"Okay, just pretend I'm talking too much." Major General Carls made a helpless gesture and then left.

"Can the bar machine gun be changed?" Marshall asked John Browning after the Germans left. "This firepower sustainability is really bad. And I have always been worried about this problem. In fact, the young men like bars now because they are lighter and they will never have a deep understanding of the importance of firepower continuity before they go to the battlefield."

Holding light is definitely the biggest advantage of an infantry weapon in peacetime... After all, is infantry? Nowadays, it is still a military force that walks out with two legs. If you don’t fight, are you willing to carry a bar weighing 7.2kg or a mg universal machine gun weighing 12kg? You must be inclined to the former! After all, you don’t have to go to the battlefield.

Major General Marshall has visited the front line. He can see many German soldiers on the battlefield, especially German soldiers who are carrying out assault missions, making crazy improvements to their weapons in order to increase the loading volume! For example, the Mauser rifle with 20 rounds long magazines, using a drum-type Ruger long-tube pistol.

Even the mg machine gun, which had good firepower, was improved. Without the cable link, the mg machine gun used 50 rounds of drums. However, as a result, the German assault squad soldiers believed that the 50 rounds of drums were too small, so in the war, the German military specially equipped the machine gunner with a special saddle-shaped drum with a loading of up to 75 rounds. (This is also available in history.) In a word, countless facts tell Major General Marshall that when the soldiers' personal physical strength can support it, it is not a bad thing to decorate more bullets.

"The Germans' drums are really good, and we have considered them, but they are more difficult to maintain. You know, drums use coil springs. Even before the war, the spring force of the drums must be adjusted every time they load. I am very worried about the reliability of this drum in the Pacific War environment." Browning thought for a while and said.

What he said does make sense. Playing drums is indeed more complicated. Many of the Bobosha submachine guns used in the later period of the Soviet Union in the second battle were made with magazines because playing drums was too troublesome.

"Okay, I'm not a specialized technician, and I can't make a decision on this issue easily. But I will report it to General Pershing, and I will mention the German delegation's problems with the bar machine gun's sweeping and ammunition capacity." Marshall said. He is not a technical officer, nor is he shot from the front line, so he definitely said that he can't beat Browning in this regard. And now the bar is really popular with front-line officers and soldiers. Therefore, for him, the best way is to write a report first. Once something happens in the future, the report may be effective.

"Okay, I will find a way to solve this problem. Everything is for the US Army." Browning said seriously. Afterwards, Browning did make a series of improvements to the bar machine gun, such as to increase the stability of lying shooting, he added a bipod to the front of the machine gun. In order to improve the sustainability of firepower, he equipped the machine gun with 40 rounds of magazines (the bar has indeed been equipped with 40 rounds of magazines in history, but it was completely removed in 1927.) However, after some improvement, the weight of the bar increased to nearly 9kg... As for the resentment of US Army personnel about the use of magazines in light machine guns in actual combat, it is a later story, so I won't mention it for now.

As for the American Browning heavy machine gun, how do you say this? Although the weight is a bit large, even if the air-cooled heat dissipation is used, the Browning machine gun body weight is still 14kg. The weight of the gun frame is 6kg, and it is convenient to replace the barrel with the German mg machine gun, but the strength is good. The Americans once used the water-cooled Browning machine gun to shoot 20,000 bullets in a row for 48 minutes without any failure. This is a good performance.

Although it is definitely not as good as the German mg series machine gun in terms of use, it is also a weapon that can give 85 points. The US Army will not care too much about this gap. In addition to making up for the temporary shortage of weapon production capacity and the use of equip special forces, it will no longer purchase a large number of German mg series machine guns to enrich the US military. In fact, infantry weapons are not like foreigners who have better equipment. Taking rifles as an example, the German Mauser rifles were not as useful as the British Li En in World War I. However, after World War II, Germany still used Mauser's descendants, which were still not as good as Li En... Some things cannot be said.

Do the American light weapons refresh the German soldiers? There must be some. For example, the m1a1 carbine that appeared in two battles in history, but now suddenly pops up is an example. To a certain extent, the m1a1 carbine that uses 7.62mm*33mm carbine bullets can barely be considered an assault rifle.

"The weight of this weapon is very good, and the center of gravity is well designed." Major General Carls picked up a carbine. The buttstock of this gun was not made of wooden, but a foldable metal buttstock, equipped with two magazines, 15 rounds and 30 rounds. After several shots were shot by opening the buttstock and closing the stock, the Major General praised this weapon.

"A very good weapon, with a fire sustainability comparable to a submachine gun, but it weighs less than 3 kilograms, is equipped with a folding stock, and the length and size of the gun are moderate. Moreover, the effective range of this weapon is farther than that of a submachine gun, with little recoil and good stability. A very good medium- and close combat weapon." Major General Karls hardly found any shortcomings.

"If possible, I hope that the German army will be equipped with a large number of such weapons in the future." Major General Karls said to General Kariput next to him. Then, Major General Karls, who was already familiar with this weapon, picked up the carbine in his hand and shot a magazine at the target 150 meters away.

"Well, it's really good. At this distance, the accuracy is far better than our submachine guns. If the British were also equipped with this weapon during the war, we might have killed tens of thousands more people." General Caripot said.

"The key is the choice of bullets. This is a kind of bullet between rifle and pistol bullet, which takes into account the power and weight. In fact, in most cases, more than 95% of the rifle is shooting enemies within 400 meters. The rifle bullets can still effectively penetrate the human body 800 meters away. This requirement is actually a bit high. The impact of excessive bullet power is not only the weight of the ammunition but also the recoil. Think about it, when the bar machine gun was fired by hand, even if it relies on the 7 kg Gun God weighing 7 kg, the accuracy is still a problem. This carbine is only less than 3 kg, but the recoil is very small." Major General Carls analyzed.
Chapter completed!