"Da Da Da ......"

Under the operation of the operator, the Makqin machine gun perfectly "smashed" the target, and the powerful firepower and stable performance made Konstantin feel bright.

The official name of the East African imitation of the Maxim machine gun is the Type 1885 heavy machine gun, which is basically a copy of the Maxim machine gun, and at the same time some details have been improved.

This is similar to the MG08 heavy machine gun made by Germany in the previous life, or the Russian M1910 heavy machine gun, which are all extended versions of the Maxim machine gun.

"The rate of fire of our domestic Type 1885 heavy machine gun is between 400 and 450 rounds per minute, which is basically the same as the performance of the British Maxim machine gun, with slight deficiencies, mainly due to the constraints of materials and fine processing, which is the disadvantage of East Africa as a latecomer country, but at present, the Institute of Metals is vigorously developing emerging materials, which is expected to make up for these subtle gaps in two to three years."

Konstantin said: "The 1885 heavy machine gun can be completed almost at the same time as the British, which is your credit, which shows that our military manufacturing industry can at least catch up with the European military industry, this gap is not large, and it is indeed our disadvantage in technology, but this disadvantage is not because our Germans are inferior to the British, but because our East Africa is short in time, and we are the laggards of the world's great powers, so it is not a shame to learn from advanced countries, and admitting deficiencies can better make up for shortcomings." ”

"Your Majesty is right, although there is an element of 'borrowing', but being able to break through this technology in a short period of time still benefits from the huge investment of the kingdom, which is not only the investment in capital and resources, but more importantly, the investment in talents." said the director of the Mbeya City Arsenal.

"Before the Maxim machine gun officially came out, we in East Africa have been improving and researching machine guns for more than ten years, in 1861 the Gatling machine gun came out, and in the Paraguayan war was tested, our factory alone is the improvement of the Gatling machine gun as many as seven or eight kinds, this is only the Mbeya City Arsenal, other units should not be inferior to the research of machine guns, such as the Dar es Salaam City Firearms Research Institute."

The Gatling machine gun is the world's first practical machine gun, in fact, as early as 1851, France invented the Montigny machine gun, but its use is very laborious, and it requires: disemboweling, loading, loading, idle lock, firing and unloading a series of operations, which can tire the soldiers half to death, and can only shoot intermittently, the weight is no less than that of artillery, and the range and power are not as good as artillery.

And Gatlin's problem is also very serious, but before the appearance of the Maxim machine gun, he was the world's best-performing machine gun, and participated in many wars, has been tested by war, in the war between East Africa and Portugal, East Africa has used, the actual record is not outstanding, but it has caused huge psychological damage to the Portuguese black servant army, and can often become a breakthrough on the battlefield.

"In special areas, especially in some narrow military passages, sometimes a Type 1885 heavy machine gun can completely suppress the enemy's firepower, achieving a military effect of being a man and a man, and hundreds of rounds of fire per minute can be said to be a deterrent weapon second only to artillery." said the director of the Mbeya City Arsenal.

"If it is in an open area, it can also be used as a good fire support point, and a few machine guns can form a dense fire network to suppress the enemy, and if hundreds of them are concentrated, they can even deal with a large-scale group attack."

Konstantin also began to think along with his words, if this kind of scene was in the European theater, especially in the Franco-Prussian War and the Austro-Prussian War, it was really possible.

Of course, when East Africa was fighting against the extremely backward African kingdoms such as the Ndebele and Zulus, if there were a few Maxim machine guns, I am afraid that one round would be able to break up the opponent's army.

Konstantin asked: "What are the advantages of the Maxim machine gun compared to the Gatling gun?" ”

"Your Majesty, it is obvious that in terms of ammunition loading, Makqin uses gunpowder gas to complete the automatic, and the whole process can be completed without applying external force, while the Gatling type uses external force and must use the crank to manually load, and the shooting process is very subjective, such as being affected by external factors such as emotion, strength, and so on, and Makqin is much better."

"This is the most intuitive, the specific advantages can be summarized as the Maxim machine gun has a fast and stable shooting speed, a more complete mechanical structure, a lower failure rate, the barrel is water-cooled, theoretically it will not overheat, because the barrel is fixed on the axis rather than moving in lateral space, the shooting accuracy has been greatly improved, and the use of canvas bullet chains is much stronger than the Gatling stability and portability and versatility of gravity feeding."

Therefore, Makqin is an epoch-making product compared to Gatling, of course, the shortcomings of Gatling are not impossible to improve, but under the conditions of the current era, Makqin machine gun is more cost-effective.

For example, in the previous life, with the advancement of electric motors and advanced technology, the Gatling was later reborn, and it is certainly impossible for East Africa to equip the Gatling gun with a separate motor to drive it.

Afterwards, Konstantin visited a demonstration of rifle shooting, the Mauser rifle, the main weapon of the East African army, which has also been improved over the years, but the overall change is not much.

The Mauser rifle was promoted in East Africa during the economic crisis, when a large number of advanced equipment was introduced in East Africa, so the performance of the Mauser rifle in East Africa could be guaranteed.

However, the Mauser rifle in front of him has changed dramatically, which has attracted Konstantin's attention.

"You Mauser rifles don't have thick black smoke, is this new technology?"

"Yes, Your Majesty, in 1884, France invented smokeless gunpowder to replace black powder, but the power was tripled, and in front of you is our experimental rifle in East Africa, and the same German M1888 rifle has been completed and is about to be mass-produced."

"And what about our East African Army?"

"At the moment, it is in the stage of small-scale experiments, and mass production is unlikely, because we are in a different environment than Germany, which has to follow up quickly in the face of the threat from the French, so the M1888 rifle is just a temporary product developed by Germany, and we have introduced its samples from Europe, but there are too many problems, which is mainly due to hasty research and development,"

"The M1888 rifle has a very poor rifling design, which causes the barrel to wear out quickly, the excessive bore pressure generated by the new barrel causes the barrel to rupture, and the second round can be loaded before the first round is fired in the chamber, causing the breech to explode, so we are still in the research phase for this new rifle in East Africa."

Germany and France are like two lions, ready to bite each other to death at any time, so even if the hastily developed M1888 rifle is extremely unstable and has great potential safety risks, Germany can only bite the bullet, after all, France is also the world's top army power.

East Africa, which is partial to Africa, obviously does not have this kind of pressure, so it can continue to polish the craft with peace of mind, and wait until the problem is completely solved before launching new rifles and equipping them in large quantities.

As for the war that may break out at any time in South Africa, the equipment of the East African Army is completely sufficient, because even Britain, the strongest in the "Triple Alliance", is actually at the same level as East Africa in terms of army weapons, or even inferior, while Portugal's original national strength is still a sea power country, and the army equipment is even more miserable, and it has never gone back on the road of making it better than buying, and the Transvaals have no defense industry at all.

(End of chapter)