Arc of Gunfire

Wang Zhong observed the gun carefully, and then asked the question he was most concerned about: "Does the weight of this thing meet my design requirements?"

Because the gun in Tokarev's hand seemed light, that's why he asked.

Tokarev: "It is indeed one kilogram heavier than the 4.5 kilograms of full ammunition you requested, but I think the excellent performance of this gun can offset this disadvantage. I have a form here, which was tested at the shooting range of our design institute. data obtained.”

Wang Zhong made a gesture, and the secretary in the room immediately brought the form 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 frontline troops like to use submachine guns? Because most of the time the firefighting distance is within 200 meters. And because our soldiers have too short training time, their design skills are not very good. You can make one It makes no sense for them to have a gun with good accuracy at a distance of 400 meters.”

Designers were shocked: "Is good accuracy a disadvantage?"

Wang Zhong: "No, of course not. But in fact, our troops cannot shoot with such accuracy. The Guards 1st Machine Infantry under my command are generally equipped with Tokarev - the semi-automatic rifle you designed, but they also prefer to fight on the battlefield. for submachine guns.

"You don't understand my needs. In fact, what I need is a submachine gun with a far enough range. Regardless of whether the enemy's or our submachine gun hits at a distance of 200 meters, we can only rely on faith. What I hope to get is a submachine gun that can shoot at a distance of 200 meters." A submachine gun with a high accuracy."

In fact, when Siris on Earth first introduced the AK, he used it as a submachine gun. It was also named 56 Rush. When shooting, he also held the magazine and fired according to the usage habits of a submachine gun.

Later, some troops realized that this thing was actually different from a submachine gun, so they held the handguard according to the custom when using a rifle.

The result is that both shooting methods are available in the military.

Wang Zhong stood up, came directly to the designer, took the gun in his hand, and said while gesticulating: "The scenario I envision for using this weapon is like this: a soldier holds this gun, and he is very Nervousness - This is very common. Even veterans will be nervous when encountering the enemy. This is caused by the large secretion of adrenaline.

"The moment he saw the enemy, he squeezed the trigger, and 15 bullets were thrown out. He did not aim carefully at all, did not measure the range or adjust the scale, but all the bullets landed within one meter of the enemy. "

Tokarev was shocked: "Within one meter?"

Wang Zhong: "Yes, it would be good if the distance of 200 meters can be reduced to within one meter with such poor aiming."

Tokarev: "But shouldn't the enemy be killed?"

Wang Zhong: "That is the job of a precision shooter. My idea is this. In the future, soldiers with shooting experience and good marksmanship should be separated into various infantry squads and given Tokarev semi-automatic or even bolt-action rifles. And general In the hands of the infantry is the weapon I envisioned.

"Hitting the enemy is not a very important thing. What is important is that half the magazine of ammunition can be poured near the enemy in an instant. Then the enemy will give up the attack and lie down to hide.

"The Prosin is also afraid of death. Suddenly there are so many bullets hitting him, and there is the sound of bullets hitting the cement everywhere. He will hide behind the bunker and dare not show his head."

Tokarev: "Then how to destroy the enemy? Just rely on precision shooters?"

Wang Zhong: "Have you been on the battlefield?"

Tokarev shook his head: "No. Well, I know you once ordered the designer who refused to modify the design to go to the battlefield and use his own weapons in person. 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 come back from hell several times, Wang Zhongke knows very well what is going on on the battlefield, so he described it vividly: “Most of the time on the battlefield, you can’t see where the enemy is at all. All that was seen was the flash of enemy fire.

"All you can do is keep firing and use firepower to suppress the enemy. As for whether you can kill the enemy, you can't control it at all because you can't see it."

Wang Zhong could see it because there was a plug-in, but the plug-in was not effective from the naked eye's perspective and had to be looked down from. So he knew better how difficult it was to see whether an enemy was killed on the battlefield.

Wang Zhong: "And the main way to kill the enemy on the battlefield is never bullets, but artillery. The best way for an infantry unit to destroy the enemy is always to call in artillery fire. When you can see the enemy's face clearly, it's almost better than pulling the trigger. Very close."

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 traveling through time.

In those videos, you really can’t see what is being fought at all. Compared with the real battlefield, various games and even Tarkov are considered close combat.

Therefore, for ordinary soldiers, the accuracy of the rifle is just fine. Only precision shooters need to be equipped with high-precision rifles - Tokarev is enough.

