Chapter 123: Successful Development of Artillery

Hearing Arthur's words, Benz and Diesel nodded in relief, no longer worried.

The issue of funding doesn't matter. They just hope that the car they jointly invented can go to the world. At least in the history of cars, they can leave a great name, which is also their wish for scientific research.

A pure scientist, isn't it just thinking about making some contributions to mankind and the world, and at the same time leaving a name in history and being remembered by future generations?

Benz and Diesel are just like this. They don't care about their own interests and funds. What they care about is whether they can research results and whether they can make their research careers regret-free.

Moreover, Arthur still has the most shares in the car factory. After the car factory gives up part of its interests, Arthur will naturally suffer the greatest loss.

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

Anyway, Arthur will provide normal research funds, and his net worth has reached hundreds of thousands of pounds, with hundreds of pounds of income every month. What else does Benz have to 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 hands, Benz will have no problem.

After returning from the Benz car factory, Arthur was planning to send people to Britain and Germany to unite the local aristocratic forces and even the royal family to directly finalize the matter of the joint car 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 copied two artillery by themselves, waiting for Arthur to inspect.

The M1897 automatic artillery is one of the best artillery in this era, and it is also one of the main artillery equipped in large quantities by the Australian army.

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

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

Needless to say, Australia will become the second artillery in Australia to master automatic technology, and it is much more powerful than the CA-1 machine gun in terms of power.

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

For those fortresses made of reinforced concrete, the power of the CA-1 machine gun is pitifully small. Even if hundreds of artillery pieces bombard in succession, it is probably not enough to shake a solid fortress.

The M1897 automatic artillery can make up for this shortcoming to a certain extent, and can cause larger-scale and more powerful casualties.

Of course, the real restraint for those solid fortresses is the large-caliber howitzers and giant artillery produced in Germany.

Although such 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 defense, other fortresses can be effectively destroyed.

After receiving the news, Arthur drove to the military factory, intending to see the power of the imitation artillery in person.

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 were excited, and the German experts were also smiling. It was obvious that they were satisfied with the successful imitation of the artillery.

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

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

Of course, in order to ensure that there would be no accidents, the barren mountain would be patrolled before each experiment to ensure that no Australians sneaked into it.

As for the wild animals on the mountain, they could not care about it. Anyway, Australia is vast and sparsely populated, and there are many wild animals.

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

The one in the middle was the original M1897 automatic artillery, and the ones on both sides were the imitation artillery.

Australian experts introduced: "Your Highness, the two artillery pieces we have copied are the same as the original M1897 artillery in appearance and design. We have also copied the two types of ammunition that come with the artillery, the 5.3 kg high-explosive shells and the 7.24 kg fragmentation shells. At present, the power of the two imitation shells is basically the same. As long as we make sure that there is no problem with the artillery we copied, 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 operate the artillery skillfully.

From their proficiency, it can be seen 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 artillery pieces fired at the same time. Under the condition that the artillery loading speed is similar, the three artillery pieces actually maintained a relative balance, loading shells and firing shells at the same frequency.

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

The two guns copied by the military factory can achieve the same output frequency as the original M1897 guns, which is enough to show how successful this copying is.

Arthur is not so arrogant as to think that this is all the credit of Australian experts. Even if there are Australian experts involved, at least half of the credit is also due to German experts.

"It's incredible. The copied guns are basically the same as the original guns. You did a good job!" Arthur said to all military researchers.

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

Using a sum of money to exchange for the favor of all experts and the complete M1897 automatic gun technology, this deal is profitable no matter how you think about it.

What's more, Australia will directly master the technology to produce this gun, which is much faster than using the technology to study the production method.

Hearing Arthur's words, everyone's face was smiling again.

Although everyone is a scientific researcher, there is no reason to refuse the free money. Moreover, as the Duke of Australia, Arthur's reward will naturally not be small.

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