Rise of Australia

Chapter 274 Tanks and Tanks

The Royal Dockyard is about to start construction of two unified-class strategic cruisers, named the first ship Unity and the Mir, respectively, and officially started construction in mid-January this year.

Because the main task of the Royal Dockyard this year is to build these two fast cruisers, the construction speed of these two warships will be slightly faster. It is expected to be completed in October this year at the earliest, and it should not exceed December at the latest. .

After attending the groundbreaking ceremony of the warship, Arthur found the person in charge of the Royal Dockyard and asked the same question as he had asked Director Theodor in the Aeronautical Laboratory.

The person in charge of the Royal Dockyard did not boast. After careful and careful thinking for a while, he gave Arthur an answer that he could try.

After getting the answer, Arthur nodded with satisfaction, and ordered the person in charge of the Royal Shipyard to dock with the Aviation Research Office.

The research and development of an aircraft carrier is inseparable from the joint efforts of the shipyard and the aviation research laboratory. It must not only meet the requirements of the short-distance take-off of the aircraft, but also make its combat capability and design more reasonable.

Leave the specific design and experiments to the aeronautical laboratories and shipyards!For Arthur, he only needs to come up with an idea, and there are plenty of people who actually put it into practice.

After attending the groundbreaking ceremony of the two warships, Arthur officially approached a group of members from the International Olympic Committee at the end of January and held a large banquet to welcome them.

After a welcome banquet, Minister Grant and the International Olympic Committee rushed to the designated area of ​​the Australasian National Stadium without stopping.

The International Olympic Committee is quite satisfied with the arrangements in Australasia. After all, the International Olympic Committee's request is only to build a stadium that can accommodate a maximum of 4 people. If you look at it according to Australasia's plan, the National Stadium will be a The super-large stadium that can accommodate 5 people far exceeds the requirements of the International Olympic Committee.

In order to build the National Stadium, the Australasian government hired well-known designers and construction companies from all over Europe and the United States at great cost, in order to build a national stadium that has been used for hundreds of years.Even if the stadium is no longer used in the future, it can be used as a historical witness to build the development of Australasia over the past century.

Determining the design of the stadium is not an easy task. After all, the Australasian National Stadium will be one of the landmarks of Australasia and an external symbol of Australasia's sports.

This also means that the design requirements of the stadium are very strict, not only to reflect the good side of the country, but also to be novel and innovative enough to attract more people.

Under the coordination of the International Committee and Minister Grant, the major architectural companies and designers had to spend more than a month to decide on the final preliminary design.

During this period, more than half of the time was spent arguing over which design was better, and two construction companies even quarreled over this. Of course, it cannot be ruled out that one of them is British and the other is German.

After determining the design, the next most important task must be to enter the construction.

Arthur, Prime Minister Walter, Minister of Kent, and many ministers attended the groundbreaking ceremony of the National Stadium. Arthur also delivered an important speech at the groundbreaking ceremony, stating that sports are important for the comprehensive and diversified development of Australasia How important it is, and to encourage and call on more Australasians to invest in the development of sports. On the premise of keeping fit, they can also make some contributions to the country.

According to Minister Grant's report, there were thousands of Australasians who wanted to sign up as athletes on the day Arthur's speech was over.

However, the selection of athletes must not be reckless. It needs to go through strict physical and talent screening, and priority will be given to those young people who are loyal to the emperor and patriotic.

Minister Grant was relieved by Arthur's speech.As the speech began to spread across the country, the number of athletes was nothing to worry about.

Even Minister Grant suspects that if the sports department liberalizes the number of athletes recruited, the number of athletes in Australasia may exceed tens of thousands at any time.

It sounds crazy, but it's really not necessary.You know, even the Olympic Games with the largest number of athletes has only more than 2000 people.

As for the London Olympics, which has the largest number of athletes from a single country, the United Kingdom only sent more than 700 athletes.

There are only one, two or three players in the sports industry, but there are no participation awards and consolation prizes. Therefore, the selection of athletes is more important than many.

Minister Grant spent a lot of effort to select nearly 100 teenagers with good physical fitness and talent from the tens of thousands of applicants, plus more than 600 athletes who had already participated in the last Olympic Games, A lineup of more than [-] athletes has been formed, preparing for the next Sydney Games held in Australasia.

