In the First Arsenal of the National Defense Forces, Wang Maoru learned that in addition to the basic weapons configuration of the army, in addition to the Minjiu rifle and the Type 20 light machine gun, the Department of Military Science and Technology is also mainly researching and developing three weapons, one is a large-caliber heavy machine gun, the other is a curve-fired howitzer, and finally a new and upgraded version of the individual rocket launcher is also being stepped up.

In the underground design room of the arsenal, Wang Maoru saw the tentatively finalized heavy machine guns, howitzers and rocket launchers. The reason why it is kept top secret is that this heavy machine gun is a copy of the Winchester M1917 Browning heavy machine gun"" The novel chapter is the fastest updated. However, the M1917 Browning heavy machine gun is water-cooled, and the biggest difference between this heavy machine gun and it is that it is air-cooled.

In today's shijiè heavy machine gun rush, water-cooled heavy machine gun is the mainstream, but in the future, air-cooled heavy machine gun is the mainstream, Wang Maoru immediately asked designers to design the machine gun shihou, must adopt the air-cooled type. Ruguo designed and produced an outdated water-cooled heavy machine gun, which is better than not being produced.

The designers of the gun are foreigners, they are the designers of the East Arms Company in the United States, so they unconsciously have the shadow of the American machine gun, and after Wang Maoru bought the East Arms Company, he asked them to study the air-cooled heavy machine gun at the beginning, and how to make the heavy machine gun air-cooled has become the biggest difficulty that the company's colleagues need to overcome in the past eight years. Eight years later, Shijiān finally made great progress in solving the problem of air cooling on this heavy machine gun, but the weight of the air-cooled heavy machine gun was not necessarily much lighter than that of the water-cooled one.

The heavy machine gun was still in the process of being improved by trial and error, so it became a standard heavy machine gun. Even the name is méiyou. The bullet of this heavy machine gun is a large-caliber bullet, reaching 12.7mmx99mm, which can be said after the ruguo was formed. The power of this heavy machine gun can increase the firepower of a unit several times, and even this machine gun can directly shoot through the side armor of the National 9 tank.

The heavy machine gun was designed with the problem of dealing with aircraft in mind, so the heavy machine gun has a heavy machine gun mount that can be adjusted up and down, and the heavy machine gun can be fired at an elevation angle of up to 75 degrees when firing from the back.

Liu Qingen laughed and said that the design concept of this heavy machine gun is a bit ahead of its time, because few countries will now take air defense into account in the gun design, just because the Wehrmacht's air force bombers are becoming more and more skilled and numerous. The designer feared that one day he would face the same enemy. It was clear that the Type 20 light machine gun was not enough to wēixié against the aircraft, and the Nàme heavy machine gun had a certain air defense capability became a matter for them. This small change in the machine gun mount is also a credit to a young man of Chinese design. Shihou, who was ready to change the guns, proposed a small change in the upper seat of the stand. This young man also proposed a retractable machine gun mount, so that the machine gun can be used in different terrains, which was affirmed and supported by Liu Qingen.

Wang Maoru said to bring this young man named Zhan Pengcheng. And in person, this young man who came up with ideas was promoted to the rank of major. The young man was very excited when he saw Wang Maoru, and said that he must be loyal to Xiushuai, which made Wang Maoru laugh. Wang Maoru said that you don't want to be loyal to me, you can invent and create more and better ideas in the future, and contribute to scientific research.

Liu Qingen said that he asked Xiushuai to name this machine gun, and Wang Maoru thought about it and said that the designer team of this machine gun came from the United States. In gratitude for the contributions of these American designers over the past eight years, the heavy machine gun was named the UC8 heavy machine gun. U stands for American designer. c represents the Chinese design team, and 8 represents the efforts of the designer team in the past eight years, which has been unanimously praised by Chinese and American designers. However, some American gunsmiths took the initiative to resign after the successful design of the UC8, and they left their homeland to come to China for several years and wanted to return home. Wang Maoru said to Liu Qingen that if it can be retained, it must be retained, and if Ruguo is not retained, it is necessary to sign a confidentiality agreement and a priority contract for reemployment of the same type of work, and must not let our UC8 heavy machine gun technology fall into the hands of others.

The Wehrmacht's heavy machine guns are deployed to the company level, and between the squad light machine guns and the company heavy machine guns, the support weapons of the platoon units are the howitzers that are now being researched and produced. It is an inevitable trend that the howitzer replaced the 37mm bazooka, because the 37mm bazooka was clumsy in the Wehrmacht's fight in Russia, and could not even destroy the shield of the Russian M1905 Maxim heavy machine gun, which caused dissatisfaction among the soldiers at the front, and many soldiers ridiculed the 37 bazooka as a large two-kicker (high rise) also stemmed from this.

After inspecting and questioning the soldiers participating in the battle, the Military Science Division found that the platoon-level support weapons were not suitable for light rocket launchers, and the platoon-level battles were mostly small-scale close-quarters battles, especially behind the bunkers and in the trenches.

