Transmigrated as the Crown Prince

After sending Dr. Obote away, Yannick summoned the directors of the arsenal such as Walter, Mauser, and Henel, and asked them to take the firearms they were producing to the Royal Shooting Range.

After some pleasantries at the shooting range, Yannick picked up the G43 with great interest, walked to the shooting stand and aimed at the target 100 meters away.

The people around him were smiling and ready to applaud immediately.

boom! boom! boom!

Yannick pulled the trigger repeatedly. He was so happy that he didn't notice that the smiles on the faces of the people around him gradually faded away and the atmosphere became awkward. Walter even secretly wiped the sweat on his forehead.

After firing ten bullets, Yannick put down the gun, rubbed his sore shoulders, and waved to the guard in the distance to bring over the target paper.

The guard seemed a little reluctant and hesitantly handed the target paper to Yannick's hands.

"..." Looking at the clean target paper, not to mention the bullet hole, there was not even a crease, Yannick couldn't help but was stunned. It took him a while to realize that all the ten bullets he fired had missed the target!

"Trash!" He muttered, noticing the embarrassed Walter on the side, and explained. "Mr. Walter, I'm just saying that my marksmanship is rubbish." He had touched a gun once in the original time and space, that is, he fired five bullets during military training in college, and the "Yanick" in this time and space was obviously very familiar with firearms and the like. not interested. Therefore, he didn't feel frustrated or angry. After all, if someone like him could hit, then he still needed to train an army.

"The feel and rate of fire of this gun are pretty good." He picked up another gun, the famous 98K in later generations, and looked at it carefully before asking. "Mr. Mauser, what is the wood of this gun body made of?" The old Mauser retired last year and was replaced by his son.

Mauser said respectfully. "Your Highness, it's walnut wood."

"Oh, walnut, tsk tsk." Later generations will know that walnut is the main material of high-end furniture, and many of them are not logs, just used as the surface layer. How could such a valuable thing be used as a gun body? "Mr. Mauser, isn't this gun specially made?"

Mauser shook his head hastily. "No, Your Highness. According to your instructions, I just took a handful from today's finished products."

"Mr. Mauser, if I remember correctly, the maturity period of walnut wood is 50 to 100 years. Even if all the walnut wood in Germany is cut down, it will not be enough for you to make, right? Weapons are consumables, not works of art. Of course I I know that this kind of walnut wood is strong and corrosion-resistant, but there’s no problem if I use glue-laminated beech wood, right?” Glued beech wood is harder than walnut wood and is easier to produce and process.

Mauser was stunned and nodded.

"And this one." Yannick pointed at the barrel ring. This thing actually has an H shape. Is it like Hermès? "Don't you think this thing is labor-intensive and time-consuming? How convenient is it to just take an iron piece and weld it? And the spring in this replacement set, I think it can be done by just screwing on two screws."

"The trigger guard and magazine bottom plate are also milled. They are all stamped. If one of the two screws on the bottom plate can be fixed, there is no need to waste one more."

"The bayonet holder can also be eliminated. Also, a guard ring should be added to the reticle, otherwise it will easily cause false light." This is not to say that soldiers are not allowed to fight with bayonets, but that German soldiers will use more brutal weapons than bayonets. The close-quarters weapon is the engineer shovel!

It was the same in the original time and space. Although the German army was issued with bayonets, because they were equipped with more submachine guns and light machine guns, there were few opportunities to use bayonets against the background of large-scale penetration of armored forces.

During the trench warfare on the German Eastern Front, the engineer shovel temporarily became an artifact of trench fighting. The trench was narrow, and the bayonet was too long to swing and easily got stuck in the wall, and the enemy rushed to the front of the trench and was too late to fix the bayonet. At this time, the engineers who were digging the pit picked up the shovel and used it. On the one hand, the engineer shovel is convenient for blocking, and on the other hand, due to its short size, it can be swung with great force. Some German soldiers wrote in their biographies that the sapper shovel wielded with full force could break the enemy's body with one shovel, and even slice off the head with a blow.

After reading it carefully again, Yannick discovered something very interesting. The front and back of the rear sight are marked with the rear sight distance.

are you crazy!

Who would use the rear sight? ! This is simply superfluous!

"In general, as I just said, weapons are consumables, not works of art, and do not need such flashy and elaborate craftsmanship. As long as the firing mechanism, such as the barrel, safety, receiver, gun You can simplify the rest as much as you want, regarding the quality of the core mechanical parts of the machine. In this way, you can save labor, time and money, and the military can also save money and get more weapons. Why not? "

Yannick knew that the Germans seemed to be suffering from collective obsessive-compulsive disorder, and the concept of meticulous craftsmanship was deeply rooted in their bones.

Unfortunately, in the end, Maozi used the spirit of production capacity first and workmanship second to vividly teach the Germans a lesson that quantitative change is greater than qualitative change.

"If the war can be won in just two or three months, I won't mind if you use the mentality of making art to make weapons. They look good and work well. But if it's like the last time, it's four or five. Where is the year?! Can you afford it?"

When it comes to playing with art, unless you are several levels higher than others, that's fine. At only one level higher, quantity can offset quality; at the same level, quantity can completely defeat quality.

No matter how good the craftsmanship is, it's just a matter of looking at the opponent's casualty figures. If you lose, you can only comfort yourself by hugging me and killing more of you.

In a protracted war, cheap consumables have more practical value than expensive works of art.

"We in Germany are not as vast and resourceful as the Soviet Union, the Ming Dynasty, and the United States. We are short of everything except coal and potash. This senseless waste is simply a crime. When we have a vast enough land, we will have inexhaustible resources. I don't care how much you want to refine it when you have endless resources, but in these ten years, I want you to put away those useless artistic cells, what I want is absolute production capacity!"

Everyone looked at each other in confusion. Of course they knew what was going on in their own country, and they also knew that what His Highness said was completely reasonable. Although they felt very awkward in their hearts, they all agreed. "Understood, Your Highness. We will simplify the process and increase production capacity."

Nodding, Yannick fired the MP40 and MP41 again and ordered. "Get a pen and paper."

The secretary brought some paper and pen, and Yannick quickly drew a sketch of the magazine. This magazine is the M45 submachine gun magazine developed by Sweden during World War II. It is a 36-round double-row double-feed magazine. It is known as the best magazine for 9mm Parabellum pistols in later generations. magazine.

The biggest feature of this magazine is that the front and rear widths are different. The front part is slightly narrower and the rear part is wider. In this way, the magazine section is approximately wedge-shaped. The advantage of using this shape is that the axis of the bullet is not parallel to the axis of the chamber. The left and right rows There is a very small angle between the bullet and the central axis of the chamber, which makes it easy to align the bullet when pushing the bullet into the chamber, so the reliability of the bullet supply is high.

The magazines of the MP40 submachine gun and the "Sden" submachine gun, which have the same front and rear width, will shrink and "squeeze" the internal bullets in cold weather. At the same time, the double-row single-feed structure is not conducive to quick reloading. . Magazines with this shape are not sensitive to dirt or temperature differences. Not only do they have good ammunition supply reliability, but they are also easier to load manually. If you use a loader, it only takes 6 seconds to fill a 36-round magazine.