There are still nearly two and a half years before the Sydney Games. Minister Grant sent these more than 600 athletes to specific places for secret training.

I believe that more than two years will allow these athletes to achieve results in training.Minister Grant's requirements are not high. Among the more than 600 athletes, as long as one tenth of them can win medals, it will be considered as meeting Minister Grant's expectations.

It is worth mentioning that Minister Grant also spent a part of the funds to ask some officials of the National Committee for quick training methods for athletes, so that training athletes can take some shortcuts.

Fortunately, the current physical training is not so formal, and most of them rely on instinct and physical fitness.

In March 1910, construction of the Australasian National Stadium officially began.The construction of the stadium is expected to take 3 months, but it may be extended to about 24 months.

This also means that the stadium will be completed in March 1912 at the latest, barely able to be officially put into use before the opening of the Olympic Games in June 3.

The construction of hotels, various facilities and roads supporting the stadium is expected to be completed in late 1911 to the end of 1911 at the earliest, and it will not be delayed until March 1912 at the slowest.

The construction period is all major construction companies and designers have made detailed plans and forecasts, and basically will not exceed the forecast range.

For the construction of the stadium, Arthur is very generous. The initial budget is 600 million Australian dollars, and the reserve budget is 400 million Australian dollars, which can be added at any time.

Arthur has only one requirement, that is, to ensure quality and quantity, and complete the construction on time.

Such requirements are relatively loose for construction companies, so the enthusiasm of these construction companies is relatively high.

Coupled with the input of many indigenous people, it saves a lot of labor and manpower, and also reduces the construction cost of the stadium.

As time entered April, Arthur went to the Royal Agricultural Machinery Factory on the outskirts of Sydney to inspect the recent situation of the machinery factory.

Of course, Arthur's arrival in name was to inspect the construction of the tractor and the specific situation related to the tractor at the Royal Agricultural Machinery Factory.

Tractors have been an integral part of the development of Australasian agriculture since their widespread use in parts of Australasia a few years ago.

People are surprised to find that the use of tractors to cultivate land can not only greatly reduce labor consumption, but even tractors can cultivate land better than manpower.

At the same time, the tractor can also be used for some work such as harvesting. Apart from being a bit more expensive and requiring fuel consumption, this is simply a hard-working serf, or a serf with great strength.

So far, Australia has more than [-] agricultural tractors, more than [-]% of which are in state-owned or royal farms in Australasia.

Australasia's grain production has been able to usher in a substantial increase, and the tractors have indeed contributed a lot.

But Arthur, a little tractor, wouldn't bother himself.What really caught Arthur's attention and came here in person was actually the first generation of tanks researched and manufactured by the Agricultural Machinery Factory in the name of researching tractors.

Of course, the reason why this kind of guy is called a tank is that in order to keep the research secret, the Agricultural Machinery Factory called this kind of guy who looks like an iron cabinet for transporting water resources a water tank, which is tank in English.

After Arthur's decision, this kind of guy whose actual function has no similarity to a tractor was officially named a tank.

The tanks manufactured by the Agricultural Machinery Factory are taller than normal tractors.

From the outside, except that the surface is covered with a layer of thick steel plate, it is actually no different from a tractor.

Of course, because of the steel plate covering, there is only a small observation hole in front of the tank, and other places are basically airtight.

Above the tank, a long muzzle sticks out, and the dark muzzle seems to be able to absorb people's souls.

The official crew of this tank has a total of four people, a driver, a commander, a gunner, and a loader.

Under normal circumstances, the commander also serves as the commander of the tank, and is also the observer of the entire tank, standing at the only observation port left by the tank.

The driver sits at the front of the tank and operates the entire tank in the same way as a tractor.

The gunner is responsible for firing and aiming the 75mm howitzer above the tank, while also taking into account the use of the top machine gun on the tank.

Of course, if you want to use the top machine gun, you have to lean half of your body out of the tank, which is bound to be dangerous.

The simplest task of the loader is to load the artillery in the tank.The magazine and artillery are on the left and right sides of the loader, and the loader does not need to move to load.

The person responsible for directing the entire tank to advance and fire is the observer of the tank, that is, the commander.

The observation hand observes the position and direction of the tank through the outflow observation port, and orders the three subordinates to perform corresponding actions.

The four crew members complement each other and jointly maintain the operation of the entire tank.

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