artillery arc

Chapter 293 Is this Project 704?

Wang Zhong observed the gun carefully, and then asked the question he was most concerned about: "Does the weight of this thing meet my design requirements?"

Because the gun in Tokarev's hand seemed light, that's why he asked.

Tokarev: "It is indeed one kilogram heavier than the 4.5 kilograms of full ammunition you requested, but I think the excellent performance of this gun can offset this disadvantage. I have a form here, which was tested at the shooting range of our design institute. data obtained.”

Wang Zhong made a gesture, and the secretary in the room immediately brought the form in the designer's hand to him.

The table mainly contains data such as accuracy and continuous shooting reliability. It can be seen that this gun has quite good accuracy at a distance of 400 meters.

Wang Zhong shook his head: "Mr. Designer, do you know why frontline troops like to use submachine guns? Because most of the time the firefighting distance is within 200 meters. And because our soldiers have too short training time, their design skills are not very good. You can make one It makes no sense for them to have a gun with good accuracy at a distance of 400 meters.”

The designers were shocked: "Is good accuracy a disadvantage?"

Wang Zhong: "No, of course not. But in fact, our troops cannot shoot with such accuracy. The Guards 1st Machine Infantry under my command are generally equipped with Tokarev - the semi-automatic rifle you designed, but they also prefer to fight on the battlefield. For submachine guns.

"You don't understand my needs. In fact, what I need is a submachine gun with a far enough range. Regardless of whether the enemy's or our submachine gun hits at a distance of 200 meters, we can only rely on faith. What I hope to get is a submachine gun that can shoot at a distance of meters." A submachine gun with a high accuracy."

In fact, when Siris on Earth first introduced the AK, he used it as a submachine gun. It was also named 56 Rush. When shooting, he also held the magazine and fired according to the usage habits of a submachine gun.

Later, some troops realized that this thing was actually different from a submachine gun, so they held the handguard according to the custom when using a rifle.

The result is that both shooting methods are available in the military.

Wang Zhong stood up, came directly to the designer, took the gun in his hand, and said while gesticulating: "The scenario I envision for using this weapon is like this: a soldier holds this gun, and he is very Nervousness - This is very common. Even veterans will be nervous when encountering the enemy. This is caused by the large secretion of adrenaline.

"The moment he saw the enemy, he squeezed the trigger, and 15 bullets were thrown out. He did not aim carefully at all, did not measure the range or adjust the scale, but all the bullets landed within one meter of the enemy. "

Tokarev was shocked: "Within one meter?"

Wang Zhong: "Yes, it would be good if the distance of 200 meters can be reduced to within one meter with such poor aiming."

Tokarev: "But shouldn't the enemy be killed?"

Wang Zhong: "That is the job of a precision shooter. My idea is this. In the future, soldiers with shooting experience and good marksmanship should be separated into various infantry squads and given Tokarev semi-automatic or even bolt-action rifles. And general In the hands of the infantry is the weapon I envisioned.

"Hitting the enemy is not a very important thing. What is important is that half the magazine of ammunition can be poured near the enemy in an instant. Then the enemy will give up the attack and lie down to hide.

"The Prosin is also afraid of death. Suddenly there are so many bullets hitting him, and there is the sound of bullets hitting the cement everywhere. He will hide behind the bunker and dare not show his head."

Tokarev: "Then how to destroy the enemy? Just rely on precision shooters?"

Wang Zhong: "Have you been on the battlefield?"

Tokarev shook his head: "No. Well, I know you once ordered the designer who refused to modify the design to go to the battlefield and use his own weapons in person. I remember it seemed to be the designer of the aircraft? But..."

Wang Zhong: "It doesn't matter. I won't force you to go to the battlefield to experience life. Let me describe to you what the battlefield is like."

As someone who has personally come back from hell several times, Wang Zhongke knows very well what is going on on the battlefield, so he described it vividly: “Most of the time on the battlefield, you can’t see where the enemy is at all. All that was seen was the flash of enemy fire.

"All you can do is keep firing and use firepower to suppress the enemy. As for whether you can kill the enemy, you can't control it at all because you can't see it."

Wang Zhong could see it because there was a plug-in, but the plug-in was not effective from the naked eye's perspective and had to be looked down from. So he knew better how difficult it was to see whether an enemy was killed on the battlefield.

Wang Zhong: "And the main way to kill the enemy on the battlefield is never bullets, but artillery. The best way for an infantry unit to destroy the enemy is always to call in artillery fire. When you can see the enemy's face clearly, it's almost better than pulling the trigger. Very close."

In fact, this section is not only Wang Zhong's own experience on the battlefield, but also a combination of some first-person videos he saw before traveling through time.

In those videos, you really can’t see what is being fought at all. Compared with the real battlefield, various games and even Tarkov are considered close combat.

Therefore, for ordinary soldiers, the accuracy of the rifle is just fine. Only precision shooters need to be equipped with high-precision rifles - Tokarev is enough.

Designer Tokarev nodded thoughtfully: "A submachine gun with higher accuracy and longer effective range? Now I understand."

Wang Zhong: "This gun is actually pretty good, and has relatively good accuracy at 400 meters. But as long as it can achieve this accuracy at 200 meters, it meets my requirements. Let's see if it can still be used when the accuracy requirements are relaxed. Adjust it, reduce some weight, and improve reliability.

