Transmigrated as the Crown Prince

Although the "Sea Lion Project" of the original time and space was not successfully implemented, Yanik would not be stupid enough to launch a landing battle in this cold winter.

According to the plan, the new version of "Project Sea Lion" will be led by paratroopers and airborne to the British mainland; if a landing battle is launched now, a part of the transportation force will be allocated to transport various cold-proof materials to these paratroopers to prevent them from freezing to death in a foreign country. . This will force the transportation plan to reduce the delivery of weapons and ammunition, and accordingly reduce the number of paratroopers.

When the infantrymen on the landing craft jumped into the freezing seawater, the cold-proof clothing would absorb the seawater and become extremely heavy, greatly reducing the soldiers' combat capabilities. And the enemy would not give them a chance to find a place to change out of their clothes that were soaked by the water.

Therefore, Yannick and the military leaders believe that the landing campaign will not be carried out until at least the end of February next year.

During this period, on the one hand, they wanted to trap the British mainland as much as possible and undermine the morale of the British soldiers and civilians; on the other hand, they wanted to actively prepare for the landing battle.

This day Yannick came to a paratrooper training base accompanied by Kurt Stuart.

As soon as the convoy entered the base, accompanied by the roar of aircraft in the sky, dense parachutes almost obscured the entire sky.

Looking at the paratroopers slowly falling in the air, Yannick asked casually. "Is the qualification rate of these parachutes 100%?"

"Uh, no, Your Highness." Kurt Stuart shook his head. "The passing rate is 9%, but this is already the highest level in the world."

"9%?" Yannick frowned dissatisfied. "Every parachute is related to the life of a soldier, and they should be 100% qualified. Pass my order and randomly select a few from each new batch of parachutes and let the factory managers carry them to parachute."

This method was learned from the United States. During World War II in the original time and space, the passing rate of the U.S. Air Force's parachutes was also 9%, which means that from a probability perspective, one out of every thousand soldiers who parachuted would die because of an unqualified parachute. The military requires manufacturers to achieve a pass rate of 100%. The person in charge of the manufacturer said that they are doing their best and 9% is the limit unless a miracle occurs. The military (some say General Patton) changed the inspection system. Before each delivery, a few parachutes were randomly selected and asked to be inspected by the person in charge of the manufacturer. From then on, a miracle happened, and the parachute pass rate reached 100%.

Kurt Stuart said with admiration. "Your Highness is wise."

While they were talking, everyone came to the side room. There were various weapons and equipment on the big table in the center of the room.

The first is the "bag".

In the original time and space of 41 years, when the German army airborne in Crete, it was impossible for men and guns to land at the same time. The airborne troops could only carry pistols and put the weapons in boxes. After landing, they had to search for the weapons boxes. But the box is not a person, it will not deliberately control the direction of falling, it can only fall with the wind. Then a group of German paratroopers who had just landed used pistols to attack the already prepared British positions. The reason why the paratroopers were so desperate was because their supply boxes fell on the British position!

It’s hard to imagine the anger of the German soldiers who couldn’t find their weapons boxes.

Only three years later, in Normandy, the Allied forces were able to carry basic individual equipment and airborne at the same time. This is because a British technician in the Allied forces invented a device called a "leg bag" to solve this problem. It is about a one-meter-long rope connected to a bag. After you jump out, the bag is tied to your body. The belt falls under your feet due to gravity. When you are more than ten meters above the ground, you can untie it or simply fall to the ground together. , and then take out the weapons inside to fight.

Another important reason why German paratroopers cannot use "leg bags" like American paratroopers is that they are "poor".

As the country with the greatest war potential in World War II, the United States can be said to have mobilized all its industrial power across the country to produce military equipment. It has given the green light to paratroopers who can spread their wings and given priority to the supply of equipment. In contrast, the Germans' pitiful resources not only have to be divided up by the land, sea and air forces, but even transport aircraft cannot be guaranteed to be mass-produced, and can only be equipped with a certain size of transport troops to transport necessary supplies. By the middle to late 1943, all available resources were focused on the technology of the army and armored forces by the Germans. How could there be so much spare time to create more individual airborne equipment for paratroopers?

The "Green Devils" who once dominated the European continent had to "parachute" from trucks to the war zone for reinforcements, either because there were not enough transport planes or because the transport planes ran out of fuel, and were used as ordinary infantry. This is undoubtedly a tragedy. .

Next to the leg bag is a "big pistol."

This "big pistol" was larger than current pistols and much smaller than a submachine gun; this was the "Scorpion" submachine gun later produced in Czechoslovakia.

Because this submachine gun is not much larger than a combat pistol, some people think it should be counted as a submachine pistol. It is indeed designed as a dual-purpose weapon. It can be fired with both hands on the shoulder like a submachine gun, and it can be fired with one hand without shoulder like a pistol. It can be used as an assault weapon in close combat. The weapon can also be used as a personal defense weapon instead of a pistol. Its size is ideal for being carried or used by vehicle drivers or aircraft pilots.

It adopts the traditional free-action bolt operation principle, with three firing modes: semi-automatic, three-round click-fire and full-automatic. It adopts a hammer-rotating firing method and a locked bolt to ensure shooting accuracy. The theoretical rate of fire is 1150 rounds/minute, and the effective range is 250 meters (but the warhead has almost no penetration after exceeding 100 meters).

After being equipped with this "big pistol", even if the paratrooper loses his leg bag during parachuting, he can still rely on the gun and 100 rounds of ammunition he carries with him to fight, which is much better than the small pistol of the original time and space.

Next to it is a FAL rifle. Later generations of automatic rifles designed by Belgium using 62×51mm NATO standard rifle ammunition.

FAL is probably the best overall performance among the 62mm NATO automatic rifles during the Cold War (generally considered to be the most outstanding performance among the three NATO heroes: m14, fal, and g3 rifles). Relying neither on the hegemony of the country of origin nor on the public relations of the manufacturer, FAL was used in more than 90 countries and produced in more than 10 countries after its launch in 1953, with a production volume of more than 4 million. Not only has it been given resounding titles such as "one of the greatest mercenary weapons of the 20th century" and "the right hand of the free world" for a long time, but it is also well-known in the country because there have been few scandals in its 50-year service history. It has a good reputation among foreign firearms enthusiasts.

However, it also has an obvious shortcoming, that is, its burst accuracy is very poor. In fully automatic or three-shot state, it is difficult to control the point of impact. But this is a common problem with automatic rifles that fire full-power rifle rounds.

Therefore, when the British introduced the FAL, they canceled the repeating rifle and replaced it with a semi-automatic rifle, the L1A1.

However, changing to semi-automatic does not mean that the rate of fire will be low. Rapid shooting with a tripod is still brutal. Moreover, instead of considering the rate of fire at medium and short range, it is better to consider using more accuracy to take advantage of the powerful power of 62.

Therefore, the current German version of FAL has also canceled the continuous fire mode and changed it to a semi-automatic rifle; because it is issued to paratroopers, the butt is also changed to a folding type; the gun length is 1020mm when the butt is opened and 770mm when the butt is folded.