Some different voices expressed opposition! Will widespread distribution of weapons now lead to the dispersion of weapons? In particular, the issue of equipping indigenous cadres with pistols is the most controversial: the military is centralized and tightly controlled from top to bottom. 【Read the latest chapter】
This minimizes the possibility of scattered weapons. Once the weapons are in the hands of extremely dispersed indigenous cadres, it will be difficult to manage them.
However, the real threat led the Planning Institute to finally propose the creation of a pistol specifically for use by indigenous personnel as a standard self-defense weapon.
So this issue was handed over to the first weapon design team. There is a difference between the first team that specializes in designing "modern weapons" and the second design team that mainly focuses on retro style.
The main combat strength of the first weapons group is Li Yilao.
He seldom talks on weekdays.
The chubby man is an expert in machining. Not only can he be a fitter, he is also very skilled in other machine tool applications.
This craft contributed to Li Yilao's side business.
He used to make guns secretly and illegally.
It is a piece of cake for him to imitate a small pistol with a free action such as the Cong type. According to him, he has made pistols, shotguns and rifles.
To show that he was not bragging, he brought two of his own creations in his carry-on luggage, a Karloff, concave type and a... rigid type.
Li Yilao donated his complete set of gun-making tools and many special equipment he had saved to the organization.
With this set of things.
As long as you can find roughly suitable steel, it's not too difficult to make it. Of course, it can't be compared with what comes from a regular factory.
The only problem is that bullets are difficult to make, and he modestly said that he can only reload them.
Li Yilao initially did this business not so much to make money as a hobby - something that people who love weapons and have hands-on skills often do.
But once his interest is supported by profits, his research on technology will become more vigorous.
The things they manufacture are becoming more and more bold, ranging from simple imitations of crude small cannons to decent imitations of various famous pistols.
If there were no insects, Li Yilao's fate could be imagined.
His wife Li Yuanyuan said: Most of them participated in time travel out of necessity.
The couple lived a happy life in Lingao. His wife worked as a clerk in the executive committee, and he could finally make guns openly. Being able to make guns in the sun and discuss his work with others in a big way was Li's happiness. Yi Lao has never enjoyed it before.
But Li Yilao didn't find many opportunities to play.
The time traveler's arsenal is quite abundant, including rifles, pistols, and shotguns. There is no need for his homemade firearms yet.
Everyone praised his craftsmanship, but no one wanted to use guns made of substandard local steel.
As for the Mini rifles made for the indigenous people, they were the product of industrial mass manufacturing. Without any effort from him, Yi Zhan Wuya and others prepared a complete set of tooling equipment required for the production of Mini rifles in another time and space.
So Li Yilao was responsible for the manufacturing of light weapons ammunition in the machinery factory, mainly for the 7-center and 5-reload bullets for rifles. This bullet was consumed in large quantities in several battles.
Li Yilao often reloaded this kind of bullet in the past. He was very familiar with it and built a small set of special equipment, including a bullet mold and a special press.
He can't make armored bullets. Fortunately, lead is abundant here, so we just use pure lead to make it. The gunpowder is the best high-grade fine-grained black gunpowder. No matter how hard the chemical industry department tries, nitrocellulose has always stayed at the level of making paint. .
But the current situation is not that of reinstalling a few at a time, a dozen or at most a hundred.
Even during the daily shooting and scratching exercises conducted by everyone in order to maintain the feel of the weapon, the number of bullet casings taken away after the end was at least 2,000.
He had to reload these cartridge cases one by one, which was simply hard labor.
With the support of Zhan Wuya, Li Yilao improved the equipment and converted the small equipment that was originally suitable for him to use secretly by himself into an assembly line that multiple workers can operate.
Only in this way can he have time and energy to engage in his own business of manufacturing small arms.
He had no involvement in the manufacture of the Dellinger pistol, a crude weapon he looked down upon.
He focused his efforts on imitating military slogan-caliber shotguns, which have very low requirements for bullets.
No need for metal bullet casings.
The Navy and Special Reconnaissance Team were interested in the weapon.
The task of replicating the pistol temporarily interrupted his work on the shotgun.
The weapons design team gathered from their posts to the office of the machine factory to prepare this "indigenous special pistol."
Have project discussions.
The soul of the first weapons design team is Bai Yu. He is not only an armored force officer, but also has an upright professional background in weapons design and engineering design.
