Vasily's prediction was not wrong, the German snipers were indeed in the distance. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoAt the beginning of World War II, the German army, which was quick to blitze, did not see the need to use snipers at all. Now, the Red Army snipers active on the Eastern Front have reawakened the importance of sniping to the Germans, and the German army has resumed the establishment of sniper schools to cope with the war.

Among them, the main sniper training base of the German army was the Tupsytar Epp sniper school. The more famous ones are also the Zosen Wehrmacht Sniper School and the Berlin Sniper School.

These snipers are now sent to Stalingrad by the Wehrmacht to deal with the sniper tactics of the Soviet army, just now when the shelling, the German snipers came here, 4 snipers, ready, any sniper is the product of a combination of wisdom and courage, and the duel between snipers is even more so, the Russian snipers have already shot, then they must fight, but they are disappointed that the Russian snipers did not show their heads, and then the Germans immediately launched a second round of shelling, which exploded in smoke, But the Soviet sniper still did not show his head, which made the German army very strange, and in the afternoon the German commander could not bear this endless wait, he ordered the tank to cover remotely, a large number of German troops rushed to the ruins violently, because Vasily's sniper rifle has a flame suppressor, so the German army can only cover all suspicious targets, flamethrowers, grenades, everything that can be used is used, but not even a shadow can be found, using the fire intermittent, Vasily they 36 plans to go up.

At this time at the division headquarters, Andrei also knew the reports of various groups, and the German army began to send snipers to Stalingrad, but there was no way to do this, if only their own snipers could be equipped with sniper rifles of later generations, speaking of which, as far as Andrei knew, Kuusinin engineers had tried to produce a batch of SVDs, but the accuracy was not good at all, and it could not meet the requirements of later generations. Later, I finally found the reason, although the size and size of the parts of the trial sniper rifle are exactly the same as the SVD, but the industrial level is different, and there is a gap in the things made, such as the problem of hot and cold barrels...... The barrel will expand and contract, and the thermal expansion and contraction of the barrel will directly affect the distance between the rifling in the barrel, which in turn affects the shooting accuracy.

Therefore, the barrel of a professional sniper rifle should be specially treated to reduce the coefficient of thermal expansion and contraction, otherwise...... If you shoot a few bullets in a row, the barrel of the gun will be inaccurate.

The key problem is the industrial level, it's the 40s, the SVD was only equipped in 1967, and the sniper rifle and the assault rifle are not the same, so the SVD probably can't be used in the Great Patriotic War.

By the way, industry, Andrei suddenly remembered that the Soviet Union would not look down on American and British tanks, artillery and rifles. There are as many trucks and machine lathes as there are - the rear factories need a lot of industrial equipment.

There are not enough lathes, but some factories are unable to produce at full capacity because they do not have enough technicians to do so, so they have to send a large number of women, the elderly, teenagers and even disabled soldiers to work as mechanics. Even so, the total number of Soviet workers in the association was only about 10 million, which was only the same as in 1940. At present, Germany probably controls about 10 million people (of which about 8.37 million Germans) are capable of working in the production area, but this does not include factory personnel in the occupied territories. Moreover, this would in many cases be a patchwork, and the average Soviet mechanics were generally at a distance from the able-bodied and skilled German mechanics.

But the Soviet Union also had its own way - to bite the rabbit if it was in a hurry! The level of poor skills of their own workers is lower. Then simplify the production process of weapons. Let the structure of the weapon be so simple that even a fool can produce it: the simplest example is the "turntable machine gun"; The production process of AK47 can be quickly mastered by an apprentice.

If the inefficiency of the workers themselves is small and the number of them is small, then the working hours of the workers will be greatly extended: the Germans work 8 hours a day, and the Soviets work 14 hours!

The "amount of labor" went up. It is also necessary to solve the problem of industrial output.

