However, it is not the "six-year-old machine gun" that became famous around the world, but the "ten-year-old machine gun."
This is the number reassigned after the "six-year-old machine gun" was declassified.
In fact, this is not complicated, because all the "six-year-old machine guns" have no model number engraved on the barrel at all. This is also for confidentiality.
Almost overnight, the "10-year-old machine gun" that killed nearly 10,000 enemies in the "Border Battle" became famous all over the world!
Why not be famous?
Even if Ming Dynasty’s five-year-old Gatling gun has become famous for a long time, so what?
But no machine gun has killed so many people at once. Of course, there won't be so many people who are so stupid that they shout something like "Ah, the lake is gone, the lake is gone," and so on, and they are hit by a lake of flesh and blood.
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As a result, the "10-year-old machine gun" with "high quality, low price" and excellent performance instantly became the top celebrity in the weapons industry at the end of 1881.
"The company has sent 10-year-old machine guns to branches in various countries. After the goods arrive, the machine guns will be displayed to the host country's military. According to preliminary estimates, the purchase volume of each country's military will exceed 5,000, with at least three to
Five countries are willing to buy its production patents..."
As the president of the Imperial Defense Company, Tang Lin reported that he noticed that Liangshan, the minister, looked thoughtful when he was reporting.
"Considering that the army and navy have more than 5,000 old guns of early models in their inventory, the company's plan is to refurbish these old guns and then sell them to various countries..."
Refurbishing the military's old goods and then exporting the old guns as new guns to various countries is something that the Imperial Defense Company often does. As the largest arms exporter in the empire, they have done this kind of thing a lot in recent years, starting with pistols.
From rifles to artillery, a set of refurbishment standards has long been in place, making it almost impossible for purchasers to discover that the weapons are refurbished.
This is an old routine in the international arms trade.
"Um."
Liang Shan nodded and said.
"This, let's follow the past rules."
Selling old goods and buying new ones, the military does not object to this kind of business, but Liangshan's interest is not in this at all, but he asked curiously.
"Manager Tang, do you know that there are similar products in foreign countries?"
The reason why Liangshan was so curious was because His Majesty said that Britain already had similar products. So Ming Dynasty had to take the lead and seize the market.
"Are they also available in foreign countries?"
Tang Lin said in surprise.
"No! I've never heard of it!"
Of course he had never heard of it. Not to mention that he had never heard of it. Even the Imperial Investigation Bureau of the Ming Dynasty had no information in this regard.
Why, because the public display of the Maxim machine gun was in April 1882, five months later, more than a year earlier than in another world. Of course, there is no intelligence on Maxim in all aspects now, but in Emperor Zhu Da’s system
There was already a Maxim machine gun in the mall.
Unsurprisingly, once the Maxim machine gun came out, it would attract the attention of militaries around the world. In the following ten years, militaries from all over the world purchased it one after another. Maxim... even became synonymous with machine guns.
This is Maxim's history in another world, but in this world... it is absolutely impossible. After all, since the five-year-old Gatling was put on the market, it has always been the flagship product of Ming Dynasty's small arms.
Now facing the upcoming Maxim machine gun, the six-year-old machine gun naturally has to step forward and replace the Maxim machine gun.
In fact, from the day the 5-year-old Gatling gun was put on the market, the machine gun has been relatively widely used on the battlefield. The current 6-year-old Gatling gun is just a continuation of the glory of the 5-year-old Gatling gun.
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"The most important thing is tactics!"
While talking to himself, Emperor Zhu picked up the Anton automatic gun on the table. This automatic gun should be said to be a submachine gun. Its magazine is above the gun body. The steel cylindrical gun body looks like
It was quite exquisite. Although it looked a little weird with its wooden stock, Emperor Zhu Da knew better than anyone else that there was power stored in this submachine gun.
Pull the bolt and pull the trigger.
There was a dull sound of gunfire, and after emptying a magazine, Emperor Zhu Da picked up a bullet.
"The gun is good, but the caliber of the bullets is a bit too big."
The bullet is of 11mm caliber, which is almost the same as the .45acp of the Ming Empire.
"This bullet is heavy and cumbersome, let's change it to nine millimeters!"
While talking to himself, Emperor Zhu Da casually wrote down "Anton Automatic Firearms Company" in his notebook.
This automatic gun is not a current product, but... it will be launched on the market next year, but the military does not seem to have noticed the role of submachine guns.
In the mall, it is just an ordinary civilian commodity.
"The tactical thinking is still too conservative!"
Putting the submachine gun on the table, Emperor Zhu shook his head helplessly and sighed, and then said.
"There are some things that you still need to intervene on your own!"
In fact, Emperor Zhu Da has not been very involved in military affairs in recent years. After all, after twenty years of development, military generals and officers are more professional than him. He, a layman, must have a reputation for himself.
However, facts have proven that Emperor Zhu Da, who stood on the shoulders of historical giants, was always far ahead at least in terms of concepts, and it was difficult for the generals to realize the role of a certain weapon without going through a bloody battle.
Just like now, what is the world's impression of machine guns?
A good helper for fortress defense, as for offense... How can a machine gun weighing dozens of kilograms accompany the infantry attack?
From the invention of the machine gun in 1884 to the great power of the trench machine gun in World War I, before that, for thirty years, there was almost no progress in the research on machine gun tactics, and the number of machine gun equipment was also very limited!
Only the bloodshed of war will force tactical experts to conduct in-depth research on it.
But Ming Dynasty certainly cannot sum up its experience with the blood of its soldiers.
"The submachine gun needs to be further improved...well, this is the first, and the second is the machine gun..."
Looking at the six-year-old machine gun on the side...no, it should be the ten-year-old machine gun, Emperor Zhu Da stared at the cooling water tank.
"This cooling water cylinder needs to be removed and modified into an air-cooled machine gun to further reduce the weight..."
Since there is no suitable light machine gun at the moment, then just use the six-year-old model to improve it, just like the old German mg05/15 during World War I. It weighs almost 40 pounds, and hundreds of thousands of them were produced and carried by soldiers.
Conduct assault operations on the battlefield.
Of course, Emperor Zhu Da would definitely not let his soldiers carry a machine gun weighing more than 40 kilograms and charge on the battlefield. Even if they are as strong as an ox, it would not be easy to lift it, but a "light machine gun" weighing 13 to 4 kilograms
"It's not that it's unacceptable.
After all, it is only slightly heavier than mg34!
"With light machine guns and submachine guns, it's almost time..."
Staring at the quaint-looking submachine gun on the table, Emperor Zhu raised the corners of his lips slightly, and then he casually wrote down an idea he had been brewing for a long time in his notebook - the Assault Corps!
An elite force using automatic weapons can play an imaginary role in this era. More importantly, with such a force, some of Emperor Zhu Da's ideas can be implemented.
However, setting up such a force requires selecting a suitable commander.
After thinking for a while, a candidate emerged in Emperor Zhu Da's mind.