In the First Arsenal of the National Defense Forces, Wang Maoru learned that the basic weapon configuration of the army was not only the Minjiu rifle and the Type 20 light machine gun, but also the Military Science and Technology Department is mainly researching and developing three types of weapons, one is a large-caliber heavy machine gun, the other is a curve-firing grenade gun, and finally a new upgraded version of the single-soldier bazooka is also being stepped up.

In the underground design room in the arsenal, Wang Maoru saw the temporarily set heavy machine gun, grenade gun and rocket launcher. The reason why it was kept secret is that this heavy machine gun is a copy of Winchester's m1917 Browning heavy machine gun. However, the m1917 Browning heavy machine gun uses water-cooled type, and the biggest difference between this heavy machine gun is that it uses air-cooled type.

In today's world, water-cooled heavy machine guns are the mainstream, but in the future, air-cooled heavy machine guns are the mainstream. Wang Maoru immediately asked designers to adopt air-cooled when designing machine guns. If you design and produce an outdated water-cooled heavy machine gun, it is better not to produce them.

The designers of the gun are foreigners. They were originally designers of East Arms Company in the United States, so they unconsciously had the shadow of American machine guns. After Wang Maoru bought East Arms Company, he asked them to study air-cooled heavy machine guns at the beginning. How to make air-cooled heavy machine guns have become the biggest difficulty that colleagues in the company have to overcome in eight years. In eight years, huge progress has been made in solving the problem of air-cooled air-cooled heavy machine guns, but the weight of air-cooled heavy machine guns may not be much lighter than that of water-cooled.

Because the heavy machine gun is still undergoing repeated trial and improvement, it has not become a standard heavy machine gun. It is not even named. The bullets of the heavy machine gun are large-caliber bullets, reaching 12.7mm. It can be said that if it is formed, the power of the heavy machine gun can completely increase the firepower of a unit several times, and the machine gun can even shoot directly through the side armor of the national nine tanks.

The heavy machine gun was designed to deal with the aircraft, so the heavy machine gun has a heavy machine gun bracket that can adjust the angle up and down, left and right. When shooting upward, the heavy machine gun can shoot at an elevation angle of up to 75 degrees.

Liu Qingen laughed and said that the design concept of this heavy machine gun is a bit ahead of schedule, because few countries will consider air defense in gun design now, but because the National Defense Forces Air Force bombers are becoming more and more skillful and the number is increasing. The designers are afraid that one day in the future, the Type 20 light machine gun is not enough to pose a threat to the aircraft organization, so the heavy machine gun has a certain air defense capability that has become a problem they consider. For this small change in the machine gun frame, he was proud of the contribution of a young Chinese designer. When everyone was preparing to change the gun, he proposed a small change on the stand. The young man also proposed a retractable machine gun mount, so that the machine gun can be used under different terrain, which was recognized and supported by Liu Qingen.

Wang Maoru said that he would bring this young man named Zhan Pengcheng and promoted the young man who proposed creativity in person to the rank of major. The young man was extremely excited when he saw Wang Maoru and said that he must be loyal to Xiushuai, which made Wang Maoru laugh. Wang Maoru said that you should not be loyal to me, you should invent and create, and create more and better ideas in the future and contribute to the scientific research of China**.

Liu Qingen said that Xiushuai asked Xiushuai to name this machine gun. Wang Maoru thought about it and said that the designer team of this machine gun came from the United States. In order to thank these American designers for their contribution over the past eight years, this heavy machine gun was named the uc8 heavy machine gun. U represents the American designer. C represents the Chinese design team, and 8 represents the designer team's efforts over the past eight years, which has been unanimously praised by Chinese and American designers. However, some American gun designers took the initiative to resign after the successful design of the uc8. They left their hometowns and came to China in recent years and wanted to go home. Wang Maoru told Liu Qingen that those who can be retained must be retained. If the retention is not good, they must sign a confidentiality agreement and a priority contract for the same type of work as soon as possible. We must never let our uc8 heavy machine gun technology fall into the hands of others.

The National Wehrmacht has a company-level configuration. The support weapon of the platoon-level unit is the grenade gun currently being researched and produced. It is inevitable that the grenade gun will replace the 37mm bazooka. Because the 37mm bazooka performed poorly when the National Wehrmacht went to Russia to fight, it could not even destroy the shield of the Russian m1905 Maxim heavy machine gun, which caused dissatisfaction among the soldiers in front. Many soldiers mocked the 37th bazooka as a large second kick (high-end).

After inspecting and inquiring the soldiers, the Military Science and Technology Department found that the platoon-level support weapons are not suitable for light rocket launchers. The platoon-level combat is mostly small-scale close-range combat, especially after the bunker, and the most battles with the trenches are needed. Therefore, a small individual support weapon that can bypass the bunker or directly shoot into the trenches and can be launched in a curve.

