Chapter 37 Iron and Steel Military Industry

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In October 1893, in Sizhejiang City, in the eastern part of the Republic of Seris, the second phase of the steel plant that Avalanche Steel Heavy Industry had invested heavily in for several years was finally completed.

Now, with the addition of several blast furnaces in the first phase, the entire Avalanche Steel Heavy Industry Group has truly become the No. 1 steel consortium in Asia. Its annual steel production reaches 1.9 million tons, and the production of pig iron reaches a staggering 3.3 million tons.

In this year, the industrial data of each country in this regard (pig iron production) were: - - Britain: 5.9 million tons - France: 3.7 million tons - Germany: 4.4 million tons - Russia: 2.5 million tons - United States: 4.19 million tons - Austria-Hungary: 1.95 million tons - Italy: 1.2 million tons - Yueben: 150,000 tons - Qingguo: 200,000 tons.

In terms of industrial capacity alone, the Republic of Seris under the leadership of Chen Zeyu has become the fifth strongest country after Britain, Germany, the United States, and France.

With qualified high-quality steel, the arms output of the Avalanche Ordnance Group Company in Sizhejiang has also ushered in an explosive growth.

Judging from the ammunition production workshop within the Avalanche Ordnance Industry Group alone, it can produce all large, medium and small-caliber shells of various types from 35mm air-dead machine guns to 355mm large-caliber naval guns, and the output of rifle ammunition has also directly increased by at least five times.

According to Chen Zeyu's guidance, the design and development of ammunition in the ammunition factory began to tilt towards various special-purpose ammunition, such as armor-piercing bullets, tracer bullets, and incendiary bombs.

The second phase of the planned construction of the military factory has also been launched, and the corresponding factory site is set in the northern plain area of Sizhejiang, which has just been planned by Chen Zeyu as the Sizhejiang Military Industrial Zone.

Let's take a look at the standard firearms used by the troops that have just been put into the reorganization of Seris.

In this regard, Chen Zeyu took out the design drawings of the Mauser Type 1898 rifle that would not appear in five years later instead of the Ben-1888 type, and Chen Zeyu apologized again to the German Mr. Mauser in his heart.

In addition, considering the relationship between the technical process has been reached, the design drawings of the Czech 1920 light machine gun and the Browning 1911 semi-automatic pistol were also handed over to the corresponding research and development team of the arsenal by Chen Zeyu, and the last few firearms were named Ben-1890 rifle, Ben-LM1 light machine gun and Ben-PM1 semi-automatic pistol after formal mass production.

In terms of technology, Chen Zeyu is not completely plagiarized, and has made reasonable improvements to several types of firearms, the main of which is to improve the ammunition caliber of the standard rifle, changing it from the original 7.92mm caliber to the smaller 5.88mm caliber used by the future republic.

Although the 7.92mm German-made ammunition is considered the mainstream in this era and the power is not bad, in the eyes of modern people like Chen Zeyu, the 7.92mm ammunition that dominates in this era is naturally not perfect.

In modern shooting test ranges, 7.92mm caliber ammunition has always been criticized for its shooting accuracy and ballistic stability.

When a weapon of this caliber is fired at full strength, it will be difficult for the soldier to control the light weapon due to the impact of the recoil, especially for new recruits who are new to this type of weapon. It can be said that in the two world wars in history, the casualties of the opponent's soldiers were completely piled up by the bullets piled up by various countries.

Weapons experts of this era have not thought about reducing the caliber of weapons accordingly, after all, with a reduced caliber, a firearm of the same size can be loaded more and logistical support will be easier.

However, due to the technological limitations of this era, weapons research and development enterprises in various countries have found that once the caliber of the rifle is reduced in the test, the power of the bullet after firing begins to be greatly reduced. In the end, after combining all the best test results, countries still adopted rifle cartridges of about 8mm one after another.

Of course, none of the above has anything to do with Chen Zeyu, due to professional and personal interests in his previous life, Chen Zeyu himself has this kind of technology for small-caliber firearms.

In the Avalanche Arsenal, after a series of jaw-dropping gun body structure modifications, the final 5.88mm caliber firearm was not only not smaller than the original 7.92mm caliber in the test, but also increased in terms of shooting penetration and lethality.

After the results of the tests in various simulated environments in the weapons test plant were accepted one after another, the rifle, which was named the BEN-1890, officially entered the mass production stage.

