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Chapter 510 Explosive Projector

The Soviet side was silent for a while, after all, the news they received was that the assassination team was wiped out and no news was sent to them about whether the mission was successful.

The final report Matvic received was: "We have rushed towards the target, and I saw several comrades shooting at the target position, and I couldn't determine whether the target was successfully killed..."

Then the communication was interrupted by gunfire and screams.

Matvic and Pukaev could only wait patiently in the command center, waiting for Holm's intelligence personnel to send them subsequent information.

After a few hours they finally got exciting news, a correspondent reported: "They said the 'Legend Sergeant' was at least seriously injured because the Germans had begun to retaliate against the people in anger!"

Cheers suddenly sounded in the command center, and several officers couldn't help but shake hands and congratulate each other.

Peter Nolev smiled and said, "The British are stupid, aren't they? They knew that this 'Legend Sergeant' was the core figure of the German guy and that they changed the situation of the war again and again, but they didn't know how to use this method!"

"You may have forgotten a little bit, Comrade Peter Nolev!" said Mattevich:

"The British are gentlemanly, so they don't use this method!"

"Oh, great gentlemanly!" Peter Nolev rolled his eyes, and laughed at the people in the command center.

Of course, what they said is not the truth. If the war is won, the British's "unscrupulous" is even better than the Soviets. For example, the British army once assassinated Rommel. It's just that the Soviets didn't know this.

"What should we do now, Comrade Pukaev?" Matvic asked Pukaev.

Pukayev thought about it and replied, "Wait a little longer!"

At this time, Pukayev didn't believe in this information very much. He was not sure of this until the intelligence sent by several spies proved it.

Needless to say, the Soviet army was greatly motivated, and that night it launched a scattered offensive against Holm, and the wave after wave seemed to be endless.

Of course, this was a good thing for the German army, because of the terrain of Holm and the advantage of geographical location that the German army was least worried about was this kind of strong attack.

In order to better cope with the Soviet army's human sea tactics, the German Central Army Command also used a glider to bring Holm a new equipment...the 40 type explosive projector.

The explosive projector is a rare weapon because it only produced 158 doors throughout the Third Reich. It was generally used by the German vanguard troops to break barriers or attack enemy strongholds.

Holm got 8 of them.

Qin Chuan also saw this thing: the bipod plus a base, which is similar in size and shape to the 81MM mortar. The difference is that it has no barrel and is replaced by a shell casing that is much smaller than the barrel.

Simply put, the mortar puts the shells into the barrel and fires them out, while the explosive projector directly loads the shells on something like a grenade launcher and then fires them out.

Compared with mortars, it is simpler and lighter and much more powerful: due to the size of the barrel, the shells are loaded with only 500 grams of TNT explosives, while the high-explosive bombs of the explosive projector can hold 6.8 kilograms of explosives because they have no barrel restrictions. The charge amount is nearly 14 times that of the 81MM mortar shells... This is almost throwing an explosive pack out.

Another advantage is that the rate of fire is quite good. A skilled gun crew can fire 8 shells in one minute.

It is conceivable that if 8 6.8 kilogram explosive packs can be thrown in front of one minute on the battlefield, what would it be like?... it would almost blow the front into ruins.

So this guy played a significant role in the battlefield as soon as he got up. He went to the gate several hundred meters away. When the Soviet army rushed up like a tide, they would blow it up, and they immediately fry it.

Of course, Qin Chuan didn't see this scene, because Qin Chuan was ordered to hide in the cellar and not go out... If the Soviet people saw this "scheming", they would be exposed.

The soldiers who came back from the battlefield were talking happily about this equipment.

"Did you see the Soviets being blown down in pieces?" Werner said: "It's hard to imagine that if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I would have thought it was a shell fired by a howitzer!"

"It's Werner!" Dominic said: "You have to know that the charge of a 155MM caliber howitzer is only 6.9 kg, and this explosive projector can have a charge of 6.8 kg!"

"Why don't we produce more of this stuff?" the baker asked in confusion.

"Who knows?" Dominic replied.

Qin Chuan knew that this explosive projector actually has two fatal disadvantages: its short range and poor accuracy.

Among them, the range is only 720 meters.

Therefore, it can only be used if there is such a significant height difference like Holm's Lovati River defense line. In other cases, any small-caliber mortar can suppress it and then hit it with a charge.

Another poor accuracy was also untolerated by the German army, which was determined by its lack of gun barrels, which meant that it could only be a mess of explosions on the front line.

These are the reasons why it was finally abandoned by the German army and only produced 158 doors.

However, this also shows that the German army is already looking for a solution, hoping to use a simple and cheap equipment to deal with the Soviets, a human-sea tactic that can hardly be beaten no matter how hard they fight.

Thinking of this, Qin Chuan couldn't help but shake his head.

The Germans finally found a way, which is to produce the world's first assault rifle, StG44... This rifle is also the originator of the Soviet AK47 assault rifle.

Although the Soviet Union has never recognized this, the AK47 is obviously very similar to the StG44 in terms of appearance and design concept.

It is obvious that this development direction is the correct one. If each person has an assault rifle with a capacity of dozens of rounds and a range of about four hundred meters, it can almost be said that many people will become dead souls under their guns when they surge.

And this kind of bomb projector...it has only one fate to be eliminated.

Unfortunately, this assault rifle appeared too late. It was not until the end of 43 years that the test gun was released. Only 400,000 were produced until Germany was defeated, so it ultimately failed to change the fate of the German army's defeat.

At this time, Qin Chuan couldn't help but be stunned... Why didn't he let this assault rifle appear in advance?

Thinking of this, Qin Chuan immediately ordered the correspondent: "Receive the command center, I want to talk to the colonel!"
Chapter completed!
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