"Markchin" heavy machine gun of the Chinese army during the War of Resistance Against Japan
At that time, the heavy machine gun of the Chinese army was mostly a Maxim type. In addition to the trouble of water cooling, its reliability was better than that of the 92 type.
Maxim machine gun is the world's first truly successful automatic weapon with gunpowder gas as the energy source. Its caliber is 11.43 mm, the gun weighs 27.2 kg, and it adopts a short recoil (19 mm) automatic method, water-cooled gun barrel; it uses a canvas belt with a capacity of 333 rounds** meters long to supply ammunition, and the belt can be connected, with a theoretical rate of fire of 600 rounds/min, which can be fired in a single or continuous manner; it can also be adjusted to a slow rate of fire of 100 rounds/min through the rate of fire regulator. The Maxim machine gun has a complex structure and a water-cooled barrel that is relatively bulky. The reliability of the canvas belt becomes worse after being damp, but it was widely used in modern wars.
Basic parameters
Diameter: 7.62 mm; rate of fire: 300 to 500 rounds per minute; initial muzzle velocity: 2620 feet/second (about 798 meters/second)
gun length: 1066 mm; barrel length: 721 mm, with 4 right-hand rifling
Automatic principle: barrel short recoil ; locking mechanism : toggle type connection device; ammunition supply method: canvas ammunition belt
Gun weight: 18.2 kg, without gun frame and cooling water; the gun frame and cooling water weigh 65.8 kg
Cooling water weight: 3.89 kg; barrel weight: 2.95 kg
Maximum elevation angle: 52 degrees; maximum deflection angle: 42 degrees; rotation angle: 120 degrees
In February 1914, the Jinling Manufacturing Bureau successfully copied the German Maxim heavy machine gun and named it "Huaning". After 300 braces were produced, production was stopped in 1921.
1915, Dagu Shipyard imitated the new German Maxim heavy machine gun obtained. In 1916, it was successfully imitated and was praised by the Navy, allowing it to expand production.
In 1934, the Kuomintang government formally introduced the drawings of the Maxim heavy machine gun from Germany and handed them over to the Jinling Arsenal for production.
The successfully imitated Maxim heavy machine gun was finalized in 1935 (the 24th year of the Republic of China) and is called the Type 24 (the Type 24) Maxim heavy machine gun. From 1926 to 1948, a total of 35,272 were produced.
ammunition supply method: 100 or 250 rounds with ammunition supply
rifle : right-hand 4 strips; wrapping range: 240mm
Theoretical rate of fire: 600 rounds/min; gun body length: 895mm
Gun body weight: 20kg; gun frame weight": 29kg; gun weight: 49kg
warhead initial velocity: (heavy pointed bullet) 770m/s, (sharp bullet) 870m/s
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