The Beretta Arms Company, located in Brescia, is one of the most well-known military companies in the region. Over the years, Beretta Arms has produced a number of weapons, but the most well-known of them is the Maxim heavy machine gun, designed by the chief firearms designer, Baron Maxim.

Although it was initially adopted only in Italy itself, over time the prestige of the Maxim heavy machine gun gradually became known in various countries. Of course, this also brought countless orders to Beretta Arms, and with the prestige of this weapon, Beretta Arms became one of the two largest firearms companies in Italy.

Of course, Beretta Arms Company is very satisfied with the thriving business now, but the Beretta people are not just resting on credit and not thinking about making progress, but want to develop more new weapons to make Beretta even more prosperous.

Pietro Beretta, the new general manager of Beretta Arms, agrees with this. Therefore, under his leadership, Beretta Arms Company is very enthusiastic about the development of new weapons.

In the Beretta Arms Company office building on Walton Street, Pietro Beretta is constantly busy.

"Kanawa, give this document to Director Polik and tell them that I have agreed to their plan for the development of a new revolver."

"Okay, General Manager."

After handing the secretary a document with his name on it, Pietro rubbed his face and picked up the phone to answer the channel. "Hey, is it the Administration Department, when will the report I want arrive? Let them hurry, I'll wait. ”

He put down the phone and continued to be busy, when he heard a knock on the door.

"Come in, put the papers on the table."

As soon as Pietro finished speaking, he looked up and realized that the person who had come was not from the Administration Department, but Baron Majkeqin of the company's town store, and he hurriedly got up and said. "Uncle Makqin, why are you here?"

Makqin sat down in his chair, and his loud voice resounded throughout the room. "Can't I come?"

"How can you, uncle, you come at any time, I am always welcome."

How could Pietro mess with this great god, the best heavy machine gun the company currently sells is named after him.

"Uncle, why don't you recuperate at White Manor, the doctor said that you are not well yet."

"I'm still cultivating, if I continue to cultivate, I don't know if the company will have my share in developing new weapons."

Hearing Makqin's words with a wave of resentment, Pietro felt a pang of regret in his heart, and made a mistake, which was a big mistake. It turned out that they had previously investigated the opinions of various armies on the use of the Makqin heavy machine gun, and generally believed that this was a good gun for defensive positions, and with it, the pressure on its defense would be much less.

If there was a fly in the ointment, it was that the machine gun was too heavy to follow the soldiers in the same charge. In fact, if you think about it, the full weight of the Makqin heavy machine gun has reached 5 or 60KG, how can it keep up with the speed of the soldiers' attack.

Of course, in view of this, Beretta Arms has the opportunity to develop another machine gun that can keep up with the speed of the infantry. At this time, the War Department sent a notice that the Italian Army intends to purchase a machine gun that can keep up with the footsteps of soldiers, and its requirements must not exceed 12KG in empty weight, which should be easy to carry.

This request of the War Department made Pietro very happy in his heart, so the designers were ready to start developing this machine gun. At that time, because Maxim was not in good health and needed to recuperate, Pietro did not inform the company's chief gunsmith, which seemed to be a huge mistake at the moment, and it would be terrible if it caused the god to be dissatisfied.

Although Beretta Arms is the oldest weapons manufacturing company in Europe, and their Beretta family has been in charge of running the company, the real control behind the company is now the royal family. Needless to say, the relationship between this great god and the king is also very much relied on in his own family.

"Uncle Makqin, this is my fault, I didn't think about it before, and I thought that my uncle wanted to cultivate, so this was my mistake."

Pietro's words made Makqin's face soften a lot, he is not an unreasonable person, he was just angry that he didn't notify him of this new weapon development before, but now that the other party apologized, of course he went down the steps.

Seeing that Makqin's attitude had eased, Pietro continued. "Uncle, since you're here, can you help me look at the plan for this weapon development?"

As he spoke, he took out a draft of the weapon design and handed it to Makqin.

As soon as he took the draft, Makqin read it. Here is a sketch of the gun magazine. It is not the same as the magazine used on its own heavy machine gun, although it is also a magazine based on the principle of air conduction. Since he invented the muzzle gas recoil magazine, other designers have modified and modified it here, and this magazine is no exception.

"This was designed by Yobani Gul from the design department, because we had considered continuing to use the gun magazine you designed before, but this time the army was too demanding, and the important requirements for the gun were too harsh, so we had to re-adopt the design with less kinetic energy."

As for the army's request for a new machine gun, how could Makqin not know that the weight requirement of 12KG stuck in this jam cannot indeed be used to modify the Makqin heavy machine gun.

"This is really difficult to do, and it can only weigh 12KG at most, which is indeed a bit of a test."

"Isn't it?"

Faced with Maxim's words, Pietro immediately spoke. "At present, the opinion of the design department that the army's requirements can only be air-cooled, and water-cooled ones do not meet the requirements at all."

"But if it's cold, it won't be long, have you ever thought about it?"

Of course, Makqin knew the advantages and disadvantages of machine gun water cooling and air cooling, and asked the key question directly.

You must know that although air cooling can reduce the weight of the machine gun, the rate of fire of five or six hundred rounds per minute is destined to overheat the barrel very quickly. Otherwise, he would have gone crazy and put a thick cold bucket on the machine gun he designed, and without water cooling, he would not be able to shoot continuously.

Faced with Maxim's question, Pietro replied. "We have thought about it before, and we have actually discussed a solution to this problem, which is to change the barrel."

"Change the barrel?"

"Yes, this is our preliminary plan at present, and it still needs to see if the design can be perfected. If not, then we can only use short firing methods to increase the fire output time of the new portable machine guns. ”

That's right, for Pietro, if there is no such thing as a good solution, let the people adapt to the weapon. After all, this new weapon is so light in weight that it is impossible to achieve the same performance as the Maxim machine gun. To have half the performance, that's enough.