The Treasure Hunt of an Antique Dealer

Latest website: In addition to a few steel inflatable high-speed assault boats, the pier is also moored with three guys similar to the MK2 inland river patrol boats during the Vietnam War. They were built at the shipyard in the Gambia.

It is made, not simply assembled, like the power system is made in Africa, and only Russian technology. The construction of these years is not in vain, except for the main weapon system on the ship and small high-tech radars, all other African products.

Various industries are developing, and everything will be available in the future like South Africa before, but it will take time.

Local products do not mean poor quality. The starting point is high. The steel mills and rolling mills are all moving their hair. Even if it is only the technology of the 1970s and 1980s, it is considered good from a global perspective.

This class of patrol boat is 16 meters in length, 4 meters in width, and has a displacement of 22 tons. It has a maximum speed of 32 knots and a maximum long-term cruising speed of 25 knots. It can also complete a 360-degree steering within a range of 70 meters. It is extremely maneuverable. good.

The three fuel tanks are filled with 3,200 liters of diesel, and the cruising range is 380 nautical miles at a speed of 21 knots, which can be increased to nearly 900 nautical miles at a speed of 10 knots.

Making such a size is not to copy the experience of the old cargo patrol boats of the American Vietnam War, but to proceed from its own needs: it just meets the cargo warehouse requirements of the An-22 transport aircraft.

The cargo warehouse of An-22 is 33 meters long and 4 meters wide, and can be transported two at a time.

There are many rivers in Central and Southern Africa. This type of offshore and inland river patrol boat is suitable for many places, but how to deploy it when needed?

This length and width are within the allowable range of railway transportation. The problem of exceeding the height can be solved, but there are no railways in many parts of Africa!

Besides, Gambia hangs alone on West Africa, and there is no railway connected to Southern Africa.

What to do?

Sea transportation, road transportation with large flatbed trucks, and air transportation if necessary.

An-22 is really a universal transport aircraft. The height and width of the cargo warehouse are only 4 meters. It is not a problem. The top of the cockpit of this patrol boat, as well as a higher-position weapon station, and a small positioning search radar mast are all designed from the beginning. Become a detachable type.

Remove it and fix it in the middle of the boat, which can be easily transported by air.

The weapons station on the rear of the aft deck of the three patrol boats on the pier, as well as the weapon station slightly behind the top of the cockpit, are equipped with guys, but they are tightly covered with canvas.

Not to prevent peeping, but mainly to prevent rain.

This is Africa. What can be seen on the ship is not high-tech. The big killer can be more deterrent. People here believe what they see with their eyes. If you are too subtle, people will not be afraid of you!

A group of people boarded the nearest boat, which was also Hu Xiaoping's command boat: the three boats were a small group, and when the wartime was tense, the patrol was in one group, and usually a single boat was enough.

This boat is composed of 6 crew members, including 1 captain and 5 soldiers, namely the captain, helmsman, radio radar operator, mechanic and two gunners.

There are also six bunks, toilets and a small kitchen at the back of the cockpit, but there are no people on the boat at night in the Gambia, and they live in the dormitory on the shore.

At that time, security was all taken care of by the personnel on the shore of the base, but not long after they arrived on Lake Tanganyika, although there was a resort-style hotel by the pier that temporarily provided them to stay, half of the people on the boat had to be accommodated at night.

It will take a few days for this hotel and resort area to become a camp, and the security system will be implemented before Hu Xiaoping and his team members can sleep peacefully on the shore.

The six-member team seems to be compact, but when it comes to combat, the six-member organization is not enough. Therefore, Hu Xiaoping said before that the equipment is adequate, but the manpower is a bit tight.

During the battle, the mechanic would go to the top weapon station, and the two gunners were at the rear weapon station, but everyone found that there was actually a very crafty weapon stand on both sides of the middle deck, and there was obviously a large ammunition box on the side. The fixed bayonet, obviously, can mount a machine gun if necessary.

There is also a stand on the short foredeck, which can also be used for machine guns.

Hu Xiaoping asked the sailors to check their weapons and equipment. This opened the tarp covered on the rear weapon station...

It turned out to be a "Cornflower" 82mm automatic mortar mounted on a special bracket!

