Rise of Australia

Chapter 368 Indigenous Issues
Thanks to the 14-ton weight of the T-14.6 tank, this tank can accommodate five crew members, and can also carry 2800 rounds of machine gun bullets, 42 shells and some supplies, as well as enough fuel to travel more than 400 kilometers.

Of course, the weapons of each of the five crew members are also counted, which are used by tank soldiers to defend themselves and participate in battles when the tank is scrapped or broken down.

The T-14 tank also has a good improvement in speed.Although the weight has also improved a lot, the T-14 tank can still maintain an average speed of at least 26 kilometers per hour on flat roads, and the maximum speed can reach about 30 kilometers per hour.

But the data on flat roads can't explain anything, because tanks are designed to adapt well to various road conditions, even trenches and ravines dug by the enemy.

It's a pity that even if the power is enhanced, the T-14 tank is not fast on uneven roads.

Based on various road conditions, the T-14 tank can maintain an average speed of 15 kilometers per hour on uneven roads with obstacles, and the maximum speed will not exceed 20 kilometers per hour.

If the speed exceeds 20 kilometers per hour on a road with various obstacles, problems such as lying down will soon appear, and the big killer will become a big scrap iron.

This kind of problem cannot be solved in a short period of time. Even during World War II in history, tanks would have problems from time to time.

At present, the tanks in Australasia can achieve this level, and they are already ahead of the world's tank research progress by a large margin.

Although it cannot solve the problem of the T-14 occasionally lying down, overall, as long as the tank can be repaired quickly, the T-14 tank is still a big killer on the battlefield.

With thick armor, a 75mm semi-automatic artillery, and a Maxim heavy machine gun, it will be a combination of a hard shield and a sharp contradiction on the battlefield. As long as the opponent has no anti-tank weapons or uses large-caliber artillery to bombard, Otherwise the tank will not be in any danger.

The reason why the T-14 tank is called the basic improved version of the first generation tank is because there is still a big killer like the T-14A heavy tank.

First look at the weight of the T-14A tank, and you will know that there are many differences between it and the T-14 tank.

The weight of the T-14A tank has reached 21.7 tons, which is a full 14 tons higher than that of the T-7.1 tank.

在火力方面，T-14A坦克装备了一门GA1906式105毫米半自动火炮和一门CA-1-37毫米机关炮以及一挺MA-107马克沁重机枪。

Because of the huge improvement in firepower, the T-14A tank also has a main turret and a front turret.

The only heavy machine gun is installed on the front turret, and there is also a CA-1-37mm machine gun, which guarantees effective damage to the enemy's land troops.

And a 105mm semi-automatic artillery in the main turret is specially used to capture the enemy's positions and fortresses, and it is the first-class weapon for charging.

In terms of armor protection, the T-14A tank has a steel armor as thick as 35 mm, which is a full lap larger than the T-14 tank in terms of size.

This has also greatly improved the protection capability of the T-14A tank. At least the enemy's light weapons have no threat to this heavy tank.

Even some large-caliber artillery are not so lethal to this big guy.Because of the overall design of the T-14A tank, if the shell is not very good and explodes directly, it will be bounced off by the solid steel armor, and the lethality will be greatly weakened.

Unless the shell at the bottom of the tank exploded, or directly broke the track of the tank, the T-14A tank only needs to go on a rampage on the battlefield.

The crew of the T-14A tank is two more than that of the T-14 tank. It has a driver, a commander, two gunners, a machine gunner and two loaders, a total of seven people.

As a heavy tank, the T-14A tank can carry more weapons and ammunition.

一般情况来看，T-14A坦克能够携带4600发机枪子弹，180枚37毫米炮弹，22枚105毫米炮弹和足够坦克行驶300公里以上的燃油。

Of course, such data is relative.If it is on a flat road, the tank can carry more weapons and ammunition.Otherwise, it will be less.

As a heavy tank, although the T-14A tank has more and larger diesel engines, its driving speed is slower than that of the T-14 tank.

Of course, this is actually the design of this tank.Not the pursuit of speed, but the pursuit of more important stability.

According to several private tests conducted by the Agricultural Machinery Factory, the maximum speed of this heavy tank on flat roads can reach 22 kilometers per hour, and the average speed can reach 18 kilometers per hour.

On uneven roads, the T-14A tank can reach a maximum speed of 16 kilometers per hour and an average speed of 12 kilometers per hour.

Although the speed does not seem fast, if Arthur remembers correctly, the speed of most tanks in World War I did not seem to reach ten kilometers per hour.

