Chapter 687 Browning Automatic Rifle

Extreme chaos will naturally give birth to ambitious people, not to mention that the chaos in Germany has lasted for too long.

On April 17, 1928, the famous Adolf Hitler delivered a speech through the People's Observer.

In this speech, he severely criticized the government's incompetence and said that it was because the government accepted the war reparations of the Treaty of Versailles and its various measures after the war that Germany went through all this.

Hitler directly stated that it was because the military government destroyed everything in Germany that the great Germanic nation suffered the humiliation that it should not have suffered.

At the end of the speech, Hitler also said that he would establish an order so that every German household would have milk and bread on the table, so that the Germans would stand on top of the world again.

If it was just after the end of World War I, Hitler's speech was destined not to be recognized too much, but would be regarded as a madman and a fool.

But now that Germany is suffering from economic crisis and post-war suffering, Hitler's various speeches instantly attracted many Germans, and these people regarded Hitler's words as holy words.

In fact, Hitler at this time was no longer the little corporal during World War I. The party owned by Hitler had become one of the largest parties in Germany, and the stormtroopers he created had an armed force of hundreds of thousands of members.

If you have to choose someone who is most likely to overthrow the rule of the German government, then the most likely candidate at this moment can only be Hitler.

For this rising figure in German politics, both William II and President Hindenburg must have paid attention to Hitler.

However, William II no longer fights for power, and the government's right to speak naturally falls into the hands of President Hindenburg.

President Hindenburg, the former corporal, has no good feelings, and even quietly commented that Hitler can only be a post minister at best.

This is actually very normal, because compared with President Hindenburg's noble birth of Junker nobles, Hitler's birth is just a civilian, and his highest military rank is only a corporal.

Moreover, Hitler's actions in the political arena are too extreme, which is more extreme than the military government, which may not be a good thing for Germany.

Hitler's extremes were exposed, and other political parties and officials in German politics could naturally feel it.

In order to prevent such an extreme person from taking control of Germany, many officials and political parties in the German government united to oppose Hitler's entry into the government and to oppose Hitler's party's control of the parliament's discourse.

Before the outbreak of the economic crisis, the alliance of these political parties and officials was very effective. Because Hitler could not yet deceive the majority of German people, the German government still had a lot of control over regions other than the states.

But when the economic crisis began, everything changed. Not only the states, but even some regions far away from the imperial government were gradually breaking away from the government's rule.

This separation does not mean that they want independence, but that the government's influence is relatively low, and these regions have a greater voice.

The good news is that although the current Germany is very different from history, the highest ruler of the national government, that is, the position called the president, also has a seven-year term.

This point was not abolished because William II continued to be crowned as the German emperor, which is also the reason for the chaos in German politics.

The president with a term of seven years is not directly responsible to the emperor, but to the German parliament.

The German parliament is directly elected by the German people. The political parties with seats in the parliament nominate presidential candidates, and the final president is finally chosen through the parliamentary election.

The whole process has almost nothing to do with the emperor, which is also the way the French have made the greatest restriction on the power of the German emperor.

Because the president's term of office is seven years, President Gündenburg's term of office will expire in 1932.

This also means that at least in the next few years, there is no need to worry about Hitler's rise to the highest position.

However, no one dares to be sure whether an accident will happen. From the crazy depreciation of the mark, it is certain that German politics is definitely not as stable as it seems.

The changes in the world situation have attracted Arthur's attention, and Australasia has also started a new round of armament transformation.

It has to be admitted that a considerable number of weapons and equipment were still used during World War I, and more than ten years have passed since then.

Although the Lee Enfield rifle has been used for decades, it was frequently used even in the late World War II.

If there is a more advanced rifle to replace the Lee Enfield rifle, it will be a way for Arthur to increase firepower.

I am not afraid of the variety of weapons, but I am afraid that there is no corresponding design when more and more fancy weapons are needed.

Fortunately, there are still many weapon design experts in Australasia, and Arthur's demand for rifle modification was quickly met.

Of course, developing a new rifle has always been Browning's pursuit, and the research time for this new rifle has even reached more than seven years.

After spending so much time researching new weapons, Arthur is also looking forward to the new rifle developed by Browning.

In Browning's report to Arthur, this new rifle was called BLN28 automatic rifle by Browning.

The design concept of BLN28 automatic rifle is still based on the gas-operated principle of Maxim heavy machine gun, achieving the purpose of automatic loading of ammunition.

Of course, this step only realizes a semi-automatic rifle like the Riehnfeld rifle. To achieve full automatic, the automatic firing step is also required.

How to make bullets fire automatically? After much thought, Browning developed a hammer-rotating firing mechanism and a bolt-rotating locking mechanism, realizing the idea of ​​automatic loading and firing of the BLN28 automatic rifle.

In fact, the world's first rifle that can fire automatically was developed as early as 1860, but it was not valued and reused at that time for various reasons.

Even on the battlefields of World War II, semi-automatic rifles were the most used. The use of fully automatic rifles had to wait until after World War II. After all, the battlefields of World War I and World War II needed more cannon fodder, rather than single-point firepower that could effectively kill.

If the firepower is compared, the firepower of various light and heavy machine guns and artillery is definitely much more advanced than that of fully automatic rifles.

With light and heavy machine guns, there is naturally no need for the firepower of fully automatic rifles on the battlefield.

Even the Lee Enfield rifle can be "fully automatic" when the hand speed is relatively fast. After all, the semi-automatic rifle with the fastest firing rate is not in vain.

Arthur asked Browning to develop a fully automatic rifle not to completely replace the Lee-Enfield rifle, nor to allow soldiers to have more firearms to choose from at certain times.

It is definitely more cost-effective to use the Lee-Enfield rifle in normal large-scale combat, after all, the fully automatic rifle means more bullet consumption.

Arthur has seen the real battlefield before, and how many soldiers can really aim and shoot?

More than half of the bullets are wasted on the battlefield, and most of them are shot at the ground or the sky.

If the semi-automatic rifle is replaced with a fully automatic rifle, the military budget in the war will definitely double.

This is simply not worthwhile in a short period of time, and it is impossible to replace the full-automatic rifle on a large scale throughout the army.

The greatest use of the fully automatic rifle is actually to use it as a powerful weapon for some special armies.

The power of the submachine gun is too small, and the heavy machine gun is not easy to carry. If a fully automatic rifle with equally powerful firepower can be used to perform certain tasks, it will definitely have unexpected results.

Arthur immediately thought of the special forces in later generations. The current conditions are sufficient, at least for Arthur to explore and train some special forces.

Equip the special forces with fully automatic rifles. Anyway, their number is not too large, and the increase in military budget will not be too exaggerated.

And such a group of military uniforms equipped with fully automatic rifles and other elite weapons will definitely not be weaker than a large-scale army in the war.

Coupled with a powerful air force, it can even effectively accomplish tasks such as decapitation behind enemy lines and cutting off enemy supply lines.

The role of this in the war is immeasurable. If the enemy commander can be eliminated in advance in the war, the enemy's army will naturally be in chaos.

Even to exaggerate a little, an elite special force that can be airdropped to various places will definitely be the nightmare of Australasia's enemies in the future, making them unable to sleep well.

However, special forces cannot be trained just by saying training. Arthur still needs to gather more elite soldiers, conduct the first round of selection, select the elite in those armies, and then put them through rounds of screening and training, and finally get an elite army among the elite.

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