According to the Second Division of Military Intelligence (intelligence on Japan

Two years ago, Japan began working on this individual weapon, and intends to officially enter service in October this year, they call it the Taisho 10-style grenadier.

In order to counter this platoon-level individual support weapon of Japan, the Wehrmacht also took great pains and finally settled on a gun grenade launcher, that is, a grenade gun. The first grenade launcher was invented by Rheinmetall in 1913 and its main role was not to be a man-to-arm support weapon, but to fire flares. However, it was later improved, and in addition to signal flares, the grenade gun could also fire small grenades and scattershots.

Liu Qingen then smiled strangely and said in a low voice: "In fact, you can also fire small gas bombs." ”

Wang Maoru laughed, nodded and said: "I like this, small gas bombs, very good, it is best to be the kind of poison gas bombs that last for a long time, the erosion speed is fast, and rongyi volatilizes." In order to facilitate the rapid occupation of the trenches by our troops, well, yes, not bad, gas bombs are a good thing, we méiyou participate in the shime breaking agreement, don't worry about this. ”

Liu Qingen spread his hands and said: "I can't do anything about this, I'm not a chemical expert." ”

The grenade gun is no more than 800 mm long, with a 388 mm firing tube, a caliber of 42 mm, a maximum range of 350 meters (fired at 45 degrees), and a single-shot fire.

Wang Maoru saw with great interest that there was a vest with many pockets on the side, so he picked it up and asked Liu Qingen what this vest was used for, Liu Qingen turned the vest over, and the shihou that was originally placed was reversed, and the front of the vest was only revealed, which was a tactical vest with empty shells. Liu Qingen said that this was also a tactical vest shot by a young man and specially prepared for grenade gunners. Originally, everyone's plan was to make an armed belt with grenades hanging on it, but it was difficult to run and feed ammunition in this way, so the young man invented a tactical vest.

The designer of the tactical vest is called Huang Square, a young man from Guangxi, black and thin, who speaks with a strong Guangxi flavor of Mandarin, and a mouth makes everyone lean forward and close.

Wang Maoru smiled and said that this yellow square needs to be praised and encouraged, but I like your tactical vest very much, can you give it to me, Liu Qingen said: "You can take it, this is a defective product, hahaha." Wang Maoru said that defective products are also good things, which witness the changes of our Chinese military industry from scratch, from small to large, from weak to strong. The name of this grenade gun is called the flea grenade gun, and the reason why it is called flea is because the howitzer is designed in such a way that it shoots in a curve, like a flea yiyàng grenade bullet jumping over. Wang Maoru said that the name is very kind, let's call it flea, gǎnjiào is good, and it is also very Chinese.

The next thing Wang Maoru observed was the improved design of the bazooka, because the 37mm bazooka was really a big sophomore kick, although the range was far and the accuracy was high, but the attack was too weak. Therefore, in order to increase the attack power, the caliber of the redesigned bazooka has been specially increased a lot. The Department of Military Science now has six caliber bazookas in its hands, namely 42mm, 56mm, 62mm, 72mm, 78mm, and 88mm, most of them tend to be 62mm caliber, because of the physical ability limitations of Chinese soldiers, the caliber of ruguo bazooka is too large, and the weight of the corresponding bazooka and rocket is very large, Chinese soldiers are not as robust as European and American white Yiyàng, most soldiers are still flexible, So the 62mm caliber bazooka fits just right.

Wang Maoru personally carried the 62 bazooka, and he felt that it was not very heavy, but it was really inconvenient to carry it on the march. Of course, for soldiers who have been trained for a long time, this yidiǎn can be adapted. This weapon should be a tèbié support weapon as a single weapon, or it should be used in small-scale battles and local conflicts, and it should not be realistic to equip the whole army. Wang Maoru then asked Liu Qingen, in the development and design of Shihou, which level of bazooka is equipped, Liu Qingen said that the 62 bazooka is equipped to the company level, is a support weapon with the howitzer yiyàng, but the grenade gun is a curve shooting, the bazooka is a small curve shooting, the howitzer is to attack the enemy behind the enemy's cover, and the bazooka is to destroy the opponent's bunker, the two have different roles, and at the same time can support each other.

Of course, the 62 rocket launcher also has many disadvantages, first of all, because it is a small curve shooting it is attacked in the shihourongyi of the launch, and secondly, the 62 rocket is due to its large weight, so the amount of bombs carried in the marching guochéng is bound to not be too much, the third disadvantage is that after the 62 rocket launcher is fired five times in a row, the temperature of the rocket launcher is too high, and it is not suitable to be launched, otherwise it will cause the rocket launcher to deform or explode, and the fourth disadvantage is that the range of the 62 rocket is much shorter, only two hundred meters, It no longer pursues the distance of the shot, but the power of the explosion.

It is precisely because of the shortcomings of the 62 bazooka that the Department of Military Industry immediately put this new bazooka into production, but stayed here to continue development and research. (To be continued.) )