Chapter 274 Water Tanks and Tanks

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

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 one after another in October this year at the earliest, and it should not be later than 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 aviation laboratory.

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

After receiving the answer, Arthur nodded with satisfaction and ordered the person in charge of the Royal Dockyard to contact the Aviation Research Laboratory.

The research and development of aircraft carriers is inseparable from the joint efforts of shipyards and aviation research laboratories. It must not only meet the requirements for short-distance takeoff of aircraft, but also make its combat capabilities and design more reasonable.

Let the aviation laboratories and shipyards deal with the specific design and experiments! For Arthur, he only needs to come up with an idea, and there are many people who will actually implement it.

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

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

The International Olympic Committee is quite satisfied with Australasia's arrangements. After all, the International Olympic Committee's requirement is only to build a stadium that can accommodate up to 40,000 people. If we look at Australasia's plan, the National Stadium will be a The super-large stadium, which can accommodate 50,000 people, far exceeds the requirements of the International Olympic Committee.

In order to build a national stadium, the Australasian government hired well-known designers and construction companies from all over Europe and the United States at great expense in order to build a national stadium that would be used for hundreds of years. Even if the new stadium is no longer used in the future, it can still serve as a historical witness to 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 serve as one of the landmarks of Australasia and an external symbol of Australasian sports.

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

Major construction companies and designers, under the coordination of the International Committee and Minister Grant, took more than a month to decide on the final preliminary design.

During this period, most of the time was spent arguing about which design was better. 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 the design is determined, the next most important task is definitely to start construction.

Arthur, Prime Minister Walter, Minister 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 to the comprehensive and diversified development of Australasia. How important it is, and it encourages and calls on more Australasians to invest in the development of sports, and on the premise of keeping fit, they can also make some contributions to the country.

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

However, the selection of athletes must not be arbitrary. They need 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.

Arthur's speech brought relief to Secretary Grant. As the speech began to spread across the country, the number of athletes was nothing to worry about.

Minister Grant even suspected that if the sports department relaxed the number of athletes recruited, the number of athletes in Australasia might exceed tens of thousands at any time. New 𝘹.𝘤𝘰𝘮

This sounds crazy, but it's really not necessary. You know, even the Olympic Games with the largest number of athletes only had more than 2,000 athletes.

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

There are only one, two, and three players in the sports industry, but there are no participation awards or consolation prizes. Therefore, the selection of athletes depends on quality rather than quantity.

Secretary Grant spent a lot of effort to select nearly 500 teenagers who seemed to have good physical fitness and talent from the tens of thousands of applicants, plus more than 100 athletes who had participated in the last Olympic Games. , forming a lineup of more than 600 athletes, preparing for the next Sydney Games to be held in Australasia.

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

I believe that more than two years of training will yield results for these athletes. Minister Grant's requirements are not high. As long as one-tenth of the more than 600 athletes can win medals, it will be considered as meeting Minister Grant's expectations.

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It is worth mentioning that Minister Grant also spent a part of the funds to consult some officials of the National Committee on how to quickly train athletes, so that the athletes can take some shortcuts.

Fortunately, current physical training is not so formal, and most of it relies on instinct and physical fitness.

1Construction of the La Siya National Stadium has officially begun. Construction of the stadium is expected to take twenty months, but could be extended to around twenty-four months.

This also means that the stadium will be at 1 at the latest, barely able to be officially put into use before the opening of 1st session.

The construction of hotels, facilities and roads supporting the sports venues is expected to be completed by the end of 2011 at the earliest, and will not be delayed until March 1912 at the slowest.

During the construction cycle, major construction companies and designers have made detailed plans and forecasts, which will basically not exceed the forecast range.

For the construction of this stadium, Arthur is very generous, with an initial budget of 6 million Australian dollars and a reserve budget of 4 million Australian dollars, which can be increased at any time.

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

Such requirements are relatively loose for construction companies, so these construction companies have a relatively high passion for work.

In addition, there is a lot of indigenous investment, which saves a lot of labor and manpower, and also reduces the construction cost of the stadium.

Time entered April, and 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 was nominally to inspect the construction of tractors and the specific conditions related to tractors at the Royal Agricultural Machinery Factory.

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

People are surprised to find that tractors can not only greatly reduce labor consumption when used to cultivate land, but even tractors can cultivate better land than human labor.

At the same time, tractors can also be used for some tasks such as harvesting. Apart from being a little more expensive and requiring fuel consumption, they are simply a hard-working serf, and a very powerful serf.

As of now, there are more than 1,000 agricultural tractors in Australia, and more than 70% of them are on state-owned farms or royal farms in Australasia.

Australasia's grain production can usher in a substantial increase, and tractors have indeed contributed a lot.

But Arthur, a little tractor, would not personally intervene. What really caught Arthur's attention and came in person was actually the first-generation tank that was 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 because in order to keep the research secret, the agricultural machinery factory called this kind of iron cabinet that looks like a water tank a water tank, which is called a tank in English.

After Arthur's decision, this guy, whose actual function was not similar to that of a tractor, was officially named a tank.

The tank, which was researched and manufactured by the agricultural machinery factory, is taller than a normal tractor.

From the outside, apart from being covered with a thick-looking 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 the front of the tank, and the rest of the tank is basically sealed.

Above the tank, a long muzzle stretched out, and the dark muzzle seemed to capture the soul.

The formal crew of this tank consists of four people, a driver, a commander, a gunner, and a loader.

Under normal circumstances, the commander is also the commander of the tank and the observer of the entire tank. He stands at the only observation port left in the tank.

The driver sits at the front of the tank and operates the entire tank like a tractor.

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

Of course, if you want to use the top machine gun, you must 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 when loading.

The person responsible for directing the advancement and firing of the entire tank is the tank's observer, also known as the commander.

The observer observes the tank's position and direction through the observation port, and orders the three men to take corresponding actions.

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

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