In later generations, many military fans highly respected the Mauser 98K, believing that it was a historical gun, and the German army used this rifle to achieve a brilliant victory. In fact, this is completely putting the cart before the horse, it is the German army that has achieved the prestige of the 98K, not this rifle that has made the German army.

The victory of the German army was based on its advanced tactics, excellent training and strong morale, not just with one or two new weapons, of course, better weapons can indeed increase the army's advantage on the battlefield, but the Mauser 98K rifle obviously did not have much technical content.

At that time, the German Army was armed with the French MAS and the British Lee. Enfield, Austria's Manlisia, and even Japan's Sanhachi Dagai are all able to play a record in history.

After all, this is an assembly line production of standard military rifles, manufacturers must also consider the cost in addition to the output, especially after the outbreak of the war, the German army began to expand the army frantically, in order to complete the huge orders of the military within the time limit, the Mauser factory can only simplify the production process as much as possible, and reduce some quality standards, so that the production of 98K after four years, both the selection of materials and workmanship have declined significantly, and the Allies even made fun of the Mauser 98K captured on the battlefield, It is claimed that this can only be regarded as a wooden strip wrapped in an iron pipe.

In addition to these problems in materials and processing, this rifle is also technically outdated in this era, after all, it was designed in the early twentieth century, when the war was mainly manifested in positional warfare and trench warfare, and the technical standards for the rifle were not high, but in the forties mobile warfare, blitzkrieg and other high-intensity battlefield environments, this weapon has gradually shown signs of weakness.

The rate of fire of the Mauser 98K is very slow, and the Germans have calculated that a well-trained German soldier can shoot about eight to ten rounds a minute in a medium-intensity battle, which is the average value in a company, and maybe a bit of a fast gunner, but the rate of fire of most soldiers on the battlefield is about this level.

Ten rounds of bullets fired in one minute does not mean one shot in six seconds, the structure of the 98K bolt causes the loading and unshelling to be very slow, and the speed cannot go up at all, and don't forget that the capacity of the Mauser 98K magazine is only five rounds, so the time to reload the magazine is also deducted, even if you use a five-round bridge clip that can be quickly loaded, take out the bridge clamp from the waist ammunition bag, and then press the bullet into the chamber and reload it, even if it is a well-trained veteran, it will take about ten seconds, change to a recruit or in the case of a firefight, This speed may be slower, and if you encounter a clumsy one, it will take a lot of time.

So firing ten rounds a minute in the data is actually equivalent to more than five seconds to shoot a shot, which can be done by all rifles of the same era, as for the ultimate rate of fire, the Mauser 98K is about twenty rounds per minute, which can only be a blind splash of bullets, which has no real combat significance.

During the battles on the Western Front, Mauser 98K exposed another problem on his body, The 7.92x57mm rifle cartridge it uses is very powerful, but it also causes a strong recoil, so if you want to use this rifle proficiently, you must go through a lot of live-fire training, and the strong recoil causes the rifle to be re-selected and aimed at the target after shooting, especially in high-intensity combat, in order to maintain the intensity of firepower, soldiers can often only carry out some rough aiming, and there is no shooting accuracy at all.

If you want to achieve accurate shooting effect, then the rate of fire can only continue to decrease, which is obviously unable to cope with the current mode of warfare, and the German army will easily be suppressed by the opponent's fire when encountering enemy troops equipped with high-rate rifles during mobile combat.

In fact, the German army has long realized that the Mauser 98K will cause the problem of insufficient firepower, so it will pay so much attention to the equipment and use of light machine guns, in order to make up for this congenital lack of firepower.

However, the disagreement between the German arms dealers and the army, as well as the paranoia of a group of recalcitrant generals and the Reich Führer, convinced them that the 98K was enough for the war they were prepared to start.

Indeed, in the early battles, because the resistance was not strong, the German 98K did not show much problem, they were often encountered by a group of panicked and poorly trained infantry, and there was little chance of confrontation with a strong enemy. It was not until the Germans fought the British Expeditionary Force on the Belgian battlefield that the Germans encountered a commensurate opponent. The Enfield rifle, with its astonishing rate of fire and accuracy, made the German infantry suffer enough in front of the opposing position.

