mtl008 Chapter 173: Equipment Localization Upgrade - Part
Chapter 173: Equipment Localization Upgrade - Part
He didn't know how Commander Jiang equipped the air defense regiment, so he simply used the three-by-three system, that is, one gun made up a squad, three squads made up a platoon, three platoons made up a company, three companies made up a battalion, and three battalions made up a regiment.
That is, an air defense regiment needs 81 anti-aircraft guns, and 5 regiments need a total of 405 guns. Each gun is equipped with 200 rounds of shells, which costs a total of military merit points.
Xu Le estimated that a regiment of the National Guard would not be equipped with so many anti-aircraft guns, but he had already planned to support the National Army's defense force, so he took this opportunity to give some as a gift. Moreover, this anti-aircraft gun can also be used for flat shooting, with the maximum shooting distance reaching 21 kilometers.
He would not give him more artillery shells because he was afraid that Commander Jiang would not need him all of a sudden and would have some evil intentions.
If you don’t have enough ammunition in the future, just keep paying to buy more!
'The next step is to sort out the troops' current equipment!'
Thinking about this, Xu Le took out a stack of lists, which were the troops' equipment he had counted in the past few days.
M16突击步枪支，柯尔特等手枪8000支，MG42通用机枪432支，L16迫击炮432门，M134速射机枪24挺，RPG-7火箭筒648支，77式12.7毫米高射机枪144挺。
54-1式122毫米榴弹炮108门，L118式105毫米榴弹炮90门，博福斯75毫米山炮180门。
74式双管37毫米高射机关炮27门，72式85毫米高射炮27门。
59式中型坦克100辆，63式履带运兵装甲车60辆，乌尼莫克卡车1700辆，红岩卡车100辆，BJ212吉普车320辆。
Together with telescopes and rangefinders, these are all the equipment assets of the 88th Army.
Due to localization reasons, some equipment cannot be unified in the future, the first of which is the M16 assault rifle.
In order to consider the cost-effectiveness, Xu Le chose the first model of the series, namely the M16A1. This model still had some performance issues, such as the three-petal muzzle flash suppressor. If it was used in a messy environment, leaves or some garbage could easily get stuck in the flash suppressor.
I can only blame myself for not choosing the improved model. It’s no use regretting it now.
Then there is the very important MG42 general-purpose machine gun. He had previously wondered why such a good machine gun was eliminated so early in the previous life. It was nothing more than increasing the logistical pressure.
However, after looking at the feedback from various troops collected by the General Staff this time, he was fully aware that this was not only an increase in logistical pressure, but it was directly suffocating the logistics.
The firing rate was really too fast, and hundreds of bullets could be used up if you were not careful. Although the firepower was strong, the strong recoil made the accuracy much worse. There were only a few people in a regiment who could achieve perfect bursts of fire.
The gun uses 7.92mm Mauser rifle bullets, and each bullet weighs about 25 grams. If we calculate based on the base number of 4500 bullets for a heavy machine gun, the ammunition weight of the machine gun squad reaches 112 kilograms. At least four ammunition handlers are needed to transport it during combat.
However, the number of people in a machine gun squad is limited, which results in the situation that the squad only carries half of the basic number of bullets in actual combat. In addition, the firing rate is too fast, so the ammunition is used up in just a few shots.
Moreover, the extremely fast firing rate also means that the hot barrel must be replaced after firing a few hundred rounds of bullets, otherwise there is a risk of explosion at any time.
If this gun is used to perform tasks such as defending a fortress, it is indeed a good choice to prepare a large number of barrels and bullets in advance. However, troops fight on the move, so now the various regiments have mixed feelings when talking about the MG42 machine gun, and most of them hope to replace it with a slower-firing one.
In view of these two points of rifles and machine guns, Xu Le carefully selected two domestically produced guns for replacement, namely the Type 81 automatic rifle and the Type 81 light machine gun.
The Type 81 rifle was finalized in China in 81 and entered service in 83. The whole gun weighs 3.4 kg without a magazine, the magazine has a capacity of 30 rounds, and the effective range is 400 meters. The gun is known as the Chinese magic gun.
It uses 7.62x39mm intermediate-power bullets, and a single bullet weighs 16 grams, which is 16 grams heavier than the small-caliber bullet of the M4. A base of 300 rounds weighs 1.2 kilograms, which is not a big difference and will not have much impact on the soldiers' weight.
The reason for choosing this gun is that China’s first gun family is the Type 81 gun family.
The Type 81 light machine gun also uses 7.62mm intermediate-power bullets and a 75-round drum magazine. When the drum is empty, the entire gun weighs 5.1 kg and has an effective range of 600 meters.
The Type 81 machine gun and rifle have 65 common parts and can be interchanged for repair when necessary. In particular, the ammunition supply systems of the two are the same. The machine gun can use the rifle's magazine when necessary, which greatly facilitates the fault tolerance of the rifle and machine gun and increases combat efficiency.
The previous price of the Type 81 automatic rifle was 30 points, and now it is 15 points. We will directly purchase 10 of them, and use the rest as strategic reserves and equipment for the reserve forces, so that we don't have to buy them again from time to time in the future.
Anyway, I have money now, so I don’t care about those trivial things. I just want to be convenient.
The price of Type 81 light machine gun is 80 points per gun, and 2000 guns are purchased.
The base number of rifle bullets is 300 rounds, the base number of light machine gun bullets is 1000 rounds, and the reserve base number is 5. Including the purchase of ammunition, the total consumption of military merit points.
The next thing was the mortar. Xu Le looked at the words "heartless cannon" displayed on the mall and fell into deep thought. He didn't understand why such a high-end product as the system would display this thing.
Did they have nothing to sell? They even took out the homemade "heartless cannon". This thing was powerful enough. It was simply a bomb placed in an empty oil barrel and fired. The range was only a hundred meters, and the impact point was uncertain. It was easy to blow up one's own people near the launch point, which is why it was called the "heartless cannon".
Although the selling price was only 10 military merit points, Xu Le just glanced over it and would not take it even if it was given for free!
After comparison, Xu Le finally chose the Type 67 82mm mortar over the Type 87 82mm mortar. Although the former weighs 5 kg lighter than the latter, its range is only 3 kilometers, which is 1500 meters shorter.