According to the intelligence of the Second Department of the Military Intelligence Department (Japan Intelligence Department), Japan had already begun researching this individual weapon two years ago and planned to officially enter service in October this year. They called it the Taisho Ten-Year Grenade.

In order to fight against Japan's platoon-level individual support weapon, the National Defense Force also took great pains to determine the gun-type grenade launcher, namely the grenade gun. The earliest grenade launcher was invented by Rheinmetall in 1913. Its main function was not to support weapons in individual support weapons, but to launch signal flares. However, after later improvements, in addition to signal flares, the grenade gun can also fire small grenades and shotguns.

Liu Qingen then smiled strangely and said in a low voice: "In fact, you can also fire small poison gas bombs."

Wang Maoru smiled and nodded and said, "I like this, small poison gas bomb, very good, it is the kind that lasts for a short time, has a fast erosion speed, and is easy to evaporate. In order to facilitate our army to quickly occupy the trenches, well, good, the poison gas bomb is a good thing. We have not participated in any breaking agreement, so there is no need to worry about this."

Liu Qingen spread his hands and said, "I can't do anything about this. I'm not a chemistry expert."

This grenade gun is only 800 mm in length, the launch tube is 388 mm in length, the diameter is 42 mm, the maximum range is 350 meters (fired at 45 degrees), and uses a single-shot launch.

Wang Maoru was interested in seeing a vest with many pockets on the side, so he picked it up and asked Liu Qingen what the vest was for. Liu Qingen turned over and it turned out that he was in a defensive manner when placed. On the other hand, the front of the vest was revealed, which was a tactical vest with empty shells hanging on it. Liu Qingen said that this was also a tactical vest for a young man shooting, specially prepared for grenade gunners. Originally, everyone's plan was to make an armed belt, and there was a grenade on the armed belt, but running like this was a bit difficult to supply bullets, so the young man invented the tactical vest.

The designer of the tactical vest is Huang Pingfang. He is a young man from Guangxi, who is thin and thin. When he speaks, he speaks and speaks a mouthful of thick Guangxi Mandarin. When he opens his mouth, he makes everyone fall and fall together.

Wang Maoru smiled and said that Huang Pingfang was praised and encouraged, but I liked your tactical vest very much. Can you give it to me? Liu Qingen said: "You can take it away. This is a defective product, hahaha." Wang Maoru said that defective products are also good things. It witnessed the changes in China's military industry from scratch to big from big to big. The name of this grenade gun is called the flea type grenade gun. The reason why it is called flea is because the design method of the grenade gun uses curved shooting, just like a flea and the grenade bulge jumped over. Wang Maoru said that the name is very friendly, just called the flea type, it feels good and has Chinese characteristics.

Next, Wang Maoru observed the improved design plan for the bazooka. Since the 37mm rocket launcher is really a sophomore kicker, although the range is long, accurate and high, the attack is too weak. Therefore, in order to increase the attack power of the redesigned bazooka, the caliber of the bazooka has been added many times. Military Science and Technology now has six caliber rocket launchers, namely 42mm, 56mm, 62mm, 72mm, 78mm, and 88mm. Most of them prefer 62mm caliber. Because the physical ability of Chinese soldiers is limited, if the caliber rocket launcher is too large, the weight of the corresponding bazooka and rocket will be very large. Chinese soldiers do not have as strong bodies as white Europeans and Americans. Most soldiers are still mainly flexible, so the 62mm caliber rocket launcher is just right.

Wang Maoru personally carried the 62 bazooka, and felt that it was not that heavy, but it was really inconvenient to consider that it was necessary to marching. Of course, this point can be adapted to soldiers who have been trained for a long time. This weapon should be a special support type as a single weapon, or used in local conflicts in small-scale battles, and it should not be realistic to equip the entire army. Wang Maoru then asked Liu Qingen, when developing and designing, what level was the level of the bazooka equipped. Liu Qingen said that the 62 bazooka was equipped with a company level, and it was a support weapon like a grenade gun, but the grenade gun was a curved shot, the bazooka was a small curve shot, the grenade gun was an enemy after attacking the enemy bunker, and the bazooka destroyed the opponent bunker. The two had different functions and could support each other.

Of course, the 62 bazooka has many disadvantages. First of all, because it is a small curve shooting, it is easily attacked when it is launched. Secondly, because of its large weight, the 62 rocket will not carry too much bullet during the march. The third disadvantage is that after the 62 bazooka launches five consecutive rounds, the temperature of the bazooka is too high, so it should not be launched, otherwise it will cause the bazooka to deform or explode. The fourth disadvantage is that the range of the 62 rocket is much shorter, only 200 meters. It no longer pursues the shooting distance but pursues the power of the explosion.
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