Chapter Seventy-Eight: Live Firing

Live firing is divided into two parts: small arms firing and anti-aircraft artillery firing, the unit serves as a soldier, the small arms firing uses rifles, the cadet corps uses small arms firing pistols, and the anti-aircraft gun firing is roughly the same as the company.

The times are advancing, science and technology are developing, and military building is changing with each passing day, and the light weapons and antiaircraft artillery of those years have now withdrawn from the stage of history and have been replaced by more advanced weapons.

The essence of live ammunition shooting is that the impact point and the target meet at the advance point, light weapons are like this, antiaircraft artillery is like this, all weapons are like this, the difference is that there is an error in light weapon shooting, relying on personal judgment, through the subtle adjustment of the muzzle direction to correct, other weapons shooting deviations, then there are special operation methods or technical means to achieve correction.

It can be said that live ammunition shooting is the ultimate goal of our academy study, and everything is to improve the hit rate, and only by increasing the hit rate can we have enough technical support to win the war, and only then can we have enough grasp of the victory.

The artillery academy attaches great importance to live ammunition shooting, and there are classroom explanations on small arms, and training courses are also arranged, but during our time at the school, we only trained *****, and anti-aircraft gun shooting lasted for three years in the academy, and in the last semester, almost all of them were used for motorized marching and anti-aircraft artillery shooting.

Maybe it's not just for the army, but when I went home on vacation, I came into contact with a public security policeman, and it was also ***** to carry a gun with me, but by the time I became a police officer, it had been eliminated and replaced by a newer pistol.

The real shooting process, ten rounds of experience, ten rounds of assessment, ended in the middle of the morning, but the previous classroom explanation and gun training, but quite a lot of attention, there are more than a dozen theoretical classes, gun training also has more than a dozen class hours.

"Three points and one line", understanding the structure of weapons, finding the correct relationship between the front sight and the gap, distinguishing the virtual light and eliminating interference, this is the focus of the class. "Intentional aiming and unintentional firing", strengthening the stability of holding the gun, and experiencing the different strengths of holding the gun with one hand and holding the plate with the index finger are the focus of the training.

In order to strengthen the training effect, the trainees are asked to carry water bottles, fill them with water, and hang them on the barrel of the gun when they aim with the gun, until they can no longer hold on, and then let them rest.

The long-term gun training has become the main content of the field course, which was once boring and boring, but everyone has a dream of a sharpshooter, all of them gritted their teeth and insisted, and individually self-pressurized, and found two or three bricks to hang on because the kettle was not enough.

Before the assessment, the ten bullet experience, divided into two times, training for so long, spending so much effort, only two short opportunities to familiarize yourself with the shooting process, experience the essentials of shooting, only to know that sharpshooters are fed by bullets, dull gunshots, violent recoil, may not have adapted to the shooting environment, has not completely overcome the panic psychology of the first shot, the real assessment has come.

The same ten bullets, divided into two, take the best one to calculate the score, after the experience, familiar with the pistol, master the bullet trace law, it is easy to change the gun, each gun performance is different, otherwise you have to re-correct the aiming point.

The aiming point is generally determined according to the ring line on the chest ring target, the May Fourth pistol is powerful, with 25 meters as the assessment distance, according to the principle of ballistics, the aiming point should be slightly lower than the actual hit point, usually between the lower ten rings and the lower nine rings.

At that time, the eyesight was okay, I could clearly see the bullet hit point, and when I experienced shooting, I corrected it according to the impact point, and after the correction, the selected aiming point had to pass the distance from the upper and lower ring lines, and memorize it, because there were no other obvious marks to refer to except the ring line.

The last five rounds, the results were good, three ten rings and two nine rings, I remember that it should have been the best results at that time.

After graduation, he became a cadre, and changed to semi-automatic rifle training and assessment, a 100-meter chest ring target, known as aiming and shooting, and the assessment standard was also changed, no longer counting the number of rings, but calculating the time and the number of targets according to rapid fire.

Later, when he changed jobs, his eyesight and physical strength have decreased significantly, and he uses a pistol that is lighter than the May Fourth type, and the assessment distance has also become correspondingly shorter.

As our main course, almost all of the courses include shooting, ballistics, weapons, field military survival, battlefield rescue, and even psychology.

Weapons should be removed from long-distance marching, displayed to seize positions, calculated and corrected when firing, so that the impact point and the target meet at the advance point, and maintenance should be maintained after shooting to ensure that the next normal tracking and detection and normal launch hit.

In the last semester, administratively, I was still the commander of the probationary company, but in the process of live-fire target shooting, I often changed to ensure that as many trainees as possible were in the position of commander, organizing motorized marches and live-fire shooting.

