This face the enemy, destroy the enemy!

The well-known Broadsword mine is fully capable of mass production equipment under the existing technical conditions, so how can this sharp weapon in the infantry arsenal be forgotten?

"No ordinary small arms or machine gun can produce such a rapid and devastating effect......" – Major Jeffrey of the Australian Army

Due to film and television dramas and games, the M18A1 "Broadsword" mine, which has not attracted much attention for a long time in later generations, has gradually become widely known, and has exploded out of control, and its unique appearance is different from the stereotype of landmine is impressive.

The Scharding effect was discovered by the Germans during the Great War, but it did not produce any effective results; Since then, the immediate impetus for its application has been the enormous deterrence of the elusive adversary of the Peninsular War.

The Canadians took the lead in producing results, its name "Phoenix", or Immortal Bird, it applied the principle of Shalding, but as a prototype weapon, its defects are quite flawed, not only larger and heavier than carrying, but also the number of fragments produced is very small, and the effective killing distance is only about 20 meters.

Because the Canadians did not add prefabricated fragments, the fragments produced by the explosion were all from thin steel plates that had been shattered.

After throwing bricks and stones, the Americans added a large number of evenly tiled steel balls to it, and at the same time replaced the steel shell with plastic, which doubled the lethality but greatly reduced the weight, and the result was the M18 directional mine.

However, the Americans were still not satisfied, and continued to make improvements, such as replacing TNT with C4 and switching to a pulsed ignition device.

The thunder body is equipped with 700 steel balls and 650g of explosives, and when detonated, the enemy within 100 meters of the 120° range in front of it will be pasted with dense steel balls like raindrops, and will be beaten into a sieve in the real sense.

"You see? That's probably what I thought. ”

Zhou Changfeng casually sketched a sketch and roughly gestured.

Nowadays there is no C4, but there is black sorkin, and C4 is actually black sokin with plasticizers and binders, which is extremely safe, and simple black sorkin is not as stable as TNT even after passivation.

"White medicine? Not necessary, right? Wang Huan'an hesitated a little when he heard "Hei Suojin", "That thing is fierce, but it is not very stable after being passivated, it is better to use yellow medicine." ”

"It's okay, it's up to you to make a trade-off, after all, the difference in speed is two thousand, and the difference in power is still obvious."

It is certainly unreasonable for professionals to do professional things, and it is certainly unreasonable to force performance in one aspect without considering other aspects.

The weapons and equipment of the Ming Dynasty are usually not extreme, and they are relatively stable.

Like the oxygen torpedo made by the Japanese in history, the performance is indeed strong, but the reliability and safety are very unreliable, which is a typical extreme product of the pursuit of paper data.

As one joke goes:

After the end of the war, the American experts who went to inspect pointed to the oxygen torpedo and asked in surprise: How do you add liquid and deflate such a dangerous thing?

The other party laughed without saying a word, and hid directly behind the barrier with the expert, and then ordered a recruit to go over and unscrew the torpedo valve.

"And then... I want to ask, has Lao Wang Ling ever seen an automatic rifle that fires short rifle bullets? Zhou Changfeng asked expectantly.

"Short rifle bullets? What's that? Short warhead or short shell? ”

"It's all short."

"Uh..." Wang Huan'an, who was slightly surprised, frowned, and replied with an effort to recall: "I seemed to have seen it when I first entered the factory more than ten years ago, but I didn't see it. ”

In the late and interwar periods of the European War, the warring countries realized that the rifle was too powerful and invested in the improvement and research and development of new weapons.

In addition to submachine guns and bolt-action rifles, some semi-automatic or fully automatic rifles were also being developed, such as the Liberol automatic rifle created by the French.

Instead of a full-power rifle cartridge, it uses a specially developed experimental 8×35mm ammunition, an early intermediate-power rifle cartridge.

The gun weighs up to 5.1kg empty, is fed with a 25-round curved magazine, and has a bipod mounted under the gun. In the test, this type of forward-thinking weapon performed poorly, with an effective range of only 400m, and a high failure rate, so it was decisively put into the cold by the military.

The same is true for the Ming Dynasty, Yingtian Arsenal paid out of its own pocket to try to develop an experimental ammunition that uses a single-base propellant, a caliber of 23 centimeters, and a cartridge case length of 11 minutes (7.36×35.2mm), and designed and manufactured an automatic rifle with a short recoil principle of the barrel, but it did not enter the eyes of the Ordnance Bureau.

At the same time, the Guangzhou Arsenal also developed 7.36×40mm experimental ammunition at its own expense, as well as a semi-automatic rifle with a long-stroke piston gas conduction principle, and finally only a dozen were trial-produced.

"Actually, this line of thinking is very correct, and we should continue to walk." Zhou Changfeng provenly asked, "Can you restart that project?" ”

Hearing this, Wang Huan'an, who was very embarrassed, shook his head, "Back then, it was done by our factory at its own expense, and now if we do it again, the Ordnance Bureau will still look down on it." The effective range was less than 400 meters, which they decided was not enough in actual combat. ”

"Huh! How do the masters sitting on the chairs know if it is enough or not? ”

"This is the matter of the Ordnance Bureau, Brother Zhou, you have to go to the book to persuade them, otherwise if we don't allocate money, we won't be able to do it."

Zhou Changfeng understood that this matter could not be forced, and the engineers of the arsenal had limited resources to mobilize independently, so they still had to find a way elsewhere.

Since I have to leave tomorrow morning, of course I can't go back to the station today.

After arriving at the location of the military expedition, he found a blank official post, and after some thought, wrote a short suggestion, hoping that the Ordnance Bureau could continue to deepen the area of intermediate power ammunition.

However, there is a high probability that it will sink into the sea.

Therefore, he also wrote a letter by the way, which was addressed to Xu Zhanwei, hoping that he could help promote it, which should have some effect.

Zhou Changfeng is trying his best to prepare for the big war in the future, and there are many people who are doing the same as him.

In the afternoon of this day, Yangzhou.

The sun is shining, the spring breeze is warm, and the environment is really pleasant.

The campus of Yangzhou Institute of Technology is fluttering, but the teachers and students are strictly restrained, and the sharp-eyed and capable Jinyi guards have inspected the entire campus since yesterday.

A convoy of motorcycles and sedans slowly approached, and the crown prince, who had not left the palace since the beginning of the year, left Beijing for the first time this year to inspect the flying company here.

There is enough wasteland next to the campus, and two runways, one long and one short, have been built here, as well as warehouses and simple towers.

Zhu Likai, who walked slowly, said: "What many people have dreamed of in ancient times has now become a reality, and it is naturally excellent for our talented people to be able to control the eagle in the sky. ”

His words immediately attracted the echo of several people accompanying him, "What His Highness said is extremely true. ”

He stopped next to a blue-gray biplane trainer plane, touched the wing skin, and asked, "How is the situation of this flying company?" How many planes and instructors are there? ”

(End of chapter)