Alien Arms Empire.

Chapter 590 590 Ammo Models
There was no way, because the attacking speed of the troops was too fast, and the logistical engineering troops had only enough time to connect the railway network of Tang State with the railway network of Qi State with all their strength.

With the support of this railway, the trains of Tang State can pull goods all the way from the northern part of Tang State to King Qi City, and provide relatively sufficient supplies for all Tang troops along the way.

But further afield, things are not so easy to manage.For example, the 1st Armored Division far away from this railway can only rely on trucks and carriages for supplies.

This railway will provide supplies for Tang's air force and transport oil and bombs.These are consumables and need to be replenished continuously.

At the same time, this railway is also responsible for providing supplies to the 4th Armored Division that crossed the East River Bridge, which is also a big gas guzzler.

Because it has to be responsible for so many supply transportation tasks, the railway is also overwhelmed, and can only guarantee the most basic supplies of the rest of the troops.

This has caused many troops to lack ammunition, or lack of food supplies... In this case, some troops have to stop and wait for supplies, while others can only save ammunition to survive.

The good news is that they seized a large number of Qi army artillery, and they can barely take it over and use it first.The bad news is that in order to use these tattered artillery produced by Cyric, the Tang army had to convert some of the Qi artillery captives and let them continue to fight under the supervision of the Tang army.

Tang Mo is not a god, and he has no way to conjure up a lot of infrastructure.Railway mileage takes time to accumulate, and the production capacity of factories also takes time to accumulate.

Qi's backward industrial foundation and backward infrastructure construction are all causing trouble for Tang Jun.Those details that seemed to be no problem in the eyes of Cyric's advisory group were simply disasters for Tang Jun.

Now the ground troops of the Tang Army, especially the armored troops, have stopped attacking and are standing by, largely to ease the pressure on logistical support.

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Tang Mo has been very busy recently. He has seen suggestions for improvement of various weapons and equipment proposed by the grassroots troops. He needs to sort out these needs and then find a way to improve all of them.

For him, this is also an important job, and it is also his old line of work.The name of the human-shaped self-propelled plotter is by no means in vain. He is now supporting the already huge Datang Group with his own strength.

Although countless engineers from the entire group have come to help him, for Tang Mo personally, the workload is still huge.

Although there is no need to bear the risk of being at the forefront of the world and not taking reference, Datang Group still has to spend a lot of manpower and material resources for the exploration and adaptation of a bunch of new technologies.

Tang Mo is using his knowledge to drag the entire Datang Group forward, so in many ways, the R&D personnel don't even quite understand the principle of a certain new technology, and they are about to make it into a mature product and use it.

For example, Gerst, a chemist, is currently researching technologies related to the mass production of plastics, but even he himself does not know how important this thing will be in the future.

On a sunny afternoon, Tang Mo returned to his office after the morning work meeting, stretched his waist, leaned over his desk and continued to work.

In front of him was a design drawing of a submachine gun, but the drawing was not finished yet.If there was another traverser from the earth standing beside Tang Mo at this moment, he would be able to tell the model of this submachine gun at a glance, because this submachine gun is so famous on the earth.

That's right, what Tang Mo was drawing was the famous MP-5 submachine gun.He directly took the front vertical grip added by the MP-5 follow-up model and installed it on the original model.

The reason why this submachine gun was produced was that on the one hand, the Datang Group met the production needs of this weapon in terms of raw materials; Submachine gun weapon.

According to his plan, this weapon will be equipped with armored soldiers, artillery and machine gun sub-shooters.Provide these personnel with reliable and continuous self-defense firepower.

These men are now either armed only with pistols, or they can only use heavy and clumsy Thomson submachine guns, which are not so comfortable.

In addition, Tang Mo was also determined to establish an effective, continuous, and high-performance ammunition system for his troops.

The .45 caliber pistol bullets used today are obviously too backward. Although the M1911 pistol has excellent performance and can fight for another 30 years, Tang Mo has to consider replacing the ammunition system he is currently using.

After all, the 9mm Luger bullets are really delicious. Tang Mo plans to install the pistols and submachine guns of the troops in the future, and they all use 9mm bullets.

This is a simple choice. Although the M1911 pistol is very good, the performance of the Thomson submachine gun is really average, and it is not suitable for the needs of the army.

