The Rise of the Empire

Bavaria's 105mm artillery decided to take the idea of ​​​​long-range and heavy weight, and the 150mm heavy howitzer also decided to take this path. After all, heavy artillery that is more difficult to produce needs to be deployed in a safer place. Adhering to this principle, in order to make the artillery have a longer range, the German sfh13 series heavy howitzers in history were also thrown into the garbage dump of history by the prince. There is no way, this thing has poorer performance. \u003c/p\u003eThe weight of the sfh13 gun is very light, only 2250kg, which is on the same level as the French m1913 105mm howitzer, but this product is definitely not as good as the latter in terms of suppression. The reason is very simple, the range is too short! This artillery has a range of only 8600 meters! What a crap thing it is to have a powerful 42kg shell but can't reach the opponent! \u003c/p\u003eIn the end, the prince chose the French m1917 155mm artillery as the prototype. This artillery is not only because of its ultra-light weight of 3300kg, but also because it has obtained 11300mm with only 15 times the length of the barrel. meters of range! You know, the gun barrel length of the German sfh13 is 17l. So continue to adhere to the French drug use, plus the German long body tube. The prince directly relaxed the weight positioning of the 150mm artillery of the division to about 4000kg, that is to say, as long as it can be below this weight, the farther the range, the better! Of course, in order to obtain a better shooting range, the gun mount should be replaced with a two-legged gun mount. \u003c/p\u003eSo in the end, the number of barrel artillery for a division of the German army is determined in this way. The number of 14 artillery companies in a division remains unchanged, 4 companies of medium-caliber rapid-fire guns, and 3 to 4 companies of 150mm large-caliber howitzers. The rest are all 105mm light howitzers. Among them, the number of 150mm large-caliber howitzers is between 4 and 6, and the other artillery is 6 guns. \u003c/p\u003eAnd if you count all kinds of mortars, Bavaria's regiments and battalions have their own mortars, and the company-level mortars are 60mm light mortars. The weight of the shell is about 2kg, and the range is about 1200 meters. The battalion level has 82mm mortars, the weight of the grenade is about 5kg, and the effective range is km. Beginning with the battalion mortars, the rifles have been etched into the mortar barrels. The regiment's first-level mortar is a 120mm mortar. Although the range is not much improved, up to 4.5km, the shell weight has increased to about 15kg. And because of the rifling, the accuracy has been greatly improved. \u003c/p\u003eThe prince has been wondering whether it is necessary to get a 160mm mortar, such as the mt13 heavy mortar of the Soviet Union, which is really powerful, such as the mt13 mortar of the Soviet Union World War II The mortar can shoot heavy high-explosive shells weighing 40.8kg 5100 meters. But the weight of this weapon is also not small, the total combat weight is 1170kg! It is almost the same as a small artillery, and the range is still close. The most important thing is that this heavy mortar has lost the biggest advantage of a light mortar - high rate of fire. \u003c/p\u003eGenerally, for mortars below 120mm, you can load them directly from the muzzle, and then rely on the weight of the artillery itself to activate the firing pin and then fire. But the 160mm mortar is not good, this thing has a length of 3.3 meters. Even if it is placed obliquely, it is as tall as one person. Think about it, you alone lift a 40.8kg shell to this height, and then put it into the barrel. Let alone how dangerous and laborious the process is, more than 40 The kg shell hits the needle directly, are you sure there will be no problems with this artillery? After all, the weight of the shell is nearly three times heavier than that of the 120mm gun! \u003c/p\u003eSo in history, the Russians used this artillery in this way. After each round of shells, the artillery needs to be leveled from an angle of 40 degrees to 80 degrees, and then from the tail state..... ..

In this way, it is more troublesome than the barreled artillery. After all, it takes time to shake the mortar. At the same time, when the mortar is used, the number of ammunition is adjusted according to different ranges. A cartridge is completely different. Therefore, the rate of fire of this artillery is very low, 3 rounds per minute.... \u003c/p\u003eThe accuracy is not good, the range is not good, and in the end even the rate of fire is not good, which is very tasteless. Of course, the biggest advantage is that it is cheap and relatively light in weight. Therefore, the prince is very entangled, so he can only leave this to Prince Leopold and others to consider in advance. After all, he has rich experience in the front line. People's military age is older than their own age! \u003c/p\u003eThe basic firepower deployment has been finalized. As a result, at this time, Viscount Schmidt came again. He actually made such an opinion to the prince: "Recently in the experiment in the iron castle, it was found that the power of the 75mml24 artillery is not enough. Use it, I hope it can be replaced with a larger caliber artillery."\u003c/p\u003e "hat? You actually said that the 75mml24 artillery is not powerful enough? What are you thinking? In terms of the power of high-explosive shells, this thing is the same as the French Saint Monchat tank in World War I. One level, in terms of penetration, who is better than the 75mml36 rapid-fire gun of Saint Monsa and the 57mm naval gun of the British? You tell me that the firepower is not enough? Tank 4 and Tank 3 at the beginning of World War 2 The category is up, and the mustache said that my brother used this level of artillery from the beginning of World War II. You told me that the power of the 75mml24 artillery in World War I was not enough? What are you thinking?" The prince complained frantically in his heart. (Of course, due to technological progress, the actual armor-piercing power of the No. 4 75mm short gun and the No. 3 50 gun must exceed the current artillery, but the barrel and caliber are close.)\u003c/p\u003e "Think about our Prussian colleagues , they don’t even have 50mm short guns now... It’s very good for you to have 75mml24 guns.” Wang Ziyu said earnestly. \u003c/p\u003e"I found a cannon, which has been developed and is very cheap, because the navy has already planned to replace it with a new cannon. The cannon weighs more than 600 kilograms, but the initial velocity of the cannonball is over 600 meters per second. The weight of the artillery shells is as high as 10kg!" Major General Schmidt said. \u003c/p\u003e"Maybe the weight and the recoil are still large, but we can properly reduce the charge to reduce the distance of the recoil, and we can also properly reduce the length of the barrel, but in any case, it is much easier to use than the current 75mml24 artillery Already," Major General Schmidt added. "\u003c/p\u003e" I seem to remember that the Navy was equipped with an 88mml30 artillery in 1892, which seems to be the data. "The prince said.\u003c/p\u003e"Yes, it is this artillery, but now the navy plans to replace it with the new 88mml45 artillery. The old artillery that has been eliminated in large numbers is actually useless at all, and many artillery have not even reached half their lifespan. If we buy at a low price now, we can save a lot of money and improve our equipment level! "Major General Schmidt bites the word money very hard, he knows the prince very well.\u003c/p\u003e "Okay, let's try to buy a few first, if possible, we can eat all of these artillery pieces go in. "The prince thought for a while and said, there is no need to study new artillery, and it is cheap, why not?"\u003c/p\u003e "His Royal Highness, the chief wood engineer of the Bavarian Aircraft Design Bureau has called. "Just after the prince solved the problem of the future artillery of the Bavarian army, a telegram brought the prince to the Bavarian aircraft test field.\u003c/p\u003eThe second update is here~~~! Please subscribe\u003c/a\u003e~~~ !!\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/div\u003e