Rise of Australia

Chapter 123 Successfully Developed Artillery
Hearing what Arthur said, Benz and Diesel nodded in relief, without their previous worries.

It doesn't matter about funding. They just hope that the car they jointly invented can go to the world. At least in the history of cars, they can all be famous. This is also their wish for scientific research.

A pure scientist, doesn't he just want to make some contributions to mankind and the world, and at the same time leave his name in history, can it be remembered by future generations?

Benz and Diesel are exactly like this. They don't care about their own interests and funds. What they care about is whether they can produce research results and whether they can make their research careers without regrets.

Moreover, Arthur has the most shares in the automobile factory. After the automobile factory gives up part of the profits, Arthur will lose the most.

Arthur doesn't care about his own loss of interests, so what else is Benz worried about?

Anyway, Arthur will provide normal research funds, and his net worth has reached hundreds of thousands of pounds, and he has an income of hundreds of pounds every month. What else should Benz worry about?

Although they want to share their own technology, the inventors and owners of the technology are still Benz and Diesel.

As long as the ownership of the core technology of the car is still in his own hands, Benz has no problem.

After returning from the Benz Automobile Factory, Arthur was planning to send people to England and Germany sometime, to unite with the local aristocratic forces and even the royal family to directly finalize the matter of the United Automobile Factory.

Unexpectedly, another thing came, that is, the experts of the military factory and the German military experts, after more than six months, finally figured out the technology of the M1897 automatic artillery, and have already imitated two artillery by themselves, and are waiting Let Arthur go to inspect.

The M1897 automatic artillery is one of the best-performing artillery of this era, and it is also one of the main artillery heavily equipped by the Australian army.

Being able to master the technology of the M1897 automatic artillery and successfully imitate it is good news for the German Empire and Australia.

After all, this is a product of France, and it is also the main artillery of France.Germany can master its performance and data, which will also be helpful for future wars.

Needless to say, Australia naturally, this will become Australia's second artillery with automatic technology, and it is far more powerful than the CA-1 cannon in terms of power.

The CA-1 machine gun is more likely to cause damage to soldiers and troops, and at most it can only threaten positions and facilities with relatively weak protection.

For those forts made of reinforced concrete, the power of the CA-1 machine gun is pitifully small. Even if hundreds of cannons bombed repeatedly, it may not be enough to shake a solid fortress.

The M1897 automatic artillery can make up for this shortcoming to a certain extent, and can cause a larger range and greater power of destruction.

Of course, it is the large-caliber howitzers and giant artillery produced in Germany that really restrain those solid fortresses.

Although this kind of artillery does not look good in terms of hit rate, its actual power is very effective. As long as it is not a few fortresses with abnormal protection, others can be effectively destroyed.

After getting the news, Arthur drove to the military factory, intending to see for himself the power of the imitation artillery.

At the gate of the military factory, Australian experts and German experts stood in two rows and had been waiting for a while.

The Australian experts looked excited, and the German experts also had smiles on their faces. They were obviously satisfied with the successful imitation of the artillery.

After a brief chat, Arthur took everyone to the barren hill behind the military factory.

This large mountain area has been designated as the scope of the military factory, and its actual function is to test the power and performance of the weapons produced by the military factory.

Of course, in order to ensure that no accidents are caused, the barren hills will be patrolled before each experiment to ensure that no Australians have sneaked into it.

As for the wild animals on the mountain, I don't care. Anyway, Australia is sparsely populated and there are many wild animals.

In the temporary artillery position, there are a total of three artillery standing quietly in the position.

The one in the middle is the original M1897 automatic cannon, and the ones on both sides are imitated cannons.

The Australian expert introduced: "Your Highness, the two cannons we have imitated are the same as the original M1897 cannon in terms of appearance and design. Even the two types of ammunition that comes with the cannon, 5.3 kg high-explosive bomb and 7.24 kg We have also imitated the fragmentation shells. At present, the power of the two imitation shells is basically the same, as long as we confirm that there is no problem with our imitation artillery, we can officially enter the production stage."

Arthur nodded and said, "Is the experiment ready? If you are ready, let's start!"

"Yes, Your Highness."

The artillerymen stepped forward and began to skillfully operate the artillery.

It can be seen from their proficiency that before this experiment, they already had a sufficient understanding of the operation of this artillery, which can also avoid accidents.

With an order, the three cannons fired at the same time. When the artillery loading speed was about the same, the three cannons maintained a relative balance. The frequency of loading and firing shells was exactly the same.

This is still very rare for imitation weapons. After all, it is an imitation, and there will often be differences in performance, especially the first generation of imitation.

At present, the two artillery pieces imitated by the military factory can achieve the same output frequency as the original M1897 artillery, which is enough to show how successful this imitation is.

Arthur would not be so arrogant as to think it was all the work of Australian experts.Even with the participation of Australian experts, at least half of them are due to German experts.

"It's unbelievable. The imitation artillery is basically the same as the original artillery. You guys did a good job!" Arthur said to all the military researchers.

"Whether you are scientific research experts from Australia or Germany, you have made great contributions to Australia. Naturally, the royal family will not treat you heroes badly. Later, each of you will get a check from the Australian Royal Bank. This is a tribute to you. The reward for hard work in the past six months." Arthur said with a smile.

Using a sum of money in exchange for the favor of all experts and the complete M1897 automatic artillery technology, this deal is profitable no matter what you think.

What's more, Australia will also directly master the technology to produce this artillery, which is much faster than researching production methods with technology.

Hearing Arthur's words, smiles appeared on everyone's faces again.

Although everyone is a scientific researcher, there is no reason for the free money.What's more, as the Duke of Australia, Arthur's reward will naturally not be less.

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