However, if the Thomson submachine gun is eliminated, a new weapon caliber will have to be added to the troops. If the UMP-45 submachine gun is forced to be launched, aside from some technical problems, there will be a similar increase in ammunition models in the subsequent replacement of pistols. The problem.

After all, the M1911, while still looking good, is better than the Beretta 92F and the Glock, both of which fire 9mm bullets.

After making some choices, Tang Mo chose to lower the caliber of the submachine gun to a more suitable 9mm. At the same time, he began to mass-produce the Beretta 92F pistol to replace the M1911 pistol currently equipped by the troops.

He made some compromises in materials when designing this pistol, and also omitted the overcoating process, making this pistol more suitable for his existing production process.

The reason why it took such a lot of trouble to compress the caliber of the submachine gun and pistol to 9mm, Tang Mo's biggest intention was to prepare to replace the existing Tang Army weapons and equipment with assault rifles that were more suitable for the battlefield.

Because a large number of tanks have been equipped and aircraft have been used on a large scale, the prototype of modern mechanized troops has emerged.

In this case, the traditional bolt-action rifle is obviously not suitable for the combat needs of the Tang army infantry.

In the future, this unit will be more accompanied by armored units in combat, and the combat distance will be shortened from 400 meters in positional warfare to 300 meters or even closer.

With such a short combat distance, the range advantage of the weapon is not so important, replaced by the pouring ability of the ammunition, or the suppressing force of the weapon.

It was against this background that the assault rifle was born, and Tang Mo was also preparing to start manufacturing assault rifles for his front-line combat troops.

It was also because of the option of an assault rifle that Tang Mo decisively threw the submachine gun out of the frontline troops: With better and more suitable weapons, there was no need to keep the submachine gun.

When the assault rifles start to be installed in the troops, all the submachine guns that have not been installed in other countries will be thrown to the second-line troops, as individual self-defense weapons "lingering".

As for the model of Tang Jun's assault rifle, Tang Mo directly brought out the more famous AK-47 assault rifle.

This time Tang Mo had no way to simplify the types of ammunition he used: even if he used the German army's own STG-44 assault rifle, its ammunition was completely incompatible with the MG-42 machine gun.

Because it was completely unsuitable for general use, Tang Mo simply took out the AK-47, which is easy to produce, convenient to manufacture and has very good performance, as the standard weapon of his army.

After all, this thing is really well-known. In the era when external accessories have not yet become popular, it can be said to be the best assault rifle—no one!

Tang Mo's idea was simple: Anyway, no assault rifle used at this stage could guarantee the versatility of the ammunition, so it might as well just take out the best assault rifle and use it first.

When the conditions are better in the future, just lean on the American assault rifles: with this level of technology, you won’t be able to use holographic sights for a while, and there are new things like tactical flashlights and infrared sights. AK’s reliable performance The advantages of ease of production are infinitely magnified.

Although I really want to use Huaxia's various weapons, but Huaxia's new individual weapons use too many new materials, and Tang Mo wants to copy them technically.There is no way, I can only wait for my own technology to develop further before I can use it.

If you want to say that Huaxia's Type 56 is very good, and its performance is quite good, you are indeed right, but... Isn't Type 56 actually AK?
After such a modification, Tang Jun's future weapons and ammunition are basically locked into three types: 9mm Luger bullets, 7.62mm rifle bullets, and 7.92mm machine gun bullets.

Compared with the present, a type of ammunition has been added, but a new type of weapon called an assault rifle has been added, which simplifies logistics to the greatest extent.

The new weapons will be replaced on a large scale after the end of this war to ensure that the Tang army will still maintain the performance advantage of individual weapons in the next war.

And this is also the beginning of the Tang Army's weapon innovation. War is the catalyst for the birth of new weapons. Only tragic wars can prompt human beings to invest a hundred times more enthusiasm in weapon research and development.

With the passage of time, these weapons gradually became familiar to Tang Mo: he could finally decide with ease what kind of weapons and equipment his troops would choose based on his own experience instead of the blueprints.

After all, he had sold MP5 submachine guns, but he had never sold MP-38 submachine guns... Those things were already the darlings of collectors and museums in Tang Mo's era.

Beretta pistol, MP5 submachine gun, AK-47... While drawing the blueprints, Tang Mo kept getting excited in his heart.The era that really belongs to him is already approaching!
So while he was drawing and drawing, the corners of his mouth turned up, unaware that the door was pushed open, and Alice walked in.

(End of this chapter)