Chapter 144: Heavy Sniper Rifle
In the cognition of countless military fans, the best heavy sniper rifle is undoubtedly Barrett. It is the king of sniper rifles, before Lu Yuan crossed to the current era, there is no sniper rifle in the world that can be compared to it, it is not only superior to its peers in terms of performance parameters, but also a point that shocks gun fans.
The Barrett M82A1 is used in almost all armies of major Western countries, including the US special forces, and the US military is nicknamed "Light 50". Because it uses the large-caliber 12.7×99 NATO ammunition of the Browning M2 heavy machine gun, this gun has two variants - the original M82A1 (A3) and the M82A2 with a stockless structure design for easy carrying, and the subsequent XM500 also inherited its design spirit, using a stockless structure design, with its long range, high accuracy, power and other excellent performance, almost dominates the 12.7mm sniper rifle market, the gun has been equipped with dozens of countries of military and police forces.
Of course, Barrett is not without shortcomings, strictly speaking, Barrett is not actually suitable for use on the battlefield, and the sniper on the battlefield is found to be dead, not to mention that a few grenades from afar were blown to ashes. Barrett, on the other hand, was not suitable for the battlefield because of his sheer size and the dense smoke that came from the fight. Barrett is about 1.4 meters long, and the concealment is average in a sniper rifle, although it is not too big to be concealed, but it is also a test for the sniper's position. The other is the dense smoke, which makes Barrett inferior in sniper duels.
But Barrett's advantages are quite numerous, especially its caliber is 12.7 mm, and the range is quite long, Barrett's range can reach 2 km, and a high-powered bullet can shoot through the armor of an armored vehicle at a distance of 1 km. Besides, Lu Yuan has storage space as a cheating weapon, no matter how heavy and big Barrett is, Lu Yuan can use the storage space to move it at will. It's just that Barrett's production process is very strict and superb, according to the current level of craftsmanship in this era, even if Lu Yuan can make Barrett, I'm afraid the accuracy will not reach the level he wants.
Lu Yuan couldn't bear to waste these hard-won high-precision barrels, and after some careful consideration, Lu Yuan finally decided to copy Barrett. In order to prevent the vibration generated after the bullet is fired from affecting the effectiveness of the weapon parts and to improve the accuracy of shooting, Lu Yuan decided to imitate the manual Barrett. The gun type designed by Lu Yuan uses a single-row magazine of 5 rounds to feed the ammunition, and the shooter needs to pull the bolt after each shot to complete the process of unshelling and loading.
After three days of repeated deliberation and design improvement, Lu Yuan finally designed a heavy sniper rifle suitable for himself on the basis of imitating Barreta, according to the design data, the empty weight of the gun exceeded 14 kg, and at the same time, Lu Yuan made a surface groove treatment for the heavy barrel of Anxie, so that the barrel could dissipate heat when shooting. As for the recoil of the heavy sniper rifle, Lu Yuan not only copied Barrett's muzzle brake, but also shot a heavy tripod and butt.
"Boss, do you really need such a sniper rifle? I think the Mauser sniper rifle is already very good, and the sniper rifle you are designing now looks pretty good, but it should also have a lot of recoil, and your body may not be able to support a few bullets. "Not too many people know about Lu Yuan's design of heavy sniper rifles, and Schuchmann is one of them, but he is not very optimistic about it, because the larger the caliber of the gun, the greater the recoil, not to mention that Lu Yuan still uses 12.7 caliber heavy machine gun bullets.
Lu Yuan was not very worried about this, but joked with a smile, "Schuchman, don't worry, I know what I'm doing." Tomorrow, I'll make it, so let's make a bet. If I really can't control it, I'll give it to you, and I'm sure you can control it with your strength. Lu Yuan's words made Schuchman pout secretly, he was not very interested in such a big gun.
Lu Yuan said that after a good night's rest, early the next morning, Lu Yuan went into the workshop, and two days passed quickly, and Lu Yuan finally made all the accessories for the first heavy sniper rifle. "God, boss, this looks fantastic." Hogg, who had returned from Berlin, had a different opinion from Schuchmann, and in his opinion, the formidable appearance of this heavy sniper rifle alone was enough to attract many eyeballs.
"Schuchman, it's too late for you to regret it now, otherwise you'll have to continue to serve me for three years." Lu Yuan stood on the edge of the workbench and pressed the thick 12.7 caliber bullet into the magazine, and the heavy sniper rifle that had been assembled was placed in his hand. Schuchmann did not speak, but quietly looked at the big guy on the workbench, this gun has not been tested, so Schuchmann is not sure of its power, but in fact, Schuchmann has a bad premonition in his heart.
