Alien Arms Empire

 Chapter 590 590 Ammunition Model

There was no way, because the speed of the troops' attack was too fast, and the logistics engineering troops, with all their strength, only had time to connect the Tang State's railway network with the Qi State's railway.

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

But further afield, things get less easy. For example, the 1st Armored Division, which is far away from this railway, can only rely on trucks and horse-drawn carriages for supplies.

 This railway was to provide supplies to the Tang State's air force and transport oil and bombs. These are consumables and require constant replenishment.

At the same time, this railway is also responsible for providing supplies to the 4th Armored Division that crossed the Donghe Bridge, which is also a big consumer of fuel.

 Because it has to be responsible for so many supply transportation tasks, the railways are also overwhelmed and can only ensure the most basic supplies of materials for the remaining troops.

This has resulted in many troops being short of ammunition or 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 captured a large number of Qi army's artillery, which they can reluctantly take over and use first. The bad news is that in order to use these shabby artillery produced by Cyric, the Tang army had to turn some Qi artillery prisoners into regular soldiers and let them continue fighting under the custody of the Tang army.

Tang Mo is not a god, and he cannot create a lot of infrastructure. Railway mileage takes time to accumulate, and factory production capacity also takes time to accumulate.

Qi's backward industrial base and backward infrastructure are causing trouble for the Tang army. Those details that didn't seem to be a problem in the eyes of Cyric's advisory group were simply a disaster for Tang Jun.

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

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

 For him, this is also an important job, and it is also his old profession. The name of the humanoid self-propelled plotting machine is by no means wasted. He is now single-handedly supporting the already huge Datang Group.

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

Although it does not have to bear the risks of being at the forefront of the world and having no reference, Datang Group still has to spend a lot of manpower and material resources on exploring and adapting to a bunch of new technologies.

Tang Mo is using his knowledge to drag the entire Datang Group forward, so in many aspects, the R&D personnel do not even understand the principles of a new technology before they make it into a mature product for use.

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

In the sunny afternoon, Tang Mo returned to his office after the morning work meeting, stretched himself, bent down at his desk and continued his work.

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

 That's right, what Tang Mo is drawing is the famous MP-5 submachine gun. He directly took the front vertical grip added to the subsequent models of the MP-5 and installed it on the original model.

The reason for bringing out this submachine gun is that on the one hand, Datang Group can meet the production needs of this weapon in terms of raw materials, on the other hand, Tang Mo also urgently hopes to provide frontline combatants with a truly excellent weapon. Submachine gun weapon.

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

 Now these personnel are either only equipped with pistols, or they can only use heavy and clumsy Thompson submachine guns, which are not so convenient.

In addition, Tang Mo is also determined to establish an effective, sustainable, 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 still fight for another thirty years, Tang Mo has to consider replacing the ammunition system he is currently using.

After all, the 9mm Luger pistol bullet is so good. Tang Mo plans to equip the army with pistols and submachine guns in the future, which will all use 9mm caliber bullets.

 This is a simple question of choice. Although the M1911 pistol is very good, the performance of the Thompson submachine gun is really average, and it does not meet the needs of the army.

However, if the Thompson submachine gun is eliminated, a new weapon caliber will have to be added to the army. If the UMP-45 submachine gun is forcibly launched, aside from some technical problems, similar ammunition types will increase in the subsequent replacement of pistols. The problem. After all, although the M1911 still looks good now, it is better than the Beretta 92F pistol and the Glock pistol, and both of these pistols use 9mm caliber bullets.

 After making a slight choice, Tang Mo chose to lower the caliber of the submachine gun to a more suitable 9 mm, and at the same time began mass production of the Beretta 92F pistol to replace the M1911 pistol currently equipped by the army.

  He made some compromises with materials when designing this pistol, and also omitted the outer coating process to make the pistol more suitable for his existing production process.

The reason why he went to such great lengths to reduce the calibers of submachine guns and pistols to 9 mm was that 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 tanks have begun to be equipped in large numbers, aircraft have also been used on a large scale, and 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's infantry.

 In the future, this force will more often accompany armored forces in combat, and the combat distance will be shortened from 400 meters in positional warfare to 300 meters or even closer.

 At such a close combat distance, the weapon's range advantage is less important, replaced by the ammunition's pouring ability, or the weapon's suppressive power.

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

It was precisely because of the option of assault rifles that Tang Mo decided to throw the submachine gun out of the front-line troops: with better and more suitable weapons, there was no need to retain the useless submachine gun.

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

As for the Tang Army’s assault rifle model, 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.

Since it was not universal at all, Tang Mo simply used the AK-47, which was easy to produce, convenient to manufacture and had 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 is very simple: no matter what assault rifle is used at this stage, the versatility of ammunition cannot be guaranteed, so it is better to just get the best assault rifle and use it first.

When conditions improve in the future, just rely on American assault rifles: at this level of technology, there is no need for holographic sights or any new gadgets such as tactical flashlights and infrared sights, and the reliable performance of AK The advantages of ease of production are infinitely magnified.

Although he really wanted to use various weapons from China, China's new individual weapons used too many new materials, and Tang Mo's copying technology was not allowed at all. I have no choice but to wait for my own technology to develop further before I can use it.

You want to say that China's Type 56 is very good and its performance is quite good. This is indeed true, but... isn't the Type 56 actually an AK?

After such modifications, the Tang Army’s future weapons and ammunition types are basically locked into three types: 9mm caliber Luger rounds, 7.62mm caliber rifle rounds, and 7.92mm caliber machine gun rounds.

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

  New weapons will be replaced on a large scale after this war to ensure that the Tang Army still maintains the performance advantage of individual weapons in the next war.

This was also the beginning of the weapons innovation of the Tang Army. War was the catalyst for the birth of new weapons. Only tragic wars could prompt humans to invest a hundred times more enthusiasm in weapons research and development.

As time went by, Tang Mo gradually became familiar with these weapons: he could finally decide easily what kind of weapons and equipment to choose for his troops without relying on drawings and only relying on his own experience.

  After all, he had sold MP5 submachine guns, but never MP-38 submachine guns... That thing was already the darling of collectors and museums in Tang Mo's era.

Beretta pistol, MP5 submachine gun, AK-47... Tang Mo was drawing the drawings while feeling excited in his heart. The era that truly belongs to him is approaching!

So he curled up the corners of his mouth while he was drawing. He didn't realize that the door was pushed open and Alice walked in.

 (End of this chapter)