【War court and knee pillow, Austria's destiny】【】

, the War Court and Lap Pillow, Austria's Mandate of Heaven

Austria, Tyrol

In a canyon with many mountains and dense forests, there are several ancient courtyards.

On one side is a steep cliff, on the other side is a clear and icy lake. The scenery of the lake and the mountains echoes the snow and frost for thousands of years, making people feel like they are in a fairyland inaccessible.

It's just that a very abrupt fence spoils the beauty, and the wooden sign of the Schrower Lumber Mill hanging on the gate is even more vulgar.

This seemingly ordinary farm workshop hides a huge secret unknown to outsiders-a secret research center for new weapons, and the final test of the breech gun is being intensely carried out indoors.

If it is a sharp-eyed professional, it can be seen at a glance that this gun is more complete than the Dreiser rifle, and even the big problem that plagues the world's weapons industry - airtightness has also been overcome.

Although the research center does not occupy a large area, it is superior in that although the sparrow is small, it has all internal organs. There are not only special gunpowder factories and refined iron factories inside, but also a rubber factory, and the sealing rubber ring is their masterpiece.

At present, countries around the world, including Prussia, still use the single-point hook cutting method to manufacture gun rifles. This method has been used as early as the sixteenth century, but it has a fatal flaw, which is low efficiency.

The craftsman who uses this rifling method must use a sufficiently hard and sharp hook-shaped sharpener to cut and slowly cut out the rifling lines one by one while turning inside the barrel.

Generally speaking, one rifling needs to be broached more than twenty times. If you want to make a good gun, the same rifling needs to be broached more than 100 times, because the more times you pull, the thinner and tighter the broaching groove will be.

But a barrel usually has 6-8 riflings, and almost all of them were done by hand at that time, so the workload was terrible. However, because of the guaranteed quality, the craftsmanship of gunsmiths is often sought after.

Of course, Franz would not adopt this method. Instead, he suggested the die extrusion method, which is a practice that has been used since the end of World War II.

In fact, the manufacturing process of this method is not complicated. It is to drill a hole slightly smaller than the bore of the gun barrel, and then use a high-hardness die with protrusions corresponding to the female rifling, and then use a high-pressure machine to assist from Press down while turning in the hole, squeezing the inside of the barrel into a female rifling and male chamber.

This law has three obvious advantages. The first is precision. The rifling produced by the die extrusion method can be worth hundreds of times of broaching by a skilled gunsmith.

The second is the unparalleled production speed. A master craftsman led his apprentice to beat and knock on the work completed in a month. It only takes more than ten minutes in this arsenal.

If it is just a small arsenal in Franz that compares to the output of barrels, the daily output of rifle barrels has exceeded the sum of the entire German Federation.

The third is the price. Thanks to the help of the hydraulic press, the entire cost has dropped sharply to only a few tenths of the handmade gun.

A brand new bullet is also produced in this factory, which is the famous Minie bullet in later generations.

Compared with the spherical bullets that need to be struck with iron rods when loading in the past, the diameter of this conical bullet is slightly smaller than the diameter of the gun bore. At the same time, in order to match the use of breech-loading guns, Franz added wooden or paper to the bottom of the bullet. Quality shells.

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When loading, just put the bullet into the barrel, close the pull bolt, pull the trigger, the firing pin stimulates the thunderbolt at the bottom of the bullet to explode, the gas presses the cork, expands the bottom, close to the rifling, and seals the gap between the bullet and the barrel The air gap prevents the gas from leaking out, and allows the warhead to rotate and fly out at high speed under the pressure of the rifling.

This kind of bullet can greatly improve the range and accuracy of the rifle. The range of this temporarily unnamed rifle can reach a terrifying 800 meters, which is twice that of the M1841 German rifle at this time, and the bullet has very good stopping power and lethality Amazing, the rate of fire is as high as 12 rounds per minute.

However, this is not a work that satisfies Franz, because the design of metal fixed-loaded ammunition can be completed at this time. In fact, the earliest metal fixed-loaded ammunition appeared as early as 1836, but it is different from the modern fixed-loaded ammunition. There is no direct relationship, it is a needle-fired bullet, but it does effectively increase the airtightness of the breech-loading gun.

Franz tried to tinker with modern metal fixed-load ammunition, but what he didn't expect was that due to the propellant problem, the power of this bullet was very impressive.

Not to mention killing people, there is even a chance of not being able to penetrate a target made of hardwood. Then an engineer suggested the use of nitroglycerin, which Franz knew was the main ingredient in the yellow powder that was later commonly used.

So he promised the engineer William Ogle five hundred thousand florins, as long as he could develop a safe propellant.

Then the engineer was directly killed during the first test. Due to the special nature of the work, the Austrian government had to declare to his family that he had encountered a mine disaster.

William Ogle and his two assistants were also the first casualties of this arsenal. Franz was well aware of the risks of developing smokeless gunpowder, but he had to do it because the competition for military technology was not Your death is a war of my death, there is no room for kindness at all.

Austrian chief weapons expert Vincent Augustin was a very old-fashioned person, but after seeing the invention of the arsenal, he joined the army of this military reform.

Historically, the artillery of the Austrians has gone astray. Due to the disastrous defeat during the Napoleonic Wars and the military reforms of Grand Duke Karl, they worshiped the cannon extremely. UU reading www.uukanshu. com

This "big" is in the physical sense. The Austrians like to make large-caliber artillery, but their steelmaking technology is too poor in history, and the quality of the steel they make is poor and expensive.

So the Austrians chose to use bronze casting cannons. Yes, they chose the technology of the last century, but after the magic modification of these people, they came up with front-loading guns that fired faster than breech-loading guns.

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However, casting bronze cannons is always a kind of retrograde behavior. Finally, with the end of the Prussian-Prussian War, the dream of artillery in the Austrian Empire also came to an end.

In fact, unlike what many people imagined, the Prussian Krupp cannon not only failed to suppress the Austrian bronze cannon, but was beaten to shame by the Austrian bronze cannon.

Of course, Krupp also absorbed the Austrian cannon-making technology, and then Krupp cannons showed their prowess in the Franco-Prussian War, establishing their important position in the world's military history.

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However, at this time, the quality of steel in Austria is the best in the world, especially in the field of special steel, which is far beyond this era.

Manganese steel cannons have become an inevitable choice. If other European countries want to mass-produce manganese steel, it is not only a technical problem, but also a resource problem, because only Austria and Russia have large-scale manganese mines in Europe.

There were no substitutes for artillery made of this material until World War I, so Franz could safely and boldly let these engineers build "big" artillery.