The rate of fire of the Dwarf Hand-Crank Heavy Machine Gun depended, to a certain extent, on how quickly its operator turned the crank.
But that did not mean cranking it as fast as possible with one's eyes closed was best. There was a specific rhythm to it. If the crank was turned too quickly, the gun could jam easily; if the rhythm was off, its fire would also become less smooth.
So it was difficult to give a completely precise time. All they could say was that it was roughly one minute.
Even so, that rate of fire was already astonishing enough.
In the present Great Zhou, and indeed across every known region in the world, there was not a single other firearm capable of firing two hundred rounds in one minute.
From this perspective, the appearance of the Hand-Crank Heavy Machine Gun had practically shattered a certain balance. It was a truly era-defining creation.
Its design was similar to that of the Thunder Revolving Cannon, but the Hand-Crank Heavy Machine Gun had an entirely different role. It possessed an astonishing ability to maintain continuous fire!
If it could fire two hundred rounds in one minute, how could carrying only one ammunition belt possibly be enough?
But ten belts for this thing weighed four hundred and fifty pounds.
Even more outrageous was that, with Full Firepower, once the time needed to change ammunition belts was included, those ten belts would only be enough for a little over ten minutes of frenzied sweeping fire.
And setting aside the four hundred and fifty pounds of ammunition belts and the seven hundred pounds of the heavy machine gun itself, did the equipment worn by the soldiers not weigh anything?
Thus, a machine gunner's actual load would only be even more absurd.
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