The ultimate manifestation of red artilleryism requires the backing of machine tools and steel - the Soviet Union could have such a powerful firepower configuration that it would inevitably consume a lot of ammunition. Because of this, the Soviet Union became the highest consumer of ammunition in the history of World War II: about 10 million tons were used, 2.2 million tons more than Germany, and 3.4 million tons more than the United States!

This is a problem: in order for the Red Army to maintain the terrifying firepower of the "artillery doctrine" that the Americans are ashamed of, the production of high-quality steel must be at a very high level: under normal circumstances, the actual production of ammunition is generally higher than the actual use, because in actual combat, no one will completely run out of ammunition, and will always keep a part as a backup. So if the actual amount of ammunition used in the USSR is 10 million tons, then the rear will have to produce more ammunition than 10 million tons!

According to conservative estimates, the Soviet Union consumed more than a third of the country's steel on ammunition production alone! -- All to catch up with the steel consumption of the construction of armored forces!

There is also the need for high-quality gasoline: the USSR did not lack oil, but it lacked high-quality gasoline! What's even more incredible is that the Red Army will be able to get no more finished fuel than its opponents! This is simply incredible at first glance!

Why?

The simplest explanation is that there is not enough coal!

The Soviet Union, which had a huge mechanized army, had an average annual fuel consumption of only 400~5 million tons during the Great Patriotic War in history, and only 5.6 million tons in 1944 at its peak (including airplanes and automobiles...... and in 1943 Germany received a total of 10 million tons of liquid fuel, including coal-to-liquids. If it weren't bombed by the Allies, its coal-to-liquid part would still have the potential to continue to increase production!

The Soviet Union has a vast territory, abundant resources, and the people are hard-working, but the steel output just can't catch up with Germany - it's still a shortage of coal! In fact, the problem of coal shortage existed long before the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War. Every year, in order to make up for the shortage of coal, the Soviet Union had to import a large amount of coal from abroad in exchange for oil.

This problem of coal shortage cannot be solved before the end of the war, because the shortage of coal in the Soviet Union is too large, and if it wants to rely on imports to alleviate the contradiction between supply and demand. According to the latest statistics of the coal sector, at least about 40 million tons of imports are needed every year to return to the pre-war level!

Imports are unreliable, if the Soviet Union really relies on imported coal to make up for the shortfall, then the Soviet Union's railways and ports will do other things, and they will pull coal every day!

Now as soon as the Americans heard about the shortage of coal in the Soviet Union, they immediately offered to give assistance to the Soviet Union, but the Soviet Union could only say: "Thank you!" No, because the railways and ports here simply can't afford such a large volume of traffic. ”

The United States said, "Then I'll give you steel." It's much easier to transport steel than it is to transport coal."

The Soviet Union said again: "Thank you so much!" But I don't have to, because even if you bring the steel, I don't have that much electricity to process it. ”

The lack of electricity seriously limited the processing capacity of Soviet factories, or because of the lack of coal! As a result, the Soviet Union was unable to quickly process it into the necessary weapons, even if it had access to sufficient raw materials. The Soviet Union had no better solution to this problem than to work on its own, and the only thing that could replace coal for power generation was oil!

However, the cost of generating electricity from oil was too high, and almost every kilowatt-hour of electricity sent was "high-priced" electricity compared to coal, but this would have left the Soviet Union with no choice.

Mongolia has a world-class open-pit coal mine, which has not been discovered in this era, and it is normal to say that many gold mines in Siberia were discovered after the war. So he reported to Moscow the news that there was a large open-pit coal mine in Mongolia.

What Andrei didn't know was

At the secret research base in Moscow, Kuusinin also told the chief steward of the military industry, Ustinov, about the situation with the SVD: "In 1963, the Soviet troops selected the Soviet army to be selected by Yevgeny? Fedorovich? Dragunov designed a semi-automatic sniper rifle to replace the Mosin-Nagant sniper rifle. After further refinement, in 1967 began to equip the troops. The Dragonov sniper rifle was the world's first precision marksman rifle created specifically for its use. A new modification of the SVD with a new fiberglass composite butt and handguard, as well as a new magazine with threaded holes for mounting bipods in front of the magazine entrance.

