China used to be a copper-poor country, so even bullets had to use steel bullets. But now that there is no shortage of copper, it is normal to reuse copper bullets for bullets. After all, copper bullets have many more advantages than steel-cased bullets.
In the past, the biggest disadvantage of copper-cased bullets in China was that there were no minerals in the country and the output was low. Now the output of this thing is the first large-scale copper-gold mine discovered in Daqin. It is also a copper-rich mine and is extremely easy to mine. The preliminary calculation of copper reserves has reached 11 million tons, and the half-baked gold reserves have exceeded 800 tons.
As for gold, don't be afraid that too much gold will depreciate, because with the development of high technology, the use of gold in technological products will become higher and higher. Many industrial supplies use gold, so no matter how much it is produced, it will not be enough.
However, Jiang Yan Hai are still using steel-cased bullets. Who allows the production of steel-cased bullets in large quantities, so they should be used up first. As for the later troops to start replacing copper-cased bullets, they should change them in reality first.
When they arrived at the square below, Commander Lin hesitated and said, "Aren't you afraid that Taotie will attack now?"
"It's okay, we have people watching, we can go up at any time." Jiang Yan Hai smiled slightly.
He couldn't say that there were three large drones conducting reconnaissance at high altitudes in the sky at the moment, and there were also micro drones conducting reconnaissance at low altitudes. In fact, if you looked carefully, you could still spot them.
After all, the sky at this moment is cloudless, but they don't know what is flying in the sky. Even if they see some, they are just curious to take a look. What's more, the height of the drone is not low at this moment, and it looks similar to a bird.
"Okay." Commander Lin nodded.
Installing the manual Ammunition Belt machine is actually very simple. It is just a relatively ordinary machine. Place the dispersible Ammunition Belt on the palm-wide workbench on the right side of the machine. On the left side, there is a special trapezoidal groove for feeding, just like the entrance of a machine for processing corn.
Place the bullet warhead inside to the right, and then turn the small crank next to it. After one turn, a bullet will be automatically pushed from the machine entrance to the workbench on the right by something similar to a gun bolt, and then directly pushed into the dispersible metal Ammunition Belt. After one turn, Ammunition Belt will automatically install a bullet. The speed is still very fast.
But this is manual after all, and since there is no electricity here, it is still troublesome to install this thing.
But this is actually very good. At least it is now affordable in China. In the past, the non-dispersible Ammunition Belt or the semi-dispersible Ammunition Belt were used.
The oldest non-dispersible Ammunition Belt is the canvas chain from the World War II period. Put bullets into the middle of the canvas one by one to form a Ammunition Belt. However, after the machine gun is used, the canvas chain is still intact and can continue to be used.
However, the canvas chain is prone to failure, so during World War II, you can see that there must be an ammunition feeder next to the heavy machine gun to maintain the stability of the Ammunition Belt and ensure the stable output of the machine gun. This canvas Ammunition Belt was abandoned after World War II.
After World War II, countries such as the former Soviet Union began to use metal non-dispersible Ammunition Belt.
To put it bluntly, the left side of your machine gun enters the Ammunition Belt, but the cartridge case on the right side is thrown away, and the non-dispersible metal Ammunition Belt is still connected to your machine gun. Imagine that the metal Ammunition Belt is connected to the machine gun. It is not very convenient on the battlefield.
As for the metal dispersible Ammunition Belt, to put it bluntly, although the metal buckle that fixes a bullet is connected together when you get it, after it is fired from the machine gun, it will be scattered directly like the cartridge case and thrown away at the same time.
Of course, the single metal buckles that were thrown away can also be manually connected together, reloaded manually, and reconnected manually, but that is too troublesome, and the old Americans just throw them away after the war.
Such Ammunition Belt is definitely helpful for the stable output capability of the machine gun, but it is expensive, so it was used by rich people like Lao America in the past.
It is now available in China as well.
Of course, the main reason is that high-rate machine guns such as rotary machine guns use dispersible metal Ammunition Belt for better stability.
In the past, the ones used in China were semi-dispersible ones. To put it bluntly, we couldn't afford the ones like those from Lao America, and the ones like Maozi's would affect the combat performance, so we just thought of a way.
That is, every 10 or 15 bullets, the metal Ammunition Belt bayonet can be disassembled and thrown away.
When used in this way, it does not affect the performance very much. At the same time, when recycling and reusing, it is not that troublesome to connect 10 or 15 bullets at once.
And the length of Ammunition Belt can also be controlled freely.
All I can say is... it's all because of lack of money.
If you have money, who wouldn't want to use the dispersible type? As for recycling? Just recycle it and throw it away after beating it. If there are recycling conditions, such as this kind of defensive operation, then a large metal box will be placed directly on the side where the rotating machine gun throws the shell casing, and the shell casing and Ammunition Belt will be thrown directly into the metal box.
When the time comes, just go back, melt the shells and Ammunition Belt again, and make them again. This is how rich people play, and now we can also have money.
Jiang Yan Hai has passed the order to the logistics staff. There are a total of 50 manual Ammunition Belt installation machines. In fact, this machine is not big and very small. It is about thirty years in length and the widest part is only a dozen centimeters. However, for convenience, they are fixed on some workbenches.
"Let me demonstrate it to you. It's actually very simple." In front of Jiang Yan Hai, the Ammunition Belt installation machine, there were Shadowless Imperial Guard generals standing in front of it, especially General Wu, who looked at it more carefully and seriously.
This machine is very small, but it seems to General Wu to be ingenious, because it is so small, but has such a complex structure. It is definitely a test for their blacksmiths to build it. The mold alone must be very precise.
The empty Ammunition Belt next to it was like installing it into a machine gun. Jiang Yan Hai picked it up and placed it on the workbench. Then he grabbed a handful of 7.62 mm caliber bullets from the standard bullet box that was opened next to it. The warhead was put into the entrance in the direction of the workbench, and then he grabbed another handful.
After putting in probably dozens of bullets, Jiang Yan Hai turned the small handle directly.
There was a crisp sound of "click", and as Jiang Yan Hai turned around, a bullet was immediately and accurately stuck on Ammunition Belt, and then he turned around for the second time.
Then, under the comments of Commander Lin and several generals, Jiang Yan Hai's hand speed was very fast, and the "click" and "click" sounds continued to sound. Bullets were accurately installed into Ammunition Belt, forming a long metal Ammunition Belt.
Even at an average speed, it is very easy to rotate once a second. When dozens of Ammunition Belt appeared there, Commander Lin and others were a little surprised.