Chapter 72 Improvement
After sending Dr. Aubert away, Yannick summoned the heads of the Walter, Mauser, Heinel and other arsenals and asked them to take their own guns to the Royal Shooting Range.
After a brief exchange of greetings at the shooting range, Yannick picked up the G43 with great interest, walked to the shooting table and aimed at the target 100 meters away.
The people around him smiled and were ready to applaud at the first moment.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Yannick pulled the trigger repeatedly. He was so happy that he didn't notice that the smiles on the faces of the people around him gradually faded. The atmosphere became awkward, and Walter secretly wiped the sweat from his forehead.
After firing ten bullets, Yannick put down the gun, rubbed his sore shoulders, and waved to the guard in the distance to bring the target paper over.
The guard seemed a little reluctant and hesitantly handed the target paper to Yannick.
"..." Looking at the clean target paper without any holes or even creases, Yannick was stunned. It took him a while to react and all the ten bullets he fired missed the target!
"Rubbish!" He muttered, noticing Walter's embarrassed face, and explained. "Mr. Walter, I just mean my shooting skills are rubbish." He had touched a gun once in the original time and space, when he fired five bullets during the military training in college, and the "Yannick" in this time and space was obviously not interested in firearms. Therefore, he did not feel frustrated or angry. After all, if he could hit the target like this, why did he need to train the army?
"The feel and firing rate of this gun are still good." He picked up another gun, the famous 98K in later generations, and asked after carefully examining it. "Mr. Mauser, what material is the wood of this gun body made of?" Old Mauser retired last year, and his son took over.
Mauser said respectfully. "Your Highness, it's walnut."
"Oh, walnut, tsk tsk." Later generations all know that walnut is the main material of high-end furniture, and many of them are not logs, but just the surface. Such a precious thing is actually used to make a gun body? "Mr. Mauser, this gun is not specially made, right?"
Mauser shook his head hurriedly. "No, Your Highness. According to your instructions, I just took one from today's finished products."
"Mr. Mauser, if I remember correctly, the maturity period of walnut is 50-100 years. Even if all the walnuts in Germany are cut down, it will not be enough for you to make it, right? Weapons are consumables, not works of art. Of course, I know that this kind of walnut is strong and corrosion-resistant, but if it is glued and laminated beech, there will be no problem, right?" Glued beech is harder than walnut, and easier to produce and process.
Mauser was stunned and nodded.
"And this." Yannick pointed at the barrel ring. This thing was actually made into an H shape. Is it imitating Hermes? "Don't you think this thing is time-consuming and labor-intensive? How convenient is it to just weld it with a piece of iron? And the spring in the replacement sleeve, I think just put two screws on it."
"This trigger guard and magazine base are also milled, right? Change them all to stamping. There is no need to waste one more screw on the base if one can fix it."
"This bayonet seat can also be cancelled. Also, add a guard ring to the crosshairs, otherwise it will easily cause false light." This does not mean that soldiers are not allowed to fight with bayonets, but German soldiers will use more brutal close-quarters weapons than bayonets, that is, engineer shovels!
In the original time and space, although the German army was equipped with bayonets, they were equipped with more submachine guns and light machine guns, so in the context of the deep penetration of armored forces, there were few opportunities for bayonet fighting.
In the trench warfare on the German Eastern Front, the engineer shovel became a trench fighting weapon. The trench was narrow, and the bayonet was too long to get stuck on the wall, and the enemy was too late to put on the bayonet when rushing to the trench. At this time, the engineer shovel that was digging the pit was picked up and used. On the one hand, the engineer shovel was convenient for blocking, and on the other hand, it could be swung vigorously because of its short size. Some German soldiers wrote in their biographies that the engineer shovel swung with all their strength could break the enemy's body with one shovel, and it could also cut off the enemy's head.
After looking through it carefully again, Yannick found something very interesting. The front and back of the rear sight are marked with the sight distance.
What a lunatic!
Who would use the rear sight on the back? ! This is simply a living superfluous addition!
"In general, as I just said, weapons are consumables, not works of art, and do not require such flashy and meticulous craftsmanship. As long as the quality of the firing mechanism, such as the barrel, safety, receiver, and bolt, can be guaranteed, you can simplify the rest as much as you want. In this way, you can save labor, time, and money, and the military can also save money and get more weapons. Why not do it?"
Yannick knew that the Germans seemed to have collective obsessive-compulsive disorder, and the concept of meticulous craftsmanship was deeply rooted in their bones.
Unfortunately, in the end, the Russians used the spirit of production capacity first and workmanship second to vividly teach the Germans a lesson that quantitative change is greater than qualitative change.
"If the war can be won in just two or three months, even if I don't mind you using the mentality of making works of art to make weapons, it looks good and is good to use. But what if it takes four or five years like the last time?! Can you afford it?"
Playing with works of art, unless you are several levels higher than others, it's okay. Only one level higher, quantity can offset quality; at the same level, quantity completely wins over quality.
No matter how good the craftsmanship is, it's just a matter of looking at the opponent's casualty figures. If you lose, you can only comfort yourself by hugging me and killing more of you.
In a protracted war, cheap consumables have more practical value than expensive works of art.
"We in Germany are not as vast and resourceful as the Soviet Union, the Ming Dynasty, and the United States. We are short of everything except coal and potassium salt. This senseless waste is simply a crime. Once we have a vast enough land, we will have inexhaustible resources. I don’t care how much you want to refine it when you have endless resources, but in these ten years, I want you to put away those useless artistic cells. What I want is absolute production capacity!”
Everyone looked at each other. Of course they knew what was going on in their own country, and they also knew that what His Highness said was completely reasonable. Although they felt very awkward in their hearts, they all agreed. "Understood, Your Highness. We will simplify the process and increase production capacity."
Nodding, Yannick fired the MP40 and MP41 again and ordered. "Get a pen and paper."
The secretary brought some paper and pen, and Yannick quickly drew a sketch of the magazine. This magazine is the M45 submachine gun magazine developed by Sweden during World War II. It is a 36-round double-row double-feed magazine. It is known as the best magazine for 9mm Parabellum pistols in later generations. magazine.
The biggest feature of this magazine is that the front and rear widths are different. The front part is slightly narrower and the rear part is wider. In this way, the magazine section is approximately wedge-shaped. The advantage of using this shape is that the axis of the bullet is not parallel to the axis of the chamber. The left and right rows There is a very small angle between the bullet and the central axis of the chamber, which makes it easy to align the bullet when pushing the bullet into the chamber, so the reliability of the bullet supply is high.
The magazines of the MP40 submachine gun and the "Sden" submachine gun, which have the same front and rear width, will shrink and "squeeze" the internal bullets in cold weather. At the same time, the double-row single-feed structure is not conducive to quick reloading. . Magazines with this shape are not sensitive to dirt or temperature differences. Not only do they have good ammunition supply reliability, they are also easier to load manually. If you use a loader, it only takes 6 seconds to fill a 36-round magazine.