My Italy

The Beretta Arms Company, located in Brescia, is a well-known local military industrial enterprise. Beretta Arms Company has produced many weapons over the years, but the most famous weapon is the Maxim heavy machine gun designed by the chief firearms designer Baron Maxim.

Although it was only adopted by Italy at first, as time went by, the prestige of the Maxim heavy machine gun gradually became apparent in various countries. Of course, this has also brought countless orders to Beretta Arms Company, and with the prestige of this weapon, Beretta Arms Company has become one of the two major firearms companies in Italy.

Of course, the Beretta Arms Company is very satisfied with the current booming business, but the Beretta people do not just rest on their achievements and do not want to make progress, but want to develop more new weapons to make Beretta more prosperous.

Pietro Beretta, the new general manager of Beretta Arms Company, fully recognizes this. Therefore, under his leadership, Beretta Weapons Company is very enthusiastic about the development of new weapons.

In the office building of Beretta Arms Company on Walton Street, Pietro Beretta is constantly busy.

"Kanava, give this document to Director Polik and tell them that I have agreed to their development plan for a new revolver."

"Okay, general manager."

After handing a document signed with his name to the secretary, Pietro rubbed his face and picked up the phone to answer the call. "Hey, is this the administrative department? When will the report I want arrive? Tell them to hurry up. I'm waiting."

He put down the phone and continued busy when he heard a knock on the door.

"Come in and put the papers on the table."

After Pietro finished speaking, he looked up and realized that the person who came was not from the administrative department, but Baron Maxim, the treasure of the company. He quickly stood up and said. "Uncle Maxim, why are you here?"

Maxim sat down on the chair, and his loud voice echoed throughout the room. "Can't I come?"

"No way, uncle, you can come anytime and I'll always welcome you."

How could Pietro mess with this great god? The best heavy machine gun currently sold by the company is named after him.

"Uncle, why don't you recuperate at White Manor? The doctor said you are not well yet."

"I'm still cultivating. If I continue to cultivate, I don't know if I will have a role in the company's development of new weapons."

Hearing Maxim's words with a hint of resentment, Pietro felt regretful in his heart. He had made a mistake. It was a big mistake. It turns out that they had previously investigated the opinions of the armies of various countries on the use of the Maxim heavy machine gun. They generally believed that this was a good gun for defensive positions. With it, the pressure of defense would be much less.

If there is any shortcoming, it is that this machine gun is too heavy to charge with the soldiers. In fact, if you think about it, the Maxim heavy machine gun weighs 5 or 60KG. How can it keep up with the attacking speed of the soldiers?

Of course, in view of this, Beretta Arms Company has the opportunity to develop a machine gun that can keep up with the speed of infantry. Just at this time, the Ministry of the Army sent a notice that the Italian Army planned to purchase a machine gun that could keep up with the soldiers. It required that the empty weight should not exceed 12KG and should be easy to carry.

This request from the War Department made Pietro very happy, so he asked the designers to start developing this machine gun. At that time, because Maxim was not in good health and needed to recuperate, Pietro did not notify the company's chief firearms designer. At present, it seems that this was a huge mistake. It would be terrible if it caused the great master to be dissatisfied.

Although the Beretta Arms Company is the oldest arms manufacturing company in Europe, and the Beretta family has always been responsible for running the company, the real controller behind the company now is the royal family. Needless to say, the relationship between this great god and the king, and my family also relies on this great god in many places.

"Uncle Maxim, this is my fault. I didn't think carefully before and just thought of my uncle's cultivation, so this is my mistake."

Pietro's words made Maxim's expression soften a lot. He was not an unreasonable person. Before, he was just angry that this kind of new weapon development did not inform him, the chief designer. Now that the other party has apologized, of course he Just go down the steps.

After seeing Maxim's attitude softening, Pietro continued. "Uncle, since you are here, can you help me look at the plan for this weapon development."

As he spoke, he took out a draft of a weapon design and handed it to Maxim.

As soon as he received the draft, Maxim began to read it. This is a sketch of the gun case. It is different from the gun magazine I use on my heavy machine gun, although this is also a gun magazine based on the gas-guided principle. The remark comes from the fact that after he invented the muzzle gas recoil gun magazine, other designers have modified and modified it based on it, and of course this gun magazine is no exception.

"This was designed by Jobani Gur from the design department, because we have considered continuing to use the gun case you designed before, but this time the army's requirements are too high and the important requirements for the gun are very stringent, so we can only Re-adopt a design with a smaller kinetic energy.”

Regarding the Army's request for a new machine gun, how could Maxim not know that the 12KG weight requirement does not allow the modification of the Maxim heavy machine gun to be adopted.

"This is indeed difficult to handle. The weight can only be 12KG at most, which is indeed a bit challenging."

"Isn't that right?"

Faced with Maxim's words, Pietro immediately spoke. "The current opinion of the design department is that the Army's requirements can only adopt an air-cooling solution. Water-cooling does not meet the requirements at all."

"But if it gets cold, it won't last long. Have you ever considered this issue?"

Maxim certainly knew the pros and cons of water-cooling and air-cooling for machine guns, and asked the key questions directly.

You must know that although air cooling can reduce the weight of the machine gun, the continuous firing rate of five to six hundred rounds per minute is destined to overheat the machine tube very quickly. Otherwise, he would be crazy and put a thick cold barrel on the machine gun he designed. Without water cooling, he would not be able to shoot continuously.

Faced with Maxim's question, Pietro answered. "We have considered it before, and we have actually discussed a way to solve this problem, which is to change the barrel."

"Replace the barrel?"

"Yes, this is our preliminary idea at present. It still depends on whether the design can be perfected. If not, then we can only use short-term shooting to increase the firepower output time of the new lightweight machine gun."

That's right, for Pietro, if there is no good solution, then let people adapt to the weapons. After all, this new weapon is so light in weight that it is impossible to achieve the same performance as the Maxim machine gun. Half the performance is enough.