In the end, 1 kilogram of mercury produced about 1.2 kilograms of mercury fulminate. The chemical team was very satisfied with this result. After all, the amount of mercury fulminate used in each flash cap was very small.
The flash cap used on the Minigun is best made of copper. Travelers did not bring copper. The Guangzhou Advance Station purchased a large number of Japanese red copper bars. This kind of copper is very popular in the market because it contains a lot of silver.
.Refining silver can offset the cost of buying copper.
The metallurgical team re-refined the copper bars and obtained high-purity copper ingots and a small amount of silver. After the raw materials were processed, the mechanical team designed and manufactured a machine specifically for stamping flash caps, made a mold, and used electricity to drive it.
Suppress 10 flash caps.
After confirming that there are no problems with the mass production of flash caps, the assembly work of the muskets begins. These front-loading rifles using Mini ammunition are assembled with 14 mm alloy steel seamless pipes using the high-pressure boiler purchased before departure. Steel pipes are purchased
After arriving, he secretly screwed in five "internal threads" that were 48 centimeters long in the machinery processing factory opened in Zhan Wuya. Other hammers, triggers, reeds, etc. were also made with 4~
5 mm thick alloy steel plates are stamped out. If they didn't have this skill at that time, and if they processed the rifling themselves, I'm afraid there wouldn't be many rifled guns by now. The new army would probably have to use Brown Bess - this kind of smoothbore gun has also been obtained
A group of madmen who lined up to shoot Party members boasted that although Wang Luobin also lined up to shoot Party members, it was not fundamental enough. Real people who lined up to shoot Party members would absolutely reject rifled rifles.
Rifled guns are not a very new weapon. In the era of flintlock muskets, there were flintlock rifled guns. Compared with muskets, the benefits of rifled guns are obvious: they have a large range, high accuracy, and are more effective than
The flintlock musket with a range of less than 50 meters and the muzzle-loading rifle could be used as a sniper rifle at that time in terms of shooting accuracy and range.
The biggest problems why it has not been popularized are that the process is complex and the cost is too high, and the ammunition is difficult to load. The reason why a rifled gun can shoot far and accurately is that the bullet must rotate along the rifling before exiting the chamber, so it must be
The bullet has to be inserted into the rifling. Before there was a mini bullet, the bullet had to be slightly larger than the diameter of the rifling. Use brute force to hit the bullet to deform it and insert it into the rifling. It is an exaggeration to say that you need to use a hammer to hammer it in, although in most cases it is more than that.
, but it is a fact that it loads slower than a musket. Therefore, although it is equipped with elite infantry on a small scale in many countries, it is not widely used.
It was the appearance of the mini bullet that changed the fate of the front-loading rifled gun. The diameter of the mini bullet's conical bullet is slightly smaller than the diameter of the gun bore, which makes loading easy. There is a conical cavity at the bottom of the bullet and a cork.
Block the bottom of the hole. When firing, the gas presses the cork into the hole, forcing the bottom of the bullet to expand and stick to the rifling. It seals the gap between the warhead and the barrel, preventing the gas from leaking out, and allowing the warhead to move at high speed under the pressure of the rifling.
Rotary Mini bullets solved the problems of loading difficulties for front-loading rifled guns and low range accuracy of smoothbore guns, making rifles surpass artillery and becoming the decisive weapon on the battlefield at that time.
Pulling the trigger, there was a loud "bang" sound, and the gun rushed backwards. Wang Luobin's shoulder hurt from the impact. A faint smoke slowly spread out from the muzzle of the gun. Under the city wall 100 meters away, Jiang Ye
He ran out of the shelter, looked at the target, pasted the newly drilled hole with white paper, then leaned over the bamboo tube and yelled loudly. Wang Luobin took off the earplug from his right ear, leaned close to the bamboo tube on this side, and listened.
When he said: "Ring 9, towards 7 o'clock." He raised his hand to indicate that he heard.
This result is quite good! The first shot was very close to the target. It seems that the gun can be calibrated in less than two hours. Pick up a small file and remove a thin layer from the left side of the brass notch seat. Then loosen
Open the vise that fixes the gun body, load the gunpowder and warheads. Start again and slowly aim at the bullseye of the half-body target 100 meters away, and calibrate again at 100 meters. I'm really lucky, everything is normal. 100 meters
After the distance calibration is completed, several targets at different heights will be used to simulate and test the long distances of 200 meters, 300 meters, and 400 meters. For longer distances, one has to look at the soldier's rp.
This gun only took 40 minutes to complete, and its accuracy is very high. It is a perfect masterpiece. It is estimated that one shot can hit a single cavalryman from 300 meters away. Finally, I used a soldering iron to burn my initials on the rear edge of the butt.
Right above, add a "j+" below to indicate that this is a good gun that can be used as a sniper rifle, and you're done. After all, even a Minie-type rifled rifle is only required to target 20 feet wide and 8 feet high at 400 yards.
The target achieved a 60% hit rate.
Look at the four straight characters written with carbon strips on the wooden board. Wang Luobin added a horizontal line next to the fourth straight character. Zhan Wuya's group next to him also finished writing the fourth straight character. It seems that 50 people in this class today
There is no problem with the gun production plan. It is estimated that a few more guns can be exceeded.
