Chapter 20 Type E1 Rifle

However, to Wang Maoru's surprise, the Japanese arsenal not only refused, but also ridiculed the Chinese for not being able to produce such an excellent weapon as Type 38.

The telegram refusing to cooperate made Wang Maoru extremely angry at the arrogance of the Japanese, so he asked the American EAT Light Weapons Development Company to disassemble and improve the Type 38 rifle, and started his own copycat plan without informing the Japanese.

He proposed to the EAT Weapons R&D Department to produce a rifle, which should combine the advantages of the Japanese Type 38 rifle and the advantages of the Lee Enfield rifle, and the weapon caliber is 7.7mm, using the Lee Enfield rifle cartridge or the Mauser bullet 7.9mm caliber, and the whole gun still adopts the simple and practical Japanese style to reduce the cost.

Naturally, the Japanese side did not know that there were still people copying their weapons in the United States at this time, and because the lethality of Japanese-style weapons was weak, mainstream weapons such as Europe and the United States, and even many Asian countries were not optimistic about them, and the sales direction of Japanese-style weapons was limited to some Asian countries or regions.

Chinese's copycat ability is extremely strong, in fact, the copycat ability of European and American countries far exceeds that of China, but they have a deep-rooted concept of patent law and abide by the bottom line of the law. Stimulated by Wang Maoru's Jin Yuan, the American employees of the R&D department of EAT Company took only half a month to finalize this rifle. Due to the production technology of the Lee Enfield rifle, the copycat Type 38 rifle is naturally very simple.

This modification of the Type 38 rifle and the Lee Enfield rifle was named the EAT1 rifle, or the E1 rifle for short. The E1 rifle is 1180mm in length, with a rotating rear-pull bolt and a double-row ten-round magazine feed with a Mitsubishi bayonet.

After hundreds of verifications, the company's firearms researchers unanimously believe that the Mauser bullet 7.9mm bullet has poor stability, poor lethality and high stability, while the 7.7mm bullet has moderate stability and lethality, and conforms to the mainstream design of European and American bullets. In particular, they have the ready-made production technology of the Lee Enfield 7.7mm bullet and 7.7mm barrel, and the modified gun can be sold to any British Commonwealth country in the future, and the R&D department unanimously decided to set the EAT1 bullet as a 7.7mm*57mm pointed bullet.

The bayonet that was not valued by Europeans, the designers adopted the triangular bayonet designed by Wang Maoru, abandoning the dagger-type bayonet length that is the mainstream in Europe and the United States today. The determination of the Mitsubishi bayonet is also due to the boss Wang Mao, because the scientific researchers do not attach importance to the bayonet compared to the rifle, they believe that in the future the bayonet can only be used for deterrence or military parades, so they agreed to finalize it.

Because the length of the gun is 1180mm, in order to make the gun face the Japanese 38 type in the future will not suffer too much in the fight bayonet, the bayonet will be lengthened, so that the EAT1 (referred to as E1 type) plus the bayonet after the total length reaches 50mm, of course, the bayonet is too slender, thanks to the development of the American steel industry. If a 600mm bayonet is produced in China, it will break with a hard bump.

Due to the use of the Lee Enfield rifle barrel technology and bullets, and the longer barrel, the gun has a maximum firing range of 1900m and an effective range of 1000m.

Its magazine is a double-row 10-round magazine, and the disadvantage is that the same as the carbine, the 10-round magazine must be exhausted or the bullet is pulled and ejected by the bolt before the magazine can be replaced.

The bolt and bolt technology is entirely based on the Lee Enfield rifle technology, but the dust cap has been added to the model 38 rifle to suit the desert dusty weather.

In addition, unlike the butt of the Type 38 rifle, the E1 rifle is made of two pieces of wood, which is easy to crack over time, but can save wood.

Due to the hasty imitation and modification of the EAT, some of the designs of this gun were also questioned by the research and development personnel, but Wang Maoru did not wait for the design to be completed, applied for a patent with the United States Patent Office, and asked the arsenal to invest immediately. During the period when the Chinese Exclusion Act occurred in the United States, EAT, as a company run by a Chinese owner, widely recruited and recruited Chinese from the West Coast to Los Angeles, which made him a great reputation in the local Chinese community.

Due to the short production cycle of the original machine, the EAT factory first produced 1,000 EAT1 rifles for practical use. In the company's shooting range, each weapons inspector has to shoot 600 rounds of ammunition every day, and Wang Mao is in pain when he sees it. But the pain can't be helped, who let this weapon go into battle in a hurry at his request, and he also became a weapon inspector, which can be regarded as practicing marksmanship.

After testing, the standard rate of fire of the E1 rifle is 12 rounds per minute, and mature shooters can shoot rounds per minute, of course, such rapid fire is more damaging to the barrel. And for novices, after a period of training, it can reach 10 rounds per minute, which is exactly the bullet capacity of a magazine. The Type E1 has a slightly lower lethal rate of fire than the Lee Enfield Short Rifle, but has a longer effective range and can be used as a sniper rifle. It also has the advantage of being more resistant to sand and dust, and the E1 can be used in places such as the Middle East, Iran and Africa compared to the Lee Enfield rifle, which is more suitable for British weather.

Of course, there are some deficiencies in changing the gun, the gun is not easy to carry because the gun is too long, and the cost is one-fifth higher than that of the Japanese 38 type, the gun double-row ten-round magazine can only be removed after the shooting, otherwise it can only be removed by pulling the bolt, and it is inconvenient to replace the gun magazine.

For the shortcomings, Wang Maoru can't help it, even after a hundred years, there is no perfect rifle in the world, and in this era, such a rifle is enough. After registering the E1 patent, Wang Maoru took Carl, Zhao Jiacheng and others to the American Firearms Association with the rifle to sell.

A rifle produced by an Asian, naturally, was widely ...... Disdain, especially when I learned that the gun imitated the Type 38 rifle, and at the same time adopted part of the craftsmanship of the Lee Enfield rifle, and the four-like rifle made was even more disdainful by everyone. Everyone teased: "This gun is not a Japanese gun, it is not a British gun, it is a British and Japanese gun." It should not be called the E1 type, it should be called the small mule rifle. (Mules are a breed of donkeys and horses)

The five major weapons companies thought that the EAT company had been silent for a month and a half, secretly developing something, and it turned out that the production of this kind of gun was really shocking, and they made fun of them, and they were even more disdainful of their gun, and they also tried their best to slander and change the gun outside.

Wang Maoru did not give up, and took Zhao Jiacheng, who was promoted to assistant, to the United Kingdom to sell, although because the bullet of the changed gun was the same as that of the British 77 (that is, the Lee Enfield short rifle), but the poor magazine design of the changed gun still made the British very unhappy. At the same time, it was also criticized by the British Machinery Bureau as the worst magazine, and after receiving this comment, no one cared about changing the gun. The factory of the American EAT Light Weapons Company had already started producing 10,000 E1 rifles at this time. Workers work and get paid as long as the boss tells them to, especially when EAT recruits 3,000 Chinese workers who were persecuted by the Chinese Exclusion Act in the United States.

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