As for why the German army did not develop more advanced rifles earlier, it was really because Germany's technical reserves at that time were insufficient, and there was no shortage of people with sober minds in the German army, and before the start of the war, the military received information that the US military began to equip the Garand semi-automatic rifle, and they were very interested in this semi-automatic weapon, and launched Germany's own semi-automatic rifle bidding work.

The Germans put forward several technical requirements, using a piston gas re-entry structure, the gun must not have moving parts on the outside, and after the failure of the gas guide device, it can be used to continue firing manually. Judging by these criteria, the concept of semi-automatic weapons in the German army was still very clear, and the conditions put forward were very close to the actual operational needs.

Historically, only Mauser and Walter came up with their own design, and eventually Walther's design was ordered by the German army, and this weapon was finalized as the G41 semi-automatic rifle, and began to equip German units on the Eastern Front.

Historically, this gun has been severely tested in the dirty and bloody combat environment of the Eastern Front, the bolt and piston often fail due to mud or gunpowder residue, the use of this weapon requires a lot of time and careful maintenance, and the rifle is slightly bulky compared to the 98K, so it is not popular with German soldiers who have been tortured by the war on the Eastern Front.

It was not until 43 years in history that the German army was really equipped with a semi-automatic rifle with reliable performance, which is the famous G43 semi-automatic rifle, but at this time the German army's war decline has gradually appeared, and the 43 appeared not too late, but because of the chaos of the Nazis in the management of weapons production, as well as the lack of raw materials and skilled craftsmen, so that until the end of the war, a total of about 400,000 semi-automatic rifles were produced, and only about half of the total number was really equipped with the troops.

In the battle of the Western Front, the German conventional troops were unable to suppress the American army's G43 automatic rifle with only a small number of equipped G43 automatic rifles, but the German snipers relied on the G43 sniper rifle with four times the sight in their hands, but the American army suffered serious casualties, and the German snipers liked to hide in the ambush point to continuously snipe the marching column of the American army, and fired ten rounds in the magazine in twenty seconds, and then took advantage of the confusion of the enemy to easily leave along the retreat route.

Xu Jun originally wanted to produce the G43 rifle, which was a weapon that was not inferior to the Garand, but he quickly changed his mind, because the G43 still had a lot of technical problems, and the main root was still in the bullets fired, and if the 7.92x57mm bullets were not replaced, these problems would always plague the German firearms.

Xu Jun finally decided to use the historical 7.62NATO bullet, that is, the 7.62x51mm bullet, to replace the 7.92 Mauser bullet, and determined that the infantry guns developed in Europe in the future will use this ammunition as the standard. As for why he chose NATO, it is the most advanced bullet in Xu Jun's database.

Although the bullet is small, the technical content is not low at all, and every bullet must go through strict design and demonstration before it can be equipped with troops.

Usually a bullet from design to finalization, I don't know how many times to carry out repeated tests, and finally find out the most ideal ratio scheme from a bunch of data, the shape and internal structure of the warhead, the material used in the cartridge case, the length and thickness of the propellant, the selection and weight of the propellant, every simple parameter, is based on thousands or even tens of thousands of test data, which often requires decades of technical accumulation, and many countries in later generations have the ability to develop and manufacture rifles, but they do not have the ability to develop and manufacture bullets.

Germany doesn't have the time to design the new ammunition it needs, so Xu Jun can only choose the most mature design among a bunch of options, and before the fifties, the best mass-produced ammunition was the 7.62x51mm NATO shell.

Xu Jun also considered the Soviet Union's 7.62x39mm M43 bullet, but in the end he gave up this type of bullet, he wanted to fight World War II, it was the era of full-power bullets, the opponent was equipped with Mosin Nagant with an effective range of more than 1,300 meters, and the battlefield of German soldiers was not the dense jungles of Vietnam or the mountains of Afghanistan, but the vast plains of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.

The battlefield determines the weapon, not the weapon, which is the main reason why Xu Jun chose the 7.62NATO bullet, he needed a bullet with range and power, and at the same time could be used on automatic weapons.

As for the 5.56NATO bomb, because the technical age is beyond the scope of Xu Jun's database, even if he wants to equip it, he can't get it, so he can only hand it over to the R&D unit for testing slowly. The Führer's database has a time limit, otherwise Xu Jun would have thought of making the G34 before, can't he just make the M14, but this gun is a product of the mid-sixties, and there are no drawings for this thing in the Führer's database.

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