Alien Arms Empire.

Chapter 123 123 Research and Development Achievements
It's also winter, and it's also in the room, Tang Mo's room is more than a bit shabby compared to Jiss' room.

He doesn't have a warm fireplace, nor does he have a good-looking floor. Although the room is steaming, it's because it's full of people.

In other words, it would be more appropriate to describe it as crowded with people.

Tang Mo sat at the table, counting from the left, Roger, Matthews, Parker, Redman, Tiger, and Leo.Wes didn't sit down, he stood behind Tang Mo, playing with a new revolver in his hand.

Tang Mo only gave him this thing not long ago, and he really liked it to the core.At this moment, he has taken out this pistol and wiped it three times. Each time, he breathed carefully and wiped it lightly with a piece of suede, which looked like he was polishing a gemstone.

On the table was a K1 fast gun, a brand new rifle, a lever rifle that looked like a Winchester, and a revolver, a late-model Colt revolver. .

Everyone was silent, and Redman and Tiger looked at the weapons on the table that they had never seen before, and didn't know what to say for a while.

Matthews was very happy, because today's meeting was obviously held because he made a lever rifle, so he looked very proud.

"It seems that the elves really don't intend to pay back the money." Tang Mo sat on a chair, leaning back, and said to Roger and the others.

Weiss has been dealing with that group of slaves recently, and he was exhausted, so he was a little listless. He yawned and said indifferently: "Anyway, didn't you say that if they don't pay back the money, you can do it, right?" ?”

"There is no good solution yet, but we will have a solution in the future, many ways." Tang Mo said indifferently.

By saying this, he was almost acknowledging that there was no possibility of getting back the 10 gold coins owed that was still on the books.

So everyone's mood was very low for a while, even though they haven't been short of money in the past two months, one hundred thousand gold coins is not a small amount at any time.

He spread his hands indifferently, and gave an evaluation of the elves: "Unfortunately, these stupid elves don't know what they missed."

Having said that, he paused for a moment before continuing: "Actually, this meeting is held to introduce to you the recent technological research and development achievements of our Datang Group."

"Everyone has seen it. These are our recent technological innovations." He said, grabbing the K1 rifle and putting it aside: "Everyone is too familiar with this, so I won't introduce it."

After speaking, he picked up the revolver again and put it aside: "It is also, everyone may have used it."

Amid everyone's laughter, he grabbed the weapon that looked very much like the Winchester lever rifle, and introduced: "First of all, we designed a new weapon called the lever rifle. Named the K2 rifle, the full name is the Datang Group K2 lever rifle."

As he said that, he pointed to the old dwarf whose proud neck was two centimeters longer than usual and said: "This weapon was developed by Matthews, it can hold more than 10 rounds of bullets, and it can fire continuously! "

As he spoke, he pulled the gauntlet of the gun, pushing and pulling, making the gun make a nice clicking sound.

"Click!" He made one such push and pull, and then continued, "There's a round loaded, just pull the trigger, and you're ready to fire."

After finishing speaking, he repeated this action again, and continued: "The second bullet is loaded, and you can fire again! It is convenient and quick, and it is perfect!"

"What?" Hearing what Tang Mo said, Tiger was the first to widen his eyes and exclaimed in disbelief.

Weiss was also taken aback for a moment. He thought his revolver was so powerful just now, but he didn't expect that there was a long gun comparable to a revolver: "My God!"

"Are you kidding me!" Redman was also very shocked. He couldn't imagine how powerful his troops would be after being equipped with this kind of weapon.

"No way!" Although Leo didn't understand weapons, he also knew what a rifle that could shoot more than ten times in a row represented.

If he can go back with these weapons, then his status as a criminal will definitely be pardoned.In other words, if he returns with an army equipped with such weapons, it seems that his status as a criminal does not need to be pardoned by anyone...

The lever rifle is actually a very genius design. To a certain extent, its appearance has terrifyingly increased the firepower density of individual soldiers.

This kind of rifle can be loaded immediately by just pulling the guard with your hand and pressing down the mechanism. It can shoot an astonishing rate of fire of one shot per second.

Under normal circumstances, this kind of rifle can be loaded with seven or eight rounds of bullets, and even 13 rounds can be loaded at most, and can pour out these bullets in one go.

