Bright Sword Military System

Derek hesitated, and replied with a flustered look in his eyes: "It's a pity, Comrade Commander! I think, as an airborne force... it is very difficult for us to avoid such casualties!"

What Captain Derek said could be either telling the truth or lying.

To be honest, it is really difficult for airborne troops to avoid casualties when airborne on dangerous terrain.

If it could be avoided, the 82nd Airborne Division of Eagle Sauce would not have made such a major mistake in attacking Sicily.

The lie is that Yingjiang can reduce the risk of airborne as much as possible through some technical means, such as ground mapping radar.

The role of ground mapping radar in the airborne force is that when the airborne force has to airborne towards the enemy's controlled area at night, the ground mapping radar can at least tell you whether there are mountains or plains under the black sky.

Otherwise, the airborne troops may not know that there is an ocean below and jump down one after another stupidly...

The original intention of Eagle Sauce to develop this ground mapping radar is to solve the bomber's precise bombing problem. It is used to install it under the B17 to provide data support for its bombing to improve the bombing accuracy, but Eagle Sauce soon discovered this radar. It has value in air radar reconnaissance, electronic early warning, etc., and the airborne troops need these very much, so they are naturally equipped in the airborne troops.

Wang Xuexin didn't expose Derek's lie, he just spread his hands and said, "I'm sorry too, Captain, I originally wanted to make a deal with you, I thought I could provide you with something useful to your army..."

This made Derek's heart skip a beat.

This is the head of the Huaxia regiment, who has successfully trained an excellent airborne force in just over a month. If he said it was useful for the Yingjiang airborne force, he would probably be right.

So Derek asked: "Comrade leader, what aspect are you referring to?"

Wang Xuexin replied without thinking: "A repeating rifle, I think you need a repeating rifle, don't you?"

Captain Derek's eyes lit up immediately.

Wang Xuexin's words spoke to Derek's heart, and it could even be said to speak to the heart of Yingjiang's executives.

When Derek reported to Ridgway about the training of the Eighth Route Army's airborne troops, he highly praised the Eighth Route Army's repeating rifles.

"This rifle is simply a work of art!" Derek said: "Especially the folding stock, this is a very creative invention, it makes the total length of the gun body only 645MM, do you know what the concept is? We You can even carry it in a backpack!"

(Note: AK47 fixed stock type 870MM)

"In addition, the firepower of this gun can be regarded as the best equipment for the airborne troops. They can use the fastest speed to launch a fierce attack on the enemy's defense line, even if the number is much smaller than the enemy!"

Li Qiwei was also deeply impressed when he saw this report.

The former means that the airborne troops can easily carry this rifle with only 645MM airborne.

At this time, the rifles of the Eagle Sauce Airborne Forces can be said to be various, including Springfield rifles, M[-] Garands, and even M[-] carbine.

From this point, it can also be seen that Yingjiang’s airborne troops are not professional, and Springfield rifles and Garand rifles are nothing more than that. The bullets of these two rifles can be used in common, but the bullets of the carbine are not compatible with the bullets of these rifles, which will cause The airborne troops were in disarray.

This is quite serious for the airborne troops, because the airborne troops most often operate in a state surrounded by the enemy, and they need transport planes to drop supplies, especially ammunition, for them.

If the ammunition is not universal, what kind of ammunition is the airdrop ammunition delivered?

Or more carbine cartridges or more rifle cartridges?
Are they cast separately or mixed together?

If the two types of ammunition are cast separately, does it happen that the rifle picks up the carbine ammunition and the carbine picks up the rifle ammunition?
If they are mixed together, will it take time to distinguish between the two types of ammunition before the ground troops get supplies?
But Li Qiwei was suffering and couldn't tell.

Li Qiwei knew about these shortcomings, but he still had to do it.

The reason is that the springfield rifle and the M1 Garand rifle have too long barrels, which will cause great inconvenience and even danger to the airborne troops whether in the cabin or when airborne.

Li Qiwei's idea is to disassemble these rifles and put them in special rifle bags, and then assemble the rifles after reaching the ground.

(Note: Eagle sauce airborne troops used this method to airborne at the beginning, and it was not changed to full-size rifle airborne until the market garden operation)

But this method of airborne has a great risk: once the troops are airborne to the ground, they will immediately encounter the enemy, which means that they have no way to fight back.

As a result, airborne troops needed soldiers equipped with submachine guns and carbines, and they provided cover fire for friendly troops after they airborne so that they had time to take their rifles out of their backpacks and splice them together.

It can be seen from this that it would be a wonderful thing if the Yingjiang airborne troops could have a continuous-fire rifle, especially a folding one... This is not only a problem of uniform ammunition, but also avoids the lack of combat effectiveness when landing The problem of being able to be beaten passively.

As for the firepower, let alone, the repeating rifle is many times stronger than Chuntian and Garland.

As a member of the Airborne Forces, Captain Derek certainly knows these reasons. At the same time, he also knows that Wang Xuexin designed the Eighth Route Army's continuous-fire rifle. Therefore, when he heard that Wang Xuexin could provide assistance in the continuous-fire rifle, he immediately became interested. .

However, he still replied: "But Comrade Commander, I remember that you have already sold us the blueprint of the repeating rifle, so we actually have the production capacity of the repeating rifle..."

"I don't deny this!" Wang Xuexin replied: "But you didn't intend to produce this repeating rifle according to the drawings, did you?"

Captain Derek could only nod helplessly.

Although they wanted this repeating rifle very much, the high-level officials always believed that the accuracy of the repeating rifle of the Eighth Route Army was too low for Yingjiang troops.

Thinking of this, Captain Derek couldn't help but want to curse: Fuck it, as long as there is a repeating rifle, we all want it in our dreams, and those who don't know how to fight think we need it!
But Derek can't change that, he's just a captain after all.

After thinking about it, Derek asked, "Comrade Commander, what do you mean...provide us with a brand new repeating rifle?"

"Yes!" Wang Xuexin nodded: "Think about it, a rifle suitable for you, I mean, the accuracy has been greatly improved to meet your requirements!"

Speaking of this, Wang Xuexin changed the subject: "But... this is a deal, if you don't have what I need!"

"No, we have!" Derek replied impatiently: "We have what you need, Comrade Commander!"