Chapter 649： End of 1935

Latest website: Romania spent the following days in 1935 in a slow military expansion.

In the world, Edel's old friend of the civil war in the Far East is also heading for a phased victory. The communist forces were forced to move, and its base in Jiangxi was almost occupied. In this mid-fight, the army adapted from the Rhodes Advisory Group played a decisive role.

Therefore, the old friend of Edel, who temporarily relieved his confession, is even more urgent to promote his army reform. Because the Japanese has become more and more restless in the North China region, he urgently needs more weapons and equipment to adapt to more troops, so the Nanjing side proposed to continue the plan of replacing raw materials with weapons.

As for Nanjing's request, both Deloitte and Deloitte agreed. Among them, the German side needs industrial raw materials and its own foreign exchange is insufficient. As for the Romanian side, it is also to expand exports. Because with the Romanian outfitting, a large number of old equipment was withdrawn from active service. It costs money to destroy these equipment, and it still takes up space to store them. It is better to sell them to exchange for some raw materials.

Although these equipments in Europe have not kept up with the times, but for Nanjing, these very well-maintained equipment is also happy to receive. Because the price is a lot worse than the new equipment, the performance is not much worse. Therefore, Nanjing is willing to accept this batch of cheap and high-quality weapons.

So in 1935, Romania successively transported up to 520 million lei, enough to equip eleven divisions. Of course, in addition to collecting ragged pieces from Romania, the German fandom hidden in the bones is still happening. Germany also exported 110 million Reichsmark weapons in 1935.

Of course, apart from the Far East, the Ethiopian war that has been going on for a long time has come to an end. Italy was undergoing a coaching change and an increase in troops. Finally, on April 21, 1935, the main force of the Egyptian army was defeated in Mechu near Lake Ashanti. On June 2, Selassie I went into exile in Britain. On June 5, Italian troops occupied Addis Ababa. On the 9th, Mussolini announced the annexation of Ethiopian territory into Italy.

Although Italy occupied Ethiopia, the war brought huge casualties to Italy, with nearly 100,000 killed and 43,000 injured.

Although Ethiopia's mountainous terrain restricted the Italian army's performance, its huge casualties made all countries praise the Italian army's bravery.

However, the upper-level command of its army is stiff, its tactics are backward, and its backward equipment cannot be concealed. In particular, the Breda 6.5mm light machine gun and the Manlysia-Carcano rifle equipped are the best.

The Breda 6.5mm light machine gun has a unique side magazine, which causes the center of gravity to shift. Full gun quality (without magazine) ---- 10.34kg, can be described as the big fat man in the light machine gun. However, its weight does not bring a higher rate of fire. The maximum theoretical shooting of 500 rounds per minute is also completely impossible because of the unreasonable design. It can be said to be able to compete with the Taisho 11 light machine gun (crooked handle). Yu Liang.

As for the Carcano rifle, there is no need to explain too much. In 1890, Salvador Carcano, the chief technician of Idelli, designed the Carcano M1891 rifle at the Torino Arsenal based on the rolling pin of the pasta master. To replace the wonderful 10.4x47R caliber M1870 Vitry black powder rifle.

The Carcano rifle has a length of 1,285mm and a small caliber of 6.5mm. The selected 6.5*52mm rifle ammunition was the weakest standard full-power ammunition at the time.

The Carcano rifle is fed by a leak clip. This leak clip draws on the design of the M1888 committee leak clip, and Italy added one. (And the previous Vitry rifle four-shot clip, Carcano six-shot clip, the Italian can't count 5?)

The Carcano rifle uses a unique progressive rifling (the shorter the winding distance close to the muzzle, the faster the speed of the warhead), and the gun has good accuracy. However, what is surprising is that the Italians have chaotic management of ammunition. Carcano ammunition has different sources of gunpowder. Therefore, the muzzle velocity of Carcano ranges from 600 meters to 750 meters per second, and the ballistic trajectory is therefore very random... Everyone looks at luck.

Compared with Japan's 38-type rifle of the same caliber, the Carcano rifle is completely incomparable. So this is also one of the main reasons why the Italian army had so many casualties before. Mountain combat requires high individual quality and weapons.

Of course, Italy is still capable of defeating backward countries. But as for facing the big power players, then their combat ability is unknown. Although the overall capability of the Italian Army is poor, it still has outstanding troops. For example, the mountain troops stationed in the mountains of northern Italy facing France are among the elite, and their naval strength is worthy of recognition.

Of course there are other things happening in the world, but this is not worth focusing on. However, in 1935, Romania paid more attention to its military promotion.

Although this year was affected by the weakening of additional currency stimulus, driven by the military shipbuilding industry, Romania's economic growth rate stopped falling and stabilized, returning to 7% again.

Romania's GDP reached 82.74 billion lei this year, ranking fourth in Europe and fifth in the world. Among them, Romania's steel production reached 5.78 million tons, which is already on par with France. And the grain output has reached 23.84 million tons, which not only can meet domestic demand, but the scale of its exports is also not small.

Moreover, influenced by Edel's ascent as the King of Bulgaria, the total population of Romania and Bulgaria has reached more than 43 million people ~ www.novelhall.com ~ ranked fourth in Europe, surpassing France and Italy in one fell swoop, and the gap with the United Kingdom is narrowing.

At the same time, exports are affected by the economic downturn. However, Romania still has growth by exploiting other markets. But not much, only 4.1% export growth.

In terms of imports, Romania’s demand for raw materials, especially military raw materials such as rubber, tungsten ore, tung oil, and bristles, was greatly increased due to the impact of its military expansion. This led to a 12.4% increase in Romania’s imports in 1935.

Of course, from this point of view, Romania is also on the road of arms expansion and war preparations. However, compared to Germany, Romania, which has a better economic environment, is much easier to expand its armaments. However, considering the differences in the national conditions of the two countries, this is not a good comparison.

In addition to economic and population growth, the Romanian army also reached a new high this year. With a total strength of 540,000 navy and air force officers and soldiers, Romania’s expansion has become less strenuous.

And in 1935, the time passed, just like that. Since 1936, the smoke of gunpowder over Europe has allowed more people to smell it, but they don’t know how these visionary people should choose.