The kinetic energy of the M2 heavy machine gun is quite strong. When using standard ammunition, the initial muzzle velocity at the moment of launch is approximately 908 meters/second, and the kinetic energy of the muzzle is approximately 22,000 joules.
Let's make a comparison. In later generations, the AK-47 automatic rifle, which has the most equipment in the world, has a muzzle kinetic energy of about 2,000 joules (some say 1,398 joules, let's just make a comparison).
With this comparison, you can intuitively feel the concept of the power of a weapon that can produce 20,000 joules of energy. Coupled with the thick barrel of 1143 mm and the warhead weighing 45.94 grams, the bullet can The ballistic trajectory is very stable and straight, and the accuracy is naturally not bad.
In later generations of the Vietnam battlefield, the American M2 heavy machine gun once set a kill record of 2,000 meters. At that time, an M2 machine gun was replaced with a special sniper barrel and used a high-power scope. A US soldier used this M2 machine gun to snipe a Vietnamese soldier 2,000 meters away. This shows how good its accuracy is.
Moreover, since the caliber and weight of the bullet are just there, can you imagine the effect of such a weapon hitting a person?
That is a power that can almost "break" people. Yes, it is not just as simple as killing people, but directly crushing them, or directly "wiping them to ashes".
Therefore, you don’t have to aim at any fatal part of a person. Just aim at the torso with the largest bullet area. The bullet with huge energy will leave a huge "hole" after passing through the human body. This "hole" may will exceed your own cross-sectional area.
And if it hits a bone, the broken bones will absorb most of the kinetic energy of the bullet. After gaining energy, these broken bones will move at high speed, so that the person will be "broken".
I don't know if the 'jade broken' that the little devil kept talking about has been fulfilled in this powerful machine gun. Anyway, Zhou Wen knew that as long as the mercenary group is equipped with this kind of heavy machine gun, then the little devil's short body will definitely Will 'break'.
Moreover, its powerful power is one of the most important reasons why the M2 heavy machine gun is favored by the military and can serve for hundreds of years. Another reason is its versatility.
After the advent of this weapon, almost all tanks of the US Army will be equipped with several such heavy machine guns. Moreover, this weapon is not only the favorite of the US Army, there are also many variants of M2 on the platforms of the Air Force and Navy. , especially during World War II, most American fighter jets and bombers used modified versions of this weapon as attack or self-defense weapons. The navy's warships are equipped with a large amount of equipment for close-range air defense of the ships.
It can be seen from this that the M2 heavy machine gun also has a very important use in air defense.
As long as the machine gun is installed on the anti-aircraft gun mount, the M2 heavy machine gun becomes a reliable and powerful anti-aircraft machine gun. The armor-piercing incendiary and armor-piercing incendiary tracer rounds it fired were enough to tear apart and ignite the fuselage of any aircraft used during this period.
Zhou Wen, who suffered from Japanese aircraft during the Great Wall War of Resistance, felt that the power of the MG-13 machine gun alone was relatively weak in air defense.
Even if there are German machine guns with better performance in the future, the caliber of 7.92 mm is still smaller, and the range and lethality are not enough to protect the safety of the mercenary group. What's more, if a small-scale air force is to be established in the future, the air defense security of the airport must also be considered.
As for the disadvantage of the M2 heavy machine gun being too heavy, Zhou Wen can basically ignore it.
Based on the equipment of the mercenary group, let alone pack horses, if road conditions permit, even semi-mechanization is not a big problem.
Moreover, with the current level of training of the mercenary group and the strong bodies of the officers and soldiers, it is not impossible for several people to carry a machine gun weighing 30 kilograms.
In battle, it weighs 58 kilograms including the tripod, which is only 3 kilograms heavier than the Little Japanese 92 heavy machine gun. Four people can still move freely on the position while carrying it.
Although the weight is similar to that of the Xiaojiazi 92 heavy machine gun, its range, power, and rate of fire are like a father beating his son, crushing them all.
At the beginning, Zhou Wen promised to equip his air defense expert Wang Zhili with better air defense weapons, referring to the M2 heavy machine gun.
Although it is impossible for little Henry to buy directly from the United States due to the U.S. arms embargo against China, with the help of Mandel, an old friend and arms dealer, he believes that sooner or later he will have the opportunity to buy this favorite heavy machine gun.
And now, the opportunity has come.
What Zhou Wen is eyeing is the second-hand pistol that has been eliminated by the American soldiers.
Regardless of the fact that the U.S. Army experienced large-scale disarmament after World War I, it currently only maintains a level of hundreds of thousands.
But I can't bear it. The Americans are rich and wealthy, and the treatment of the military is even worse than during World War I. Especially for overseas troops stationed in the Philippines, the treatment is extremely luxurious.
Zhou Wen knew in his previous life that after the Pacific War broke out, Japan occupied the Philippines in a short period of time. As a result, the guns and artillery stored by the American army captured by the Japanese army in the warehouse alone were enough to arm three Japanese divisions, and various logistics supplies were piled up like mountains.
Remember, this only refers to the inventory in the warehouse, and does not include the equipment brought by the hundreds of thousands of surrendered Miffy coalition troops.
Moreover, the Japanese army was surprised to find that in a warehouse of scrapped weapons to be processed, not to mention the rifles that were on the street, among the hundreds of machine guns that were declared scrapped, nearly half of them could be dragged out and used. , even the Japanese devils don’t understand why such a good machine gun should be sold as scrap? Maybe it was because an officer or even a soldier didn't like the gun that he threw it into scrap.
American soldiers don't care about these equipment, but Zhou Wen does!
And Zhou Wen also knew that the Americans' way of dealing with these scrapped equipment was also very simple and crude, that is, they disposed of it on the spot.
To whom?
Of course they are those American companies in the Philippines.
These scrapped weapons will be sold to American factories in the Philippines at the price of scrap metal for dismantling and recycling. But will some of them be lost to the arms market? Zhou Wen's guess was certain.
Moreover, the management of the army in peacetime is just like that, and there must be many cases where people have their own hands and enrich their own pockets.
Qichang Company is the largest trading company of the United States in Southeast Asia, and it is also the company most involved in the construction and operation and maintenance of the US military base in the Philippines. There are many places where it can operate.
Therefore, Zhou Wen took a fancy to those gunboats that the American soldiers looked down on, maybe they were just a little rusty on the outside, and maybe some unlucky guy accidentally got his toe stubbed during training, so he took them out. The M2 heavy machine gun was classified as scrap.
And if you want to get these things through Qichang Foreign Company, you need to have a relationship. Of course, this relationship can only be Mr. James.
