Battle of the Third Reich Chapter 98: Weapons (on)

Many military fans in later generations highly praised the Mauser 98k, thinking that it was a famous historical gun. The German army won a brilliant victory with this rifle. In fact, this is completely turning the cart before the horse. It was the German army that made the 98k reputation, not this rifle that made the German army.

The victory of the German army is based on its advanced tactics, excellent training and strong morale, not just relying on one or two new weapons. Of course, better weapons can indeed increase the army’s advantage on the battlefield, but Mauser 98k rifle, obviously does not have much technical content.

At that time, even if the German Army was carrying French mas, British Lee Enfield, Austria's Manlisha and even Japan's 38th Gai, it was able to achieve historical records.

After all, this is a standard military rifle produced on an assembly line. Manufacturers must also consider the cost in addition to the output. Especially after the outbreak of the war, the German army began to expand wildly. In order to complete the huge military order within the time limit, Mauser Factory could only simplify the production process as much as possible, and lowered some quality standards, so that the 98k produced after 41 years, both the selection of materials and the workmanship, showed a significant decline, and the Allies even captured it on the battlefield. Mauser 98k made fun of it, claiming that it can only be regarded as a wooden strip wrapped with iron pipe.

In addition to these material and processing problems, this rifle has also fallen behind in technology in this era. After all, it was designed in the early twentieth century. The war at that time was mainly manifested in battle of positions and trenches. The technology of the rifle The standard is not high, but in the 1940s, under the high-intensity battlefield environment of mobile warfare and blitzkrieg, this weapon has gradually shown signs of weak successor.

The rate of fire of Mauser 98k is very slow. The German army has calculated that usually a well-trained German soldier can shoot eight to ten bullets per minute in a medium-intensity battle. This is the average value in a company. , There may be some fast gunners, but the battlefield rate of fire of most soldiers is about this level.

Firing ten bullets in one minute does not mean that one bullet will be fired in six seconds. The 98k gun mechanism causes the loading and unloading to be very slow, and the speed can not go up at all. Don’t forget that the Mauser 98k magazine has only five rounds. , So you have to deduct the time to reload the bullet into the magazine, even if you use a five-shot bridge clip that can be quickly reloaded, take the bridge clip from the waist ammunition bag, and then press the bullet into the chamber and reload and fire. Even a well-trained veteran will take about ten seconds. If you are a recruit or in a firefight situation, the speed may be slower. If you encounter someone with a more clumsy hand, then the time will be real. Maybe it's.

So in the data, ten bullets fired in one minute is actually equivalent to one shot in more than five seconds. All rifles of the same age can do this. As for the limit rate of fire, Mauser 98k is about two per minute. Ten rounds, that can only be blindly spilling bullets, which has no practical significance.

In the battle on the Western Front, Mauser 98k exposed another problem. The 7.9257mm rifle it uses is very powerful, but it also creates strong recoil, so I want to use this skillfully. A rifle must undergo a lot of live ammunition training. The strong recoil force causes the soldier to re-select and aim the rifle after firing. Especially in high-intensity combat, soldiers often can only do some in order to maintain the firepower intensity. Rough aiming is not about the accuracy of shooting.

If you want to achieve a precise shooting effect, the rate of fire can only be lowered. Obviously, this is not able to cope with the current mode of war. In mobile operations, it is easy for the Germans to encounter enemy troops equipped with high-rate rifles. Will be suppressed by the opponent's firepower.

In fact, the German army has long discovered that the Mauser 98k will cause insufficient firepower, so it pays so much attention to the equipment and use of light machine guns in order to make up for this inherent lack of firepower.

However, the sluggishness between the German fire dealers and the army, as well as the paranoia of a group of stubborn generals and empire heads, convinced them that 98k was enough to cope with the war they were about to launch.

In the early battles, because the resistance was not strong, the German 98k did not expose much of the problem. They often encountered a group of panicked and undertrained infantry, rarely facing the strong enemy. Opportunity for confrontation. Until the Germans fought against the British Expeditionary Forces on the Belgian battlefield, the Germans could be regarded as encountering opponents of commensurate strength. The Lee Enfield rifle equipped by the British army with its amazing rate of fire and accuracy allowed the German infantry to eat in front of the opponent's position Painful.