The benefits of this recalibrated firearm will be innumerable, first of all, it will increase the amount of ammunition carried by all individual soldiers in the future republic, which is easy to understand, and secondly, it will reduce the recoil of the weapon, which will be difficult to operate and use, and will advantageously improve the shooting hit rate. Of course, the most important thing is that it saves the unit production cost for the factory and promotes the improvement of logistics supply. War is fought in terms of logistics, and weapons that cannot be popularized at low cost can never be called good weapons.

As for the light machine gun and the pistol, Chen Zeyu did not make many changes, these two firearms, which were supposed to be produced during the First World War, will definitely become automatic weapons at the top of the technology in this 19th century. Chen Zeyu's arsenal looked left and right at these two guns, which integrated the essence of technology for decades to come, and finally kept them as they were and went straight into production.

Finally, the standard firearms mass-produced by the Avalanche Arsenal are finalized as follows, among which the BEN-1890 rifle can be ----Caliber: 5.88mm--Ammunition: 5.88*45mm bullet--Magazine capacity: 9 rounds, built-in staggered magazine--Bolt: rotary pull-back type--Overall length: 1107mm--Barrel length: 600mm--Weight: 3.2kg--Rate of fire: about 28 rounds per minute--Muzzle velocity: 876m/ seconds - maximum range: 3000 meters - effective range: 800 meters;

Ben-LM1 light machine gun----Caliber: 7.92mm--Ammunition: 7.92*56mm bullet--Ammunition feeding method: 30-round magazine--Barrel cooling method: air-cooled--Full gun length: 1161 mm--Full gun weight: 9.60 kg--Barrel length: 672 mm--Automatic mode: gas conduction--rifling: 4, right-hand rotation--Winding distance: 240mm--Rate of fire: 500 rounds/min--Muzzle velocity: 830 m/s--Gauge range: 1500 meters;

Ben-PM1 semi-automatic pistol----Caliber: 9mm--Ammunition: 9*19mm pistol cartridges--Magazine capacity: 12 rounds--Overall length: 190 mm--Gun width: 35 mm--Gun height: 135 mm--Total weight: 0.76 kg--Barrel length: 111 mm--Aiming baseline length: 152 mm--Muzzle velocity: 350 m/s--Range: 50 m--Barrel rifling life: >13000 rounds;

Inspired by Chen Zeyu, the firearms factory of the Avalanche Military Industry Group, after the transformation of a merged glass lens company, installed the high-magnification single-hole sight it designed and produced with the grooves on the top of the original body of the Ben-1890 rifle, and the earliest sniper firearm was born.

Later, due to the results of the test, the arsenal lengthened the barrel of the gun on the basis of the original rifle, and finally produced an extended version of the Ben-1890 B sniper rifle that could be mass-produced.

After a period of time, Chen Zeyu, who was conscientious and responsible, inspected the newly built explosives production workshops and artillery manufacturing plants under the jurisdiction of the entire military industrial group.

Avalanche Military Industry Group, due to the formation of a professional team of scientific research and design experts at a very early stage, coupled with the strong support of Chen Zeyu on the one hand, was able to produce infantry guns, heavy howitzers and high-caliber naval guns of various types at an early stage.

By November 1893, the production capacity of the artillery manufacturing plant had skyrocketed due to the abundant raw materials of Avalanche Steel Heavy Industries, which had been put into steel production after the completion of the second phase of the project.

Today's military-industrial complex is capable of producing all types of artillery up to 14 inches (inches, about 25.5 mm per inch).

Among them, there are QA-1 75mm rear-loading rifled rapid-fire guns, HA-1 105mm rear-loading rifled guns, HA-2 120mm rear-loading rifled heavy guns, and HA-3 150mm rear-loading rifled heavy guns; In addition, after the 305mm large-caliber naval gun was put into mass production, the heavy artillery workshop of the artillery factory successively developed and produced the latest 42 times the diameter of the 355mm super-large caliber gun.

The factory is now just waiting for the launch of the cutting-edge "Ryukyu"-class battleship of the Sizhejiang Shipyard, and as long as the hull of the warship is completed, the latest large-caliber naval guns will be ready for use immediately.

In addition to these, Chen Zeyu provided ideas, and the military industrial group has also recently developed two mortars for different purposes, namely the 50mm caliber ultra-light mortar and the 88mm medium and long-range army support mortar.

This mortar may be less powerful than the heavy howitzers used by traditional armies, but it also has mobility advantages that the former does not have.

Compared with the former's large physique, which is often more than 10 tons or tens of tons, this kind of army support weapon is much lighter in terms of weight, and will be able to equip all kinds of mobile combat and mountain warfare units of the Republic in large quantities in the future.