African Nationhood

Chapter 355 Sniper Course

Harbin, Infantry Academy.

The students who came here for class this time were not middle- and high-level officers, but a group of sharpshooters.

The person teaching them was not an officer, but an old white man wearing glasses.

He is an optical glass manufacturing engineer in Germany who was hired by Nanhua Company with a high salary. He is now the chief engineer of the optical glass workshop of Walvis Bay Port.

The academy has specially equipped a young translator for the soldiers, and this course is specifically designed to teach them how to use sniper eyepieces.

"Hello everyone, my name is Rudolf Schmidt. You can call me Mr. Schmidt. Today is the first time we meet."

Through the translator, all the shooters present understood what he said and clapped to the white-bearded foreigner.

Schmidt nodded, "Thank you, now I will explain to you what a sniper scope is, or what a scope is."

After hearing the key points, many shooters picked up their pens and wrote them down in their little notebooks.

“To put it bluntly, a scope is a magnifying glass mounted on a rifle, and there is no difference in the principles of the two.

However, there are still some differences between sights and telescopes, mainly in the following aspects..."

"Mr. Schmidt, please speak more slowly. Our soldiers will not be able to remember it."

The old white man listened to the young translator and nodded.

After waiting for a while and seeing the soldiers raising their heads, he continued: "The first significant difference between our sights and telescopes is that the sights must be farther away to see the objects in front clearly, while the telescopes unnecessary."

After waiting for a while, the translator finished speaking and the soldiers raised their heads.

The old white man continued, "This design is called 'super long exit pupil', and it was a special design that your boss Shi reminded me to make.

Because if it is not designed in this way, people will easily be hurt by the recoil of the rifle when shooting. "

……

"In addition to this, the field of view of the scope is narrower than that of the telescope. This is because the scope is designed with a long focal length, and although the field of view of the telescope is wide, objects at the edge will be deformed."

……

The old white man picked up a physical scope from the table behind him and introduced it to the soldiers below: "The last difference is that the focal length adjustment device of the scope is different from that of the telescope. The adjustment knob of the scope is more complicated than that of a telescope. No manual adjustment is required.

As for why it is designed this way, it is because the scope is more personal. Everyone has different aiming habits. Once the scope is adjusted in place, it will basically not change unless the distance to the shooting target changes.

Now everyone has a sight under their seats. You can pick it up and have a look and experience it. "

Hearing what the old white man said, the soldiers all took action. They leaned over the stool and reached out to touch the sights.

Indeed, they found a rectangular wooden box.

Carefully pick up the wooden box from under the chair, then put it on your knees and open the wooden box. There is a black scope inside.

The young translator reminded everyone: "Everyone can take a look and feel the scope first, and then we can continue the next lesson."

……

The soldiers held the scope in front of them one after another and tried to see far away. As the old white man said, objects in the distance cannot be seen clearly when the scope is brought close to the eyes. Only when the scope is held farther away can objects in the distance be clearly seen.

After seeing the distant objects clearly, they found that there was a "cross" circle in the scope, and the center of the circle was a dot.

They couldn't help but wonder why it was set up like this. The soldiers asked each other and found that there was some noise in the classroom for a while.

But they soon became quiet. After all, this was a classroom, and they discussed issues in whispers.

Seeing that everyone had calmed down, Rudolf Schmidt continued: "Everyone will try to aim, and then they will definitely find the cross circle in the middle of the scope, right?"

After the translation, the soldiers nodded.

"This imaginary cross circle is the crosshair on your rifle, and it has the same function. And those imaginary points are a measuring tool, used to estimate the height and distance of the target."

"You can use the radiometer we have equipped, or you can choose your own reference object for estimation. There are no special requirements for this."

Hearing what the teacher said, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. After all, most of them were weak-legged before and had to learn literacy and arithmetic through surprise. If this scope was too difficult, it would be better to aim directly with the naked eye.

People like them, such as Zhu Shan, are all the best ones picked out from the crowd. Just relying on the naked eye at 400 or 500 meters cannot guarantee a % hit to the vital point, but it is not difficult to hit the target.

Once a person is hit by a powerful 7.7 mm bullet, he basically loses his ability to fight, so these marksmen are still very efficient at killing enemies.

……

"Okay, this indoor class is basically over. If you have anything you want to ask, you can ask now.

If you don’t have anything to ask, you can try shooting at the shooting range later. There will be professional instructors there to teach you. "

After hearing what the translator said, a soldier raised his hand and said, "Teacher, how did you make the cross Hue Circle on this mirror?"