As for why the German army did not develop more advanced rifles early, it was because Germany had insufficient technical reserves at the time. There were no lack of clear-headed people in the German army. Before the war began, the US military had begun to equip the Garand semi-automatic rifle. They are very interested in this kind of semi-automatic weapon, and started Germany’s own semi-automatic rifle tender.

The German army put forward several technical requirements. It adopts a piston-guided air reclamation structure, and the gun cannot have any moving parts. After the air-guide device fails, it can be used to continue shooting manually. Judging from these standards, the German army is still very clear about the concept of semi-automatic weapons, and the conditions and requirements put forward are very consistent with actual combat requirements.

In history, only Mauser and Walter companies came up with their own designs. In the end, Walter’s design got an order from the German army. This weapon was finalized as the G41 semi-automatic rifle and began to be equipped with German troops on the eastern front.

Historically, this gun has been severely tested in the dirty and **** combat environment of the Eastern Front. The trigger and piston often malfunction due to dirt or gunpowder residue. Using this weapon requires a lot of time and careful maintenance. Compared with 98k, this rifle is a bit bulkier, so it is not welcomed by German soldiers who have been exhausted physically and mentally by the Eastern Front War.

In history, it wasn’t until 43 years that the German army was truly equipped with a reliable semi-automatic rifle. This was the famous G43 semi-automatic rifle. However, at this time, the German army’s warfare was gradually showing signs of failure. day. The appearance of the g43 is not too late, but because of the Nazis’ chaos in weapon production management, as well as the lack of raw materials and skilled craftsmen, until the end of the war, this semi-automatic rifle was produced in a total of about 400,000, and the real equipment Only about half of the total was given to the troops.

In the battle of the Western Front, the conventional German troops with only a small amount of equipped g43 automatic rifles could not suppress a Garand in the hands of the American soldiers, but the German snipers relied on the g43 snipers with quadruple sights in their hands. Rifles, however, caused serious casualties to the American army. German snipers like to hide at the ambush point and continuously sniper the marching column of the American army, shooting ten bullets in the magazine within 20 seconds, and then taking advantage of the enemy's chaos. , And leave easily along the retreat route.

Xu Jun originally wanted to produce the g43 rifle, which is a weapon that is not inferior to Garand, but he soon changed his mind because there are still many technical problems with the g43, and the main root is If the 7.9257mm bullet is not replaced, these problems will always plague the German guns.

Xu Jun finally decided to replace the 7.92 Mauser with the historical 7.62nato bullet, that is, the 7.6251mm bullet, and determined that the infantry firearms developed in Europe will use this ammunition as the standard. As for why I chose nato, because this is the most advanced bullet in Xu Jun's database.

The bullets are small but the technical content is not low at all. Each seed bullet must be strictly designed and demonstrated before being equipped with troops.

Usually, from design to finalization of a bullet, I don’t know how many repeated trials are needed, and finally find the most ideal proportioning scheme from a bunch of data, the shape and internal structure of the bullet, the material and length of the bullet The thickness, the choice and weight of the propellant, and each simple parameter are based on thousands or even tens of thousands of test data. This often requires decades of technology accumulation. Many countries in later generations have the ability to develop and Manufacturing rifles, but not capable of developing and manufacturing bullets.

Germany does not have the time to design the new ammunition it needs. Xu Jun can only choose the most mature design from a bunch of options, and before the 1950s, the best mass-produced ammunition Even if the 7.6251mmnato was bombed~IndoMTL.com~Xu Jun also considered the Soviet Union’s 7.6239mmm43 bullet, but in the end he gave up this bullet type. He was going to fight World War II, the era of full-power bullets. , The opponent is equipped with Mosin Nagan with an effective range of more than 1,300 meters. The battlefield for German soldiers is not the dense Vietnamese jungle or the Afghan mountains, but the vast and unobstructed plains of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.

The battlefield determines the weapon, not the weapon. This is the main reason Xu Jun chose the 7.62nato bullet. He needs a bullet that has range and power and can be used on automatic weapons.

As for the 5.56 nato bomb, because the technical age is beyond the range of Xu Jun's database, even if he wants to equip it, he can't get it out, so he can only hand it over to the research and development unit for a slow test. There is a time limit for the Führer’s database. Otherwise, why would Xu Jun even think of making a g34 before. He can’t build the m14 directly, but this gun is a product in the mid-sixties. There is no drawing of this thing in the Führer’s database. .

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