Chapter 368 Aboriginal Issues

Thanks to the 14.6-ton weight of the T-14 tank, the tank can accommodate five crew members and carry 2,800 machine gun bullets, 42 artillery shells and some supplies, as well as enough fuel to travel more than 400 kilometers.

Of course, the weapons of the five crew members are also included, 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 has also made a good improvement in speed. Although the weight has also increased 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 does not mean anything, because the purpose of designing a tank is to adapt well to various road conditions, even trenches and gullies dug by the enemy.

Unfortunately, even with the improvement in power, the T-14 tank does not travel fast on uneven roads.

Considering 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 roads with various obstacles, problems such as breaking down will soon occur, and the weapon will become a big piece of scrap metal.

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

At present, the tanks in Australasia can achieve this level, which is far ahead of the world's tank research progress.

Although it cannot solve the problem of T-14 occasionally breaking down, on the whole, as long as the tank can be quickly repaired, the T-14 tank is still a weapon on the battlefield.

With thick armor, a 75mm semi-automatic gun, and a Maxim heavy machine gun, it will be a combination of hard shield and sharp contradictions on the battlefield. As long as the opponent does not have anti-tank weapons or uses large-caliber artillery bombing, 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 of tanks is because there is also a killer weapon 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 reaches 21.7 tons, which is 7.1 tons higher than the T-14 tank.

In terms of firepower, the T-14A tank is equipped with a GA1906 105mm semi-automatic gun, a CA-1-37mm machine gun and a MA-107 Maxim heavy machine gun.

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 set up on the front turret, and there is also a CA-1-37mm machine gun to ensure effective damage to the enemy's land forces.

The 105mm semi-automatic gun in the main turret is specially used to capture enemy positions and fortresses, and is the first-class weapon for charging into battle.

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

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

Even some large-caliber artillery is not so lethal to this big guy. Because of the overall design of the T-14A tank, if the shells are not well hit and explode directly, they will be bounced off by the solid steel armor, and the lethality will be greatly reduced.

Unless the shells at the bottom of the tank explode, or the tank's tracks are directly blown off, otherwise, the T-14A tank only needs to run rampant on the battlefield.

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

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

Generally speaking, the T-14A tank can carry 4,600 machine gun bullets, 180 37mm shells, 22 105mm shells and enough fuel for the tank to travel more than 300 kilometers.

Of course, such data is relative. If it is on a flat road, the tank can carry more weapons and ammunition. On the contrary, 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. It does not pursue speed, but pursues more important stability.

According to several private tests conducted by the Agricultural Machinery Factory, the maximum speed of this heavy tank on a flat road 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 10 kilometers per hour.

It was about 20 years after World War I that World War II had passed, and it was normal for various tank technologies to have made considerable progress.

Based on the current progress of the Australasian tank, it may be possible to produce a tank with the performance of the World War II period more than ten years in advance.

"Director Joel, have the performance of these two tanks been actually tested?" After reading the data of the two tanks, Arthur looked at Joel, the director of the Royal Agricultural Machinery Factory, with a little curiosity and asked.

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

After all, it is a military weapon to be used on the battlefield. Even if the agricultural machinery factory has conducted several tests, Director Joel still dare not guarantee that there will be no problems.

The formal test of weapons is generally attended by senior military officials and senior R&D manufacturers. As long as the military confirms that there are no problems with the T-14 tank and the T-14A tank, even if there are some defects in use, it will not be blamed on Director Joel.

Even for the test of weapons and equipment of higher importance, Arthur will personally 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 the careful thoughts of Director Joel, and said: "Organize the formal test as soon as possible, but the news must be kept confidential. In addition to some senior officials of the Royal Agricultural Machinery Factory, the personnel participating in the tank test can only be composed of senior military officials and trustworthy soldiers."

Tanks are still too simple to build, just like the first generation of tanks in Australasia, which can become a tank that combines spears and shields with just a little improvement on the basis of tractors.

Although the exposure of tanks is inevitable, Arthur still wants to expose the tanks later.

Although lagging behind in the research of aircraft and tanks weakened part of the strength of Britain and France, it also weakened the strength of Germany.

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

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 and without deception.

It is good news for Arthur to have the second generation of tanks before the outbreak of World War I.

Even if the production of the second-generation tanks is not high, even if the war breaks out, there will be at most dozens of them, 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 ignore the opponent's firepower and easily destroy the enemy's positions and fortresses.

If such a weapon appears in the trench warfare in Europe, can 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 troops of Australasian.

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

Even if some of these indigenous troops return safely, they will eventually be sent to other areas by Arthur, or secretly executed in unknown places.

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

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

The name Melanesia comes from Greek, meaning the Black Islands.

According to preliminary statistics from the Australasia government, there are about a million indigenous people living on these lands, most of whom are Melanesians and a small number of New Guineans.

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

It is for this reason that they will not be accepted by Australasia. The strong racism of the Australasia people does not accept such a population, and Arthur's strong personal will will never accept such a population.

In fact, after Australasia took over these colonies in the Melanesian region, these natives had only two fates. Apart from dying for Australasia, their best fate was to be deported to the Dutch East Indies in Southeast Asia.

But so far, Australasia has recorded no more than three acts of deporting natives, and no more than 2,000 people each time.

This also means that of the millions of natives in Australasia, no more than 6,000 people have left Australasia safely.

And the number of natives buried in this land and buried hastily has reached nearly 1.5 million.

Their efforts are worth it. They spent more than ten years to create a powerful country.

And Arthur and Australasia have not forgotten the contributions of these natives. The action of deporting natives is still continuing, and the number has increased compared to the previous times.

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