Recently, a picture began to circulate in various WeChat groups in China. The picture shows an "Indian soldier" wrapped in a quilt shivering at the sentry position, and a PKM machine gun bought with a "crystal skin" is standing beside him.
Then a lot of self-media began to post articles: India was killed and confronted with China, and the guns were frozen into ice sculptures! Routinely black India. Is this really the case?
After some research and judgment, Xiao Er is basically certain that this photo was definitely not taken during the confrontation between India and China. The reason is simple, this picture is not an Indian soldier at all, but a Pakistani soldier!
This picture first appeared on the social network Instagram two years ago. The author is pak_army_5. This user has long posted pictures promoting the Pakistani army.
For this photo of the ice sculpture gun, pak_army_5 also added a picture note thoughtfully: pak army zindabad, pak army is easy to understand, it means the Pakistan army. Zindabad, originated from Persian, means "long live" in Urdu, Hindi, Bengali and other South Asian languages, which translates to: Long live the Pakistani army!
According to the content posted by this user, the photo may be taken on the Siachen Glacier, on the front line of the India-Pakistan standoff. It may be a Pakistani soldier who was watching the night and found that the gun became an "ice sculpture" in the morning, and then took such a photo. .
But what is interesting is that at the time, this photo only had 1 poor comment, 61 likes. Sino-Indian relations are tense this year. After the two sides began to confront each other on the plateau, many Indian netizens who "unknown the truth" took this picture off and used it as a propaganda photo of the "sacrifice and dedication" of Indian soldiers and posted it on Twitter, Facebook and other social networks. In the media.
Not only did it post pictures, it also included various sensational texts: Duty is heavy as a mountain, death is light as a feather (duty is heavy as a mountain, death is light as a feather).
In other words, this sentence is really not copied from Sima Qian's "Report to Ren Shaoqing", "People are inherently dead, or heavier than Mount Tai, or lighter than feathers, and they diverge from each other"?
Take pictures of enemy countries to promote your own soldiers. Well, this is very India.
So, why did a good gun become an ice sculpture? We know that it is normal for metal to frost in cold weather, but there is only one reason for it to become "ice sculpture" like in the picture: ice hanging.
Ice hanging refers to the glass-like transparent or matt surface rough ice coating formed when super-cooled water vapor hits the surface of objects (such as branches and wires) whose temperature is equal to or lower than zero degrees Celsius.
The conditions for ice formation are very harsh, requiring very low temperature and sufficient water vapor. It is also rare to have these two extremely important and contradictory natural conditions for ice formation. Generally, in winter, the probability of sunny weather and calm or breezy weather at the same time is not very large.
What is formed is rime
The Siachen Glacier area has exactly this condition. The South Pacific airflow brings abundant water vapor. It is blocked by the Himalayas. The water vapor gathers near the glacier. The plateau mountains are born to make low-temperature "refrigerators". The superposition of the conditions provides the conditions for the condensation of water to form ice on the guns of the soldiers on guard.
Rich water vapor brings lush vegetation
Someone asked, if the gun is like this, can it still be shot? It should still be able to fight, but there is a high probability of failure.
We know that although this PKM machine gun has a layer of ice on the outside, thanks to the design of PKM, there is a high probability that the ice does not enter the inside of the machine gun. The ejection port of the PKM is on the right side of the receiver, and one is positioned by a spring pin. The dustproof cover is closed when not shooting, which also effectively prevents ice from entering.
Therefore, if this PKM has been loaded, the trigger is likely to be shot, but the follow-up is completely difficult to say.
First of all, the bullet is also surrounded by a layer of ice, the entire circle is thick, can it be pushed into the chamber smoothly? Secondly, the aforementioned dust cover prevents the rime from entering, but if the shell is frozen hard at this moment, it is likely that the energy of ejecting the shell and pushing the bullet chain is not enough to push open the frozen dust cover, causing jamming.
Then it is very likely that the ammunition is not smooth
Although the heat of the first bullet may melt some of the ice shell, if there is no subsequent shooting, this heat will hardly melt the ice on the machine gun completely. Instead, the melted water will enter the inside of the gun, and then cause the inside. The machine was frozen. If you want to shoot smoothly, wait for the ice to melt first.
In fact, not only the ice shell will affect the firearms, but the low temperature will also cause inconvenience to the use of firearms.
Low temperature will affect the size of the gap of the bolt structure, resulting in increased resistance of the bolt, jamming of the bolt, various adhesions, no shelling during firing, recoil and recoil in place, jamming, loss of precision, and component breakage, thereby shortening The life of the firearm, or it cannot be fired.
For example, Yang Zirong, the reconnaissance hero in the Tiger Mountain, outsmarted the mountain eagles. On February 23, 1947, he led a team to surprise another group of bandits. When meeting on a narrow road, Yang Zirong raised his gun and pulled the trigger at the bandits. However, due to the cold weather, Yang Zirong's pistol bolt was frozen and his gun did not sound.
But the bandit's gun went off, and Yang Zirong, who was blocking the door, was hit in the chest by a bullet and died heroically.
Not only that, the performance of steel and polymer materials will be greatly reduced at low temperatures. Before developing the 95 rifle, in order to learn the advanced design concepts of western light weapons, China imported AUG, FAMAS, FNC, M16 and other famous Western guns from the West in small batches and conducted detailed performance tests.
At that time, the AUG rifles made of polymers were very advanced. Although they were all affirmed by the People's Liberation Army in tests under normal conditions, they did not meet the standards in low temperature environments. There is no problem shooting in a minus 25° environment, but the buttstock cracked during the drop test at a height of 1.5 meters. When shooting in a minus 40° environment, there were serious problems such as broken butt and shattered magazine during shooting. In the end, the AUG rifle failed to pass our army's test standards.
In the first two years, Russia’s AK203, in order to get the contract from India, also specially produced a promotional video of the normal shooting of the AK-203 rifle after freezing at minus 50 degrees Celsius. The implication may be that it was customized for the "High Plateau Glacier Standoff". rifle.
In addition, the gun oil will become extremely viscous at low temperatures, increase in kinematic viscosity or even freeze, resulting in increased friction of parts, incomplete recoil and incomplete retraction of the gun, and even partial deformation after firing, making it difficult to fire again.
In this case, it is enough to switch to low-temperature lubricating gun oil in time, but obviously Indians can't think of such a thing. After the confrontation between China and India, India hurriedly retrieved a large amount of Insass rifles from the warehouse and distributed them to the frontline troops. But the first line of troops instantly MMP, the thick layer of grease used to prevent moisture and rust on the gun has not been removed yet! The fat has condensed in the cold plateau and cannot be used at all. You have to boil it in a large pot.
But our Chinese rifles don’t need to be like this. First, China will “open” the rifles after being shipped out of the warehouse. Second, the design of Chinese rifles has already taken into account the large span of China’s land and the extremely low temperature conditions in the north. A more severe (minus 40 degrees) ultra-low temperature test.
It seems that many things can't be taken for granted, but India can be regarded as taking the blame. When it really can't stand it, why not put down its weapons and eat a hot pot in a heated barracks in the People's Liberation Army?
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