Comrade, Your Ingredients Are Too Complicated

Chapter 124 Don’t forget there are mortars

 Originally, Huang He was going to shut down the system and go to Chang Jiang to discuss the follow-up experiment.

After all, the next decision of "Atomic Energy Research" is "Nuclear Reactor". After this decision is unlocked, he can enrich uranium through the system.

 At that time, all plans will no longer be empty talk, but will be implemented in real terms, and the other party's expertise will also have a stage to show off. As long as they can make some achievements here, they can consider informing those gentlemen as appropriate.

 But just when he got up and was about to go out, he suddenly remembered a very important thing, that is, he had forgotten the mortar. This weapon was, is, and will be important as the infantry's accompanying firepower.

Because the interface of the Awakening the Brave Tiger system was too similar to that unspeakable game, he forgot about the existence of support weapons for a long time.

Original support weapons include light and heavy machine guns and mortars, but in the system, light and heavy machine guns are classified into light weapons, while mortars are classified into artillery weapons.

Just now when he was looking at the artillery category, he only paid attention to the big pipes. On the contrary, he ignored the mortars on the side. In the lower left corner of the artillery page, there is also a technology tree for mortars.

 At the initial position is the Stokes mortar. Huanghe provided several of these guns to the 386th Brigade last year, but everyone's evaluation of this weapon was not very good.

  Even Chauchat’s evaluation is better than it.

  After all, it was an old object created to deal with the trenches of World War I, so most of the time it could only play its role in specific terrains.

 As the ancestor of modern mortars, this gun has indeed identified the future development direction. However, due to the limitations of the times, many details have not been perfected.

 Let’s not talk about anything else, let’s just talk about its cannonballs. The cannonball of this thing made by Sir Alex is actually cylindrical. Even though the range is not far, it is easy to fly around after being fired.

 Plus the Stokes mortar, there is no matching sight designed. When using it, it basically relies purely on combat experience. It is not as good as a pillar. To hit the target, you basically have to rely on quantity and luck.

This kind of problem is too deadly on the battlefield, and it is directly sentenced to death. Unless the troops run out of ammunition and food, they will definitely not pull this thing out.

  After all, the Eighth Route Army has very high requirements for mortars. In many cases, the mortar team is required to be able to hit the enemy's firepower point as soon as possible and provide cover for the troops in a certain direction.

but! The weapons at the back of the initial technology tree become more serious. Behind the Stokes mortar is the 50mm Blonde Mle1937.

Before talking about this weapon in detail, we have to mention the inventor of this weapon.

 Brand and Mustache have something in common to some extent. They are both art students in Vienna. It's just that one failed and the other passed.

 The person who failed the list is good at speaking in beer halls or other public places, and infects the people around him with his "charisma". The one who continues to study art is good at special decorations, and both of them are flourishing in their fields of expertise.

　　After Brand returned to Gallic, he soon had his own studio and gallery. Some local luxury liners come to him for interior decoration, and even the staircases of the Louvre have used his works.

As we all know, families who study art usually have quite a lot of money.

 Brand is no exception. His family has an ancestral hardware tool factory. Moreover, during the war, the factory transformed itself from civilian to military and received many orders for military products.

 As an artist, it makes sense to be proficient in modifying weapons. After all, there are many skills that are not overwhelming.

 So Brand focused on the new thing mortar and explained his understanding.

 First, he redesigned the appearance of the cannonball. A drop-shaped design with multiple tail fins is adopted, which makes the ballistic trajectory after launch very stable.

　　It will no longer be like before, wherever you hit, everything will happen.

 Secondly, he set up a closed air ring for the cannonball. It expands due to heat when launched, and the gunpowder utilization rate is high and the gunpowder can be fired farther, greatly increasing the range and getting rid of the limitations of trenches.

Finally, he invented the collimating sight for mortars, so artillerymen no longer had to rely on luck and numbers.

These three tricks alone immediately changed an industry. Even in later generations, traditional mortars still did not make much changes. Relying on this design, Brand became the Gallic mortar authority and opened an arms company named after him.

 At that time, the 81mm caliber Mle35 became an instant hit, and subsequently various countries that purchased authorized or directly imitated it abounded, including the current Republic of China.

The Min-20 82mm mortar was developed by the Jinling Arsenal in 1932. It was once the standard weapon of the Preserved Fruit Army.

 Although the caliber has increased by one millimeter, an expert can see its bloodline at a glance.

but! The mortar technology tree in the system is a bit stubborn! This made Huang He very unhappy. Cannons from the same lineage are actually arranged according to caliber instead of year.

 Although the 50mm mortar is very effective when it is decentralized to platoon-level units.

 As a patient with late-stage firepower phobia, Huanghe looked down on this small water pipe. However, existence is reasonable, and each caliber has its own division of labor.

It’s a pity that the troops have to wait a while longer before they can use mortars at the battalion level.

Although the Yellow River calls it a small water pipe, this 50 mm light force can be regarded as the pinnacle of World War II. After all, Brand has mature experience, whether it is to enlarge or reduce the caliber, it has become easy to solve.

 Next, let’s compare Santoku’s 50mm mortars horizontally. The GrW36 weighs 14 kilograms and the Mle37 only 3.6 kilograms. The weight alone is very different.

Moreover, although the sparrow is small, it has all the internal organs. Although the Mle37 is light, it comes with a seat plate, bracket, and sights.

 The gun body and bracket can be stowed away in the portable state, and a soldier can carry it and run. Being lighter than a rifle, a mortar crew can carry more ammunition for combat.

 Santoku's GrW36 is really **** the artillery. It can quickly move its position after hitting the Gaul chicken on the opposite side. The two are really incomparable.

The effective range of Mle37 is 80 meters to 460 meters, which is what a light force should be like. And under special circumstances, anti-tank warheads can also be fired.

 As for comparing it with the Japanese Type 89 grenade, there is no need at all. Although the two have similar responsibilities within the army, they both provide support firepower at the platoon level, and even have similar ranges.

 But when the Japanese grenades are fired, they rely entirely on the shooter to hold them with his hands to determine the direction and height.

 When facing a firepower point, it basically depends on your feel and experience. It's not so much that the grenades are powerful, but that the Japanese veterans are powerful.

 But veterans are mortal, and even elite soldiers are expendable in modern warfare. When the number of troops in the small days cannot keep up, the effectiveness of the grenade will become less and less.

  But in terms of the accuracy of artillery strikes, it is relatively easy for a mortar shooter to hit the target. Even if it only requires an experienced artilleryman to command, even if his soldiers are a group of novices, they can still deliver a precise blow.

And the futures of the two are also different. The Japanese worked hard to train a grenade veteran. Then in the rest of his military career, he will always shoot with 50-caliber grenades.

 But even without systematic study, a mortar operator can rely on his own combat experience to operate a larger caliber mortar.

 It is completely possible to be promoted from the class level to the regiment level, and the room for advancement is unlimited.

 Historically, there was a type of 50 small artillery piece in the army. It was developed by a group of big guys after the Hundred Regiments War after many failures and repeated research and experiments. This weapon imitated the Japanese Type 89 grenade.

 But now that the drawings and production line of Mle37 are about to be available, I believe that everyone in the military industrial zone will be able to understand this technology in a short time and increase the firepower of the troops to a higher level.

　　　Come, come, I really forgot about the mortar when I was writing.

 (End of this chapter)