Although Li Yilao has rich experience in making guns, he has very little experience in how to design weapons and adapt them to mass production. He has always been a hand-made workshop. After receiving the task letter, several people from the design team worked together. I thought about the weapons requirements issued by the Planning Institute: This kind of weapon must be cheap enough, consume less materials, be easy to produce, and be able to form large-scale production capabilities in a short time.
In terms of ammunition for the pistol, it is best to use ammunition that cannot be copied or substituted by the natives, so as to prevent the pistol from being used by hostile elements after it is lost.
The pistol should be easy to use and operate, safe and reliable, and the performance does not have to be very high, as long as the effective range is 10,000 meters.
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The only way to meet these requirements was a revolver. Li Yilao looked at it and said, "Even the barrel and ammunition are the same as the Mini rifle."
""Single attack, forget it, attack once, and use it either for murder or suicide. "
Bai Yu has always been disgusted with such crude and ugly weapons.
Everyone in the first group felt the same way.
The revolver has low material requirements and uses a hammer to strike. It does not require springs and firing pins that require high materials and production technology.
The ammunition supply method is simple and reliable, and it can provide a certain amount of continuous firepower.
"Which one should we imitate? Webley or Smith & Wesson?"
Li Yilao knows the line drawings and structural diagrams of most pistols in the world. If he has the materials, he can basically imitate them exactly. Of course, the performance is not the same.
"In terms of performance, the Webley revolver is better."
"It's still a Smith 6 Wesson. Wang Ruixiang likes this kind of pistol very much, although he has never seen a pistol in another time and space, even a dog."
But he still fell in love with this romantic weapon.
Among the self-defense pistols purchased by travelers through the North American subdivision, there are many "...revolvers" that use bullets, and most of them have re-inch barrels.
Wang Ruixiang got one, paired with a replica American police revolver holster and bullet belt he got from a military store, and kept it hanging on his butt.
"The Webley revolver reloads quickly."
Li Yilao said.
Webley revolvers lower the grip to load bullets by pushing forward the lug pin on the left rear of the turret.
The slide seat and barrel are then closed and ready to fire.
When the cartridge cases are removed, the gun is opened again and a star-shaped ejector automatically clears the cartridge cases from the runner.
This is an advanced device over the swing-out wheel and is more suitable for use with quickloaders.
"I'm afraid the materials won't be as good as what Bai Yu said.
This kind of gun has a complex structure and a large weight, so it requires high material strength. "
Besides, we don’t have metal cartridge cases available, and its advantages cannot be reflected. “Let’s imitate the Smith 6 Wesson.”
Wang Ruixiang insisted.
“I think it’s still too complicated.
The gun-making instructions given to us by the Planning Institute were simplified and simplified again and again. "
Bai Yu said, "Save all unnecessary parts and minimize the process and processing requirements." If the Smith 6 & Wesson wants to be simplified, it will have to make a Western version of the revolver. "
The final decision was to use a Western-style revolver. Its wheel could not be swung out, and the chamber had to be rotated manually.
Turn and install one at a time.
The reloading speed is slower, but the device for swinging out the wheel is omitted, and the tolerance requirements for production and assembly can be further reduced.
Originally it was to further reduce the difficulty of production.
Unify production standards.
Wang Ruixiang proposed that this revolver use the same diameter seamless steel tube as the Mini rifle, so that they can use the same size seamless steel tube without having to prepare separate materials.
You can even use scraps from cutting during the production of Minie rifles.
However, Bai Yu believes that this improvement outweighs the gains: the adopted diameter is too large.
This will inevitably result in too much ammunition being loaded, resulting in excess power.
The revolver does not have any anti-recoil components as small as the recoil mechanism, so the recoil is completely borne by the shooter himself, so it cannot shoot ammunition with too large a charge.
The result of too much recoil is that it is difficult for the shooter to control the gun when shooting, which affects accuracy.
Moreover, the unique structure of the revolver causes gunpowder gas to leak out from the gaps in its runner.
If the bullet is too large, more gunpowder must be loaded. Excessive gunpowder gas and incomplete combustion may injure the shooter.
When the gunpowder hits more, more gas will expand, and the requirements for the materials and processing levels of the barrel and chamber are also high.
If small-caliber ammunition is used, the barrel material requirements can be greatly reduced, and the structural and process requirements can also be reduced.
The last problem is that the bullets, whether they are metal bullets or paper bullets, are too large in size and weight, and the size of the manufactured pistol will also increase accordingly. In order to reduce the size, it is necessary to reduce the magazine capacity. "
In my opinion, the current Nigerian rifles are too large in caliber and too powerful.
However, this is a fait accompli and cannot be changed for a while. "
(To be continued!~!
