Arthur was still very interested in the automatic rifle developed by Browning, and even watched the BLN-28 rifle in action.

In order to facilitate the later period, this rifle was designed with the same rifle ammunition as Lee Enfield, with a caliber of about 0.303 inches, or 7.7 mm caliber ammunition.

The use of this ammunition gives the Lee Enfield rifle a decent lethality and can be used in trench warfare.

The actual test limit speed of the Lee Enfield rifle is about 30 rounds per minute, which is almost the limit of the current semi-automatic rifle.

You know, Lee Enfield's magazine only has a load of ten rounds, which means that it is not easy to empty three magazines in one minute.

This is also the reason why Arthur said that the firepower of the Lee Enfield rifle was sufficient, and no country could afford to consume more weapons and ammunition.

While the fully automatic rifle looks more appealing, even the beta BLN28 automatic rifle can fire at a rate of more than 60 rounds per minute.

But it also represents a doubling of ammunition consumption in war, which is a huge test for logistics and the country's finances.

Although fully automatic rifles can also effectively increase the firepower of the troops, a large part of this firepower is redundant and does not have much impact on actual combat.

If you really need firepower, it is better to continue to increase the number and power of light machine guns and artillery, which is the only way to increase firepower effectively.

Although Arthur did not have the idea of massively equipping a fully automatic rifle, the current BLN28 automatic rifle still had a great effect.

After the rifle tests, Arthur expressed the idea of forming a new army to several generals in the Ministry of Defense, and said that he would name the new army "Royal Commando".

In a monarchy like Australasia, anything with the word royal becomes extraordinary.

Needless to say, these generals were instantly interested in the Royal Commando to be formed, and many even asked Arthur to appoint them as the commander of the Royal Commando.

But it is clear that as Arthur's excellent special forces, the commander of the Royal Commando is also destined to go through a rigorous selection process.

Even if it was just an ordinary team member, he had to be carefully selected from the hundreds of thousands of troops in Australasia, or at least one in a thousand.

Yes, regarding the size of the Royal Commando, Arthur doesn't plan to train too much for the time being, but just builds the framework first and explores the specialization training.

This also led to the first Royal Commandos being limited to around 200 members, who were selected from all soldiers in the army, including the Regular Army and the Guards.

Arthur even regretted revealing his plans to form a special unit to the Army's generals in advance.

During this time, many people recommended themselves to become the commander of the first special unit in Australasia.

In desperation, Arthur could only release some other news to attract attention and avoid the news of the formation of the first special forces unit in Australasia from leaking.

This message is about the study of artillery. The First World War was the era of giant cannons, and in the First World War a large number of giant cannons were born, and the caliber had even exceeded 400 mm.

Such a cannon is extremely wasteful in land warfare, and the large-scale caliber also represents a huge volume and weight, which is very difficult to transport.

After the end of World War I, Australasia's artillery research basically focused on 127 mm and below, which made repeated breakthroughs in the technology of small-caliber artillery, but there was indeed not much progress in medium and large-caliber artillery.

In order to change this situation, under Arthur's order, the Royal Military Factory also developed a new generation of M1928-150mm howitzers and CA1928 105mm semi-automatic guns, enriching the artillery system of Australasia.

The first was the M1928-150mm howitzer, the masterpiece of another munitions factory controlled by Arthur, called the Combined Melbourne Arms Factory.

The capital of this military factory is ostensibly controlled by several people, but in fact it is controlled by a royal consortium.

Through the capital support of the royal consortium, the Melbourne United Military Factory has developed into the largest "private" military factory in Australasia, and its main business is the research and development and manufacturing of artillery and firearms.

The code name M1928 is actually very easy to understand, M is model, the meaning of the standard model. The designation of this gun means that it is a standard 150 mm howitzer developed in 1928.

Through the news of the United Military Factory in Melbourne, it can actually be seen that Arthur has the idea of supporting other military enterprises.