In the Soviet Army, each squad was equipped with one SVD. Soldiers equipped with SVD receive specialized training against this weapon. Shooters equipped with SVDs act in unison with the entire squad and extend the effective range of the entire squad to 600 meters or more (AK-47 accuracy is limited). Due to its design for the simple purpose of extending the range of the squad, the SVD is a rugged and durable rifle. This fact is further indicated by the bayonet mount and the mechanical sight for aiming in case of damage to the sight. The reliability of the SVD is still recognized), which allowed the SVD to be used for a long time and widespread. ”

And Ustinov asked: "Comrade Kuusinin, this designer is there now, if you find him, will you be able to solve the problem of the production of sniper rifles now?" Kuusinin said: "No, February 20, 1920, Yevgeny? Fedorovich? Born in Izhevsk, a city famous for its manufacture of small arms, Dragunov's grandfather had been working at the Izhevsk Arsenal for the past and as a family tradition, he studied machining technology at the Izhevsk Industrial Institute, and after graduation he worked at the same factory where his grandfather had been working since the Tsarist period, and his first project was to improve the processing technology of the Mosin-Nagant M1891/30 rifle bayonet. In 1939, he enlisted in the Soviet Red Army as a gunner at the regimental headquarters.

At the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War in 1941, he was promoted to chief of ordnance, during which time he gained a lot of experience with all kinds of weapons of the Soviet Union and the enemy. Dragunov himself was a lover of shooting sports, often participating in various shooting competitions and achieving good results, and he was even a certified shooting instructor. These skills and experience will be of great help to him in the design of small arms and light weapons in the future. ”

Then, Kusinin said: "Now he is still an ordinary ordnance chief, this is not a problem of drawings but a problem of industrial technology, our current processing technology cannot be compared with future generations!" ”

Except for the AK47, which is relatively easy to process because of the fact that the time of its appearance is not far from now, all the classic weapons of the Soviet Union in later generations cannot be compared with the original and cannot meet the design requirements

As the number one person in charge of the military industry, Ustinov certainly knows what the current situation of the Soviet Union's industry is, the rapid industrialization of the Soviet Union was indeed a miracle, but as an important participant, Ustinov also knows in his heart, the current Soviet Union is an industrial power, but it is still backward in technology, the Soviet industry is better than Germany in terms of output and industrial potential, but it is undeniable that the technology is a little backward in front of it, and the most critical machine tool reserve for the war economy, Germany has an absolute quantitative advantage of 1.3 million to 400,000, and Germany's machine tools are far ahead in terms of quality, compared with Germany, the overall industrial capacity of the Soviet Union is still at a disadvantage, and in the last year of the Second Five-Year Plan, the Soviet Union's steel output is at most two-thirds of Germany's. He knew very well the Soviet background. The situation of the skilled worker team, although a large number of excellent skilled workers have been trained over the years. At present, it is less than half of the skilled workers of the Germans, so the Soviet Union chose the method of winning by output, and at the same time simplifying the production process, many planes of the Soviet Red Air Force are made of wood, and now some important materials such as armor steel also need the assistance of the United States, and now there is a problem is the shortage of coal, yes, everyone knows that the Soviet Union is the only country in the world that can be self-sufficient in mineral resources, and the Soviet Union's coal reserves are of course very large, but now Ukraine has lost it, The coal fields of Donbass are now in the hands of the Germans, and the coal mines in Siberia are difficult to mine, and the output has not been able to be raised!

The suffering of the industrial sector is still great, but Andrei, who is far away in Stalingrad, gave Ustinov a big gift package, and the news that there is an open-pit coal mine in Mongolia came to Moscow, and after getting the news from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ustinov almost jumped up, but soon, he thought of a problem: there is no railway, how to transport the coal dug up, and it can't be carried to the Urals. (To be continued.) )