"The war has been won, and there will be no new large-scale wars within the foreseeable decade. With the advantage of the vast Pacific territoriality and far away from mainland disputes, I can't think of any country that will threaten Australia's mainland across the ocean. In a sense, studying these expensive and useless weapons is a huge waste, at least not the current priority."

"It's simply short-sighted. Tanks played an irreplaceable decisive role in the war and were the key assault force to win the Battle of the Consby Plateau. It is the first priority in the army's combat readiness sequence. The Army Department will never allow such self-destructive actions."

"Then your Army Department can also raise funds for research and development. The results of rich seizures in this Civil War, don't tell me you don't have money."

"There is no need to make this money. The war has been distributed to the officers and soldiers according to regulations. The part of the surrender has been included in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Moreover, the gold mines in Ballarat have been occupied by your government, but we have not reaped anything."

"When you open your eyes, no one of you senior generals has made more than 100,000 pounds. Maybe more, it's enough for the small treasury of the Corps to leak casually. Why bother to attack us for the poor and stingy financial funds."

"Farting, squirting..."

Seeing that the two sides had arguing again, Li Fushou, who seemed a little distracted, couldn't help frowning.

Although the ministers of the civil and military sides were fighting fiercely below, they were actually always staring at His Majesty's every move. Seeing this, the voice immediately eased.

In terms of importance, the tank project is an army ace weapon. Perseverance research is completely necessary. This will make the Australian tank project always at the forefront of the world, causing the army's combat effectiveness to soar, and become a trump card for resolving disputes in your hands.

It is no secret that the wild wolf light tank is now, but it is just that it covers an iron shell on an agricultural crawler tractor. The method is simple and crude, and the actual application effect is very good.

Most European and American countries know this, because they are arrogant or incompatible with traditional army war theory, and have not yet shown strong interest.

Think about it, too;

Traditional European powers such as Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Austro-Hungary have always been above the top, and they fight against the world with line infantry tactics. This has become the glory and tradition of infantry. How can it be easily changed?

The real secret of the Army Department of the Ocean Kingdom is the Leopard-style medium tank under development. It is a cross-age killer. The main power is immature 4.2-liter high-horsepower diesel engine. The chassis walking mechanism has many innovations. Because it involves new materials, new processes and new concepts, it still requires years of meticulous research and development, which requires strong investment in funds and breakthroughs in material technology.

Li Fushou has been paying attention to this project, and what disappoints him is... the Leopard Tank Research Project Team still uses a large iron shell design, which is almost equivalent to enlarging the wolf light tank, a steel monster that looks tall and large.

Two light guns were installed on it, five heavy machine guns, and shooting holes were opened on both sides of the tank. The speed of such a large power was less than 8 kilometers per hour, which made it a bit inappropriate.

It seems that the designer has not broken out of the old framework of the original design, but only knows to blindly increase motivation, increase armor, and increase firepower. This scientific research direction is completely wrong and will definitely enter a dead end.

This is how technological innovation is. Before the window paper was pierced, I had been groping in the dark. If I saw the example, I suddenly realized it; Oh... So that's it!

Plagiarism is very simple, and it is difficult to truly create a road to independent innovation, especially in the world's first creation, which requires countless attempts...

Therefore, Li Fushou didn't mind letting the tank research project team hit the nail and only pierced the window paper when it was right.

It was still very early to World War I, and he had no plans to equip the tank division on a large scale. The current research and development is all for technical reserves, so that mature products can be quickly produced by then.

Now... I'm going into the village secretly and don't want to shoot a gun.

He knew that the tank had a turret, so he didn't know how to design it. He didn't know the mechanical design inside, but this was undoubtedly the right direction.

If it were a few years ago, Li Fushou would definitely wave his hand and said, "Okay, don't argue, the tank R&D project will be funded by the Office of the Internal Affairs.

So everyone was very happy.

Li Fushou is not like this now. A tank project doesn’t cost much, so what about other R&D projects?

In modern times, after Dr. Nobel invented nitroglycerin explosives and plastic explosives, he quickly replaced the traditional black gunpowder and led a new round of military revolution.

The main impact is reflected in the field of naval artillery. The shells using new explosives have greater power, longer range, and stronger penetration. They put forward higher requirements for traditional artillery manufacturing technology, which involves more stringent gun barrel steel materials.

Take the 280mm caliber main gun as an example;

The shells loaded with black gunpowder can have a lifespan of more than 200 rounds. The shells loaded with new explosives basically ground the barrel after firing thirty or forty rounds, and an expensive gun barrel was scrapped.

Since the shells filled with new yellow explosives are more powerful and have higher chamber pressure, serious accidents such as explosions often occur, the design of the new artillery is imminent.