The old white man nodded to the soldier who asked the question, "Well, this question involves our professional issues, I can give you a general introduction.

The cross-shaped circle on this mirror is made of metal wire. When I first came here, your boss Shi informed me of the request. I made many attempts, and finally he suggested that I try to stick something on the lens. accomplish. So I tried it, and it really worked. "

After listening to the translation, everyone was even more surprised and exclaimed: "How thin this metal wire is, it can actually stick to it!"

After listening to the translator, the old white man continued to smile and nod, "Well, the gold thread is pasted on it. Because gold is soft enough and can be made into gold silk, it can be cut and pasted on the lens.

And this scope has many layers, making it not easy to make.

Therefore, you should take good care of your scope during the battle. If it is damaged, you may not be able to replace it with a new one. "

Hearing that this lens was so precious, all the soldiers tightened their grip on the scopes in their hands.

"Any question?"

After waiting for a while, no one spoke again. The old white man smiled and said, "Then you can go to the shooting range. By the way, put the mirror in your hand back into the wooden box and hand it over."

There will be instructors and assembled sniper rifles waiting for you at the shooting range. "

The soldiers obediently put the scopes in their hands back into the wooden box, handed them back to the old white man, and then followed the young translator to the shooting range.

The shooting range is not big and it is an indoor shooting range.

Waiting for them in the shooting range was Yan Han. This military leader's shooting level was not low.

Zhu Shan and Li Liang in the crowd had both been with Yan Han before, so the two of them immediately gave Yan Han a military salute.

Yan Han nodded, "Today we are going to have a live fire shooting class, and this is the sniper rifle that we will all use.

The barrel of this gun is extended and is more accurate than the NH-88 rifle we used before.

This sniper rifle is the core secret of our Nanhua Company, and it will be more precious than your lives.

Everyone must protect this gun well and not let anything happen to it. Can you do it? "

After the soldiers heard this, warmth and inexplicable pride surged in their chests. The company's most sophisticated weapon was not accessible to ordinary people.

"we can!"

Yan Han was very satisfied when he saw the momentum of the soldiers answering in unison.

"Well, you guys should take turns trying this gun first, each firing three rounds to get a feel for it, and then I'll teach you how to use virtual points to test the target's data."

The soldiers lined up to shoot. After getting the new gun, they took the lead in observing the rifle in their hands. This gun was indeed longer than the NH-88 they were used to before, and the weight was also increased, and the ring sight on the gun was also removed.

(The Mosin Nagant sniper rifle during World War II was more accurate than the 98k sniper rifle because the Mosin Nagant’s barrel was longer.)

The scope is fixed to the rifle case by rivets and is very strong.

And the scope is marked: 2.5×.

The soldiers adjusted the scope according to their own usage habits. After the adjustment was completed, they could easily observe the clear target bullseye 300 meters away through the scope.

（4倍镜能清晰看清400~500米的目标，300米距离属于2.5倍镜。）

When everything is ready, start shooting at the target.

"Bang~~~"

After more than thirty soldiers had fought each other, they lined up again to wait for instructor Yan's lecture.

"Everyone has already fired live ammunition. Have you felt the effect of those virtual points?"

The soldiers nodded and stood up and replied, "Yes, we have tried."

Yan Han smiled and nodded, "There is a gap between the dots in the sight. We named this gap the 'secret position'.

This 'secret position' is an optical ranging concept that people in artillery regiments are familiar with.

If you are willing, you can continue learning from me. If you are not interested, it doesn't matter. At present, we don't use too advanced concepts.

You just need to know a rough idea. We have a special comparison table. If you keep the comparison table in mind, you can use the scope easily. "

The soldiers nodded one after another, and the bold ones asked Yan Han directly, "Instructor Yan, where can I get the comparison chart?"

"When you get a new gun, there will be a comparison chart in the gun box."

After hearing Yan Han's answer, the soldiers stopped asking questions, but Zhu Shan couldn't help asking: "Then when can we get new guns?"

"It should be within a month. Because the scope needs to be fixed, it will take some time. Please wait patiently."

……

A month later, the soldiers in the marksman platoon got their longed-for sniper rifles and secret position comparison tables.

　Please subscribe, collect, monthly tickets, recommendation votes.

　　Thanks to book friends 20180206140940605, afei7086, "taciturn.', book friends 20230408911_be, and lotus root crock monthly ticket for encouragement!

　　

　

(End of this chapter)