Steel bullets!
The first lieutenant's exclamation instantly attracted everyone's attention.
To their knowledge, the shell of a bullet could only be made of copper. It wasn't that military experts hadn't thought of making steel shells, but they gave up after experimenting for a while.
Why wasn't steel suitable to be used as the material for bullet shells?
The steel shell itself was much harder than the copper shell. Not only was it easy to wear out the barrel when it was ejected, but because of the high hardness of the steel shell, the slightest expansion and distortion after firing would cause difficulty in extracting the shell, or even jam, causing the gun to malfunction.
On the other hand, the bullet case was a stamping part with a large stretch length. The malleability of steel itself was not as good as copper. The yield of using the traditional stamping process to manufacture the bullet case was very low, which directly led to an increase in the production cost of the bullet. In general, it was better to directly use copper to save money.
Another important reason was that the bullets with steel shells were prone to rust, and the storage conditions of the ammunition were relatively high, which was not conducive to the combat of the troops.
In summary, steel bullets could not be used to replace copper bullets.
However, they were all wrong. Qin Hui really did have a full set of steel-shelled bullet production technology, a masterpiece from the rabbit in the future!
Since the birth of the all-metal fixed bullets, the western countries had chosen the cylindrical shape of the shell wall. The manufacturing precision of such shells was relatively high, and the slightest deviation would not be able to be used.
However, there were many advantages to this cylindrical bullet. The bullet's trajectory accuracy was relatively stable and the shooting accuracy was relatively high. This was also the reason why most Western sniper rifles were ranked first in the world in terms of accuracy.
On the other hand, the shell of the rabbit bullet was conical in shape. Such ammunition had a lower requirement for manufacturing accuracy. A slight deviation in size would not affect its use, but the accuracy would be slightly lower when shooting.
However, the biggest advantage of the conical shell was that it was easy to remove the shell because the contact surface between the conical shell and the barrel was only one line, while the cylinder was one surface. The pulling force required to remove the shell was several orders of magnitude smaller. This was also the main reason why Mao Xiong's AK-47 assault rifle had such high reliability and battlefield adaptability. To put it bluntly, it was not that the gun was well made, but the bullets were powerful.
The steel shell bullets were coated with copper or painted, and were very suitable for copying the SKS Type 56 and a half, as well as other Type 56 class machine guns and Type 56 submachine guns with Mao Xiong's bloodline.
"Chen Ke, give me a bridge clamp!"
The captain of the guards, Chen Ke, reached into the soldier's magazine and took out a Type 56 semi-automatic rifle's bullet bridge clip.
Ten steel bullets were fixed on the bridge clip, attracting a group of inexperienced observers.
Coque observed for a while, eager to see if the steel bullet could be used in actual combat!
If that was the case, then the method of war might change to a certain extent.
This was because the widespread use of low-cost steel-shelled bullets meant that the slow-firing bolt rifles would be replaced by semi-automatic and fully-automatic weapons, and their firepower would rise to a new level.
Copper! This strategic resource, as well as the difficulties in ammunition production and logistics, limited the popularity of semi-automatic rifles and automatic rifles. Otherwise, who wouldn't want their own army to use firepower to defeat the enemy?
"Commander Qin, can I fire a few shots to experience it?”
" No problem. Let's go to the shooting range!"
"Thank you, thank you!"
……
Half an hour later, at the shooting range.
Bang bang ~
Crisp gunshots continued to ring out. The officers of the observation team fired at least 30 bullets each before returning the guns to the guards.
The steel bullets were very stable. At least, when more than a hundred of them fired at the same time, no one had jammed or exploded even after firing dozens of bullets.
" Commander Qin," Coque asked expectantly," if I may ask, how's the production of these steel bullets?"”
"What should I say? The Qin Metal Corporation had been researching and testing the steel bullets for ten years before they could completely replace the copper bullets. In the ammunition factory of the Qin Metal Corporation, there is a production line for the steel bullets, which is about five times faster than the production speed of the copper bullets.”
We make one, and you make five? And the cost is cheaper than ours?
The observation team was envious and jealous! At the same time, he felt a faint sense of danger.
Qin Hui's technology was more advanced than the West. If he grew up and defeated President Jiang to take over China, who would still be his match?
No, he had to stop it!
Coque didn't think so. Instead, he felt that Hans needed to kick the Wei Nation out and ally with Qin Hui.
One was in the east, and the other was in the west. The strong would join forces to divide the world.
The Wei Nation used to be quite strong, but now that Qin Hui was in Xia Nation, they didn't seem to have that much potential.
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