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Video: Why did the Red Army men tie a Mosin rifle to the barrel of artillery guns
2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55
The Red Army men have always been rich in inventions. Today, very few people remember this, but during the Second World War, the artillerymen of the Red Army came up with the idea of tying Mosin rifles to the barrel of the guns. This system worked flawlessly. Why was it necessary to do this at all? This is a very good and correct question. It's time to look at everything ourselves and figure out how it was.
1. Necessity for invention is cunning
A rather rare photo of the Second World War is circulating on the Internet. It depicts several artillery pieces and a group of Red Army soldiers, most of whom are sitting at a distance. Others stand next to the guns and (among other things) tie Mosin rifles to their barrels, which for some reason are planted on wooden blocks and ropes. What is such a system for and what are the soldiers going to do? In fact, the captured situation in the picture is not at all some kind of soldier's humor and not even "fake".
The photo shows a lesson of gunners who are being prepared to be sent to the front. A rifle on the field is a makeshift simulator that was invented by the Red Army for training gunners. The rifle is aligned with the sight of the gun, and its trigger is connected with a wire to the trigger mechanism of the gun. The rifle itself is loaded with tracer ammunition.
This is necessary in order for the gunners to practice aiming and shoot rifle cartridges instead of live rounds. This was done for economy and safety. If a fighter several times could well and correctly send a tracer cartridge to the target, he was allowed to train on real shells.
Note: tracer ammunition in this situation is needed so that the mentor and student can see where the shot flew, and can judge the effectiveness of firing.
2. The second life of the "technique"
It is noteworthy that simulators of this kind were used after the war, moreover, they are still used today. For example, when training modern grenade launchers, at first they use not grenades, but a PUS (Shooting Practice Device), which looks like a grenade with the only difference that instead of a rocket engine and a warhead, there is a rifle barrel and a trigger mechanism inside the PUS.
First, the student loads the PUS with a tracer cartridge, after which he charges the grenade launcher directly with the PUS, as he would charge with a real grenade. Such simulators are used before the soldiers are allowed to approach the real ammunition.
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