Chapter 486: Private use in Bavaria

"His Royal Highness, are we going to go to war with the Russians in the future?" Earl Schelling could not say once.

"Yes, if nothing else, we will kill Russia." The prince replied calmly.

"Then why do you spare no effort to help the Russians improve their armaments?" Earl Schelling asked again and again.

"Because all this equipment is outdated! Everything we are doing is to allow Russia to invest limited funds in those outdated equipment! Then let the Russians hope to fight the Japanese in the Far East to the end!" The prince laughed Said.

"The reason I give these things to the Russians is because I have better things!" The prince said confidently!

Are ordinary heavy machine guns easy to use? This thing is really useful to throw in the Russo-Japanese War, but in the dawn of World War I, when countless new weapons are about to appear, ordinary machine guns are still enough to deal with infantry, but whether it is a simple reinforced civil bunker or those flying in the air Big bird, the effect of ordinary machine guns is not so easy to use. If the combat vehicles in the prince’s army are to be equipped with machine guns, then ordinary machine guns are definitely only one of the alternatives, not the only ones, even if only to deal with the first battle. The various bombers in China, Britain and France need to study a powerful machine gun. After all, there were also big guys with a maximum take-off weight of 13 tons in the first battle!

And now, the first weapon that the prince wants to make, and that can also play a big role in World War I, is the famous Browning M2 12.7mm machine gun in later generations! With this thing, and nothing else, at least the British mk series tanks and the French Renault and others are out of life! The armor-piercing projectile of the m2 machine gun weighs 46.2 grams, shoots at a muzzle velocity of 884 meters per second, and penetrates 22mm thick armor at a distance of 100 yards! As for the M20 tracer armor-piercing projectile and the M8 armor-piercing incendiary project developed later, the penetration depth is even higher!

What’s more commendable is that this machine gun is very light. (Compared with weapons of the same level), the basic model of the m2 machine gun weighs only 27.7kg (just the body, not the bracket.) Even if a heavy barrel is used, the machine gun With better firepower continuity, it is only 36.7kg. Of course, if you add a cooling water cylinder to the machine gun, the weight will increase a lot, and the final weight is about 45kg in the case of empty water. The weight immediately reached 55kg after being filled with water!

And this machine gun can now be made, and after it is made, it will be a classic product that can be used for more than 50 years! You can put him on a variety of chassis, and it is also very good to put it on a plane to fight a plane or to shoot infantry. Don’t you see World War II, most of the weapons in the United States, whether it is fighter or bomber, are Browning m2 machine guns, and some are changed names or barrels, almost without changing the medicine!

The m2 machine gun, which adopts the principle of short recoil and closed boring standby, has good accuracy, and the effective shooting distance is about 1.5 kilometers when facing a single target. The face target is about 1.8 kilometers. It is completely different from ordinary 7.92mm machine guns that can only be used for suppressed shooting at kilometers away. The m2 machine gun can still maintain a relatively stable spread at about 2 kilometers. It may not work as a sniper rifle, but it can still rely on good dispersion. Kill the target effectively with short shots! It can be said that the effective range of this weapon is much stronger than the existing 7.92mm machine gun!

(During the Vietnam War, it is said that a sniper named Cross Heskak used an M2 50 machine gun with an unertl10* scope to kill his opponent at a distance of 2286 meters...)

Is there any problem with this weapon? There are still some of these. The biggest problem is that the initial model cannot quickly change the barrel. This makes even the m2hb machine gun with a heavy barrel overheating after continuous shooting. Machine gun, what do you do with discontinuous shooting? It's not a cannon! So from this perspective, the m2 machine gun is slightly flawed. In addition, the structure is somewhat complicated and maintenance is difficult.

However, in this plane, the prince will naturally transplant the German machine gun's ace skills to the m2 machine gun that quickly replaces the barrel. As for the structural issue, there is no need to make major changes. After all, the American Emperor is known as the number one in science and technology. For more than 50 years, he has not moved the basic disk of the m2 machine gun. This completely shows that the m2 machine gun is indeed not easy to change, and the m2 machine gun does The aviation machine gun can be used normally at high altitude, low position and high overload. It shows that the stability is not bad. The prince is afraid that he will be completely unrecognizable after a few files.

The reason why the prince decided to develop the m2 machine gun, in addition to excellent performance, one of the most important reasons is that it is very suitable for the needs of the battlefield. There are many good weapons in the world. Monoplanes are okay, but they are not suitable for use before World War I. Because the engine is too coffee table and the aircraft's lift is not enough, only two wings and three wings can be used to ensure buoyancy!

First of all, this machine gun is very suitable for use by the Bavarian army on the eastern front. The Russians are poor, and the production of rifles and bullets cannot be guaranteed. Naturally, there will not be so many building materials to build a strong bunker! Moreover, after rushing through Poland, the Russian army has been retreating. They did not have enough time to build a solid front. With the penetrating ability of the m2 machine gun, most of the firepower points can be eliminated. The simple sandbag and civil offensive face the m2 machine gun. Continuous shooting will still be penetrated. This thing can even replace small artillery to remove the firepower point ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ when covering the army’s offensive. On the western front, although these m2 machine guns have very limited effect on the defense line reinforced by Britain and France after several years, this Machine guns are a big trouble for any contemporary tanks in history, even fatal! You must know that the tank armor at that time was almost all willow knots together, even if theoretically it could not be worn, it could still cause cracks. What's more, it seems that Britain and France did not have particularly strong tanks at the time, right? If a tungsten carbide core bullet or a hardened steel core bullet is made, it will not be a big problem to penetrate British and French tanks, and the extremely excellent long-range accuracy of the machine gun itself allows them to be deployed in the rear of the battle line and fire at the opponent’s machine gun. There are great advantages! After all, the advantages of the m2 machine gun are too great in terms of long-range accuracy and power!

In addition, if this machine gun is used as an air defense weapon, it is also very good. You must know that there was no 20mm-class anti-aircraft gun in the first battle. Because according to the Hague International Convention of 1899, the weight of explosive shells cannot be less than 400 grams, so the smallest The artillery can only be 37mm. No country can develop a 20mm gun. Obviously, Bavaria can't break this convention. Since artillery can't work, it doesn't say that machine guns can't be used? The 50 machine gun can make up for the firepower gap between the 7.92mm machine gun and the 37 level artillery!

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