Regarding the snow equipment of the German army, Xu Jun prepared a lot of drawings and plans before, but he found that the German army actually had a lot of professional snow equipment for a long time, but it was not equipped with a conventional army, and it was all equipped with mountain troops. Because the imaginary enemy of the German army has always been France, conventional troops do not need to fight in the cold zone, so they do not need these snow combat equipment.

The Germans had previously issued goggles to the soldiers of the motorized units to shield them from the sun and dust. The motorized units of the German army, especially the armored units, sometimes raised dust on the dry earth-based roads of Europe, or when they were marching off-road in the wilderness, which could be described as obscuring the sky and the sun, and looked like a sandstorm from a distance.

The Germans issued goggles in several different materials, the most common being made of canvas and glass, available in brown and green. At that time, the German motorcyclists were equipped with special motorcycle goggles, and the style was still very fashionable even in the 21st century, and the material was made of plexiglass, which had mature technology at that time, and there were orange, green, and dark gray colors that could be arbitrarily selected.

As for the special snow goggles to prevent snow blindness, the German mountain troops have long been equipped, it looks like a pair of ordinary goggles, but the lens is covered with two pieces of metal, most of which are made of aluminum, and there are several radial distribution of observation slits on the metal sheets, soldiers can observe the outside world through the thin slits, this design looks very simple, but it can effectively prevent the damage of snow reflection to the eyes, and has gained a good reputation in the history of the German army on the Eastern Front.

There is also the regular style sunglasses, which are made of leather with dark gray lenses, which make it easier for soldiers to aim and shoot compared to the goggles above.

Xu Jun has already issued an order to Zeiss to prepare to increase production, which will be a considerable amount of orders, and Zeiss alone will never be able to eat, so Xu Jun is ready to pull the British and French optical manufacturers and Italy into this business.

As for skis and sleds, there are more sources and channels, there are a large number of mountain skiers in various European countries, and people from the army headquarters are screening the products, but Xu Jun feels that they may have already picked their eyes, maybe in the end they will have to rely on their own words.

Xu Jun also took out a blueprint of a snowmobile, to put it bluntly, it is a motorized sled, using a high-power motorcycle engine as the power, the German army has a lot of high-horsepower motorcycle engines, such as BMW and Congdapu, the abundant power will drive a soft track, the material is composite leather plus light metal, the strength is not weaker than the rubber track.

The front part adopts a double skid design, and the direction of the skid is controlled by a motorcycle handlebar, which is basically not much different from later generations. BMW has already produced 10 prototypes and is currently on a field test drive in the Norwegian snowfield, running an astonishing speed of 95 kilometers per hour on the snow, according to the crazy driver, he could have gone faster if it hadn't been for the last worry about losing control.

The development process on the side of the Congdapu is lagging behind, and they have developed a heavy-duty version that can be used as a snow tractor or even a fire platform.

The offensive tactics currently adopted by the German army attach great importance to the subjective initiative of low-level commanders, and under the framework of the entire large-scale operation, the degree of tactical freedom of the squad and squad has always been very wide. The Germans allowed the squad leader to take the initiative to attack the enemy if he was keenly aware of the fighters after the start of the operation without receiving a precise order.

Of course, on the real battlefield, the Germans will rarely launch a surprise attack by an infantry squad alone, unless it is a tentative fire reconnaissance operation, usually the German army will gather several adjacent squads, cooperate with each other to initiate operations, and often use frontal luring and roundabout outflanking tactics to attack important targets and occupy enemy positions.

It sounds very similar to the tactics adopted by the Japanese infantry squads, because the infantry tactics of the Japanese were actually learned from the Germans, and of course the Japanese side has made some improvements on this basis to adapt to the actual situation of their own army.

However, after several mutinies in the early Showa period, the Japanese army underwent slight changes in the training of grass-roots officers, and began to emphasize the obedience of lower-level officers, and as a result, a group of grass-roots officers with rigid thinking were cultivated, who would only dogmatically follow the military teaching materials and the orders of their superiors, and gradually lost the tactical flexibility that they originally admired, and the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army also deteriorated sharply.

Returning to the German side, the armament of the German squad did not have much advantage compared with other armies in Europe. Whether it is the French, British, Dutch, Belgian and other army units, the difference in firepower between infantry squads is not very large.

At that time, the rifles used by the infantry of various countries, if you look at the technical indicators such as range, rate of fire, ammunition reload and ammunition power, the performance of the German 98k can only be regarded as excellent, but it is not much more advanced than other countries, on the contrary, because of the 7.92 mm bullets used by the German 98k, the magazine capacity is too small, the recoil is also a little too strong, the rate of fire is medium but the firepower continuity is not good.

The MP38/40 series submachine guns used by the German army, in fact, the performance is not as outstanding as people remember, in the submachine guns equipped at the same time, the performance of the MP38 can only be regarded as medium to high, but some defects in this weapon are covered by the aura of victory in the early days of the German army, until the German army encounters a stronger enemy, these problems are finally exposed, but at that time it is too late to find newer replacements.

The advantages and disadvantages of the MP series submachine gun are very obvious, the key lies in the rate of fire of this submachine gun, in order to pursue the accuracy of continuous fire, this submachine gun is artificially limited to the maximum rate of fire, compared with other submachine guns of the same era, MP38/40 is easier to control when firing continuously, and the bullet distribution is also very uniform, which is its advantage.

The problem is that on the battlefield, the amount of fire delivered by the submachine gun is more important than the accuracy, and a dense rain of bullets is more effective in suppressing the enemy's attack than accurate shooting.

The Soviets, the British, and the Americans were ahead of the Germans in this regard, and their submachine guns were equipped with submachine guns focused on one indicator, that is, they could drop more ammunition on the enemy in the shortest possible time.

Especially the American GIs in history, when they were in close contact with the German army, their first reaction was to hold on to Thomson's trigger, and the difference between life and death may only be one second.

In this kind of close-range fire, the German MP38/40 suffered very much, its rate of fire was too slow, and the fast directivity was not good, and as a result, the German side often fired only a few rounds, but the opposite side had already poured a whole magazine.

As for the ammunition load, to be honest, the 32-round magazine of the MP40 is sufficient, and there is no need to learn from the Russians to change to drums.

In addition to increasing the firepower continuity of weapons, the bullet drum does not occupy many significant advantages compared with the magazine, but because of its weight and volume, it forces soldiers to be unable to carry more ammunition, and at the same time, it will also prevent soldiers from performing some conventional tactical actions on the battlefield, consuming more physical strength of soldiers.

Moreover, the drum structure is complex, the bullet is difficult to reload, and it is easy to be damaged in the battlefield environment. These problems were also covered up by the Soviet army's aura of victory, and the defeat of the German army made the prestige of the ** sand submachine gun, but after the end of World War II, this weapon was quickly eliminated, and in the design of the Soviet submachine gun since then, there has never been a drum such a feeding mode.

Xu Jun is well aware of the advantages and disadvantages of the German submachine gun, and he has long been preparing to equip the German army with a new submachine gun, which is ready to be handed over to the Elma Arsenal for mass production.

At the same time, Xu Jun also sent drawings of an automatic rifle to the Mauser Company, and the firearms design experts of the Mauser Company are currently working hard to understand the design of the Führer, in order to develop a special weapon production line. This is a rather complex project, and it is impossible to come up with results in a short time, since the Führer has adopted a new caliber on this weapon, as well as a new type of bullet that has never appeared before.

In Xu's plan, this will be the future standard rifle of the German army and even Europe, and in the face of this automatic weapon, bolt-action rifles such as 98K will face a complete obsolescence.