The Rise of the Empire

"Your Highness, are we going to go to war with the Russians in the future?" Earl Schelling finally held back his words once. \u003c/p\u003e "Yes, if nothing else happens, we will kill Russia." The prince replied calmly. \u003c/p\u003e "Then why do you still spare no effort to help the Russians improve their armaments?" Earl Schelling asked after careful consideration. \u003c/p\u003e"Because all this equipment is outdated! Everything we do so far is to let Russia invest limited funds in those outdated equipment! Then let the Russians hope to fight the Japanese in the Far East to fight to the death !” said the prince with a smile. \u003c/p\u003e "The reason why I gave these things to the Russians is because I have better things!" The prince said confidently! \u003c/p\u003eAre ordinary heavy machine guns easy to use? This thing was really useful in the Russo-Japanese War, but in World War I, the dawn of countless new weapons, ordinary machine guns were still enough to deal with infantry, but whether it was simple reinforced civil bunkers 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 army directly under the prince are to be equipped with machine guns, then ordinary machine guns must be one of the options, not the only one, even if it is only for the First World War All kinds of bombers in China, Britain and France need to study a powerful machine gun. After all, there were big guys with a maximum take-off weight of 13 tons in World War I! \u003c/p\u003eAnd now, the first weapon that the prince wants to come up with, and which 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, among other things, at least the British mk series tanks and the French Renault and his ilk are dead! 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 m8 armor-piercing incendiary projectile developed later, the penetration depth is even higher! \u003c/p\u003eWhat's even more commendable is that this machine gun is very light. (Compared to weapons of the same level) the weight of the basic model m2 machine gun is only 27.7kg (just the gun body, not the bracket.) Even if a heavy gun is used tube, it only weighs 36.7kg when the machine gun has better firepower persistence. Of course, if you add a cooling water cylinder to the machine gun, the weight will increase a lot, and the final weight will be about 45kg when it is empty. After filling with water, the weight immediately reached 55kg! \u003c/p\u003eAnd this machine gun is completely available now, and after it is produced, it will be a classic product that can be used for more than 50 years! You can press various chassis on him, and it is also very good to put it on the plane to fight the plane or straf the infantry. Don’t you see that in World War II, most of the weapons in the United States, whether it was fighter jets or bombers, were Browning m2 machine guns. \u003c/p\u003eThe m2 machine gun, which adopts the principle of short recoil and closed-boring standby, still has good accuracy. When facing a single target, the effective shooting distance is about 1.5 kilometers. The surface target is about 1.8 kilometers. It is completely different from ordinary 7.92mm machine guns that can only suppress 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 spread. Effectively kill targets with short bursts! It can be said that the effective range of this weapon is much stronger than the existing 7.92mm machine gun! \u003c/p\u003e (During the Vietnam War, it is said that a sniper named Clos Hethcock used an m2 50 machine gun with an unertl10* sight to kill the opponent at 2286 meters away... .)\u003c/p\u003e Is there any problem with this weapon? There is still some of this,

The biggest problem was that the early models couldn't change the barrel quickly, which made even m2hb machine guns with heavy barrels have problems with overheating after continuous fire. Machine gun, why do you use it for discontinuous shooting? It's not a cannon! So from this point of view, the m2 machine gun is flawless. In addition, the structure is somewhat complicated and maintenance is somewhat difficult. \u003c/p\u003eHowever, in this plane, the prince will naturally transplant the ace skill of the German machine gun, the quick-change barrel, to the m2 machine gun. As for the structural problem, there is no need to make major changes. After all, the American emperor claims to be the first in technology, and has not touched the basic disk of the m2 machine gun for more than 50 years. The aviation machine gun can be used normally at high altitude, low position and high overload, which means that the stability is not bad. \u003c/p\u003eThe reason why the prince decided to develop the m2 machine gun is that, apart from its excellent performance, the most important reason is that it is very suitable for the needs of the battlefield. There are many good weapons in the world, monoplanes are fine, but they were not suitable before the First World War, because the engine was too small, and the lift force of the aircraft was not enough, so we had to use biplanes and triplanes to ensure buoyancy! \u003c/p\u003eFirst of all, this machine gun is very suitable for the Bavarian army to use on the Eastern Front. The Russians are poor, and the production of rifles and bullets cannot guarantee enough. Naturally, there would not be so many building materials to build a strong bunker! Moreover, after rushing through Poland, the Russian army has been retreating. They simply don't have enough time to build a solid front. The penetration ability of the m2 machine gun can completely kill most of the firepower points. Continuous shooting will still be pierced. This thing can even replace the complex removal of firepower points of small artillery when covering the attack of the troops. \u003c/p\u003e On the Western Front, although these m2 machine guns are very limited in the face of the British and French defense lines that have been strengthened over the years, this kind of machine gun is a big trouble for any contemporary tanks in history, even It is fatal! You must know that the tank armor at that time was almost all tied together, even if it was theoretically impenetrable, it could still cause cracking. What's more, it seems that Britain and France did not have particularly strong tanks at that time, right? If you make a tungsten carbide core bullet or a hardened steel core bullet, it will not be a big problem to penetrate British and French tanks, and the excellent long-range accuracy of this machine gun itself allows them to be deployed behind the battle line and shoot 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! \u003c/p\u003eIn addition, if this machine gun is used as an anti-aircraft weapon, it is also very good. You must know that there were no 20mm-level anti-aircraft guns in World War I, because according to the 1899 Hague International Convention, the weight of explosive shells cannot be less than 400 grams. , so the smallest gun can only be 37mm. No country can develop 20mm-level artillery. Obviously, Bavaria cannot break this agreement, commonly known as the regulation. Since artillery is not good, then it didn't say that machine guns are not allowed? The 50 machine gun can make up for the firepower gap between the 7.92mm machine gun and the 37-level artillery! \u003c/p\u003eThanks to the book friends First Guards Tank Brigade, hemato, Slow Tour K, Sea Boundary\u003c/a\u003e~~~! And the \u003c/a\u003e support of book friends Kaixiongjun, fanck, Guonijiwa, 929905, and Sihailantian~~~! 2 more today-! Um--! ! \u003c/p\u003e\u003c/div\u003e