Among the full series of caliber artillery, small and medium-caliber artillery has relatively low requirements for barrel steel due to the small loading of shells. Therefore, the new small and medium-caliber rapid-fire artillery was the first to succeed.

The 152mm secondary gun on the armored warship was originally a supporting role. Now, with the emergence of the barrel artillery technology and new gunpowder technology, some international leading weapons companies have successively launched 152mm caliber rapid-fire guns, occupying an increasingly important position in the firepower of naval warships.

In the comparison test of new artillery organized by the Admiralty, Blue Weapons Company used a new explosive 152mm caliber rapid-fire gun to show great advantages.

Compared with the 45-pound shells used in the 120mm caliber rapid-fire gun, the 152mm caliber rapid-fire shell weighs as high as 100 pounds, which is 45.4 kg.

The theoretical rate of fire has not dropped much, and it can still reach six rounds per minute.

So

In terms of theoretical projection ammunition, the 120mm caliber rapid-fire gun can shoot 360 pounds per minute with six rounds per minute. The 152mm caliber rapid-fire gun can shoot 600 pounds per minute with six rounds per minute.

In terms of charge, the maximum charge of a 152mm grenade is 6.01 kilograms, which is almost twice that of a 120mm grenade.

The firepower of a 152-speed gun is about equal to two 120-speed guns, not to mention the super penetration power of larger-caliber armor-piercing bullets.

Therefore, after the 6-inch rapid-fire gun appeared, it was widely loved by officials of the Navy Department and quickly became the main firepower output of the Navy warships in the Kingdom of Oceania. The main warships are gradually replacing 152mm caliber rapid-fire guns and used as the second-class main gun of the warship.

The replaced artillery can be used as the main gun of offshore cruisers. Chinese people have always had great experience in simplifying their lives.

The Navy has stockpiled a large number of 152mm caliber shells loaded with black gunpowder. These shells can be used by second-level offshore patrol ships, and there is no need to buy new shells for at least ten years.

Compared with the main guns of the armored warship that can only fire one round every two minutes, the rain of bullets washed by more than a dozen 152mm caliber rapid-fire guns on both sides is the most terrifying thing.

The dense 152mm caliber rapid-fire gun is extremely destructive with the power of new explosives. The 6-inch rapid-fire gun is the main firepower output of the sound fleet.

Nowadays, in order to cope with the challenges of new explosive technology, Blue Weapons Company is improving and designing a full range of artillery, especially large-caliber heavy artillery, involving many scientific and technological difficulties. The barrel steel is one aspect, involving cutting-edge 10,000 tons of hydraulic forging equipment, and is trying to find ways to purchase it from England, Germany and other countries.

On the other hand, the self-tightening technology of the body tube is also high-end processing equipment such as barrel boring, milling, and cutting. At least the cutting-edge head of the boring machine is a difficult problem that cannot be overcome, which involves cutting-edge materials science.

The same is true for tank projects. The effect of copying and using bulletproof steel on the Iron Armored Battleship is not good, because the Hammer steel used in the Iron Armored Battleship is high-hard carburized steel with extremely high surface hardness. After being able to achieve 400 or even 500 mm on the Iron Armored Battleship, it can only achieve 35 mm thick on the tank, and it will not be able to drive after it is replenished.

Such thin high-hard carburized steel can even crack the 1.65-inch shell of such a legal system, which is far from meeting the defense requirements, so it is necessary to develop high-strength, high-toughness tank armored steel, which involves cutting-edge materials science.

There are too many categories of scientific and technological projects. No matter how rich Li Fushou is, he cannot carry all the scientific and technological research and development projects of the entire country on his shoulders. What's the matter?

"Don't mention the seizure of war. The officers and soldiers are fighting for their lives and getting some rewards and seizures should be due. They fought hard, so don't worry about the cabinet." As soon as Li Fushou spoke, the disputes were all quiet.

The so-called thief passes like a comb, and the thief passes like a comb.

The feudal army could not kill good people and make contributions, and harm the local people even if they were disciplined, grabbing something was a drizzle. The Citigroup still massacred the city during the Civil War. Isn’t life a day?

He said with a little thought, "Tank R&D projects are indeed very important, but according to the R&D trends reported earlier, the current tank R&D projects have become inconsistent and become another expensive version of the armored chariot.

Eight or nine combat personnel were stuffed into a tank, and the speed was as slow as a turtle. Does such a tank really have the ability to survive on the battlefield?

Your Army Department organizes a simulation confrontation experiment, simulates the real battlefield environment, conducts scientific assessment of the survival of new tanks, and then talks about the following things."

They fought against each other with the cliques, and the ministers of both civil and military sides did not get the results they wanted. His Majesty the King had already spoken, so they could only respectfully accept the order.
Chapter completed!