Transmigrated as the Crown Prince

On this day, Yannick notified the heads of weapons companies such as Walter, Mauser, and Heinel, and asked them to come to the Royal Shooting Range with the latest weapons and firearms.

After some pleasantries, Yannick picked up one of the new submachine guns with great interest.

This is a truly "classic that has never been surpassed" masterpiece, the MP5 submachine gun. In terms of popularity, it is one of the few guns in the history of firearms that can rival the gun king AK47. It has a high rate of fire, low recoil, and its higher shooting accuracy makes up for its slightly lower power. This compactly designed weapon is chosen by commandos around the world. In addition, it is also chosen by multinational armies, security forces, and police forces. Standard firearms are used.

He is even a famous actor in various shooting games. When he used to play shooting games, as long as there was an MP5 in the game, he would definitely choose it to kill the enemy.

It was originally developed and produced by HK Company (Heckler and Koch Co., Ltd. of Germany), but this company has not yet been established (it was established in December 1949), and Yannick does not know the whereabouts of the founder of this company. There, the design of this weapon was handed over to Walter Company. After all, Walter Company also had this capability.

After World War II in the original time and space, Walter Company designed a new generation of submachine guns called MPL/MPK submachine guns. These (two) models were originally submachine guns with good performance. However, they encountered Waterloo in the terrorist incident of the Munich Olympics in 1972, or rather Take the blame.

In 1972, at the 20th Olympic Games in Munich, Germany, members of the "Black September" terrorist organization stormed into the Israeli delegation, killed two Israeli athletes and took nine Israeli athletes hostage, demanding the release of those imprisoned by Israel. 234 prisoners.

West Germany rejected Israel's request to send special forces for rescue and said it was fully capable of properly resolving the matter. But the fact is that West Germany did not have a police force capable of handling emergencies at the time, and the special forces were not good at resolving the hostage crisis. As a result, the final rescue operation failed completely and all the hostages were killed.

The world's public opinion was in an uproar, accusing the West German police of being incompetent and criticizing the West German government for "treating the lives of the hostages as child's play." The MPL/MPK submachine guns used by the West German police involved in the rescue operation (New York Times, Time) Weekly magazines and many news media reported the whole story of the terrorist incident at that time and published photos of West German plainclothes police using MP submachine guns) and its reputation plummeted.

In fact, the failure of the rescue operation at that time did not lie in the choice of weapons, but in the decision-making errors of the commanders and the lack of targeted training of the operators. If you replace it with a later-generation GSGPL/MPK submachine gun, it will not necessarily fail (the Delta Force established in 1979 has 1PL and MPK, which shows that this gun is not useless). What's even more ridiculous is that at this Olympics, satellite global TV live broadcast was launched for the first time. Satellite TV not only broadcast the Olympic Games live to the world, but also broadcast the hostage hijacking incident live to the world for the first time. The situation in the Olympic Village was broadcast by television stations to all corners of the world, including of course the apartment where the terrorists were hiding. The footage of the West German police preparing to infiltrate was clearly seen by the terrorists, and the first plan to rescue the hostages by force had to be aborted; it was simply a model for pig teammates.

Afterwards, the MP5 took the opportunity to suddenly emerge. During the anti-hijacking operation in Mogadishu on October 17, 1977, four terrorists were all hit by the MP5. Three people died immediately, one was seriously injured, and the hostages were rescued. The cabin of the hijacked Boeing 737 passenger plane is small, and the target is mixed between the hostages and seats. This environment is very strict on the size and shooting accuracy of firearms. This operation effectively proved the precise performance and power of the MP5, making the MP5 submachine gun famous overnight. Orders from all over the country flew in like a snowflake, especially the special forces and police of many countries were very enthusiastic about this gun. Favor the MP5 submachine gun as the preferred firearm for counter-terrorism.

Under the pressure of the MP5, the MPL/MPK submachine guns did not have enough market share to maintain the operation of the production line, and were eventually discontinued in 1987.

Although Yannick sympathizes with the experience of these (two) submachine guns, their luck is really bad, which makes people feel unlucky, and they have no plans to develop and produce them.

Watching Yannick load the magazine of this MP5 submachine gun and prepare to shoot, the heads of several weapons companies nearby couldn't help but think of the embarrassing scene when His Highness test-fired the G43 semi-automatic rifle a few years ago, and all ten bullets missed the target. Even Walter, who was confident in the performance of his own weapons, couldn't help but secretly wipe away the cold sweat, almost having a heart attack due to nervousness.

"..." Everyone looked at each other in confusion, not knowing what to do when Yannick had already raised his gun, pointed it at the target 50 meters away, and pulled the trigger.

Da da da!

Da da da!

In the past, when Yannick read military forums, he learned that the MP5 submachine gun was very suitable for novices. The recoil of the MP5's bursts was extremely low. It was not a problem to shoot it with one hand, and there was almost no feeling when the butt of the gun was pressed against the shoulder. Now that I have personally experienced it, it is indeed the case; whether it is a single shot or a three-shot burst, the recoil is extremely low and the muzzle has almost no vibration.

