Chapter 351 Austrian version of M42
August 3, 1842, Tyrol Arsenal.
"The design of this helmet is really weird, isn't it?" said a weapons researcher.
"Don't talk nonsense! This is the design of Archduke Franz, and it must be a revolution in the history of helmets!" said Vincennes August, the chief weapons designer of the Austrian Empire.
"What if this proves to be a failure?" said another young weapons researcher.
"What do you want? Blame a twelve-year-old child, or admit your mistake?" Vincenzo August said angrily.
To be honest, he doesn't like today's young people very much. These people have no idea how high the sky is and they always want to let big shots take care of themselves. Don't they have no sense of responsibility?
In fact, everyone wants to take the benefits themselves and let others take the blame. But there is always someone to do the work...
When the researchers heard the words of their immediate boss, they naturally understood the meaning.
"But this is so ugly! It's not elegant at all. It's like a pot being placed on the soldier's head. Is it because you want the enemy to laugh to death?"
The young man's words gave Vincenz inspiration and he said quickly.
"You idiots, this pot, this helmet is obviously designed to make it easier for soldiers to cook food!"
"Ah?" Everyone looked at each other.
"Look at the design of this round hole, it is obviously used for hooks. If you put firewood underneath, it can be used to make soup, water and coffee." Vincenz analyzed it seriously.
"But don't the army's cooking classes have pots?"
"Idiot! What if someone poisons the cauldron? What should the team do when they are on a mission? What should they do if they encounter a plague?" Vincenz asked.
After hearing this, everyone felt that it seemed to make sense. After several days of intense communication, the Austrian version of the M42 pot helmet was born.
Although it is also called M42, it is different from the historical M42. The first is that the Austrian version was manufactured in 1842, while the German version was manufactured in 1942. The difference between the two is exactly one hundred years.
Secondly, the Austrian version of the M42 pot helmet is a pot first and a helmet second.
In fact, the helmet is not bulletproof, so these designers are very confused about its use. In fact, even if the bullet did not penetrate the helmet, the huge impact would still be unbearable on the person's neck.
Not to mention the helmets at this time, even the helmets from the World War II period also did not have the function of blocking direct rifle fire, but they could block some ricochet and stray bullets.
This kind of bullet has lost most of its kinetic energy, but flesh and blood still cannot resist it. A helmet may be able to save a soldier's life on the battlefield.
In addition, the most important function is actually to defend against shrapnel and gravel generated by shelling.
These things are the deadliest on the "future" battlefield. In the future, there will be more and more explosives such as artillery, grenades, and mines on the battlefield, and they will become more and more important. If you want to survive on the cruel battlefield, you need a hat that can withstand fragments. An assault helmet is essential.
In fact, apart from the material, the Austrian version of the M42 is more advanced than the German version of the M42 100 years later. For example, the camouflage design avoids reflection, which greatly ensures the safety during secret marches. At the same time, the fabric can also reduce the number of helmets. Secondary damage caused to soldiers by fragmentation and deformation.
Of course, four-color camouflage can also help soldiers better integrate into various terrains and avoid enemy hunting. It's just that people haven't realized this yet and just regard it as a child's graffiti.
In fact, during the manufacturing process, weapons experts discovered that if camouflage cloth was used on both sides, the pot helmet would lose its function as a kitchen utensil.
Ever since, after studying for a period of time, this group of experts decided to adopt a mesh pocket design internally. This can not only have a concealing effect, but also reduce the probability of breakage, and can also use the helmet as a pot.
It's just that the operation is a little more troublesome, and you need to take off the camouflage cloth on the outside of the helmet frequently.
The first batch of helmets were first equipped by Franz's Royal 1st Dragoon Regiment in Salzburg and the Marines under Friedrich. Both units were elite, and they were Franz and Friedrich respectively. He is directly under Derich and will not spread the information about the helmet to other places.
Of course, this kind of thing cannot be hidden even if you want to, and the cost of imitation technology is very low, but Franz still hopes to take advantage of it as much as possible. After all, other countries in the world have not yet realized this. The importance and value of a new type of helmet.
On September 1, 1842, the Chancellery of the Austrian Empire welcomed a group of "uninvited guests".
A group of girls wearing sun hats and luxurious dresses stepped out of more than a dozen luxuriously decorated carriages.
They are the scribes of the Prime Minister's Office who have just joined the job. As a model of old-hearted and immortal Metternich, the nearly seventy-year-old Prime Minister strongly supports graduates of the Royal College for Women to work in the government.
With the support of the royal family and the Prime Minister's Office, no one dared to drop people on the trees and burn them on fire this time. Thalia said this was unfair.
Although there were hundreds of graduates, according to the concept at the time, it was very shameful for women to go out to work, so only fifteen students finally joined the workforce.
Although it was just a matter of words to let him become a civil servant, there were still many troubles to solve later, so Franz could only ask his "experienced" teacher.
And Metternich also used his actions to confirm the sentence "A man is a boy until he dies." The Prime Minister took "meticulous" care of these scribes who could be his granddaughters.
Ordinary officialdom conflicts are nothing to mention in front of him, and with the Prime Minister around, most people really don't dare to make themselves unhappy just for the so-called "face".
In terms of work, everyone in the public sector knows the difference between having a master or being protected by family elders and being a lone wolf. Metternich used a short time and a few small things to make these girls understand things that normally would take them decades to understand.
Of course, on the other hand, old gentlemen like Metternich could easily attract these little girls. Fortunately, Metternich was no longer young at this time, otherwise the scapegoat might not have survived until 1848.
But since then, Metternich has also been nicknamed "Grandpa Metternich", but in general he still likes this kind of life, which makes him feel a lot younger.
Count Korolaf protested. He felt that the Ministry of Finance was the place where women should be. As soon as these words came out, the bachelors in the Ministry of Finance expressed their determination to follow the Minister to the death.
In fact, the Royal College for Women in Vienna has an accounting major among its university subjects, and two people are currently enrolling in the course. Franz revealed this to Count Korolaf through Thalia, who immediately began a funding plan.
This is a reform of the bureaucracy. It would be much easier if it were done from top to bottom. On the contrary, it would be extremely difficult.
Franz deliberately created it as a scarce resource for departments to compete for, rather than the so-called equal distribution, causing a boycott by various departments.
Franz took the first step to increase the number of working people and officials, but there was still a long way to go.