When Knikamp hurriedly caught up with Chen Dao and the others, Chen Dao and the others had already walked out of the workshop and came to the open-air test ground.

On the test site, two armored vehicles were parked, and a group of people in military uniforms were busy around each armored car.

Chen Dao pointed to the busy crowd and asked General Thomas, "Are they reloading the chariot with ammunition, is it to test fire?" ”

"yes, it's going to start soon."

As soon as General Thomas finished speaking, Chen Dao saw a derivative of the SDKFZ251 armored car drive into the open space in the distance.

On the walls of the compartments on the left and right sides of the armored vehicle hung a rectangular rocket launch frame, each containing a short, thick rocket.

After Chen Dao asked Knikamp, he learned that the caliber of the rockets was very touching, five of which were 280 mm caliber, and the sixth was 320 mm caliber.

A few minutes later, Chen Dao saw the staff hiding on either side of the armored vehicle.

In a piercing roar, smoke and dust suddenly rose around the armored vehicle, and fire splashed everywhere, surrounding the armored vehicle.

Six rockets dragged a dazzling trail out of the smoke and dust.

The black-gray wake drew six parabolas + ⊙ in the air, hitting the dirt slope about two kilometers in the distance.

As soon as the sound of the explosion and the smoke of gunpowder cleared, the group of bunkers that served as targets on the dirt slope was immediately reduced by two, leaving only a piece of wreckage and craters in Chen Dao's telescope.

The caliber is touching, the power is also touching, this weapon is used for violent demolition and relocation, Chen Dao sighed silently.

The crew rushed to the side of the armored car and quickly moved spare ammunition from the compartment. Skillfully reload. Subsequent launches.

After another howl. The group of earthen slope bunkers in the distance immediately turned into a sea of fire.

"Molotov cocktails?" Chen Dao asked.

"This weapon was developed by the Command Bureau after the French campaign to equip the sappers and to clear the enemy fortress complexes, and we equipped him with two types of ammunition, high-explosive and incendiary." General Thomas said.

"It seems that the loading is a bit cumbersome, and it is more troublesome to change the firing range, which can only be done by turning the body of the armored car, and if it is equipped with sappers, it can barely be used." Chen Dao said.

"This kind of self-propelled rocket launcher reloading is really cumbersome. After all, the caliber is large, but fortunately, the powerful firepower makes up for the shortcomings. General Thomas said.

Himmler then asked, "What is the name of this weapon?" ”

"It's exactly called the Type 40 rocket launcher, but we all like to call it the Growling Cow."

"Did the name come from because of the sound it sounded when it was fired?" Himmler then asked.

"It's because of his voice." Knikamp said.

Chen Dao looked at the familiar armored car with a playful smile on his face.

"I did come up with a new name that would be perfect for this weapon."

Thomas and the others turned their heads to look at Chen Dao together, and Himmler asked directly, "What is the name?" ”

"Land Stuka, what do you think of the name?" Chen Dao asked.

General Thomas and the others collectively fell into deep thought, but Himmler was the first to react, clapping his hands and exclaiming: "It's really apt, the sound when it is launched is indeed very powerful." Like the scream of a Stuka as he dives. ”

General Thomas and Knikamp also nodded and said, "Land Stuka is indeed more elegant and powerful than the name Howling Cow. We'll call it Land Stuka from now on. ”

In this way, at the suggestion of Chen Dao, the demolition weapon of the German army that swept the Eastern Front in the future, Land Stuka, was hotly launched.

Chen Dao took out a pack of Cosmic brand cigarettes from his pocket and distributed one to General Thomas and the others, but did not give Himmler.

Chen Dao knew that Himmler had always taken Hitler as an example, did not smoke, drank less, and ignored him.

Chen Dao swallowed the clouds and mist, and asked, "Is there only one type of self-propelled rocket artillery in our country?" Is there a suitable model for artillerymen to cover enemy infantry charge clusters? ”

General Thomas recalled with a straight face: "We have many rocket calibers, in addition to 320 mm and 280 mm, there are also 210 mm and 150 mm calibers, but self-propelled rocket artillery is currently only this one model, and the other calibers are towed." ”

"Since there is none, I propose to develop a self-propelled rocket launcher immediately, and the prototype will appear within a few months, and I will officially report to the Ordnance Bureau after I go back, and you must prepare in advance."

General Thomas immediately ordered his aides to take note of Chen Dao's suggestion, and then accompanied Chen Dao to watch the test firing of another new weapon.

The name of the new weapon is the Dongfeng self-propelled anti-aircraft gun, which is a modification of the fourth tank.

After a demonstration by the crew of the vehicle, Chen Dao saw that the turret of the "Dongfeng" self-propelled antiaircraft gun adopts a hexagonal open design, which can be freely rotated 360 degrees to shoot and has a good firing range.

