kg, a gun carriage weighing 235kg, a muzzle velocity of 824/s, a firing range of 2000 meters, a theoretical rate of fire of 500-600 rounds per minute, and 250 rounds of canvas cartridges with ammunition feeding.

At present, the army is basically equipped with three-section heavy machine guns, and some domestic armies are also equipped with a small number of 1914 Harchikis heavy machine guns (air-guided machine guns), 1910 Sokolov heavy machine guns, and Browning 1917 heavy machine guns.

In the eighth year of the Republic of China (1919), the Guangdong Arsenal successfully imitated the heavy machine gun of the Shou Vazloyse, which was called the "Cantonese 68 water-cooled heavy machine gun", which was equipped with part of the Guangdong army.

The Japanese-made Meiji 38-year-old heavy machine gun (Japanese imitation of the Hatch Kais machine gun) was previously equipped by the Northeast Army, the 29th Army and other troops, and the arsenals in Northeast China and Shanxi and other places had copied it.

What made Instructor Li excited was a brand-new heavy machine gun, known as a real cutting-edge weapon, which was the Type 24 Maxim heavy machine gun, which had recently become a standard heavy machine gun, and was made of imitation of the German Type 79208 Maxim heavy machine gun.

Because it was successfully imitated in the twenty-fourth year of the Republic of China (1935), it was set as "24 style". The automatic mode of this gun is the principle of short recoil of the barrel, water-cooled.

The 24 type fires all kinds of 79298 Mauser bullets, the initial velocity of the warhead is 870/s, it is fed by 100 or 250 cartridges, the theoretical rate of fire is 500-600 rounds / min, and the effective range is 1000 meters.

The 24 type absorbed the experience of various countries, learned from each other's strengths, changed the bolt to an easily disassembled type, and the tripod adopted the German 1916 type.

The Type 24 Maxim heavy machine gun has become one of the best models of the Maxim machine gun, with extremely high reliability, comparable to those produced by the foreign powers, and can be called a world-class weapon.

When defending, the Type 24 heavy machine guns deployed diagonally on the side of the position can form a dense side-fire crossfire, which can effectively crush the dense charge of the Japanese infantry.

In offensive operations, it can also effectively cover the attacking troops by using over-the-top shooting; In addition to dealing with ground combat, the Type 24 heavy machine gun with an anti-aircraft firing device can also be used as a modified anti-aircraft machine gun to strike at ground-to-air aircraft.

Knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent, but when it comes to one's own country's weapons, the instructor will correspond to the same type of weapons of the Japanese army, and the heavy machine guns of the Japanese army are mainly equipped with the Type 92, referred to as the 92 heavy machine.

The Type 92 heavy machine gun is the most famous heavy machine gun of the Japanese army, which is modeled after the Hatch Chase machine gun, which uses 77 rounds with higher accuracy.

The rate of fire is 450 rounds per minute, it makes a gurgling sound when fired, and the barrel is covered with heat sinks, so it is commonly known as "chicken neck".

The 92 Heavy Machine was later equipped with a muzzle flame suppressor, as well as an advanced optical sight, a bullet plate for ammunition feeding, a 30-round bullet protection plate, a rate of fire of 450 rounds per minute, a muzzle velocity of 732 per s, and an effective range of 800 meters.

The Type 92 is a bullet plate feed, so in terms of continuous firepower, the Type 24 with chain ammunition is better than the Type 92, and the Type 24 heavy machine gun is obviously superior to the Type 92 in terms of firepower, rate of fire, and ammunition power.

Like light machine guns, if the heavy machine guns of China and Japan were to fire at each other on the battlefield, the Type 24, which belongs to the international level, would defeat the Chicken Neck 92 Heavy Machine by an overwhelming margin.

In the later Anti-Japanese War, for the Japanese army, the firepower of the Type 24 heavy machine gun could not be opposed, and the Japanese army had to use mortars and grenadiers to deal with the Type 24.

And how to deal with odious mortars and grenadiers? The Type 24, which weighs several tens of kilograms, cannot be carried up by one person and quickly transferred like a Czech light machine gun.

If you don't transfer, then just wait for the shells to fall down? There is no other way but to repair the bunker, and it is still a bunker that can be protected from mortar shelling, preferably in a bunker, but if you encounter artillery reaching direct fire, there is no way.

Note: Therefore, in the later Anti-Japanese War, the 24-type heavy machine was not only a big killing weapon, but also the object of the Japanese artillery fire, and the machine gun shooter who operated the 24-type heavy machine sacrificed one stubble after another.

The 24-type heavy machine was also bombed a lot, but despite this, the 24-type heavy machine made great contributions in the Anti-Japanese War and eliminated a large number of Japanese troops.

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In the army, heavy machine guns are generally only available in battalion-level units, and they belong to the battalion-affiliated heavy machine gun company, which has jurisdiction over three platoons and six squads, and each squad is equipped with a heavy machine gun, with a total of six units in the whole company.

The heavy machine gun squad has an establishment of 12 people, including 1 gun commander (squad leader), 6 riflemen, 4 pilots, and 1 herald. Each platoon is equipped with 8 pack horses, 1 commander, and an ammunition squad (including four reserve gunners) will be reinforced in wartime.

The company headquarters is equipped with several professional sergeants such as observation, ordnance, and saddle workers, and may strengthen a communications squad in wartime. In the setting of machine gun positions, two squads are usually used in groups, and an infantry battalion can arrange three groups of heavy machine gun fire points on the position.

The amount of ammunition replenished in a single day is 2,000 rounds, and it is replenished every ten days per month, which is 20,000 rounds, and there is not much ammunition, so it is necessary to save some money, a bullet chain of 250 rounds, if it has been fired continuously, it will be used up in half a minute, and the amount of 2,000 rounds a day is not enough to fight for ten minutes.

Note: Also, in modern film and television dramas, the water-cooled heavy machine gun of Min 24 often can't see the water tank and exhaust pipe next to it, which is a common-sense mistake, without these two things, the barrel of the water machine gun will be red in less than a while, and it will explode.

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