Chapter 2452 In the U.S. Army 5

"So, the Americans did their best?" General Caliput asked.

"There is still room for improvement. The effective range of this weapon is still closer. If it can reach 400 meters, then we can even replace all the weapons of the entire infantry squad with carbines, and the round-nose bullets used in this bullet, The speed per inch may be worse, and the lethality at 200 meters may be worse." Major General Karls said in a low voice.

"Okay, go back and write a report, and then I will give it directly to His Highness the Crown Prince." General Caliput said. In fact, the German Army did not have the rank of general in World War I, and marshals with real power could not be awarded easily. Therefore, in order to take care of those generals who were of lower origin and had great merit, but still did not reach the top, they were given the rank of general.

For example, Caliput, who fought against the British in the Boer War in 1898, was specially awarded the rank of general by the German government. However, this rank and the rank of marshal will not be awarded in peacetime in the future. It can be said that if there is no war, the number of marshals and generals with real power will not increase! As one of the first generals of the Kingdom of Bavaria, Caliput's greatest right is to bypass all military organizations and directly report certain matters to Crown Prince Ruprecht, even if he retires in the future!

"This is a newly developed ammunition by us. Before, we found that in actual combat, pistols can only be used as self-defense weapons. They are too weak, while rifles are too heavy and have a slow rate of fire. So we decided to work on bullets. The release of such a carbine bullet has an outlet kinetic energy twice that of a normal pistol bullet, but only one-third that of a rifle. However, it is sufficient at normal distances." Americans have no reservations about this rifle. Although at the top levels of the two countries, virtues and virtues are suspicious of each other and even stumbling upon each other, in middle- and low-level exchanges, especially in the military, the two sides are still very harmonious.

As for what this carbine is like? It must be a good individual self-defense weapon. As for the so-called shortcomings, they are the same as what Major General Karls said. The range is slightly closer. And the power is also smaller. It is definitely much worse than the STG44 that appeared in the Germans' 2nd war in history. But this era is indeed a leading design! There is a need to learn from it.

Compared with the Garand semi-automatic rifle, BAR, M1 carbine and Browning machine gun that the Americans have come up with, Americans do not attach much importance to submachine guns. In fact, this is understandable. After all, submachine guns essentially use pistol bullets. . The M1 Carbine uses intermediate power bullets. Although far inferior to a rifle, it is much stronger than pistol bullets. And now that the Americans have directly produced carbines that can fire continuously, what is the purpose of a submachine gun that is 2 kilograms heavier than a carbine?

It’s not that Americans don’t have submachine guns. Thompson submachine guns have already appeared in history, but the price of this product is a bit high, so except for squad leaders or some personnel performing special tasks, no other personnel will be equipped with a Thompson. equipment, and historically the M3 submachine gun was used most in the United States in World War II, which was the so-called grease gun in World War II. The biggest advantage of this thing over the Thomson is that it is cheap...

Except that the Americans have developed a complete infantry weapons system of their own. Infantry support weapons are almost inherited from the German Army, equipped with a large number of 60MM and 120MM mortars. As for the famous 107MM mortar in history, it has not yet come out.

To be honest, American weapons and equipment still left a profound impact on the Germans. At least, after learning the lessons of World War I, the light weapons developed by the Americans are still very good, and their overall level is much better than the Allied system. .

Of course, what impressed the Germans even more was the mechanization level of the US Army! Americans have too many trucks and vehicles of all kinds. According to General Caliput's words, the mechanization level and transportation capabilities of the U.S. Army in the Pacific War. Much higher than the ordinary Bavarian Legion. The strong national power of the Americans has a huge advantage at this moment. So much so that General Caliput later commented on the U.S. Army in this way in his memoirs.

"The strength of the U.S. Army does not lie in the quality of its personnel. In fact, the combat quality of the U.S. Army is at the lower-medium level. The command level is also average. Far inferior to the British and French we encountered. Their strength lies in their size. The scale, in all senses. The total amount of troops and the total amount of equipment. The national power of the United States is stronger than the current German Empire, and the same is true for the population. If one day we fight them, then the first consideration in this war will not be How to defeat the opponent tactically, but strategically how to adjust domestic production and supplies so that we will not be dragged to death. The United States will be a more terrifying enemy than the Allies. If such a day comes, the empire must go all out!"

In the following days, General Caliput also visited several weapons that the US Army was developing but did not have a large amount of equipment. Among them, the ones that had the most profound impact on him were rifled mortars and the Americans' new light howitzers.

With its lighter weight, cheaper price and ultra-high rate of fire, mortars have become the best weapons for grassroots infantry support. Some people in the German army have even proposed using mortars to undertake all battalion-level and lower-level missions. Fire support mission. But at the same time, mortars also have shortcomings, the biggest of which is naturally the issue of shooting accuracy.

To improve the accuracy of smoothbore artillery, the simplest way is to add rifling. However, if the muzzle loading of rifled artillery is to be carried out, there is a problem, that is, when loading, the belt at the rear of the shell must be aligned with the rifling of the gun bore and then state. And this naturally affects the rate of fire, and the biggest advantage of the mortar is eliminated by half...

The Americans came up with an improvement idea, which was very strange. In the mortars they experimented with, the diameter of the shells was slightly smaller than that of the artillery, and then improvements were made to the ammunition belts, which were divided into two parts. , one part is iron on the bottom, and part is copper on the top. In this way, when the artillery propellant is ignited, the impact of the gunpowder will naturally impact the iron ammunition belt. However, copper is easy to deform, so the copper ammunition belt can bite the rifling well, and then the artillery shell will rotate along the rifling. And out. In this way, the accuracy problem is solved without affecting the rate of fire, and the mortar shells and even the tail fin are omitted...

"This is a good idea. Let's collect some information tomorrow." General Caliput said. It has to be said that the Americans' solution to the accuracy of mortars really made Caliput's eyes shine. But then, Calipute became even less calm when he saw the Americans' new infantry cannon!

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