While the growing size of the Royal Munitions Factory is good news, Australasia cannot have just one large munitions enterprise.

It is a good thing that there is competition in the research and development of weapons, and only the enterprises that involute can exert their greatest passion and motivation, and they can also have more ideas in the research and development of weapons.

More importantly, from a strategic point of view, it will be more difficult for many large military-industrial enterprises to penetrate, at least the enemy's intelligence work will become much more difficult.

The 150-mm gun also basically satisfied Arthur's idea. Although the transportation conditions in World War II were much better than in World War I, the transportation of 150 mm guns was still too much of a problem.

With most of Australasia's wars going to Europe or elsewhere, it is unlikely that much could be expected of logistics.

The CA1928 105 mm semi-automatic gun, its previous generation was actually the GA1906 gun jointly developed by Australasia and Germany.

This is a large-caliber semi-automatic gun from Germany and Australasia with reference to the M1897 gun, which is generally relatively successful.

But after all, it was already a product more than 20 years ago, and the CA1928 105mm semi-automatic gun was basically a new and improved product of the Royal Military Factory.

If nothing else, the artillery massively armed by the Australasian army in the next large-scale war should be the CA1928 type 105 mm semi-automatic guns, M1928 - 150 mm howitzers, M1922 - 75 mm semi-automatic guns and CA-2 - 27 mm anti-aircraft guns.

The first three types of artillery were used to suppress the enemy's fire, while anti-aircraft guns were designed specifically to combat enemy aircraft.

In addition, Australasia's light and heavy machine guns can also be improved into anti-aircraft machine guns, which can be regarded as having a certain amount of anti-aircraft firepower.

After all, the real air defense also depends on its own aircraft, and having air supremacy in a certain area is the real last word.

Rather than using artillery and machine guns to shoot down planes, Arthur obviously hoped to directly use planes to destroy enemy planes and gain complete and complete air supremacy.

Sure enough, as soon as the news of the two guns was announced, it immediately caused a rush from various units of the army.

Because of the large increase in the number of armies, it is impossible to equip all armies with artillery at once.

In addition to the already existing divisions, the new army will definitely have to go through a struggle for these weapons and equipment.

In the case of similar training, which side has more new weapons and equipment, which side will definitely have more combat effectiveness.

As for the special forces royal commander candidate, Arthur does not have a good choice for the time being.

After thinking about it, Arthur still felt that the former Prime Minister Kent was more suitable. But Kent's political career was much longer than his military career, but that doesn't mean Kent's military talent was weak.

As Australia's first Minister of Defense, Kent himself graduated from the Military Academy, but he has carried out frequent training in various universities, and he is considered a relatively versatile talent.

Temporarily handing over the special forces to Kent for training and management, Arthur was still relatively relieved.

Just wait until there is a more suitable candidate in the future and then replace it, anyway, training special forces Arthur is also groping forward, it is better to let Kent, who graduated from the military academy, give it a try.

After all, before the official training of the Royal Commando, what to do is to select the most suitable to become a special soldier among the hundreds of thousands of people in the entire army.

To achieve that only 200 people are selected out of hundreds of thousands, how to make a fair selection, to select the soldiers with the most potential and strength, this is the biggest test for Kent.

Arthur would certainly not provoke a war before the British took action, which also made Arthur quickly set his sights on domestic development.

In the absence of war, Arthur must have to carry out various constructions in Australasia, so that the country's potential and comprehensive strength can be further enhanced, and then there will be more capital.

In fact, it stands to reason that the sixth Cabinet Government should have ended its term in the middle of last year, and now the seventh Cabinet Government has already ushered in.

However, due to the economic crisis, Arthur naturally announced a one-year extension, resulting in the cabinet election being delayed until this year.

This year's economy has completely improved, which has also allowed this year's cabinet elections to be held smoothly.

Arthur is also looking forward to the birth of the seventh Cabinet Government, and each change of Cabinet Government represents a further step forward in the development of Australasia.

