Colonial empires in a world ruled by elves

The Portable Machine Gun

At the Human Liberation Army Development Center, a group of weapons designers and engineers was assembling a new handheld machine gun.

Unlike the air and water machine guns, the machine gun system used a breech-loading system.

So it could quickly and efficiently fire the bullets inside the magazine.

Because they had seen the devastating power of the elven machine guns, they decided to do something similar for it they used .22 caliber bullets which were small but for the same reason.

They were able to make a cylindrical magazine with 1000 rounds. The machine gun could fire 900 rounds per minute.

So it actually had a suppressive power far greater than that of elven machine guns.

Not to mention, the .22 caliber bullets were quite efficient and simple to make, so there would be no problems for the soldiers.

Well, they could have at least five chargers with them. The only problem is that the chargers could not be filled manually as the time taken would be too long.

As soldiers could only rely on their magazines, the machine gun was designed as an auxiliary weapon, anyway.

It would be mandatory to carry a machine gun for the soldiers as they carry their pistols, that would increase the weight that the soldiers carry by about 4 kilos.

However, it would help them to be able to use suppressive fire at any time, so it was necessary.

When they finished assembling the machine gun one designer took it very carefully and took it to the test area.

In that place, a soldier who was waiting took it and after placing a magazine he pointed at some shooting targets that were at different distances.

The soldier, having everything ready, aimed his machine gun and quickly opened fire on the shooting targets.

A characteristic noise of the machine gun quickly began to be heard as empty shell casings fell to the ground.

Being a magazine with a large amount of bullets, the soldier can continue firing for a full minute. When he finished the magazine bullets, he left the weapon on a table.

Well, the engineers and designers entered the firing range to see the firing efficiency of the weapon.

After reviewing all the targets for a few minutes, they realized that the efficiency of the weapon was quite high as it had a hit rate of almost 80%.

Not to mention, it had an effective firing range of 400 meters, so it had a pretty high Range considering it was a machine gun that fires .22 caliber bullets.

After this, the soldier carried out some tests, some simulating a rainy environment, others between the mud and the earth, while there were somewhere it was done on ice emulating snow or with a lot of heat to simulate a desert environment.

In all the tests that were carried out, it was possible to have a reliability of the weapon of 75%, this due to the fact that it presented some problems when faced with mud and sand.

Because the internal mechanism was somewhat sensitive to this class of materials, so the soldiers took it into account for the next revisions of the machine gun.

But in general, the weapon had been a success, so after those tests and some other tests that were carried out, the weapon was approved for emergency use on the battlefront under the name Mg-1.

In order to demonstrate his power, a test was conducted against the leaders of the three human nations.

The tests were conducted in the open field where a group of soldiers had to fire their Mg-1s in many simulated environments while demonstrating reliability and firepower.

Kaiser Werner stroked his mustache as he saw the development of the handheld machine gun, as it was quite surprising as a small weapon smaller than the size of a rifle.

It could do so much damage, although the only thing he did not like was that the size of the bullet was too small, so its killing power would be much less.

However, he also understood that the elves had a machine gun with a much smaller caliber, but that did more damage because of the large number of iron balls it could unleash.

Still, the Kaiser approached one of the engineers. “It’s a beautiful weapon, but I would like them to design another handheld machine gun with at least a higher caliber like the 9mm caliber.

I know you can win a little tricky, but I would really appreciate if they made a weapon with those characteristics as it is completely important to have a weapon that can have a wide firing level and a bullet that can do more damage.

I don’t even know maybe in the future if you can develop a machine gun that can fire the same bullets that a rifle has, maybe it could be something surprising. “

The engineer smiled and opened a design notebook. “We understand your words Kaiser Werner, but you should know that the situation is a bit complicated because we do not have much experience.

This field is relatively new because, unlike the machine guns that can be mounted on a war machine or simply be used on the battlefield by two or three operators.

Handheld machine guns struggle with their relatively small size, however thanks to the new minerals we’ve been getting from the Elven continent.

It is quite probable that we can design machine guns of a better caliber, this because the internal mechanism will be of much greater size and quality.

For example, mithril is a very good material for making springs. The problem is that we continue to do some tests on alloys in order to know what we can combine it with and to see what characteristics it obtains.

Unfortunately, it is something that is going to take a long time since our allies the half-elves, let’s say they are not very good at using alloys of any metal because they trust their magic a lot. “

Kaiser Werner laughed and patted the engineer on the shoulder. “We have time, but you can increase the design and construction process, do not hesitate to ask for resources to be able to support you.

The empire and humanity are willing to spend what is necessary to guarantee the final victory against the enemies. “

Taking advantage of the proximity of Kaiser Werner, the engineer decided to talk about one of his own projects. “Kaiser Werner, speaking about research I would like to ask your support for a private investigation that I am doing with some colleagues from the university.

Vera, we discovered that depleted uranium has surprising properties as a piercing projectile.

This is why it is twice as dense as lead so it can be used as a piercing projectile, however we need support to get material and a test site. “

Kaiser Werner looked seriously at the engineer. “You will have your support that you are requesting. Just remember to create a report to send to headquarters to see the progress of the projectile.”

After the discussion, everyone continued to watch the demonstration of the Mg-1 machine gun. When it was finished, the production of the weapons was fully approved.

So the machine gun began to be mass produced in factories.