The four people walked silently through the sparse woods.
Claude suddenly remembered a question: "By the way, Vero, when I was reading the history book, the mainland history records said that there were muskets more than five hundred years ago. Why do we still use match ropes after so long? gun"
In my memory, the development process of muskets in the past life did not seem to be so slow. From the emergence of matchlock guns to modern advanced automatic rifles, the process only took two to three hundred years. The military forum that I have read before time travel said that various countries are now developing more advanced individual weapons, and all laser guns and electromagnetic guns are developing into prototypes. But in this different world called Faslan, technology seems to have stagnated in the past five or six hundred years. Matchlocks are still the main military equipment of various continental countries. Even wars cannot promote the update and development of weapons.
Bockar next to him laughed: "What are you using instead of a matchlock? Bows, crossbows or swords and guns. War has long proven that the matchlock is the most reliable and sharpest weapon in the hands of soldiers. Without the matchlock, the kingdom would have perished long ago."
"That's not what I meant, idiot." Claude scolded Bockard: "What I mean is, why not improve the matchlock gun to make it easier and faster to operate, or cancel the matchlock and use a more reliable ignition method? Such as flint, and breech loading.”
"There are improvements. The kingdom has been working hard to increase the range of the matchlock gun. Now the latest Obas II standard musket is said to have a range of 350 meters, with an effective killing distance of 240 meters. The muzzle is still It can be equipped with a bayonet and used directly as a spear for charging. There is no need for soldiers to carry both matchlocks and hand-to-hand combat weapons when going to the battlefield." Viricero replied in a buzzing voice from the front.
It's not that just improving the range is useless. Claude can't even hit him accurately. He feels that he is almost like a chicken. His friends are not thinking in the same line as him at all. He decided to change the method: "I think it is too inconvenient to use a match rope to fire. The method of firing muskets should be improved. Haven't those gunsmiths thought about it?"
"My father has said this before." Viricero thought for a while and said: "There are four major gun-making workshops in our kingdom, and the gun-making workshop in our county is the largest. The four major gun-making workshops produce 100% of the gun-making workshop every year. There are nearly 200,000 muskets of various types. In addition to privately customized muskets, the quota and drawings of the muskets they produce are issued by the Musket Research Institute in Wangdu, and must be produced in strict accordance with the requirements of the drawings.
My father said that he once served as a guard soldier at the Musket Research Institute in the Royal Capital for two years. He said that there were many lunatics in the Musket Research Institute and he had seen many weird musket inventions. Like the flint ignition you just mentioned, it's not that there is no breech loading, but it is inferior to the earliest old-fashioned matchlock guns in terms of range and power.
In addition, safety was also an issue. Seventeen soldiers from their security company went to test the guns and were injured and disabled when their guns exploded. Therefore, my father later applied to be transferred to the frontline troops to avoid being disabled like his comrades. ending. It's just that he was unlucky. By the time he got to the front line, the war was over, and he would just stand guard at the rear."
It turns out that the kingdom also has a musket research institute that specializes in the research and improvement of muskets. However, in addition to increasing the range and power of muskets over the years, it has not further improved the matchlock guns. It cannot even make a flintlock gun. It is simply So incompetent.
"Then apart from the musket research institute in the royal capital, no one else is inventing muskets, for example, some private musket enthusiasts?"
Claude remembered some information he had read on the computer in his previous life. The two most important factors in the development of firearms were the need for war, so that more advanced weapons could be used faster in war, and the second was Those gun enthusiasts used various whimsical ways to improve their weapons and made an indelible contribution to the development of firearms from matchlocks to automatic rifles. It seems that many of the famous weapons manufacturers and arms companies in previous lives originally developed from a private workshop.
"Perhaps," Viricero pondered: "My father should be considered a private musket enthusiast, and his two shotguns were designed by himself. It's just that the muskets designed by private individuals will eventually go to the kingdom's gun workshop. For customization, the design drawings need to be reviewed to ensure that no safety accidents will occur, and an official number must be given.