Designer Tokarev nodded thoughtfully: "A submachine gun with higher accuracy and longer effective range? Now I understand."

Wang Zhong: "Your gun is actually not bad, and it has good accuracy at 400 meters. But as long as it can have this accuracy at 200 meters, it meets my requirements. See if you can make some adjustments while relaxing the accuracy requirements, reduce the weight, and improve reliability.

"It will be almost enough to make a new prototype before 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, and if the bullet is shortened, it should be able to further reduce the weight."

Wang Zhong: "Okay! Remember, I want a submachine gun that can hit the enemy at 200 meters. The PPSh hitting at 200 meters is basically a belief."

In fact, at a distance of nearly 200 meters, if you use a submachine gun to shoot at the outer wall of a two-story building, the bullets will fall equally at various positions on the outer wall.

It doesn't make much difference whether you aim or not.

It's mainly because the effective range of the pistol bullets fired by the submachine gun is too low.

Wang Zhong emphasized again: "Remember the submachine gun with a range of 200 meters! "

After saying that, he returned the sample gun in his hand to Tokarev and patted the designer on the shoulder.

The designer kept repeating "submachine gun with an effective range of 200 meters" and went out with the sample gun, forgetting to collect the drawings.

Wang Zhong rolled up the drawings and handed them to the secretary: "Send this to designer Tokarev."

After the secretary left with the drawings, Wang Zhong shouted to the gate: "Are there any people waiting for approval outside?"

"No, General."

Wang Zhong was shocked: "The army's equipment is only one gun?"

He somewhat understood the feelings of the Seres Army generals when they saw the navy and air force dividing new equipment: at least our new shoes are good!

The representative of the Air Force stood up: "Several new aircrafts meet our requirements. I hope the new equipment will be delivered to the troops as soon as possible."

Damn, you can be proud!

At this time, the voice of the guard suddenly sounded outside the door: "Who is it? Stop, have you reported?"

"This is something the general specially instructed me to design! The design drawing was just drawn yesterday! I'm not reviewing, I'm just showing it to the general! "The designer yelled outside.

Wang Zhong: "Let him in!"

It was quiet outside, and then the guard opened the door: "Come in."

A middle-aged man in a suit came in with a blueprint. It was indeed Chief Engineer Ke Jing.

Ke Jing: "General, the first version of the design of the 100mm artillery carrier you commissioned me to design is complete."

After that, he unfolded the design on the blueprint rack: "Look! According to your requirements, I made improvements based on the T34 chassis, lowered the height of the entire vehicle by placing the engine horizontally, and added a larger fighting compartment to complete 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 152mm gun on Project 704 looks short and thick, while the gun on this car is obviously much thinner.

In addition, Project 704 uses the chassis of IS3, while this thing uses the chassis of T34, which looks a lot lighter.

Wait - Project 704 on Earth seems to have been designed by a heavy tank designer, who seems to be called Ke Jing.

Suddenly everything made sense!

Ke Jing explained excitedly: "I estimated its weight, which should be about the same as T34, but because it does not have a turret and a rotating mechanism, its armor protection is better. The bulletproof shape on the front, plus the 100mm thick armor, even the enemy's 88mm gun may not be able to penetrate it at a long distance.

"And it is lower, suitable for concealed ambushes. The only problem is that I have carefully looked at the enemy's sights, and we can imitate its mechanical structure, including the rotating scale and the distance measurement method corresponding to the scale.

"But we can't produce such a good lens. That lens has a wide field of view and a good magnification. We need a magnification, so the field of view cannot be too wide."

Wang Zhong: "The problem of field of view can be solved by the commander's probe. This car has a commander, right?"

"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 is a pedal here. As long as the commander stands up on the pedal, he can stick his upper body out of the hatch to observe."

Wang Zhong nodded repeatedly: "Okay, okay! Are there any problems with production?"

Ke Jing: "Yes, because although it uses the T34 chassis, 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 transformed, and the workers also need to adapt.

"To solve this problem, I also designed a version with a traditional engine layout."

Ke Jing unfolded another drawing.

"This version can be switched to production quickly, but the problem is that it is much taller than the transverse engine version, so the frontal armor protection has to be weakened."

Wang Zhong looked at the "taller" plan and frowned: "No, the previous version is 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 from scratch.

"You should quickly produce this car and start testing."

Ke Jing: "The factory is working overtime to produce T34 and KV. I wanted to make a prototype before, but there was no manpower and 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 the 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!"