It has been about 20 years since World War II and World War I, and it is normal for various tank technologies to make considerable progress.

Judging from the current progress made by Australasian tanks, it may be possible to manufacture tanks with World War II performance more than ten years in advance.

"Director Joel, have the performances of these two tanks been tested?" After reading the data of the two tanks, Arthur looked curiously at Joel, the director of the Royal Agricultural Machinery Factory, and asked.

"The machinery factory has conducted a small-scale test, Your Majesty. However, if this military weapon wants to determine its true performance and stability, it may have to go through a large-scale and long-term test." Director Joel quickly replied.

After all, it is a military weapon that will be used on the battlefield. Even though the Agricultural Machinery Factory has conducted several tests, Director Joel still dare not guarantee that there will be no problems.

The formal testing of weapons will usually be attended by high-level military officials and high-level R&D manufacturers. As long as the military confirms that there are no problems with the T-14 tanks and T-14A tanks, even if there are some defects in use, the Joel factory will not be blamed. long head.

Even for weapons and equipment tests of relatively high importance, Arthur will personally and express his opinions.

Who dares to say that there is a problem with the tank that has successfully completed the quality inspection under Arthur's supervision?
Arthur nodded, and naturally understood Joel's careful thinking, and said, "Organize the formal test as soon as possible, but the news must be kept secret. Except for some senior officials of the Royal Agricultural Machinery Factory, only the personnel who participated in the tank test It can be made up of high-level military personnel and soldiers who can be trusted."

Tanks are still too simple to build, just like the first-generation tanks in Australasia, which can become a tank with a combination of spear and shield just by making a little improvement on the basis of a tractor.

Although the exposure of the tank is inevitable, Arthur still wants to delay the exposure of the tank.

Although falling behind in the research of aircraft and tanks has weakened part of the strength of Britain and France, it is also weakening the strength of Germany.

As long as Australasia has tanks and aircraft, the combined military strength of the Allies will be far greater than that of the Allies.

As for the fact that Britain, France and Russia do not have tanks and aircraft, Australasia can sell them to them at an absolutely fair price.

Having a second-generation tank before the outbreak of World War I was good news for Arthur.

Even if the output of the second-generation tanks is not high, even if a war breaks out, there will be dozens of them at most, which can play a vital role in the war.

According to the current performance data of the T-14A tank, there is no doubt that this is a powerful weapon that can easily destroy enemy positions and fortresses regardless of the opponent's firepower.

If such weapons appeared in trench warfare in Europe, would it speed up the progress of the war?

It is an unknown, but what is certain is that the birth of the second-generation tank will greatly reduce the casualties of the Australasian army, at least the casualties of the regular Australasian army.

As for the hundreds of thousands of indigenous troops, no one cares about their casualties.

Even if some of these native troops returned safely, they would eventually be sent to other regions by Arthur, or they would be executed secretly in unknown places.

If you have to ask the reason, it may be that one of the three major island groups in Oceania, where most of the colonies in Australasia are located, and most of the aborigines in Melanesia are black.

The territory of Melanesia includes New Guinea, Royal Territory, Australian Timor, Australian Solomon Islands, Australian New Caledonia, Australian Fiji, etc., occupying most of the overseas territories of Australasia.

The name Melanesia comes from Greek and means black islands.

According to the preliminary statistics of the Australasian government, there are about one million aborigines living in these lands, most of them are Melanesians, and a small part are New Guineans.

However, the Melanesians maintain pure blood, and blacks only marry blacks, which also leads to the fact that the black blood in this land is the purest black blood.

It is for this reason that it is impossible for them to be accepted by Australasia.The strong racism of the Australasians does not accept such a population, and Arthur's strong personal will will definitely not accept such a population.

In fact, after Australasia took over these colonies in the Melanesian region, there were only two fates for these aborigines. Apart from serving Australasia to death, their best fate was to be sent to the Netherlands in Southeast Asia. Belongs to East India.

But so far, there have been no more than three recorded repatriations of aborigines in Australasia, each with no more than 2000 people.

This also represents the millions of aborigines in Australasia. At present, no more than 6000 people have left Australasia safely.

And the number of aboriginals who were buried in this land and was hastily buried has reached nearly 150 million.

Their efforts are worthwhile. They have created a great power country in more than ten years.

And Arthur and Australasia have not forgotten the contributions of these aborigines, and the repatriation of aborigines is still going on, and the frequency has increased compared to before.

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