3,000 steel pipes and accessories can be used to make 3,000 rifles. There are also about 1,000 spare parts. However, in the past two weeks, the Ministry of Industry decided to cut 20 barrels into short tubes of about 2 inches for the manufacture of Delinger pistols.
Use. Although there are 20 less rifles, it can be equipped with self-defense firearms for departments such as the Navy and the Intelligence Bureau that need short weapons. They have no intention of issuing Glock pistols to the indigenous people.
Although the guns are quickly assembled and more than 80 can be completed every day, without rigorously calibrated rifles and handed over to rookie infantrymen who have never fired two live ammunition, they are really not much better than smooth-bore fire sticks. Strong on the outside but hard on the inside, this can probably be described.
The current dilemma of the time traveler.
It wasn't until it had more than 600 guns that the industrial group reduced the daily gun quota a little, and then took the time to carefully calibrate and select accuracy guns. Flash caps were carefully stored and prepared for war. This was consistent with the General Staff's
It is related to the combat policy. In view of the fact that once the enemy arrives in the future, the number of enemies will be very large. Whether it is the Ming army or the pirates, there will be no problem in dispatching thousands of people. The time traveler is no longer what it used to be, and the stalls are already very large, and then the turtle flow of the fortified camp is
This will lead to the dilemma of being fortified everywhere and passive everywhere. The military's policy is to fight out, send infiltration troops on the periphery, engage in cold shots, plant mines, and harass the enemy's brigade's actions and logistics. Such tactics require sufficient precision for the front-line troops.
Guns. After all, being able to shoot from a distance is very beneficial to the survival of infiltration troops. Being able to knock down a cavalry or officer with one shot is obviously also very useful for reducing the pressure in a head-on confrontation.
A few days ago, at the summary meeting, the Intelligence Department pointed out that there will be a big war within a month. Regardless of whether the intruders are pirates or the Ming army, the time-travelers will face up to 2,000 to 3,000 enemy troops coming to encircle and suppress them. If it is the Ming army,
, reinforcements may continue on the mainland. It is estimated that if the Ming army cannot be dealt a major blow and part of it is surrounded and annihilated in one battle, the encirclement and suppression will last for one or two months. Since then, the burden of the Ministry of Industry has increased. Not only
To load 50 guns every day, it is also necessary to reserve ammunition for the coming fierce battle. The metallurgical department not only needs to make steel, but also refine copper and lead on a large scale. It has begun to use casting molds to produce mini bullets and round iron on a large scale.
Artillery shells. It can produce more than 3,000 rounds of mini bullets and 250 rounds of round bullets every day. With the ammunition already stored, it will not be a problem to cope with a fierce battle that lasts for several days and fires 30 to 40 rounds of bullets every day.
In terms of artillery, the foundry has already delivered 9 8-pound smoothbore cannons. After getting familiar with the process, casting such smoothbore cannons is no longer a big deal. When making breech-bore cannons, you were not very skilled in processing the breech bolt at the beginning.
It takes 3 days to make a qualified gun bolt. In the last week, only 2 guns were completed. However, after collective analysis and research, the mechanical team improved the process. After the steel plate is cut, there is no rush to weld it immediately. It must be placed on the pedal grinding wheel first.
The end faces and welding ladders are ground on the machine. Then the frame made of local granite slabs is used to support the welding. Now six 70mm armstrong cannons have been completed. The 12-pound mountain grenade is much simpler. As long as there is enough pig iron, one can be produced every day.
The speed is delivered from the factory. Now I have delivered 12 pounds of mountain durians and 14 doors.
As the number of cannons manufactured increases, the mechanical team has basically understood the manufacturing process of each cannon, the man-hours required and the sizes of various parts. It has designed and manufactured various special molds and tooling for the production of cannons. With the help of the large number of cannons brought
Measuring tools, the mechanical department quickly reduced the tolerances to the minimum, formulated manufacturing standards for various types of artillery, and began standardized manufacturing. This will make the parameter structure of each gun exactly the same as that of similar artillery.
With standardized manufacturing, it means that the performance of every similar artillery is close. Each batch of artillery manufactured by the traverser is specially tested by the artillery team to obtain its shooting parameters - according to the use
The type of ammunition and target distance determine the amount of charge and muzzle height. When necessary, the artillery team will also try dangerous tests on the maximum safe rate of fire, barrel life and maximum charge to determine the potential of its artillery.
ability.
The results of artillery testing and calculations are then made into a gun list. The gun list only needs the four parameters above. It is made into a book so that artillerymen can quickly refer to it. It does not even require text. Only graphics (types of ammunition) and
number.
If these contents are completely done by the gunner, then the gunner not only needs to be familiar with the artillery itself, but also must be familiar with mathematics, geometry and even algebra. Therefore, in addition to being a gunner, the early gunners must also be half-mathematicians. This is the so-called "artillery requires high technology"
The origin of "talent". But this is not inevitable, but the result of backward ideas. With such standardized artillery and artillery watches, artillerymen do not need to be highly qualified. As long as they can recognize digital graphics, they can know a few hundred words at most.
A few is enough. It greatly reduces the difficulty of artillery training. In theory, even illiterate people can do it - this is very suitable for the social environment that the time traveler faces.
As a time traveler, you not only master the modern technology of later generations, but also possess the advanced ideas condensed by human society for hundreds of years. Sometimes such ideas can play a more effective role than technology.