"Be careful! Don't fall to the ground! I don't want to die here! Watching his men lift ammunition from the supply truck, a battalion commander shouted with a frown.

In front of him, a truck specializing in transporting ammunition was parked next to the road, and the soldiers of this battalion were unloading the slender and beautiful looking ammunition on it.

These 130 mm rockets are a type of rocket used exclusively by German organ rocket launchers.

Each rocket launcher can be loaded with 16 of these rockets, which can be poured into the enemy's positions at once.

The rocket launcher battalion had just completed a support shot and was now withdrawing from its position to reload the rockets in a far safe area.

Compared to other artillery, this multi-track rocket launcher can quickly dump large amounts of explosives at the target, but it is less accurate and takes longer to reload.

Although they cannot fundamentally replace traditional artillery, their low price and ease of production make them available to the troops quickly.

Compared to the more demanding steel barrels of artillery guns and the sophisticated rifling technology, the production of rocket artillery is simple enough to be made by handicrafts.

The bracket for launching is an ordinary welded steel frame, and the launch track on it does not require any quenching process, even the I-shaped rail can be competent.

What's simpler is that these 8 I-shaped rails arranged together do not need an instrument to measure whether they are really parallel, as long as they are measured and welded with a ruler......

After all, the shooting accuracy of this weapon is very impressive, so there is no need to take into account the accuracy of the indicator in its manufacturing.

Since the USSR could mass-produce Katyusha rocket launchers in the face of adversity, there was no reason why Germany could not produce similar weapons.

The caliber used in the organ rocket launcher is 130 mm, which is similar in size to the rocket used in the Katyusha rocket launcher in real historical time and space.

Why this caliber was adopted is not that Li Le, a time traveler, deliberately copied Katyusha, but as a weapon system, there is a certain reason for choosing the caliber.

For example, whether it is China or the United States, the magazine capacity of an assault rifle is basically 30 rounds.

In fact, this is a compromise value finally obtained after countless experiments and demonstrations. Can I equip a magazine with a larger capacity? Yes! But the gains outweigh the losses!

This is not a game, 40 or even 50 rounds of drums can provide good support fire continuity, and the character holding this type of weapon can still run wild without blushing or panting.

After all, in the game, the reaction speed is reduced due to the increase in the magazine, and the center of gravity of the weapon is not calculated, and the reliability of the magazine is not considered.

During World War II, the Thomson submachine gun equipped by the United States first outlawed the iconic drum and converted the "Chicago typewriter" into an ordinary submachine gun.

After the end of World War II, the time was pushed forward to the Vietnam War, and the American M16 assault rifle used a vertical magazine of 20 rounds; The Soviet Union, which advocates force, also developed AKM magazines with large ammunition loads for soldiers during the Cold War.

As a result, both the battle-hardened U.S. Army and the ferocious Russian Army are in the midst of repeated trade-offs, and they have returned to the origin of the 30-round magazine on the same way!

Before the birth of these magazine anomalies, the world's first assault rifle, the German STG-44 assault rifle, used the closest to the truth of the 32-round magazine......

The same is true for the caliber of artillery, why did large-caliber artillery choose 155 mm as the limit? Why do modern tank guns hover between 120 and 125 in caliber?

This is the same reason as the choice of the caliber of self-propelled MLRS around 130: the limit of manual reloading is almost this size!

The maximum caliber of one-piece ammunition is between 120 and 135, and if it is larger, it will seriously affect the loading efficiency.

The same choice is not that the larger the caliber, the cheaper it is, the more reasonable, it has an interval value, and the right caliber can only be selected in this interval.

For example, in real historical time and space, a German tank gun with a caliber of 88 mm can even fire a terrifying rate of fire of more than 15 rounds per minute.

And the Stalin No. 2 tank, with its 122 mm caliber tank gun, was often limited to 2-3 rounds per minute.

The reloading of rockets is also a reason: because it is impossible to use a separate loading structure, the rocket artillery shells must be integrated. If the projectile body is too large, one person will not be able to complete the loading, and can only rely on hoisting or equipping more manpower.

In this way, the time to fire after reloading is greatly extended, and the ability to pour fire per unit time is correspondingly reduced.

To take the simplest example, the 800 mm caliber Gustav railway gun can only fire one shell an hour, while a 283 mm caliber K5 train gun can fire more than 15 shells an hour.

Because of this, the rockets of the German organ rocket launchers are about the same size as the rockets of the Katyusha rocket launchers.

Carrying rocket artillery shells about the length of their thighs, the German artillerymen carefully hung them on the tail of the launcher, at the end of the I-shaped tracks.

Then, they have to connect the one-time energizing device to the rockets so that they can be launched in one go.

The slender I-shaped rails ensure that these rockets fly in one direction and guarantee an approximate launch.

As for hitting the target accurately, there is no need at all, and dense rocket artillery will generally cover the entire target area, which can effectively hit the enemy's living forces scattered in the target area.

Soon, all 16 rockets were loaded. And when a vehicle is loaded, it often means that the other launchers are almost ready to be loaded.

"Get ready! Enter the next launch position! Climbing into his command car, the commander of the rocket artillery battalion shouted loudly to all the vehicles parked on the side of the road.

As the car was started, the roar of the engine drowned out the sound of people talking and chatting. A convoy began to move along the road until it came to a halt at a wheat field in the distance.

The gunners began to slightly adjust the angle of the rocket launcher to make the final preparations before launch. After a lot of hustle and bustle, the whole launch site suddenly fell silent again.

It was just the final preparations before the launch, and everyone returned to their respective cars and waited for the final launch order.

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1 chapter is added today, and the remaining two chapters can be watched tomorrow morning...... It's bound to be late, so don't wait!