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"Oh, it's a drum magazine, with two modes: light mode with 6 rounds, heavy mode with 15 rounds... Oh, and there's also a belt-fed mode..."

"Yes, sir, when there is a vehicle, you can use belt feeding."

Liu Hongyi explained.

He made slight improvements based on the QLZ87 35mm grenade launcher and added a belt-fed design.

For example, on vehicles, light ships and armed helicopters, belt-fed ammunition can be used to increase the sustainability of firepower output.

Of course, the weight will also increase a lot.

But if there is a vehicle, the grenade launcher is a little heavier, so it’s not a big problem.

"Then tell me, why are there three feeding modes?"

Tan Dexi raised his head, looked at him seriously and asked.

"The main consideration is combat in jungle areas, where vehicles have difficulty passing through. Also, at this stage, we don't have attack helicopters, so the main thing is to ensure the convenience of individual soldiers carrying it."

"According to my design, when using a bipod in lightweight mode, the total weight should be less than 14 kilograms. When using a tripod, the total weight should not exceed 22 kilograms."

"The belt-fed system is a backup design, so we don't need to consider it in the early stages. Let's work out the drum-fed system first."

"Wait a minute, 14 kilograms, 22 kilograms, is it really possible?"

Tan Dexi interrupted Liu Hongyi's description and asked anxiously, with disbelief in his eyes.

"Did you know that the Eagle's MK19 weighs over 60 kilograms?"

Eagle's MK19 is a 40mm grenade launcher with a caliber slightly larger than the one designed by Liu Hongyi.

At over 60 kilograms, it is no longer suitable for a single soldier to carry.

This is probably one of the reasons why our army has not developed this weapon before.

It is too heavy. It is difficult for two people to carry it, not to mention its maneuverability. It is just a burden.

However, if the total weight is reduced to 14 kg, and that is with the bipod installed, the weight will be further reduced if the bipod is removed. At this weight, a soldier can carry it around without affecting combat mobility.

Liu Hongyi smiled slightly and said, "Teacher, what the eagle can't do, we may be able to do."

There is a widely circulated joke on the Internet in later generations: the Eagle is responsible for bragging, and the Rabbit is responsible for implementation.

This is related to the blackmail propaganda model of the Eagle Sauce.

In order to intimidate the world, the Eagle Sauce will occasionally throw out some new weapon ideas, pretending that they have already developed them. Anyway, their technology is indeed advanced, and other countries do not know the details, so they think the Eagle Sauce is super powerful.

Then the threatened rabbits would quietly hide away and work on the problem, come up with the Eagle Sauce's new idea, and put it into practice. When the Flower Planting Family began to equip their troops, the Eagle Sauce was shocked: "Wow, the rabbits actually came up with the thing we boasted about?"

Away from the big spectrum!

The QLZ87 35mm grenade launcher is a small example.

Another one is the world's lightest domestically produced Type 89 heavy machine gun.

It originated from a "beautiful misunderstanding".

When Damuo said that their heavy machine gun weighed only 25 kilograms, the rabbit immediately became anxious and worked hard to develop it. In the end, they produced the Type 26 heavy machine gun with a total weight of 89 kilograms. The designers were quite frustrated because the last kilogram could not be reduced no matter what.

Later we found out that the 25 kilograms of Russia's NSV heavy machine gun was only the weight of the gun body. With the bipod, the total weight reached 47 kilograms.

Rabbit managed to reduce the total weight to almost half of the heavy machine gun.

Why are you so eager to lose weight?

The main reason was that our army was not mechanized enough at that time, there were too few vehicles, and the weapons were too heavy, making it inconvenient for individual soldiers to carry them, which greatly affected their mobility.

"14 kilograms, 14 kilograms... If we can really do this, Hongyi, do you know how amazing your invention is?"

Tan Dexi's eyes began to shine, and his excitement was beyond words.