The efforts of six Cabinet Governments have shaped the current Australasia, and Arthur has witnessed the development and growth of Australasia during these six Cabinet Governments.

To borrow a quote from the foreign press about Arthur's status in Australasia: "He created and witnessed the development of the country, and in the eyes of those people, he was the whole country." ”

This is not an exaggeration at all, and it is the best language to describe Arthur's position in Australasia.

It is precisely because of Arthur's deliberate influence that Arthur himself is completely bound to this country.

Arthur represents the country, which is the real reason why the royal family is so secure at the moment.

But in other words, because of the high degree of binding between the royal family and the state, Arthur himself, including the entire royal family, and the country are both prosperous and lossless.

In terms of Arthur's personal prestige and status, even if there is no royal consortium and those armies, it is just a purely political point of view, and no one can compete with Arthur.

Arthur's position in Australasia has surpassed that of Queen Victoria in the United Kingdom, and Australasian people are willing to fight for Arthur, even if it costs with their own lives.

Although the cabinet elections are in May and June, from April onwards, the whole of Australasia is buzzing.

The system of government elections has changed over and over again, and Arthur has been testing the most suitable method for Australasia.

The current election method is not much different from the previous one, with each member of the House of Representatives nominating candidates for various cabinet positions, and the one with the highest number of votes gets the final cabinet position.

However, the election of the prime minister can only be contested by members of the previous cabinet and candidates from various parties (with more than five seats in the House of Representatives), making it more difficult to run for the prime minister.

In the case of the previous rule that the prime minister was nominated by Arthur to run for office, such a campaign rule undoubtedly weakened Arthur's power.

However, this was something Arthur was happy to see, and in some places he began to weaken the royal power in advance.

Although so far, the training of several princes has been very smooth. William, the titular first heir to the throne, showed good talent and was even recognized by Arthur as a good ruler.

But this did not stop Arthur from weakening the royal power, which had to be done before Arthur could abdicate.

Compared with Arthur's limited and purposeful weakening of royal power, if the next ruler is allowed to weaken royal power, then there is a high probability that he will be persecuted.

When Australasia was like the Dutch constitutional monarchy, the monarch would lose power overnight, and almost most of it.

Rather than this, it would be better for Arthur to weaken the king's power in advance and limit the king's power to a controllable range.

If the future monarch has the ability and prestige, he can completely rely on the system established by Arthur to obtain higher power.

If the future monarch is not very capable, his royal power will be greatly restricted, and he will be a king with a constitutional monarchy in peace.

In this way, it will be possible to let the Ming monarch gain power, let the Yongjun lose power, and make the position of the royal family more stable.

From the perspective of the framework and foundation that Arthur left to future monarchs, it is no problem to make Australasia one of the great powers and spend hundreds of years in peace.

On the premise of not competing for world supremacy, the Australasian royal family will also be safe and stable.

As for what will happen in a few hundred years, it is something that Arthur cannot predict, and naturally it is impossible to prepare in advance for hundreds of years later.

But in other words, a few hundred years of reign is enough, after all, the future monarchs of hundreds of years later and Arthur are not actually too closely related.

At least for Arthur for now, what to do with his adult children is what to do.

William and Anna were both born in 1909 and are currently over 18 years old, which is definitely the standard for adulthood.

The division of William and Anna's titles has not yet been decided, and what kind of titles to create is indeed a headache.

Fortunately, it is not to give several sons titles at once, at least there is a certain amount of time for planning and preparation.

William's ability Arthur is still very assured, and the next king of Australasia is basically William.

It was also decided to create a title for the heir to the throne, as the Prince of Wales of England did.

The crown prince automatically receives this title, which also represents the crown prince and is used exclusively to designate the next heir of the country.

Take a leave of absence today, sorry!

Let's explain, the second uncle is gone, and the author, who is a nephew, has been very busy these days, and he will be sent to the mountain tomorrow.

(End of chapter)