The Rise of the Empire

The earliest 7.62*54mm bullets were round-headed, flat-bottomed, lead-cored, and cupronickel armored, but this time the Russians took out a new type of pointed bullet, and among these pointed bullets there is also a bullet with a steel core. Although the export kinetic energy is similar, and the weight of the warhead is also similar, the armor-piercing power has obviously been improved to a certain extent. (In history, this is a steel-core pointed bullet that only appeared after 1908.) For this kind of powerful bullet, the level of defense against armored vehicles will naturally be improved. \u003c/p\u003eIn order to resist the short-range attack of this kind of bullet, Bavaria needs to increase the armor thickness from 5mm to about 7mm! This naturally required a significant increase in the weight of the armor, and the entire vehicle needed to be redesigned and arranged. Unless you can get the weight down in other ways! \u003c/p\u003eThe Russians thought about it, so they put forward a new opinion. They decided to use two weapon configurations, and the original transport vehicle site used a lighter machine gun. Specially designed tank sites use heavier guns. As for the Russians' pennies and pearls, Bavaria said it was no problem! \u003c/p\u003eIn order to reduce the weight as much as possible, it is naturally impossible to equip an independent turret, so from the appearance point of view, this simple machine gun chariot is actually not much different from the machine gun pickups of later generations, but because it is certain Armor protection, the front of the car body can completely resist the attack of machine guns and rifle bullets at a distance of 100 meters, and the thickness of the side steel plate is also about 4mm. \u003c/p\u003eThe Russians insist on using their own machine guns, and Bavaria obviously does not intend to provide the Russians with its own new machine guns with replaceable barrels. Therefore, the machine gun used in this tank is still the relatively old Maxim machine gun. It is still equipped with a larger bucket, but the Germans have made some improvements in details. \u003c/p\u003eIn order to ensure the continuity of firepower and sufficient rate of fire, the Germans specially designed a double-linked gun rack, which can accommodate two machine guns, and the lower part is also equipped with an auxiliary rotating device, which can be compared Quickly control the pitch angle and rotation, and the biggest change is that a set of optical sights is installed between the two machine guns, which can assist in ranging and aiming. \u003c/p\u003eThe Germans also made improvements on the gun body, because there is no need to consider the human movement of the machine gun, so many places can increase the weight to improve performance. The Germans first installed an armor cover on the front of the machine gun bucket, It is used to prevent the failure of the machine gun water tank after being hit by a bullet. In front of the machine gunner. A large detachable shield was also added to protect the machine gunner. \u003c/p\u003eIn order to improve the continuity of the firepower of the machine gun. The Germans also designed a new cooling water system for it, which is more complicated than the machine gun used by infantry. After the cooling water extracted from the cold water tank enters the cooling water, it takes away heat from the barrel of the machine gun along the annular pipe. Then it is cooled near the muzzle, and the water vapor turns into water and then flows into the cooling water tank along another conduit. Such a setting does not need to add water to the cooling water barrel of the machine gun, so that it can continue to shoot. \u003c/p\u003eHowever, the shooting that the Bavarians think is perfect is not popular with the Russians, because they think that if they go to war in winter, they don’t need cooling water at all, so they just purchased a few sets of spares, which makes Bavaria did not expect it. \u003c/p\u003eDuring the Boer War, the 37mm pin-pin gun invented by Maxim was well received by both the British and Boer because of its fierce firepower and light weight. Therefore, the Russians also decided to equip this machine gun as a light artillery for cavalry use. When the Russians discovered the good passability and huge loading capacity of this emerging vehicle, they came up with the idea of ​​putting this weapon on the tank. \u003c/p\u003eThe 1-pound rapid-fire gun (another term for a pin-pin gun) is not as easy to serve as a machine gun.

This weapon is actually used as a light infantry gun with wheels in the armies of various countries. The weight of the gun body is 186 kg, and the length of the gun body is 187 cm. Next to it is a 25-round ammunition box. The weight of the shell used is 1 pound, and the ammunition specification is 37mm*94mm. This artillery can easily project 300 shells to a distance of 4500 yards in one minute! what does that mean? In addition to showing that it is theoretically possible to throw 400 pounds of ammunition over the opponent's head in one minute, it also means that the continuous design of one minute can destroy ammunition worth 90 pounds! \u003c/p\u003e(One shell costs 6 shillings. Of course, in actual combat, hundreds of shells are rarely fired with one pull of the trigger. Generally, there are 25 rounds of ammunition chains. The first shell is used for correction. Then the remaining The 24 rounds of the shells were lighted up. The target area was covered instantly in a short time.)\u003c/p\u003e "I'm sorry, this is not easy!" Very simple, this thing is actually an enlarged version of the Maxim machine gun! A cooling bucket that can hold at least 15kg of water is required. The weight of the entire cannon is as high as 186kg, and there is a huge bullet plate next to it. The weight of these cannons adds up to more than 200 kilograms. It is difficult for such a heavy cannon to rotate and pitch quickly by hand alone. \u003c/p\u003eSo, in history, apart from those added to the wheels of land guns as light artillery, most of the 1-pound guns used a mount similar to that of later anti-aircraft guns, and even added a There is a pillar, and the huge cooling bucket of the 37mm gun is tied with an iron ring under the pillar. \u003c/p\u003eIn fact, Bavaria also adopted a similar gun mount. (For details, please refer to Wikipedia, and you can also look at the pitch and rotation system of the 37 anti-aircraft gun.) However, unlike in history, the Bavarian engineers considered abandoning the cooling water bucket. First of all, this thing seems to the Russians Not very necessary. After all, for the Russians, this kind of shell cannot be designed like a machine gun, and the requirement for firepower persistence is not high. \u003c/p\u003eSecondly, the artillery requires too much cooling water, almost three times the requirements of the machine gun! And after all, what is fired is artillery shells, and the amount of cooling water must be huge. The vehicle carrying capacity is limited. The Russians and Bavarian engineers have been struggling with the issue of the amount of artillery shells and cooling water. (Don't think that a machine gun with 5kg of water is enough, that will cause accidents. In actual combat, there is a situation where a machine gun and a company of people deliver water with jugs...)\u003c/p\u003eIn the end , Bavaria's proposal is to use heavy heat sinks to replace cooling water, and to further reduce the shooting speed, from 300 rounds per minute to about 180 rounds. In this way, it can be guaranteed that when using the 25-round drum, the gun will not overheat. \u003c/p\u003eThe second is more.... \u003c/p\u003e\u003c/div\u003e