After Knikamp's introduction, Chen Dao learned that the Dongfeng self-propelled anti-aircraft gun used a 40-mm Bofors anti-aircraft gun, of course, the use of a 40-mm Bofors anti-aircraft gun is because this medium-caliber anti-aircraft gun is indeed outstanding, and second, because of some ulterior insider, the result of Chen Daoji's suggestion.

The Dongfeng self-propelled anti-aircraft gun is designed to be able to keep up with the advance speed of the armored troops in a timely manner, so as to further enhance the air defense capability and better provide fire cover for the ground troops.

In the deafening sound of artillery, the 1,000 shells on the vehicle were quickly consumed, and countless black-gray clouds of gunpowder smoke wafted in the sky.

"The production of the No. 4 tank chassis is in short supply right now, will we have the luxury of doing so?" General Thomas asked.

"It is better to be extravagant now than to pay with the lives of soldiers in the future. The enemy we will face in the future is very strong, they will use a sea of planes in the sky, a sea of tanks on the ground, a sea of tanks will be followed by a sea of infantry, and behind the sea of infantry there will be a sea of artillery to do support, if we do not take precautions in advance, once a war breaks out in the future, our army will be instantly overwhelmed by the enemy's vast sea.

And. Our enemies don't just have a lot of men and equipment. The quality of their equipment is also excellent. You have seen the entities of the T-34 tank, as well as the models of the KV-1 and KV2, always, we must not be careless, let alone be complacent because of France and Britain, otherwise we will encounter the Matilda crisis and the B1 crisis in France. ”

General Thomas said in a dull voice: "The T-34 tank has indeed taught us a very heavy lesson, General Rosen, once war breaks out. I believe that the Luftwaffe will use your fighters and anti-aircraft artillery to teach the Russians a hard lesson in the sea of aircraft, and the sea of tanks and infantry of the Russians will be left to the army to solve. ”

"And the Waffen-SS." Himmler stood aside and suddenly interjected.

General Thomas nodded to Himmler and said, "Yes, and the Waffen-SS." The next thing we have to look at is the weapons against the enemy's sea of tanks and infantry. ”

General Thomas and his men moved to the eastern part of the test site.

"Our forces are not all armoured divisions, they can't all be equipped with tanks and tank destroyers, and the infantry must have a lot of cheap and effective weapons.

After the French campaign, we developed the PAK38 50mm anti-tank gun to deal with the Matilda II and B1 heavy tanks, but after seeing the T-34 and KV series tanks, we found that the PAK38 seemed to be slightly less powerful, so we developed the new PAK75mm anti-tank gun, which is this one. ”

What Chen Dao saw was a cannon with a low body. Nude, anti-tank guns without camouflage. The long barrel protrudes from the shield and there is a powerful-looking brake at the run.

"This gun is forty-six times the diameter, and at a distance of 1000 m with an angle of 30, it can penetrate 94mm armor, which is very satisfactory in terms of armor-piercing ability. I am convinced that the sea of tanks of the Russians will crash into pieces in front of the positions we have built with PAK40. General Thomas said confidently.

The armor-piercing ability is really strong, K is at a thousand meters, and the armor-piercing ability at an angle of ten is only 99 mm, which is definitely enough to beat the T-34 and KV brothers.

Chen Dao looked at the ground to the left of the PAK40 tank gun, and four shells painted with yellow paint were lying neatly in the ammunition box.

It turned out that it was by using a large medicine barrel to increase the speed of disembarking, no wonder it has such a high penetration ability.

Seeing the long cartridge behind the warhead, Chen Dao immediately understood the source of the powerful power of the PAK40 tank gun.

On the orders of General Thomas, the PAK40 began test firing, and four shells chiseled four round bullet holes into the B1 tank at the range.

In line with the principle of frugality in waste utilization, the testers came up with another new weapon to destroy the B1 tank.

Himmler saw that on top of a metal rod of about ten centimeters, there was a warhead like a lampshade.

The testers first stuffed four dummies into the B1 tank, then ran to a distance of about 10 meters from the B1 tank, and opened fire with the new weapons.

With a snorting fire, the warhead of the new weapon flew out like a fist and smashed into the front armor of the tank.

The dummy in the car was taken out again, and Himmler saw several finger-thick holes on the dummy's body, and the edges of the holes were charred and burned.

"What kind of weapon is this?" Himmler asked.

"Iron Fist, our newest individual anti-tank weapon, with which our infantry can no longer shove anti-tank mines or throw cluster grenades under enemy tank tracks at almost zero distance." Chen Dao said.

General Thomas smiled and said to Himmler: "We have to thank General Rosen, who pointed out to us two lines of design, one is the tank killer anti-tank bazooka, and the other is the iron fist you see, the tank killer showed his power in the Battle of Gibraltar, and the soldiers responded very well." Although Iron Fist is not yet equipped in large quantities, I think he will definitely become an equally popular weapon. ”

"It will definitely be welcome, after all, by widening the engagement distance from zero to a distance of about ten meters, the lives of the anti-tank fighters will be more guaranteed." Himmler said.