"It's enough to have a new prototype gun ready by February next year."

Tokarev nodded: "Okay, I will go back and modify the design. The current idea is to further reduce the charge of the ammunition. If the bullet is shortened, the weight should be further reduced."

Wang Zhong: "Okay! Remember, what I want is a submachine gun that can hit the enemy at 200 meters. Bobosha's hit at meters is basically a belief."

In fact, at a distance of nearly two hundred meters, if you shoot a submachine gun at the exterior wall of a two-story building, the bullets will land equally on all locations on the exterior wall.

It doesn't make much difference whether you aim or not. Mainly because the effective range of pistol bullets fired by submachine guns is too low.

Wang Zhong emphasized again: "Remember the submachine gun with a range of 200 meters!"

After speaking, he handed the prototype gun back to Tokarev and patted the designer on the shoulder.

The designer repeatedly chanted "a submachine gun with an effective range of two hundred meters" and went out with the prototype gun, forgetting to collect the drawings.

Wang Zhong rolled up the drawing and handed it to his secretary: "Send this to designer Tokarev."

After the secretary left with the drawings, Wang Zhong shouted to the door: "Is there anyone waiting for approval outside?"

"No more, General."

Wang Zhong was shocked: "The army's equipment is just a gun?"

He somewhat felt the mood of Army General Siris when he looked at the new equipment distributed by the Navy and Air Force: At least our new shoes are good!
A representative of the Air Force stood up: "Several new aircraft meet our requirements. We hope that the new equipment will be sent to the troops as soon as possible."

Damn it, just go ahead and be proud of it!
At this moment, the guard's voice suddenly sounded outside the door: "Who is it? Stop, have you reported it?"

"This is something the general specifically instructed me to design! I just drew the design yesterday! I'm not reviewing it, I'm just giving it a look to the general!" the designer yelled outside.

Wang Zhong: "Let him in!"

It was quiet outside for a moment, and then the doorman opened the door: "Please come in."

A middle-aged man in a suit and tie came in holding the drawings. As expected, he was the chief engineer of Kejing.

Ke Jing: "Your Excellency General, the first version of the design drawing of the 100mm artillery carrier that you commissioned me to design has been completed."

After speaking, he unfolded the design drawing on the drawing stand: "Look! According to your requirements, I made improvements on the basis of the T34 chassis. The transverse engine lowered the entire vehicle height, and with the addition of a larger combat room, the whole thing was completed. Got this—assault gun?”

Wang Zhong looked at the shape of the vehicle on the drawing and thought of a tank destroyer on Earth with a real vehicle: Project 704.

But the 704 project has a 152mm cannon. The cannon looks relatively thick and short, while the cannon of this car is obviously much slender.

In addition, Project 704 uses the IS3 chassis, and this thing uses the T34 chassis, which seems to be a lot lighter.

Wait a minute - Earth's Project 704 seems to have been created by a heavy tank designer, and it seems to be called Kejing.

Suddenly everything makes sense!

Ke Jing explained excitedly: "I estimated its weight, and it should be about the same as the T34, but because there are no turrets and rotating mechanisms, its armor protection is better. The bulletproof shape on the front, plus the 100 mm With thick armor, even the enemy's 88mm gun may not be able to penetrate it at a long distance.

"And it's lower, suitable for concealed ambush battles. The only problem is that I have carefully looked at the enemy's sight. We can imitate its mechanical structure, including the rotating ruler and the distance measurement bits corresponding to the ruler. Art style.

"But we can't produce such a good lens. That lens has a wide angle of view and good magnification. If we want to have magnification, the angle of view cannot be too wide."

Wang Zhong: "The problem of vision can be solved by using the commander's probe. Does this car have a commander?"

"Yes." Ke Jing pointed to the back of the fighting room on the drawing. "This is the commander's seat. I deliberately designed it to be higher so that the commander's head is located in this prototype observation tower. And there are There is a pedal. The commander can stand up on the pedal and stick his upper body out of the hatch cover to observe. "

Wang Zhong nodded repeatedly: "Okay, okay! Are there any production problems?"

Ke Jing: "Yes, because although the T34 chassis is used, the transverse engine requires the entire chassis design to be redone, which is actually equivalent to a new chassis. To switch from the T34 production line, the production line needs to be modified, and the workers have to adapt again.

“To solve this problem, I also designed a version with a traditional engine layout.”

Kejing unfolded another drawing.

"This version was converted into production quickly, but the problem is that it is much taller than the transverse engine version, and the frontal armor protection has to be weakened."

Wang Zhong looked at the plan after "growing taller" and frowned: "No, the version just now was very good. Anyway, the manufacturer of this thing is still in the process of relocation and reconstruction, which is almost equivalent to opening a new factory and starting from scratch.

"Hurry up and produce this car and start testing it."

Kejing: "The factories are working overtime to produce T34 and KV. I wanted to build a prototype car before, but I didn't have the manpower or equipment."

Wang Zhong: "This is simple, just issue a production order in the form of a special royal mission. Allocate a little of the production capacity of T34W to build you two prototypes. Test it as soon as possible, mainly to improve the reliability problem. I don't want to drive the car Just leave the equipment for dozens of kilometers to the troops!”

(End of this chapter)