Chapter 293 Is This Project 704?
Wang Zhong carefully observed the gun and asked the question he was most concerned about: "Does the weight of this thing meet the design requirements I proposed?"
Because the gun in Tokarev's hand did not look light, he asked this question.
Tokarev: "It is indeed one kilogram heavier than the 4.5 kilograms of full ammunition weight you required, but I think the excellent performance of this gun can offset this disadvantage. I have a table here with the data we obtained from the shooting range test at the design institute."
Wang Zhong made a gesture, and the secretary in the room immediately brought the table 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 the front-line troops like to use submachine guns? Because most of the time the exchange of fire is within 200 meters. And because our soldiers have too little training time and their design skills are not very good, it is meaningless for them to get 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 can't shoot so accurately. The first machine gun under my command is generally equipped with Tokarev-the semi-automatic rifle designed by you, but they also prefer to use submachine guns on the battlefield.
"You don't understand my needs. In fact, what I need is a submachine gun with a long enough range. Whether it is the enemy's or my submachine gun, hitting at a distance of 200 meters can only rely on faith. What I hope to get is a submachine gun that can still have a hit rate at a distance of 200 meters. ”
In fact, when Seris first introduced the AK on Earth, it was used as a submachine gun, and the name was also 56 Chong. When shooting, they also held the magazine and shot according to the usage habits of submachine guns.
Later, some troops realized that this thing was actually different from a submachine gun, so they held the handguard according to the usage habits of rifles.
The result is that both shooting methods are used in the army.
Wang Zhong stood up, walked directly to the designer, took the gun in his hand, and said while gesturing: "The usage scenario of this weapon I envision is this: a soldier holding this gun, he is very nervous - this is very common, even veterans will be nervous when encountering enemies, this is caused by the large amount of adrenaline secretion.
"The moment he saw the enemy, he pulled the trigger and 15 bullets were thrown out. He didn't aim carefully, didn't measure the distance or adjust the scale, but all the bullets fell within one meter around the enemy."
Tokarev was shocked: "Within one meter?"
Wang Zhong: "Yes, it's good to be able to fall within one meter at a distance of 200 meters with such poor aiming."
Tokarev: "But shouldn't the enemy be killed?"
Wang Zhong: "That's the job of a precision shooter. My idea is that in the future, soldiers with shooting experience and good marksmanship will be separated into various infantry squads, and they will be given Tokarev semi-automatic or even bolt-action rifles. And the general infantry will have the weapons I envision.
"Hitting the enemy is not a very important thing. What's important is to be able to throw half a magazine of ammunition near the enemy in an instant. Then the enemy will give up the attack and lie down to hide.
"The Prosons are also afraid of death. Suddenly there are so many bullets hitting around him, and the sound of bullets hitting cement is everywhere. He will hide behind the bunker and dare not show his head."
Tokarev: "How to eliminate the enemy? Just rely on accurate shooters?"
Wang Zhong: "Have you been to the battlefield?"
Tokarev shook his head: "No. Well, I know that you once ordered the designer who refused to modify the design to personally use his own weapons on the battlefield. 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 returned from hell several times, Wang Zhong knows what the battlefield is like too well, so he vividly describes it: "Most of the time on the battlefield, you can't see where the enemy is. All you see is the fire of the enemy's firing.
"All you can do is keep shooting and suppress the enemy with firepower. As for whether you can kill the enemy, you can't do anything about it because you can't see it. "
Wang Zhong can see it because of the plug-in, but the plug-in is not effective in the naked eye perspective, you have to look down. So he is more aware of how difficult it is to see whether an enemy is killed on the battlefield.
Wang Zhong: "And the main killing force on the battlefield has never been bullets, but artillery. The best way for infantry squads to eliminate the enemy is always to call for artillery fire. When you can see the enemy's face clearly, it is almost faster than pulling the trigger. "
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 crossing.
Those videos really can't see what is being fought. Compared with the real battlefield, various games, even Tarkov, are considered close-range combat.
So for ordinary soldiers, the accuracy of the rifle is just okay, and only accurate shooters need to be equipped with high-precision rifles-Tokarev is enough.
Designer Tokarev nodded thoughtfully: "Higher accuracy and longer effective range-submachine gun? 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 200 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 only equipment the army has is a gun?"
He somewhat understood 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 leather shoes 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 car on the drawing and thought of a real tank destroyer on Earth: 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, while 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 cannon may not be able to penetrate it at a long distance.
"And it's lower, suitable for covert 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-measuring 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, and the commander can just 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 easy. Just issue a production order in the form of a special royal mission. Allocate some of the production capacity of T34W to build two prototypes for you. Test them as soon as possible, mainly to improve the reliability. I don't want to hand over equipment that breaks down after driving a few dozen kilometers to the troops!"