Although almost all of the semester is field training for antiaircraft artillery, there are too many trainees, and it is not realistic to ensure that everyone can become commanders; only a few cadets have the opportunity to serve as company commanders, and more often they play the role of squad leader and exercise their ability to command slowly in single artillery shooting.

It was under such circumstances that I had some unpleasant encounters with the cadres of the cadet, and the fellow of the cadet corps, and also my only fellow countryman, who had not served as the backbone of the probationary company for three years in the military academy, and had not even served as the deputy squad leader.

When you receive an order to withdraw from the training ground, the instructor also hands you a map, pointing to the destination, and then sits in the co-pilot's seat, closes your eyes and recuperates, and the convoy is handed over to the company commander who is temporarily directing.

The first is a command car, three seats in the cab of a military truck, and the company commander sits in the middle, and the instructor next to him will not remind him that the driver of the automobile company experiences such a scene every year, and the road is actually very familiar, and he will not remind him that the commander will go wherever he directs.

Sitting in the car is not as good as walking, the reference is difficult to determine, the instructor is sitting next to him, it is very easy to get nervous, and I don't know how to judge when I am nervous.

The plan is familiar, the preparation is sufficient, and the weapons are removed in an orderly manner, which is their own strength, and the old army participated in the live ammunition target shooting twice, with the purpose of future growth, and has paid special attention to it, not missing a little and not messing up.

When the old unit was in the Shanghai shooting range, the brigade headquarters once organized the withdrawal march between the companies and displayed the competition of occupying the position.

When a trainee is a commander, the inspection is not careful, the equipment and materials carried are missing, and the distribution box is forgotten, and there are several occurrences.

The evacuation went smoothly, but as soon as he got into the car and stepped over the co-pilot's seat, the instructor seemed to have a sense of nervousness at a glance that seemed to be intentional or unintentional, and there was a sense of tension at this glance, which was a deep-rooted stage fright.

In fact, motorized marching, directing vehicles to march, to reach the designated place, is not very difficult, remember key intersections, remember a few permanent landmarks as references, and then just remember the distance.

It is not difficult to remember the distance, the truck has a schedule, some roads have milestones, it is easy to judge the distance, the number of kilometers traveled is almost the same as the actual distance, the destination is generally reached, and then stop to look at the environment, find an independent and obvious landmark, and the position is also found.

Familiar with weapons, but not familiar with trucks, a nervous even the driver in front of the instrument can not understand, the driver is a veteran oil, the age of the soldier may be shorter than me, in the old company, such a soldier at will to scold do not dare to make a sound, at this time but full of veteran shelf, do not remind, just drive forward, do not stop not stop, do not call to turn do not turn.

Seeing the recruits posing in front of them was particularly angry, I felt that it was better to ask the instructor for more face, but I knew that I usually taught and saw the kind instructor, but as soon as I opened my mouth to ask, it attracted a "burst", saying that I had talked about it all in class, and I ignored it.

A slap in vain, no result, quite aggrieved, marching on the car, I don't know the distance, no matter how firmly I remember the external references, I don't dare to make a judgment, once I go over, my eyes are really black, and I can't determine the location anymore.

At a three-way intersection, he had to command the vehicle to stop and wait for the instructor to reprimand, but fortunately, at this time he finally woke up, distinguished which was the fuel gauge and which was the odometer, and knew the distance, so he dared to direct the convoy to continue to move.

I don't know each other, because of this experience, I have a close relationship with this instructor, and when the assessment results come out, one of the students in the army may fail, and it is impossible to retake the test with live ammunition, so I took this student to find the instructor, got sympathy, and finally just passed and passed successfully.

Perhaps such a move is superfluous, because live ammunition shooting is the main subject of the main course, once it is impossible to graduate, it is impossible for the instructor not to know the stakes, even if he does not care, the cadet team will also care, living together for three years, the team cadres will definitely find a way to let the students graduate smoothly, in fact, I have never heard of the phenomenon of failing to complete the examination because of the failure of the examination.

Academies and universities have their own shooting ranges, but they do not have model aircraft, let alone target aircraft, and perhaps they do not apply for shooting airspace, and they are divided into two categories: fixed-point shooting and mobile target shooting.

Firing at a fixed point, halfway up a lonely peak, a firing point was demarcated, a distance of one kilometer, for anti-aircraft artillery, it can be said that it is aimed at where to shoot. The shooting distance of the moving target is shorter, the track is set up, and the target is dragged for shooting.

As a company commander, he has commanded automatic shooting of simulated formed companies, as a squad leader, he has commanded single-gun shooting, and as an operator, he has cooperated with other trainees as commanders in many positions to complete shooting tasks, and his results are good and belong to the excellent ranks.

Therefore, he has won some honors, and has been rated as "Four Coaches", will explain and demonstrate, will organize and command, will operate and train, will maintain and maintain, and has also been rated as "Excellent Trainee Company Cadres", in three years, only two or three people have won this honor.