In terms of length alone, the Deggarev light machine gun with the largest amount of equipment in the Soviet army has a total length of 1270 mm. The director's drawing gun is 1100 mm.

It is difficult for Popov to predict whether reducing the length will bring any tactical advantages.

However, one tactical advantage is that the weight of the entire gun is very straightforward.

The basic version of the assault rifle, with a magazine without bullets installed, has an empty weight of only 5.5 kilograms, but it contains thirty rounds of bullets. Soldiers will definitely be satisfied with the weight of just 6 kilograms.

Without him, the Popov with the magazine installed is already 6 kilograms! The Mosin Nagant is 1 kilogram lighter, but its magazine can only hold five rounds of bullets.

The weight of the squad machine gun will definitely increase, but there are really only three places that can bring significant weight increase: the longer part of the barrel, the bipod and the need for larger magazines or bullets.

Even so, what is the total quantity? The director did not draw the composition of fifty rounds of ammunition, although there are relevant sketches in his notebook.

Let’s assume that there can be 75 rounds of bullets. How much can a fully loaded bullet weigh? It’s only two kilograms at most!

In addition, how much weight can the firearm add? At most, it is only one kilogram.

After a little calculation, Popov came to the exciting conclusion that the prototype of the squad machine gun probably weighed only nine kilograms at most.

What is the concept of this? Deggarev's masterpiece, the empty gun weighs 9.1 kilograms. Its bullet tray is so heavy that when marching, the shooter carries the gun and the deputy shooter carries the bullet tray full-time.

The two of them were working together to assemble the firearm.

Based on these circumstances, Popov made an instant judgment in his mind. If the director said that gun battles almost always occur within a distance of four hundred meters, which is the distance of a submachine gun, and pistol bullets are equally lethal, then the intermediate power

It is also inevitable to kill the enemy with bullets.

In this case, does the Deggarev light machine gun have any advantages?
Chapter completed!