There are also some different voices expressing opposition: Will the widespread provision of weapons to indigenous people now cause the dispersion of weapons? In particular, equipping indigenous cadres with pistols is the most controversial: the army is centralized and is tightly controlled from top to bottom by the traverse.
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 - the first team specializes in designing "modern weapons" and is different from the second design team that mainly focuses on retro style. The main combat power of the First Weapon Team is Li Yilao
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This chubby man who seldom talks on weekdays is an expert in machining. Not only can he do bench work, but he is also very skilled in the application of other machine tools. This skill has contributed to Li Yilao's side business. He used to secretly
Illegal manufacturing of guns, imitation of small free-action pistols such as Type 64 is a piece of cake for him. According to him, he has made pistols, shotguns and rifles. To show that he is not bragging, he brought two in his carry-on luggage
His own works, a 9mm Makarov/Type 59 and an M1911.
Li Yilao donated his complete set of gun-making tools and a lot of special equipment he had saved to the organization. With this set of tools, as long as he can find roughly suitable steel, it is not too difficult to make an AK - of course it cannot be compared with a regular factory
The only problem is that the bullets are difficult to make, and he very modestly said that he can only reload them.
Li Yilao initially started this business not so much to make money as a hobby - a person who loves weapons and has hands-on ability often does things, but once the interest is supported by profits, his knowledge of technology will
The research became more and more vigorous, and the things he produced became more and more bold, from simple imitations of crude small cannons to decent imitations of various famous pistols. If there were no wormholes, Li
Yi Lao's fate is conceivable. His wife Li Yuanyuan said: Most of them participated in the time travel out of necessity.
The couple had a very happy time in Lingao. His wife worked as a clerk in the executive committee, and he could finally make guns openly. It was such a joy to be able to make guns in the sun and discuss his work with others in a big way.
This is something Li Yi Lao has never enjoyed before.
But Li Yilao didn't find many opportunities to perform. The time traveler's arsenal is quite abundant, including rifles, pistols, and shotguns. His homemade firearms are not needed yet. Everyone is full of praise for his craftsmanship, but who
He also didn’t want to use those guns made of substandard local steel. As for the Mini rifles made for the indigenous people, they were the product of industrial mass production and did not require any effort from him. Zhan Wuya and others were in another time and space.
We have prepared a complete set of tooling equipment required for the production of Mini rifles.
So Li Yilao was specifically responsible for the manufacture of light weapons ammunition in the machinery factory - mainly reloading bullets for the 7.62*54mm bullets of the SKS rifle - which was consumed in large quantities in several battles. Li Yilao used to often
I am very familiar with reloading this kind of bullet and have specially 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 pure lead is used directly to make it, and the gunpowder is the best high-grade fine-grained black powder - no matter how hard the chemical industry department tries, nitrocellulose remains at the manufacturing level.
Paint level.
But the current situation is not that in the past, we reloaded a few rounds at a time, a dozen rounds or at most a hundred rounds. Even in the daily shooting training conducted by the traversers in order to maintain the feel of the weapon, the shells taken after the end were at least 2,000.
More than one. 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, turning the small equipment that was suitable for him to use secretly by himself into an assembly line that can be operated by multiple workers. Only in this way did he have the time and energy to focus on his business -
Manufacturing of small arms.
He did not participate in the manufacture of Delinger pistols - he looked down upon such crude weapons. He focused on imitating military 12-gauge shotguns, which had very low requirements for bullets and did not require metal shells.
.The Navy and Special Reconnaissance Team are interested in this weapon.
The task of replicating the pistol temporarily interrupted his research and development work on the shotgun. The weapons design team gathered from their posts to the office of the machine factory to prepare for project discussions on this "indigenous-specific pistol".
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 no idea how to design weapons and make them suitable for mass production.
He has very little production experience - he has always been manufacturing in a manual workshop style.
After receiving the mission letter, several members of the design team pondered the weapon requirements issued by the Planning Institute:
This kind of weapon must be cheap enough, consume less materials, be easy to manufacture, 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 must be easy to use and operate, safe and reliable, and the performance does not have to be very high. The effective range is 25 meters.
"To meet these requirements, the only thing left is a revolver." Li Yilao said after reading it, "How about we just mass-produce 13mm 'single-ones', and even the barrel and ammunition are the same as the Mini rifle."
"Forget about 'fighting one alone'. If you fire one round and load it once, it will either be used 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 fire. It does not require springs and firing pins that have high requirements on materials and production technology. The ammunition supply method is simple and reliable, and it can provide a certain degree of sustained 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 almost exactly.
Of course, performance is not the same. "In terms of performance, the Webley revolver is better."
"It's still Smith & Wesson." Wang Ruixiang likes this kind of pistol very much, although he has never seen one in another time and space.
>www.piaotian.comm Most of the S&W revolvers distributed with ammunition have 4-inch barrels. Wang Ruixiang bought one and paired it with a replica American police revolver holster he got from a military store.
and a bullet belt, hanging on his butt.
"The Webley revolver loads quickly," Li Yilao said. The Webley revolver lowers the handle to load bullets by pushing forward the lug pin on the left rear of the wheel base. Then the slide base and barrel are closed.
Prepare to shoot. When the cartridges are removed, the gun is opened again, and a star-shaped ejector automatically clears the cartridges in the runner. This is a faster and more advanced device than the swing-out runner, and is more suitable for use with quick loaders.
"I'm afraid the material can't do it," Bai Yu said. The structure of this kind of gun is complex and the weight is relatively large, so the material strength requirements are high. "Besides, we don't have metal bullet cases available, so its advantages cannot be fully reflected."
"Imitate Smith & Wesson." Wang Ruixiang insisted.
"I think it's still too complicated. The gun-making instructions given to us by the Planning Institute are to simplify - simplify again." Bai Yu said, "Omit all unnecessary parts and minimize the process and processing requirements."
"If Smith & Wesson wanted to simplify it, it would have to make a Western version of the revolver."
The final decision was to use a Western version of the revolver. Its wheel cannot be swung out. You have to manually rotate the chamber and load one round at a time. The loading speed is slower, but the device for swinging out the runner is omitted, which greatly improves production and assembly.
The tolerance requirements can be further reduced.
Originally, in order to further reduce the difficulty of production and unify production standards, Wang Ruixiang proposed that this revolver use the same 13mm diameter seamless steel tube as the Mini rifle, so that they can use the same size of seamless steel tube without having to prepare separate materials. It can even be used
Use the scraps produced during the production of Minie rifles.
However, Bai Yu believes that this improvement outweighs the gains: the 13mm caliber is too large, which will inevitably lead to too much ammunition being loaded, resulting in excess power.
The revolver does not have any anti-recoil components, such as a retraction mechanism, so the recoil force is completely borne by the shooter himself, so it cannot fire ammunition with a large charge.
The result of too much recoil is that it is difficult for the shooter to control the gun when shooting, which affects the accuracy. Moreover, the unique structure of the revolver causes gunpowder gas to leak out from the gaps in the runner. If the bullet is too large, more gunpowder will be required to load it.
Excessive gunpowder gas and incomplete combustion may injure the shooter.
When more gunpowder is fired, 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 material requirements for the barrel can be greatly reduced, and the structural and process requirements can also be reduced.
The last problem is that 13mm bullets, whether metal bullets or paper-cased 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 13mm Mini rifles are too large in caliber and too powerful. However, this is a fait accompli and will not change for a while."