My Italian: Chapter 176 m eighty-eight carcano rifle

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The Bourque Small Arms Test Site is the closest light weapons test site to Rome. It is only five kilometers away from the city of Rome. It is one of the eight weapons test sites designated by the Ministry of War.

As a weapons proving ground just outside the city of Rome, the Bourke Proving Ground has always undertaken the main inspection task of the Army's small arms.

This time, the test of the new rifle was also carried out at the test site.

"Your Majesty, this is a weapons testing ground established by our army in 1871. Its predecessor was a military camp of the Papal States. After the reunification of Italy, considering that the environment here is very suitable for weapons testing, it was changed into a weapons testing ground. "

In the testing ground, Admiral Saragate, the Minister of War, was explaining the origin of the testing ground to Carlo. On the side of the two, a group of old men in military uniforms and the rank of general surrounded them, of course, mainly around Carlo, who was the king.

It is also pitiful to say. A bunch of old generals wanted to use political means to resist the attempt from Carlo to intervene in the army, but after searching for a long time, they could not find a significant ally, and the prime minister who was given high praise by them was not at all. Don't take this pile, let the admirals disappointed.

Since they can't find a weighty ally, they have two choices. They don't have the courage to change the monarch, so it is a reasonable choice to release their goodwill to Carlo. But even if they released goodwill, these admirals had a little Italian air, and they fooled Carlo with irrelevant things.

As for the vital military power, these old guys hold tightly. Even the 10,000-thousand-person Guard Army has not been let go of this already invalidated agreement.

You must know that the Marine Corps has expanded to 15,000 people. These old guys are like ostriches, burying their heads in the soil and pretending not to know.

He tried to fool him with such things as inspecting weapons or inspecting the army, but Carlo did not speak about these military leaders' practices. Since the old guy dared to fool himself, who would fool who would not know.

Of course, he is also very concerned about the standard rifle of the Italian army in the next stage, after all, it is related to the combat effectiveness of the army.

As for why Carlo didn't bring it back from Germany, the predecessor Committee 1888 rifle (also known as Mauser 1888, Mauser Company: It has something to do with me, if it wasn't for you to fool people, it would Dare not my company's rifle, prefix with Mauser).

On the one hand, Germany has not yet come up with a sample gun, on the other hand, Italy does not look down on this German emergency standard rifle.

Why do you say this, because this gun is really a German emergency product.

The bolt is improved from the Austrian "M1888 Mannlicher Rifle" by the Spandau Arsenal. The magazine and the 5-round leak clip (the bullet must be loaded with the leak clip, the leak clip is left in the magazine and cannot be loaded again before lighting) is also improved from the "M1888 Mannlicher Rifle". The barrel rifling is basically an imitation of the French "Lebel 1886", and the new smokeless bullet is improved from the Swiss 7.92mm bottomless bottle neck bullet.

The reason why Germany is so anxious is because France has developed the world's first small-caliber military rifle that uses smokeless gunpowder. In terms of lethality and ballistic performance, this rifle far exceeds the Mauser 7184 rifle currently equipped in Germany, which will bring great tactical advantages to the French infantry in terms of accuracy and range.

In the face of France's suppression of its own rifles, this immediately attracted the attention of the German military department. Under huge pressure, Germany immediately established a rifle test committee.

GPK's original plan was to simply improve the existing Mauser 7184 rifle and convert the original 11mm black powder cartridge to the new smokeless powder and shrink the warhead. But it wasn't until December 1887 that GPK suddenly realized that such a modification did not have much progress and advantages, and decided to combine the most advanced rifle designs available at the time.

This hodgepodge of various advanced designs is the Commission 1888 rifle.

When the group came to the shooting range, a table had already been prepared here, with several unseen guns placed on it, and a very characteristic middle-aged man stood beside the table. Why do you say this, because at first glance, I thought that this person looked like a yellow race, but after a closer look, I found that he didn't look like that.

Before Carlo could open his mouth to ask, Admiral Saragate, the Minister of War, introduced him. "Your Majesty, this is the chief firearms designer of our Turin Arsenal, His Excellency Salvador Carcano, who is also the most outstanding firearms designer in our country."

With the opening of Admiral Saragate, Carlo knew that this was the designer of the new rifle.

Carlo didn't wait for the Carcano to come forward to meet him, but walked in front of him in two or three steps. "Hello, Lord Carcano, I warmly look forward to seeing your work in the hands of soldiers of the army."

Facing Carlo's first opening, the Carcano obviously couldn't react in time. "You... hello, Your Majesty, I would also very much like to see this day."

Seeing that Carcano was a little nervous, Admiral Tapea, who was the equipment director, said. "Carcano, let me introduce the new rifle first."

In the face of Admiral Tapea's general clearance, Carcano immediately focused his energy on the state he was most familiar with. I saw him holding a rifle from the table and began to explain.

"Your Majesty, please see, this is the new rifle I designed. The gun is 980mm long, weighs 3.2kg, uses a 550mm barrel, and can fire 6.5x52mm round-head rifle bullets. The effective range of the bullet is It is 600 meters, which allows soldiers to have enough range. In addition, the gun adopts a six-shot leak clip, which can ensure that our soldiers have one more bullet shooting time."

It can be seen that this rifle is designed to cater to the physique of Italians, so it has been reasonably divided in weight and length.

With the introduction of Carcano, even Caro, who is not a soldier, is interested.

"Let the soldiers try."

Facing Carlo's words, Admiral Saragate nodded slightly behind him, and several soldiers came over. They picked up the rifles in their hands and started shooting at the shooting targets outside. On their side, several technicians ~www.mtlnovel.com~ with notebooks and pens were making various records.

"Crack, crack, crack~~"

The sound of gunfire made the test site very lively. The soldiers not only shot standing, kneeling, lying down, etc., they sometimes rolled on the ground with their rifles, or threw them in the dirt and then Pick it up and shoot in a simulated battlefield situation.

These experiments have been good and bad, but they are all real examples of the various environments soldiers use.

Carlo and the others waited until the shooting was over before looking at the recording staff.

"It is reported that there are five new guns tested this time, and a total of 500 rounds of ammunition have been fired. Among them, there were three jams, and one was to stimulate the primer. In the shooting situation, the gun is better than the current our army. The current Vitry rifles, both in terms of rate of fire and accuracy, meet the standards we set.”

Facing the recorder's report, everyone, including Carlo, had smiles on their faces.

"Since this gun is good, how about a small-scale equipment?"

This is Carlo speaking, because judging from the use of soldiers, they have adapted to this gun, and it seems that this gun has been tested many times. If that's the case, then what else is there to say, it's better to push the boat along the way.

In the face of Carlo's words, the generals at the scene also nodded in agreement.

"Your Majesty, wise."

"Your Majesty, it makes sense."

"Then do as Your Majesty wishes."

With the approval of the generals left and right, it seems that Carlo is the leader of the army.

So in this compliment, the new Italian standard rifle was decided in this way. According to past practice, the gun is called the m88 rifle, but the customary name is called the Carcano m88 rifle.