"How did you come up with this weapon?" Himmler asked.

Chen Daomian did not change his color and his heart did not beat, and he said with righteousness and awe: "It's very simple, as long as you think more about the problem from the perspective of the front-line soldiers. can open up a lot of new ideas for us. ”

Thomas and the others were silent. They are all technical or administrative officials. When encountering officers like Chen Dao, they would never be able to experience the horror of the front-line soldiers walking on the tip of the knife, so they could only choose to be silent wisely.

As the master, General Thomas took the initiative to open up the embarrassing situation and took Chen Dao and Himmler into the final testing ground.

Seeing the machine gun on the tripod with a square heat dissipation sleeve and emitting a metallic glow, Chen Dao exclaimed, "Isn't this MG-42?" ”

General Thomas smiled and said, "General Rosen, the name of this machine gun is MG-41. Not MG-42. ”

It turned out to be a premature baby, why is it so awkward to be called MG-41, Chen Dao complained silently.

No, this mistake must be corrected and the famous "Hitler chainsaw" must be justified.

"Because of the rapid expansion of the army, we did not produce enough MG34 general-purpose machine guns, so we developed this new machine gun, focusing on improving the process and increasing production.

The original process uses machining, and a solid piece of metal is processed by a lathe or milling machine. Cutting out unnecessary parts, the metal utilization rate is only about 25 parts. It is a waste of materials and takes a lot of man-hours, and this machine gun uses a metal stamping process, it uses very little material, can be manufactured by a simple assembly line, the cost is only 70/30 of MG34, and the man-hours and materials consumed are only 50/50 of MG34, which can be said to be the most outstanding weapon manufactured in the shortest time and the lowest cost. ”

War is indeed the best catalyst for scientific and technological progress, and I have gained a little new knowledge.

Staring at the MG-41 in General Thomas's eyes, Chen Dao asked, "Has the Army decided to purchase this machine gun?" ”

"The machine gun has been finalized, the army decided to produce it in large quantities, and it will not be long before it will be seen in our infantry squads."

Chen Dao said with a smile: "The size of our army is too large, and it will definitely take until next year, that is, 42 years, for it to become popular." And I think the number 2 to 1 is more intimidating to the enemy, so I strongly recommend calling it MG-42. ”

Chen Dao said and looked at Himmler, Himmler was stunned for a few seconds under Chen Dao's direct gaze, and then suddenly realized.

"I also think that the name MG-42 is more oppressive to the enemy than the name MG-41, and I recommend using this name."

Seeing General Thomas frowning, Chen Dao kept chanting the terms MG-41 and MG-42, and hurriedly glared at him and said, "If you read it a few more times, you will find that the name MG-42 is more appropriate." ”

"It's true that MG-42 is better." Himmler joined in the fun.

Under the psychological misdirection of Chen Dao and the others, General Thomas was stunned and was turned from one to two, and accepted the name MG-42.

On the same day, after the land Stuka, the MG-42 general-purpose machine gun, which was talked about by later generations of military fans, was successfully born in Chen Daokou.

The last thing General Thomas showed Chen Dao and Himmler was two new rifles.

Before this rifle, Chen Dao was generally satisfied with the weapons he saw, but after fiddling with the first new rifle a few times, he said: "This G41 semi-automatic rifle is not qualified. ”

"Why?" General Thomas asked.

"Why fill the magazine from above from the bridge, and not directly from below with the magazine? Don't you think it's troublesome? Chen Dao asked.

General Thomas asked puzzledly, "General Rosen, I have seen Herman. The M1 semi-automatic rifles, which were armed with the paratroopers of the Goering Division and the Air Force, were also loaded from above the bridge, why did you accept it? Switching to a G41 semi-automatic rifle is unacceptable to you? ”

"The M1 semi-automatic rifle, that was the weapon I had to buy on the fly in order to rush to the French campaign. If Germany had a more suitable semi-automatic rifle at that time, I would not have used the weapons of the Americans.

My suggestion is that it is better to use magazines to feed ammunition from below, which is more in line with the future development trend of weapons, and if you have doubts, you can first produce a part of it in small batches for the troops to try, but as a front-line commander, I can tell you very responsibly that the soldiers will definitely not be satisfied. Chen Dao said.

General Thomas and his subordinates discussed in a whisper for a while, then nodded and said to Chen Dao: "We still produce a batch of sample guns for the troops to try first, and then make a decision." ”

When Chen Dao saw the last weapon that General Thomas had introduced to him, he burst into tears at first, and then burst into tears.

Assault rifles, I finally saw assault rifles.

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ps: I'm going to go to the crematorium at night to keep a vigil, and today is only this big chapter. (To be continued......)