Chapter 5 New Gun Research and Development (II)
The workshop was silent, but the tense atmosphere was self-evident, and Hoffman's frowning brows made everyone a little worried. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoTime was going by minute by minute, the sun was getting stronger and stronger, it was almost noon, and no one said anything like eating.
"Okay, don't be bitter, I have some ideas, let's go to dinner first, and then we'll talk about it when we come back." Jiang Tao finally couldn't stand it anymore and opened his mouth to speak. Hoffman seemed to realize that it was lunchtime, and said, "Go, go eat, come back." The thick line of Luneng also echoed, "Only when you have a full meal can you have the strength to work." ”
"Jiang Tao, are you sure?" Wenda gently tugged on Jiang Tao's sleeve on the road, and asked in a low voice, "This is not a joke, don't talk nonsense." ”
"Don't worry, am I the kind of person who can talk nonsense!" Jiang Tao patted Wenda's hand and comforted. As the pillar of the military industrial enterprise, materials are a major problem that restricts the performance of weapons. I don't see the later generations of "Taihang" engine because the material is difficult to meet the requirements, resulting in the J-10 data indicators can not meet the predetermined standards, and later in desperation to use the Russian AL31F engine, and the aircraft carrier's deck steel plate, artillery steel and other military products are inseparable from the material, and during World War II, composite materials have not yet emerged, the mainstream is metal materials, for Wenda, a high-quality student majoring in metal, Jiang Tao can be said to be determined to win. You have to fool yourself into your team.
Lunch time passed quickly, except for the heartless Luneng who devoured a steamed bun, Wenda seemed to have something on his mind and didn't eat much, while Jiang Tao was used to eating the fine noodle steamed buns of later generations, and he really couldn't raise his appetite for the rough steamed buns in the factory. After waiting for Luneng to finish eating, everyone returned to the workshop together.
"Jiang, tell me what you think." As soon as he saw Jiang Tao, Hoffman couldn't wait to urge.
"Okay, let's talk about it, my idea is that we can use the Liao 13 rifle, which is the most widely used in the Northeast Army, as a template for improvement, and make certain modifications to design a new rifle." Jiang Tao said confidently.
"But the Liao 13 rifle is based on the Mauser Type 98 rifle as a template, and it is inherently determined that he is a non-automatic rifle, no matter how it is modified, it is difficult to compare with the ZH-29 semi-automatic rifle in terms of firepower projection." Hoffman asked, puzzled.
"No, Mr. Hoffman, do you remember what I said earlier, the cost of one ZH-29 is enough for us to produce 5 Liao 13 rifles, is it not that the firepower of 5 Liao 13 rifles is not as good as one ZH-29? There is no shortage of people in China. Jiang Tao explained proudly
"It seems that I still have to pay attention to the actual situation, you are right, Jiang. Go ahead and let's see your genius insights. ”
"First of all, I think we can shorten the length of the barrel and shorten the length of the barrel." Who would have thought that Jiang Tao's first suggestion would be so intense.
At that time, the length of the barrel largely determined the effective range of a gun, and reducing the length of the barrel was undoubtedly to reduce the range of the gun, which no one expected. Venda objected on the spot: "Why shorten the range? I'm against it".
Jiang Tao, who was educated by later generations, understood that most of the effective kills on the battlefield occurred at 200-400 meters, and even in open terrain, it was difficult to exceed 600 meters. "How many soldiers do you think will be able to hit a target at 800 meters (the range of the Mauser 98)." When Wenda heard this, he was speechless.
"Second, I plan to change the bolt, we originally used the front-end locking rotary pull-back bolt, although this bolt can be the stability and accuracy of the bullet, but the pull is laborious, and the bullet fills slowly, I think we should change to the rear end locking rotary pull-back bolt, this bolt can shorten the bolt stroke, speed up the loading speed, and pull labor-saving, can rely on firepower to make up for the accuracy of the inaccurate."
"Jiang's idea was good, and Lee Enfield was using a rear-end locked, rotary pull-back bolt, which had a much faster rate of fire than Mauser. And the quality of your national army is indeed not good, and it is difficult to give full play to the advantage of Mauser's accuracy, but the firepower of the accelerated rate of fire is more obvious for your large army. Hoffman thought for a moment and praised Jiang Tao's proposal.
"Indeed, I sometimes think that it is quite difficult for our rifles to pull apart, it turns out that it has something to do with the bolt, it would be great if we could save some effort to pull it apart." Luneng agreed
"Thirdly, since we have increased the rate of fire of the rifle, the consumption of bullets will be accelerated, so in order to ensure the superiority of firepower, we also need to increase the reload of the magazine. Now we're using a single row of 5 magazines, and we can stagger them into two rows, which would have doubled our reload. When someone else is loading, we can still shoot. In addition, I have to adjust the gun, Brother Luneng, can you give me a gun?"
Saying that, Luneng took a gun and handed it to Jiang Tao, Jiang Tao disassembled the gun, signaled Luneng to open the originally sealed gun clamp chute, and then reassembled it and handed it to Luneng. "You try pushing the bolt forward." Luneng didn't want to push the bolt forward directly, only to see the magazine fly out backwards like a seesaw, which scared Luneng.
"You said that if you get stuck like this, you can drop the bullet, how about it, why don't you remove the magazine and use it better?" Jiang Tao said with a grin. This idea is indeed a classic case of their small arms design, which is from the improved Mauser 98K Mauser 98K, but Jiang Tao has now made him out in advance, and this design can save the lives of countless soldiers on the battlefield.
"Jiang, you are simply a genius, in your body I see the shadow of the Mauser brothers, the same young, the same amazing talent, maybe you can also create a Chinese Mauser factory." Hoffman was deeply shocked by Jiang Tao's talent.
Is this design made by the Mauser brothers, Jiang Tao did not blush, and accepted Hoffman's appreciation: "Thank you, sir, I will definitely work harder in the future, I hope you can help me a lot." ”
"The following is the last point, as we all know, the wind and sand in the northeast are very strong, and the sand and mud will always be blown into the bolt, affecting the accuracy and use of the gun, I plan to add a sleeve to the bolt, I plan to leave a space on the sleeve for the bolt to pass through, so that the sleeve can also move when the bolt is pulled, so that you don't have to worry about the wind and sand into the gun." While talking about Jiang Tao, he drew a sketch, and Luneng took it and said, "This is simple, the apprentices in the factory can make it." With that, Luneng opened the lathe next to him and processed it on the spot, loaded the Liao 13-style rifle, pulled it back and pulled the bolt a few times, which did not affect the use of the gun at all.
"You're imitating the Japanese Type 38 rifle." Venda could see the origin of this design at a glance. During the Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese did not use a variety of guns, commonly known as the "38 big cover". It's just that I didn't think about it for a while.
"Well, Jiang, your talent really surprises me, in this way, let's make a few sample guns and go to the soldiers to experiment with them, and if the effect is good, this can be reported to Master Zang." Jiang, do you want to consider studying in Germany, I believe that your talent will be fully reflected there. ”
"Thank you for your kindness, but I would rather design weapons for my country, and I believe that I can design the best weapons in my country." Jiang Tao replied neither humbly nor arrogantly. Seeing that he was resolute, Hoffman didn't say much, but just drew the design with him.