With the help of Schuchman, Lu Yuan loaded all the things needed for the test into the car, and then under the protection of several escort soldiers, the group drove to a forest not too far from here. At Lu Yuan's request, the convoy stopped at a distance of about a thousand meters from the woods, and when Hogg led people to the woods to hang the target, Lu Yuan, with the help of Schuchman, finally moved the heavy sniper rifle to his chosen firing position.
"Schuchman, let me warn you first, don't stand on either side of the muzzle parallel to the muzzle when I'm shooting." Lu Yuan, who had already crouched down, loaded the magazine, reminded Schuchman, and began to shoot at a rock about 500 meters away, and he still needed to calibrate the new gun before the official test. There was a muffled sound of "bang", and the moment the bullet was discharged, a large cloud of dust rolled up on the muzzle position, but Lu Yuan, who had been worried about recoil, did not move at all.
While Lu Yuan was complacent about his success in solving the recoil problem, Schuchmann, who was holding a telescope in his hand, opened his mouth with a shocked face, and the stone 500 meters away had been cut off by a large part of the bullet that had been fired away. You must know that Lu Yuan is using a new gun now, a new gun that has not really completed the proofreading, but who would have thought that it would have such accuracy, just the first shot accurately hit the target 500 meters away.
The first hit was undoubtedly an incentive for Lu Yuan, and after Hogg and the others got the target, Lu Yuan immediately turned the muzzle of the gun and fired continuously at the woods thousands of kilometers away. According to Lu Yuan's order, when Hogg placed the gun target, he started from 800 meters and sorted it backwards, and the farthest gun target was even placed by him at a position of 1300 meters. When Lu Yuan shot and smashed the target at a position of 1,000 meters, Schuchmann, who had been holding the telescope, was numb to this, and he didn't expect that the heavy sniper rifle designed by Lu Yuan would be so powerful.
The last bullet in the magazine was also fired by Lu Yuan, but Schuchmann, who was in charge of providing the results, was speechless, because the target placed by Hogg at a position of 1300 meters was also shattered by the bullet. "Change the steel target, I'm going to test its armor-breaking penetration." Lu Yuan gave an order, and Hogg immediately led people to move down a lot of steel gun targets from the truck, and the thickness of these gun targets was different, and the thickest of them had reached a thickness of 3 centimeters.
Hogg led the people to arrange a total of two sets of steel targets, one of which was completely 3 cm steel targets, and the distance extended from 600 meters to 1200 meters, almost every 100 meters. The other group of targets is combined, and the firing distance is still from 600 meters to 1200 meters, and the targets are arranged every 100 meters, but the thickness of the targets becomes thinner and thinner with the distance.
All afternoon, Lu Yuan kept shooting at the steel gun target, and the entire 200 rounds of 12.7 caliber heavy machine gun bullets were all used up by Lu Yuan, and this was also the limit of his physical strength, after all, the recoil could not be completely eliminated. After an afternoon of live-fire testing, Lu Yuan was able to determine that the heavy sniper rifle he designed and produced could successfully penetrate armor protection up to 3 centimeters thick in the range of 600 meters to 800 meters, and after the firing distance exceeded 800 meters, every 100 meters, the penetration of the bullet would drop by one level, and at 1200 meters, the bullet could only penetrate a steel plate with a thickness of one centimeter.
The 12.7 caliber heavy machine gun bullet is very strong in terms of both the weight of the bullet and the kinetic energy of the warhead, and when testing the effective firing range, Lu Yuan even hit an ultra-long distance of 1,500 meters. The itchy Schuhman also cheekily fired a few shots, and after being equipped with a heavy tripod and butt by Lu Yuan, Schuhman even felt that the recoil of this heavy sniper rifle did not seem to be very large. "Hogg, you might be going to Berlin again, I need a higher precision scope, and if I have a higher precision scope, I can hit farther and more accurately."
On the way back to Barracks No. 3, Lu Yuan gave Hogg a new mission, but he didn't know that his words had shocked Schuchmann greatly. Now they have been able to hit the target at a distance of 1,500 meters, and their own boss is not satisfied, but they must exceed the shooting distance of 2 kilometers, and their own boss can be considered satisfied. Schuchmann didn't know that in the era of Lu Yuanlai, Barrett, as the world's best heavy sniper rifle, had been proven to have a maximum range of more than 2,800 meters.
Lu Yuanzhi never had the luxury of hitting a range of more than 2 kilometers, he wanted a higher precision scope, just to improve the shooting accuracy of this heavy sniper rifle, at least to ensure that he had 80% certainty of hitting a target in the range of 1000 meters to 1500 meters. After returning to the No. 3 barracks, Lu Yuan continued to improve the heavy sniper rifle he designed, and before Hoffman heard the news, Lu Yuan successively produced many parts with better performance, which was enough for Lu Yuan to assemble no less than 5 heavy sniper rifles.