Battle of the Third Reich Chapter 102: Weapons (5)
There is no drawing of this grenade gun in Xu Jun’s database, but NATO also bought a lot of beautiful equipment back then. How could there be no such thing in the museum? To be honest, the technical content of the whole system is not very good. High, of course, this is only for some developed industrial countries. If it is replaced by a country with relatively backward materials and processing technology, then it is really difficult to reversely imitate it.
Its biggest difficulty is actually the special ammunition, which requires very high processing accuracy. Without large-scale precision manufacturing technology, it is difficult to control the quality of the product. If the defective rate remains high, it will seriously affect In terms of its production cost, when the cost-effectiveness ratio exceeds a certain psychological value, then this weapon loses its value, because there will be a bunch of cheaper alternatives to replace it, such as gun shooting. Grenades and recoilless guns, or various grenade projectiles.
Germany's precision machining technology was at the forefront of Europe at the time, and of course there would be no problem that such ammunition could not be manufactured. A family of 4043mm low-speed grenades equipped by the U.S. military has been developed. Over the past half a century, more than a dozen types of bullets with different performances and functions have been developed. Even the most basic bullet casings have five or six models, not to mention the various interiors. Medicine and various special fuzes.
Xu Jun did not have the idea of imitating them all. He only needs the most basic models now. The German army is not fighting a special security war, but a traditional regular war.
The German army will fight the enemy face to face. The opponent is not the rabble in the jungles of Southeast Asia, but the regular soldiers who have received systematic military training.
So the German weapons and ammunition must be suitable for this mode of war. The two sides compete not only in the number of weapons and firepower, but also the quality of the soldiers, the commanding capabilities of the officers, and the most critical logistical supply capabilities.
The type of ammunition must be unified, otherwise it will inevitably lead to disasters in the logistics system. Xu Jun prepared four types of ammunition. The first is a conventional high-explosive anti-personnel grenade. This is used to deal with unarmored targets. It is loaded with a shaped fragmentation warhead. After the explosion, it can produce more than two hundred pieces of shrapnel, which is a lethal killing zone. It is five meters in diameter, but shrapnel still has a lot of lethality within ten meters.
The second type is an anti-armor grenade. It uses a hollow charge warhead and can penetrate 50mm thick armor. This is used to deal with light armored vehicles and steel infantry bunkers. It is a bit difficult to attack medium tanks. Therefore, it is best to use professional anti-tank weapons to deal with tanks.
The third type is the white phosphorus smoke bomb, which is filled with white phosphorus as a smoke and combustion agent. After the explosion, the white phosphorus inside will spread out, burn and release a large amount of white smoke, instantly creating a piece of about 7 in diameter. Meters of smoke belt, and can be maintained for about two minutes under weak wind. This kind of smoke bomb is mainly used to attack enemy positions and fortification areas, blocking the sight of the opponent's firepower points, and can also set fire in enemy positions, killing enemy personnel and creating panic and chaos.
The fourth type of ammunition is a flares. After launching, it is detonated at about 150 meters in the air. It ejects a small parachute with illuminating agent, which can provide half a minute of lighting time. Don’t think it’s too short. On the guarded position, half a minute is enough time for the soldiers to see the situation in the target area clearly and prepare for everything.
Xu Jun predicts that the installation of grenade guns will even change the German urban combat mode. In regular operations, important targets on the enemy's position will be repeatedly named by the various types of artillery and rapid-fire weapons equipped by the German army, leaving little room for grenades. However, when it comes to towns and streets and the densely built areas of enemy forces, the value of the grenade gun is reflected at that time. It is the best weapon to deal with stubborn enemies in houses and barricades. It clears a fire point hidden in residential houses, which is one or two. The grenade thing.
If the European war continues now, Xu Jun will not come up with this equipment anyway, because the shells of this ammunition are all stamped and casted from aluminum alloy. If the British naval blockade is not broken, then Germany The materials used to make this ammunition simply cannot be consumed.