The original land-based gun mount was unloaded, and the 435 kg gun body was added to the redesigned sturdy mount, which looked very mighty.

"At the time of the Vietnam War, the United States set up a specially developed Mk2 81mm mortar on the same position as their inland river patrol boat. The cannon was also equipped with a strange-looking backpack M2 machine gun. The combined weight was not as heavy as this. How light is the cornflower.

The mortar that can also fire flat is more than 300 kilograms, but this performance is not comparable to ours. The maximum rate of direct fire is only 10 rounds, and the curved fire is only 16 rounds per minute..."

Behind the gun position is a storage box for 82mm shells, with four rounds and one magazine, which can hold a total of 30 magazines, for a total of 120 rounds.

This meeting was full of ammunition, a total of 92 high-explosive fuze bombs, 8 high-explosive fuze bombs, 12 white phosphorous smoke bombs, and 8 flares.

Hu Xiaoping asked the sailors to go to the warehouse next to the temporary barracks to fetch some flares and triggered high-explosive bombs, an additional 40 rounds per boat.

"It's okay for our ship to be loaded with more ammunition and people. The sea is windy and the waves are heavy, and the lake is calm. Those shells and missiles are all placed in the bunk..."

Hu Xiaoping introduced it.

By the way, there are two additional individual anti-aircraft missiles temporarily added to each boat, which are available in the warehouse.

The patrol boat is not afraid of others on the Great Lakes, but it is said that Burundi still has a few helicopters and propeller-type fixed-wing aircraft. To deal with them, individual missiles are much more convenient than machine guns.

Wealth is rich, affordable.

After a while, the trolley brought in stock ammunition equipment. In addition to the shells, there were three AГC-17 automatic grenade launchers, three GShG-7.62 machine guns, and several large boxes of machine gun bullets that had been loaded into the ammunition chain.

In this regard, Hu Xiaoping said: "It is also possible to temporarily install GShG-7.62 four-barreled Gatling on both sides of the ship, and there are spares in the warehouse, but this time it is a sneak attack on someone's base. The weapon range is relatively safe.

That gang of African soldiers basically catches the blind as far as the direct range of their equipment is. We can be absolutely safe if we stay a little further away..."

GShG-7.62 is a four-barreled high-speed Gatling machine gun with a caliber of 7.62 mm and fires Russian 7.62×54R rifle bullets.

Unlike the Gatling of the American external motor energy series, the Russian type is operated by pneumatic and rotary bolt action.

The gunpowder rounds are launched for the first time, and the rate of fire is only 3500 rounds and 6000 rounds per minute, and the maximum effective range is 1000 meters.

When they attacked the Gambia, Hu Xiaoping and Yao Sifu used American Gatling. Nowadays, the Soviets, who are more likely to "overkill" and consume ammunition, are mainly based on cost considerations.

The weapons and ammunition produced by the Soviet Union back then were prepared for World War III. The group pulled out from the warehouses of Da Maozi, Er Maozi, and a bunch of Xiao Maozi, but now there are still a large number of warehouses that have not been shipped out.

Now the ordinary equipment and ammunition we have are too many to fight a world war, but it is not enough to fight a world war, but a few medium-scale local wars are more than enough!

Don’t forget that there is always a day when it expires too long and cannot be used, so don’t save time~www.readwn.com~ As for American common equipment and ammunition, the ammunition factory controlled by our own group is in production, the quantity is not large, and the cost is low. That.

If you buy it, it will cost money, and the meaning will be done every year.

By this time, the position on the bow of the ship seemed to be empty. Don't worry about this, and you don't have to install Gatling or automatic grenade launchers. The crew themselves have a PKM general-purpose machine gun in their preparation.

Once needed, install a 250-round ammunition box and install it on the upper bracket to use it.

At that time, the US patrol boats were equipped with two M2 large-caliber machine guns. Hu Xiaoping's boats were equipped with ЯкБЮ 12.7 mm four-barreled Gatling!

Like the Mi-24 mounted on the head, the rate of fire is 5,000 rounds per minute, so fierce.

"Weapon stations can have many options. This machine gun is sufficient for the Lake Army. This time I didn't bring machine guns."

Hu Xiaoping is very confident.