Steel Soviet Union

There is always some pain in this world that you only know how painful it is after you experience it yourself. It is definitely not something that you can easily experience or even guarantee that you can bear it by just talking about it. For example, the pain of being suppressed by heavy machine gun fire .

The crimson barrages that hit like a storm "swish" past the scalp, and even a small amount of the whistling sound in this speeding death storm can take away a person's life.

This has nothing to do with bravery or not, it is just the most instinctive and primitive fear of being born. The fear of death indiscriminately shapes all creatures on this blue planet, including humans.

It is completely unrealistic to expect to do anything under this roaring death storm. It does not mean that no one can do it. There may be individual exceptions, but it is still not enough to call it a universal phenomenon. This individual phenomenon In terms of the overall situation, it is still of no help, just like the headless German corpse with its head beaten to pieces cannot save the entire position.

"Damn! Those Russians are crazy. They must be shooting at us with hundreds of machine guns! Bullets are everywhere!"

"It can't be loaded, it can't be loaded at all! You can't even touch the launcher, damn it!"

"What should we do? The Russians are coming!"

In order to avoid being directly taken away by retaliatory fire, the seemingly normal and reasonable behavior of arranging the launcher and operator in different places ended up costing the lives of these German anti-tank missile teams at this moment.

The separation of people and missiles means that people have to rush over first to reload the missile. This launch pad, which is as simple as an iron frame, does not have an automatic loading device.

But in this situation, with this formation, running through a dense barrage of machine gun fire and holding missiles to reload?

Not to mention the probability of survival, just the probability of you being able to run to the launcher with a missile in your arms is basically the same as if your German guy took out his own gun and pointed it at the head and fired it immediately, and the result happened to be a misfire jam. , the probability of suicide failure is almost the same. Anyone with a sound mind knows how stupid it is to want to go through the fire net to reload the missile. It is basically the same as courting death.

But this is where the situation becomes awkward

Sitting in the trench without doing anything is waiting for death. If you run over to reload now, you will die immediately. Even if you peek out and look out, you may be killed on the spot.

What to do? The situation had become a matter of choosing between dying now and dying later, or so it seemed.

Trembling under the net of terror and horrified by the bodies of their fallen comrades beside them, the surviving German soldiers were frightened and desperate. They were so trapped that they became helpless and almost collapsed.

But soon, literally soon, their despair and collapse will come to an end.

But it didn't end in the hoped-for way, but in more brutal destruction and death.

"Comrades! Charge! Follow me! Ula!!!"

Before he could recover from that frightening shout, a full-automatic fire attack hit him like a gust of wind and rain.

Da da da da——

Puff-puff-

"Well"

"ah!!!"

The sound of gunshots, the sound of projectiles entering flesh and earth, and the death screams that are as cruel as a slaughtered pig.

All kinds of different sounds mixed together and shot up to the sky. Along with them, pairs of large military boots jumped into the trenches, their feet stepping on the ground who didn't know whether it was earth, corpses, or someone else. The sound of anything falling to the ground instantly.

"Check your feet, is there anyone alive?!"

"No!"

"Safety!"

"They're all dead!"

"very good!"

Click——

He skillfully took out a magazine from the chest strap of his upper body, raised his hand to knock off the empty magazine inserted into the gun, inserted it instead, and with a backhand pull of the charging handle, the replacement was completed in an instant. Loaded and ready.

"Keep moving forward! Machine gunners are ready, let your comrades see how durable your new gun is!"

"yes!"

The so-called new gun does not only refer to the AK, but can also refer to other weapons, such as something newer than the AK. The top firearms master of the Soviet Union and the designer of the DP light machine gun - Deggarev The brand new masterpiece: RPD machine gun.

Malashenko had long ago felt that there was something wrong with the current firepower configuration of the mechanized infantry squad in the Leader's Division, and the key was the machine gun used by the squad.

The DP light machine gun that uses bullets for ammunition cannot be said to be bad. It is indeed a good gun that has made great contributions to the Patriotic War and has been tested by war, but it is not so suitable for leading the mechanized infantry of the division.

Not to mention the huge upper ammunition tray is not easy to carry. Whether it is mounted on the gun body or placed horizontally or vertically in the infantry fighting vehicle, it is not perfect. It always makes people feel quite uncomfortable and awkward.

The problem becomes even more obvious when it comes to charge operations. The DP light machine gun is not designed for mobile hand-held combat. It is of course no problem to fight fixed position defensive battles and set up and fire. But for the leader division, which accounts for the vast majority of mobile charge operations, For me, it is really difficult to find a suitable way to maneuver and hold fire.

It is obviously inappropriate to hold the barrel or the heat sink in your hands, and you will have to start grilling your hands on the iron plate before you can fire two rounds.

It is also inappropriate to hold the gun body. The upper ammunition tray placed horizontally above the gun body makes the gripping size pitifully small, and it is inconvenient to control the heavy weight of the weapon with the ammunition tray loaded. Holding it in this position Holding fire is generally met with shaking heads and negative comments from machine gunners.

Holding the bipod under the gun can solve the problem, but this holding position is too awkward.

Two temporary hits are fine, but after two more rounds, no matter how skilled the machine gunner is, his accuracy will plummet.

Malashenko believes that this is caused by the loss of physical strength caused by running and bumping with this thing and constantly firing.

No matter how strong the arms are, a strong man cannot maintain a hip-shooting posture while holding a tripod for a long time without losing accuracy. Even if your arms are not sore and your hands are sore, no matter how hard you grit your teeth, you can't avoid the fact that the accuracy is seriously reduced and the combat efficiency is affected. In the final analysis, this is not a correct and appropriate way to hold a gun.

The squad machine gun is the core firepower pillar of the infantry squad. This will not change in any era. At least it will still be the same in the future world before Comrade Ma's time travel. It is naturally the same for the current leader division. .

No matter how strong your division's heavy firepower is, there will always be times when the squad's machine guns are needed to show off their skills. In battles between infantry and infantry, there will always be occasions when heavy firepower cannot support them. That's when light weapons speak for themselves and play their main role. , for example, the current battle of going deep into the trenches and starting to clean up, it does not mean that heavy firepower can completely ignore whether the squad has a machine gun or not.

Fortunately, the solution to the problem was already sent to the leadership division for trial before Malashenko could write a report or make a request: it was the latest RPD light machine gun neatly stacked in boxes one after another.

Not only does the use of a 100-round non-dispersible ammunition chain greatly enhance the firepower, but it also uses a bottom-fed ammunition box to carry ammunition. Compared with the original DP, which is placed in a crowded and narrow infantry fighting vehicle, it looks extremely awkward no matter how it is placed horizontally or vertically. For a light machine gun, it's simply not too good.

The newly added handguard at the front of the gun body also perfectly solves the problem of the DP light machine gun being inconvenient to hold. You can hold the machine gun from the waist and pour out firepower at the German sticks in a non-stop manner.

The two most criticized problems of the mechanized infantry machine gunners of the Leader Division have been perfectly solved, and they have also greatly increased the ammunition capacity and firepower output by more than doubling.

Is there something wrong with this gun?

Nothing wrong! At least in the eyes of the mechanized infantry machine gunners like the Leader Division, it was absolutely fine and not too good at all.

As for the new gun that has been well received at the shooting range, is it a Noble Phantasm against German sticks and is it useful?

It's simple. The best test site is right in front of you. Those armed live targets less than a hundred meters away are the best test objects.

On Army Day, I wish our soldiers a happy holiday and good health~