Compared with the caliber, the development of ammunition is more complex. Although small bullets are composed of several parts, it takes considerable capital and time to develop a new type of ammunition.
Taking the 5.8 mm rifle bullet of the Han country as an example, it has come a long way.
At that time, it was intended to realize curve racing on small caliber rifles. Therefore, different from the small caliber rifles in the west, the small caliber rifles in the Han Dynasty were not only for rifles, but also for machine guns. 5.8mm automatic rifles, sniper guns and machine guns jointly formed a 5.8mm gun family.
However, the unified caliber is only a 7.62 mm machine gun. The power is just enough. What can a 5.8 mm machine gun do?
As a machine gun, you have to have enough long-distance kinetic energy and destructive power? In this way, the warhead of the 5.8 machine bullet must be greatly lengthened and heavier, from 4.15g to 4.8g of the rifle bullet. It was originally intended to be universal. What was the result? Or a special bomb.
Now, there are more problems. For example, the domestic level of ballistics and propellant development can not keep up. To push a much heavier warhead, we can only use a much longer barrel. Therefore, the ordinary machine gun can not be used. It can only be placed on the type 88 general machine gun with a barrel length of 600mm, and the initial speed is only 890m / s.
The difference between the two kinds of bullets leads to poor universality. The 95 rifle can hit the machine bullet, but the gauge is not right at all, so it is impossible to accurately aim when it is far away, the bullet dispersion range increases sharply, and the life consumption is very fast. The same is true for 88 machine guns to hit step bullets.
The designers couldn't make up their minds, so they made up their minds to develop a new general-purpose bullet, one bullet with nine guns!
For several years, we have developed a 95-1 rifle series and a new general-purpose bullet with a warhead weight of 4.55G. This new ammunition is said to be compatible with 95 / 95-1 gun family, 03 rifle, 88 machine gun and 88 sniper, a total of nine guns. It is an epoch-making achievement. Of course, you have to win a grand prize for such a great achievement.
The original bullets stopped production and began to use this new general-purpose ammunition. The troops were very happy to receive this general-purpose ammunition. However, they found that it was not the case at all. As soon as 95 rifles hit general-purpose ammunition, there was serious copper hanging and poor accuracy. Rifles were not used well, and they dared not use it on 88 machine guns. All of a sudden, There is a strange shortage of 5.8mm bombs in China!
Until later generations, these problems have not been completely solved. Of course, this is not entirely a problem for scientific researchers. After all, it is quite difficult to develop a new type of bomb, full of responsibility and twists and turns. Even Eagle country, which originally made 5.56 mm, was not a new caliber, but used competition and sports bombs first. After all, this caliber, It's ready-made. Later, the eagle country also spent a lot of energy to develop qualified bullets. The m855a1 5.56mm ammunition and m80a1 7.62mm ammunition in active service of the eagle army were improved after time-consuming, expensive and repeated failures. A small bullet is very learned.
Now, our side is going to take the road of small caliber. Qin Guan rejected the 5.8mm caliber and put forward the so-called 6.5 to 6.8mm is the most appropriate. Then, to be more specific, which caliber is the most appropriate? And bullets? How should bullets be developed?
In fact, this caliber is not new. It has existed in history, such as the 6.5mm caliber, which existed in World War II. Eagle and island countries use this caliber, such as the famous 38 cap, which is 6.5mm caliber. However, the previous bullets are suitable for bolt rifles, which are not suitable for today's assault rifles.
If you own research and development, it will certainly waste a lot of time and energy. You should constantly explore it. However, now that you say it, Qin Guan certainly needs to help solve it immediately. This problem is also very simple.
"Scholar, go and bring two boxes of ammunition." Qin Guan said.
Qin Guan didn't say what ammunition to carry or where to move it. The scholar knew very well that President Qin would use his super power again.
No matter where he moved from, Qin Guan didn't say, and the scholar didn't ask, so as not to expose anything in front of the public.
So the scholar went out. Soon, the scholar came back with two boxes of bullets on his shoulder.
The ammunition box is made of wood. It's hard on the outside. It's easy to press your shoulders. Moreover, one ammunition box is about thirty or forty kilograms, and two ammunition boxes are at least seventy kilograms. Tall scholars are usually gentle. Now, they come in carrying two ammunition boxes, which is absolutely unambiguous.
"Bang." the scholar put the ammunition box on the conference table. The moment he put it on, the scholar felt that the weight of the ammunition box suddenly changed. At this moment, he knew that Qin Guan had done something.
The outside was sealed. The scholar skillfully opened the ammunition box with a crowbar. Sure enough, the inside was different.
Scholars are familiar with this kind of ammunition box. There are common 7.62mm bullets in it, but these bullets are not stacked together, but fixed with clips.
Many military fans can't tell the difference between magazine and magazine.
The magazine is the arc-shaped box for putting bullets. If you plug it directly in front of the rifle, you can shoot. This is the magazine. Many of them are made by stamping. After all, stamping is cheap. If you keep improving, it is cut out and more beautiful.
The clip is a long steel slot, which can just block the position at the end of the bullet. That's all. A clip can hold five or ten bullets.
In this way, when loading ammunition, you can directly aim the magazine at the magazine, and then push it, you can push all the bullets in and load them, which is simpler than inserting a single bullet into it. That's how, almost all the ammunition boxes in China have the structure of magazine clips.
But now, the inside has changed. There is no 7.62mm bullet. The scholar picked up a bullet, a perfect cylinder. Why can't he even see the warhead?
The bullet seems to have only one shell case left. The front is fixed, and it is like a bullet for a nail gun. This makes the scholar very strange.
Generally, there are 1000 rounds of bullets in an ammunition box, so now you can take these bullets out and show them to everyone. Everyone present received these bullets and almost all have the same question. Where is the warhead?
"The warhead is in the cartridge case," Qin Guan said. "It's called a buried bullet."