Europe lacks bauxite. At that time, the only countries with large-scale bauxite mines were Hungary and France. However, in the 1940s, the combined bauxite output of the two countries did not exceed one million tons. need. Therefore, every year Europe needs to import a large amount of aluminum from colonies in South America and Southeast Asia. The most important production areas are Suriname and Indochina.
The extraction of aluminum requires a lot of electricity, which is not something non-industrial countries can afford. The Ruhr Industrial Zone in Germany has a strong smelting capacity, and it is also because the nearby large hydropower stations and thermal power stations provide sufficient energy. So as long as Germany gets the raw materials, the output is not a problem at all.
Now Germany has got rid of the historical predicament and is no longer troubled by the lack of materials. As long as it is willing to spend money, it can be said that there is as much aluminum as it wants. (Xu Jun: We are pure Europeans. If you don’t believe me, I will immediately build a h39 for you to see. Weierle: Don’t be impulsive, Führer! ∑(っ°Д°;)っ)
Furthermore, the head of state is not only satisfied with imports. He has long put his greedy eyes on the rich land of Africa. Guinea is currently a French colony. This country has the world’s largest bauxite deposits. There are 7.4 billion tons, accounting for a quarter of the world's bauxite reserves.
How could Xu Jun put a pile of treasures and not develop it? At present, almost all of Africa is European colonies. At this time, there are no black civil rights organizations. Black Americans are still sitting in the quarantine area of the bus. Any predatory behavior is in line with the values of the time. The oppression of labor of people of color is regarded as a legitimate power in the entire European and American culture.
Germany has obtained the right to explore and mine minerals in the colonies of Africa, Britain, France, Italy, Portugal, and other countries. Of course, it is not for nothing. Germany will also give shares in the other party's enterprises to offset the purchase of land.
Xu Jun has a batch of valuable mineral materials in his hand, which greatly saves exploration time and money. Some only require machinery to enter the site to be mined. Instead, the biggest cost is spent on ore transportation, but for those with advanced road construction For technical Europeans, building a road or railway is not a difficult task. It only costs manpower and money.
The European war has damaged the vitality of the major capitalist countries. The beasts are already hungry. Maybe they can pretend to be a group of gentlemen in the civilized world, but in the wild and wild Africa, they will show their true colors unscrupulously. Behind the prosperous city scene in Europe, I don't know how many African bones are buried.
Xu Jun is called the apostle of God, not a Virgin, he will not jump out to talk about freedom and human rights. As a fascist dictator, saying that kind of words will make people feel that he is playing irony.
If he doesn’t pass the current barrier, his own survival will not be guaranteed. Wherever he can care about the rights and interests of the African people, of course he will limit certain behaviors in the process of plundering and invest as much as possible in the local area. The infrastructure construction can be regarded as a slight return.
Turning back on the topic, at present, Germany has no shortage of raw materials. Steel, aluminum and oil bombs are readily available. The only thing missing is the time to convert these resources into actual combat effectiveness.
The 40mm grenade is still on the drawing, and Krupp’s technicians have launched a series of related tests~IndoMTL.com~ such as a complex safety fuze. In fact, the safety fuze used by Americans in history is not a newly developed technology. Inertial insurance technology has long been used in the fuzes of various antiaircraft artillery. Even the Italian-designed grenades used inertial insurance.
To put it simply, the warhead starts to rotate continuously after leaving the muzzle due to the effect of the rifling. The inertia generated during the rotation causes the internal structure of the fuze to rotate with it. After the warhead has rotated a predetermined number of turns, the firing needle and the flash cap The pilot hole in the middle was finally connected into a line, and the movement of the striker was no longer blocked, and the fuze was considered to have entered a combat state.
Speaking of the whole process, it seems to take a long time. In fact, it only takes a fraction of a second. At this time, the grenade flies out about three meters away. It will not detonate when hitting an obstacle within this distance to avoid injury. And his own accident happened.
Xu Jun made up his mind to arm his soldiers to the teeth, whether metaphorically or literally, in his opinion, if a ton of steel can save a soldier's life, then it will be consumed and he will be able to Obtaining a veteran with actual combat experience is more valuable than a hundred tons of steel in some cases.
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