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Chapter 178 Intermediate power ammunition
Face the enemy this way and destroy the enemy!
The famous broadsword landmine is fully feasible for mass-produced equipment under the existing technical conditions. In this way, how can this sharp weapon in the infantry equipment arsenal be forgotten?

"No ordinary small arms or machine gun can produce such rapid and devastating effects..." -Major Geoffrey of the Australian Army
Due to film and television dramas and games, the M18A1 "Broad Sword" landmine, which has received little attention for a long time in later generations, has gradually become widely known, and it exploded out of control. Its unique appearance that is different from the stereotyped landmine makes Impressive.

The Chardin effect was discovered by the Germans during the Great War, but without effective results; the immediate impetus for its application after that was the great deterrence of the elusive opponent in the Peninsular War.

The Canadians were the first to produce results. Its name was "Phoenix", or the Phoenix. It applied Schardin's principle. However, as a prototype weapon, it had many defects. The number of fragments is very small, and the effective killing distance is only more than [-] meters.

Because the Canadians did not add prefabricated fragments, all the fragments produced by the explosion came from the thin steel plates that were blown up.

After throwing bricks and stones in this way, the Americans added a large number of steel balls evenly tiled, and at the same time replaced the steel shell with plastic, which doubled the lethality but greatly reduced the weight. The result was the M18 directional landmine.

However, the Americans were still dissatisfied and continued to improve, such as replacing TNT with C4, switching to pulse generator ignition devices, and so on.

The mine body is equipped with 700 steel balls and 650g of explosives. When it is detonated, the enemies within 120° and 100m in front of it will be covered with steel balls as dense as raindrops, and they will be smashed into a sieve in the true sense.

"Look? I probably think so."

Zhou Changfeng sketched a random sketch and made a rough gesture.

There is no C4 today, but there is RDX, and C4 is actually RDX with plasticizers and adhesives added, which is extremely safe, and pure RDX is not as stable as TNT even after passivation treatment.

"Baiyao? Isn't it necessary?" Wang Huanan was a little hesitant when he heard "Heixojin", "That thing is fierce, but it's not very stable after passivation. It's better to use xanthate."

"It's fine, it depends on your choice. After all, the difference in detonation speed is two thousand faster, and the difference in power is still obvious."

It is definitely unreasonable for professionals to do professional things and insist on a single aspect of performance without considering other aspects.

Daming's weapons and equipment usually don't go to extremes, and are relatively stable.

Like the oxygen torpedoes made by the Japanese in history, their performance is indeed strong, but their reliability and safety are very unreliable. This is a typical extreme product of pursuing paper data.

As one joke goes:

After the war, the American experts who went to investigate pointed to the oxygen torpedo and asked in surprise: How do you refill and deflate such a dangerous thing?

The other party smiled without saying a word, and directly took the experts to hide behind the barrier, and then ordered a recruit to unscrew the valve for the torpedo.

"Then... I want to ask, has Lao Wang ever seen an automatic rifle that fires short rifle bullets?" Zhou Changfeng asked expectantly.

"Short rifle cartridge? What's that? Short bullet or short case?"

"It's all short."

"Uh..." Wang Huan'an frowned slightly in surprise, and tried his best to recall and replied: "I seemed to have seen it when I first entered the factory more than ten years ago, but I didn't write anything about it."

In the late period of the European War and the inter-war period, the belligerent countries have realized that the rifles are too powerful, and have successively invested in the improvement and development of new weapons.

In addition to submachine guns and shortening bolt-action rifles, some semi-automatic or fully automatic rifles are also being developed. For example, the French have created the Liberol automatic rifle.

It does not use full-power rifle ammunition, but uses a specially developed 8×35mm experimental ammunition, which is an early intermediate-power rifle ammunition.

The empty weight of the gun is as high as 5.1kg, and it uses 25 rounds of arc magazines for ammunition, and a bipod is installed under the gun body.In the test, this type of forward-thinking weapon performed poorly, with an effective range of only 400m, and its failure rate was extremely high, so it was decisively put in the cold by the military.

The same is true for the Ming Dynasty. Yingtian Arsenal tried to develop an experimental ammunition using single-base propellant, caliber 23mm, and shell length eleven minutes (7.36×35.2mm) at its own expense, and designed and manufactured a type An automatic rifle that uses the principle of a short recoil barrel, but it has no eye for military weapons.

During the same period, Guangzhou Armory also developed 7.36×40mm experimental ammunition at its own expense, as well as its matching semi-automatic rifle using the long-stroke piston air-guided principle. In the end, only a dozen of them were trial-produced and nothing was done.

"Actually, this idea is very correct, and we should continue." Zhou Changfeng asked inquiringly, "Can you restart that project?"

Hearing this, Wang Huan'an, who was very embarrassed, shook his head, "Our factory built it at its own expense back then, but if we do it now, the Ordnance Bureau still doesn't like it. The effective range is less than [-] meters, and they think it is not enough in actual combat. use."

"Heh! How do the old men who sit on the chair know whether it is enough or not, and whether it is good for it?"

"This is the matter of the Military Weapons Bureau. Brother Zhou, you have to write a letter to persuade them, otherwise we can't do it without allocating money."

Zhou Changfeng understood that there was no way to force this matter, and the engineers in the arsenal had limited resources to mobilize on their own, so they still had to find a way elsewhere.

Because I have to leave tomorrow morning, of course I can't go back to the station today.

After arriving at the place where the military expedition team was staying, he found a blank official post, and after some thought, he wrote a short suggestion, hoping that the Ordnance Bureau could continue to deepen its research on intermediate-power ammunition.

However, there is a high probability that nothing will disappear.

So he also wrote a letter by the way, which was addressed to Xu Zhanming, hoping that he could help promote it, and it should be somewhat effective.

Zhou Changfeng is doing his best to prepare for the big battle in the future, and there are not a few people who are making the same efforts as him.

In the afternoon of this day, Yangzhou.

The sun is shining brightly and the spring breeze is warm. Such an environment is really pleasant.

The colorful flags on the campus of Yangzhou Institute of Technology are fluttering, but the teachers and students are strictly restrained. The sharp-eyed and capable Jinyi guards have inspected the entire campus since yesterday.

A convoy of motorcycles and cars slowly approached. The crown prince, who has not been out of the palace since the year, left Beijing for the first time this year to inspect the flight agency here.

There is enough wasteland next to the campus, and two runways, one long and one short, as well as warehouses and simple towers have been built here.

Zhu Liqie, who was walking slowly, said: "The dream of many people in ancient times has now become a reality. It is very good that our country's talents can control the eagle to fly freely in the sky."

His words immediately attracted the echo of the accompanying people, "What Your Highness said is very true."

He stopped next to a blue-gray biplane trainer plane, touched the wing skin, and asked, "How is the situation of this flight agency? How many planes are there and how many instructors are there?"

(End of this chapter)