Compared with almost all the current rifles, its advantages are obviously very obvious: simple state action, it can guarantee to continue loading while aiming, and it can fire continuously without stopping.

So after the blueprint of this weapon was handed over to Matthews, he began to think about this big killer.

In terms of technical difficulty, the production of this weapon is actually not difficult at all. Tang Mo's weapon workshop can easily transform into production.

It is not a complicated structure, nor is it a secret, as long as it is disassembled, it can be easily imitated without any technical difficulty.

What really restricts the development of this weapon is actually two other reasons: the first is the problems caused by the structure of the gun itself, and the second is the defect of the bullet.

A lever rifle's magazine—or its fixed magazine—is a tubular magazine juxtaposed under the barrel.

This magazine completely relies on the force of a spring to withstand the bullet to complete the feeding, so the bullet that is destined to be closer to the spring will be less stressed during the feeding process.

Therefore, the magazine that can be loaded with 13 rounds of bullets, in fact, in most cases, only 6-9 rounds of bullets are loaded, and then the strength of the spring is strengthened to ensure the smooth supply of bullets.

Thinking about it again, so many bullets are pushed into a tube, it is obviously very easy to jam.Therefore, in order to troubleshoot as quickly as possible, there is actually a gap below the tubular magazine.

In this way, if the bullet is stuck, you can use a knife or other tools to clean the magazine and repair the fault.

Ever since, this gap used to repair the fault has become another reason for the stuck cartridge: in a complex battlefield environment, grit will enter the magazine from here and jam the spring.

And the internal structure of the lever rifle is also very complicated, which means that the price of making this weapon will be high, and it is prone to failure.

The high price means that the high-ranking people will not purchase such rifles frantically and equip all their troops with this rifle.Because no one can afford such a large expense, at least not now, no one will think that this kind of expense is worth it.

Easy failure means that ordinary soldiers have no idea when using this weapon, which will seriously affect combat effectiveness.Going to the battlefield with a weapon full of malfunctions will definitely cause soldiers to mutiny, so it is also doomed that the lever rifle is unlikely to be equipped on a large scale.

Therefore, this rifle ultimately failed to replace the less faulty, safer and more reliable single-shot breech-loading rifle, and became the first choice for soldiers on the battlefield.

Another reason why this rifle is criticized comes from the special ammunition used by this weapon-or in other words, this is another flaw brought from the mother's womb at the beginning of the design of the lever rifle.

All the ammunition of the lever rifle is loaded in a tubular magazine. This design gives it a strong advantage in continuous shooting.

Similarly, this design also brings a fatal flaw: this rifle can only use flat bullets as its own ammunition.

why?Because if a pointed bullet is used, then the prepared ammunition in the tubular magazine is easy to misfire due to the primer of the previous bullet hit by the bullet of the pointed bullet, causing an accident to detonate the prepared ammunition.

For a rifle that needs to go through the test of the battlefield environment, such defects are unbearable.Therefore, for the safety of the user, lever rifles generally only use flat bullets.

This brings up another problem. The range and stability of flat-nosed bullets cannot be compared with pointed bullets.

What restricts the range of lever rifles is actually the problem of gunpowder.Due to the problem of the structure of the barrel, the sealing performance of the lever rifle is actually mediocre, so the chamber pressure cannot be designed too high, otherwise it will easily explode.

Therefore, the bullet charge of the lever rifle cannot use the more advanced follow-up series of smokeless powder, which also seriously restricts the range of the lever rifle.

In the few years after the birth of the lever rifle, the standard rifles equipped by various countries generally have a range of more than 800 meters, while the effective range of the lever rifle is basically only about [-] meters, which is unbearable.

After all, after automatic weapons become popular in the future, submachine guns are obviously a better choice in terms of the ideal engagement distance of lever rifles.

Therefore, the lever rifle is not bad, but the era when it was born happened to be in a super-fast period of human weapon development.

During this period, the development of artillery was changing with each passing day. In the end, it only took more than ten years to completely crush individual rifles into scum.

There is no way, the era of cannons will eventually come, automatic weapons will also begin to appear in conjunction with artillery, and the trench system will eventually replace the traditional battle line phalanx. Everything has changed, and tactics have also developed and changed accordingly.

(End of this chapter)