He fired all thirty bullets in the magazine in one breath and waved his hand to the guard in the distance to bring over the target paper.

"Not bad." This time most of the bullets hit the target, and a few of them were quite close to the target. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief and quickly applauded.

The reason why its shooting accuracy is so high is that the MP5 uses a semi-free bolt and roller locking method, while most submachine guns use a free-recoil bolt to reduce parts.

From the perspective of engineering structure design, MP5 can be regarded as "too sophisticated". The first is that it has a lot of material and a lot of mass (both good and bad); the second is that it uses ball delayed locking, which can be said to put the rifle system into a submachine gun. Most of the firearms in later generations use various types of gas-operated and bolt-recoil type free bolt types. It can be said that the diversity is constantly decreasing. The existence of the MP5 as a semi-free bolt action (ball delay locking) can be said to be a "wonder"; however, the excellent stability and accuracy of the MP5 are enough to cover up these shortcomings.

"From now on, this submachine gun will be the standard weapon for special forces and SWAT." Equipped with this submachine gun, you won't need to replace it for at least fifty years.

Putting down the MP5 submachine gun in his hand, Yannick turned and looked at everyone. "From today on, except for the Scorpion submachine gun, the production of all other submachine guns will be stopped."

World War II was the heyday of submachine guns. All major participating countries were equipped with submachine guns. In the Soviet Army, entire battalions of soldiers were equipped with submachine guns.

However, after World War II, submachine guns were gradually phased out in the military. Especially after the development of assault rifles, submachine guns have become really embarrassing in the military field. In terms of size, compact assault rifles are no larger than submachine guns. In terms of power, whether it is an intermediate-power bullet or a small-caliber rifle bullet, both muzzle velocity and kinetic energy are several miles ahead of pistol bullets. The slight advantage is probably cost, but modern warfare after World War II is no longer a large-scale war, and there is no need to sacrifice accuracy for cost.

In this way, submachine guns basically have no place in large-scale front-line field troops. They only exist as secondary weapons for machine gunners and snipers or as small weapons for special operations.

"In less than two years, the submachine guns in the army will be eliminated. Do you still have a lot of inventory, right? They can only be treated as scrap metal." As the saying goes, "Once a gun goes off, there is ten thousand taels of gold." The weapons they produce It has been sold to all corners of the world, making a lot of money, and the enthusiasm for production has naturally increased.

"As you command, Your Highness." Everyone responded respectfully in unison.

Walter then pointed to another gun and asked. "Your Highness, shall we produce these firearms next?"

He was referring to the G3 automatic rifle, which was also designed and developed by HK Company and can be said to be the father of the MP5 submachine gun. Because the MP5 uses the same roller locking system and semi-free bolt structure as the G3 automatic rifle, it can be regarded as the submachine gun type of the G3.

The American M14 rifle, the Belgian FN FAL rifle, and the German H\u0026K G3 rifle are collectively known as the Three Heroes of NATO; they were the weapons that best represented NATO in the early Cold War. Later, FAL became the right hand of the free world, with the widest spread. The G3 rifle was equipped with the armies of about 80 countries. Only the M14 had the most unsatisfactory development. It was installed in the US Army in 1957 and was replaced by the 116. It only served for 11 years. The rifle was eliminated without reaching its intended lifespan.

Now the German paratroopers and Marine Corps have been equipped with FAL series firearms, but Yannick is a little undecided whether to equip the army with the FAL series or the G3 series. Because the performance of these two firearms can be said to be "evenly matched", he really had difficulty choosing.

For example, according to tests in a later country, the accuracy of G3 is slightly worse than fal, but the delayed unlocking design makes the recoil of G3 less than fal. Although the test results are that the G3 is not as accurate as the FAL, the G3 has a naturally floating barrel, while the FAL may be for weight reduction, and the receiver cover structure causes a decrease in accuracy, so the G3 has good accuracy potential.

Interestingly, Germany also equipped FAL. In 1956, the Bundeswehr was reorganized. Since the German military industry had not recovered at that time, the West German army ordered a batch of FAL rifles and named them G1. After using it, I thought it was good, so I wanted to get a production license for the FAL rifle. It is said that the nostalgic Belgians still resented the experience of being invaded by Germany, so they rejected the opponent. In the end, West Germany purchased the Spanish Setmaier rifle production license and evolved into the G3 rifle. There is also the G2 rifle, which is a weapon submitted by the Swiss SIG company. The prototype is SIG Sauer's own SG510 rifle. However, this weapon lost to the G3 rifle in the bidding meeting, so it only has a code name, but it is not actually listed. Pack.

If Belgium had allowed West Germany to produce FAL at that time, perhaps FAL would have achieved greater success. However, due to the stubbornness of the Belgians, G3 became FAL's biggest competitor in the international market.

(One chapter today, maybe only one these days)