The Rise Of Australasia

Chapter 306: Chapter 270: The Development of Industry and Airplanes

The industrial developmt of Australasia has always be smooth, especially under the dual aid of Germany and the United Kingdom, the construction of industry has always be on the rise.

Up to now, Australia's annual total steel output has reached slightly over 3. million tons, of which the annual output of iron is .797 million tons, and the annual output of steel is .34 million tons.

Although the number of steel output looks a lot, it currtly just slightly surpasses the level of the last of the great powers, Italy, and is less than half of that of Russia and France in the same period, and slightly more than one-fifth of that of Britain.

Ev though it has surpassed a traditional European power like Italy, Arthur still doesn't feel the least bit joyful.

Although Italy is said to be one of the European powers, it only sounds impressive. Its actual status is definitely at the bottom of the European powers - it's perhaps only slightly better than the currt island nation.

Moreover, it is only the steel output that has surpassed Italy, and there is indeed nothing to be happy about. To truly equal or surpass European powers, Australasia still has a long way to go. Perhaps, it will only be relying on the two wars to take a shortcut.

The good news is that the various industrial constructions in Australasia are approaching perfection. In addition to the top-ranking steel industry, various chemical industries, civil industries, machinery factories, glass factories, fertilizer factories, cemt factories, etc., are all in a flourishing state.

Particularly the James Machinery Factory funded by the royal financial group, it has now developed into the largest in Victoria State and the second largest in Australasia, becoming a leader among many private terprises.

As for the largest machinery factory, it is naturally the Royal Machinery Factory, which is controlled itself by the royal financial group. The Royal Machinery Factory has orders from car factories, gine factories, various military factories, and other various factories. The annual production of machinery equipmt occupies 60% of the Australasia market, and it has more than 0,000 workers.

All factories and terprises under the royal financial group have more than 400,000 employees, who are spread across from various industries and fields in Australasia and is an absolutely giant in Australasian businesses.

The taxes the royal financial group pays to the governmt each year amount to ts of millions of Australian dollars, and its own net profit has exceeded 50 million Australian dollars.

However, the people of Australasia welcome the various terprises owned by the royal financial group, which not only provides them with jobs but also; any factory or business belonging to the royal financial group offers the best befits and policies in Australasia.

This is why wh Australasians are looking for jobs, the royal financial group's businesses and factories are their first choice.

There is a piece of very good news, after nearly two years of construction, the initial construction of the Leonora Industrial Base is officially complete.

The Ministry of Industry is currtly discussing the specific list of companies to settle in the Linnora Industrial Zone, and these companies are undoubtedly the giants of various industries in Australasia.

Since the construction purpose of the Leonora Industrial Base is to create a large integrated industrial cluster, this terprise invitation will definitely take into account more types and fields of industries.

For example, the chemical industry, the agricultural industry, the machinery factories, etc., that the governmt has vigorously developed in the past, will be the main target of this industrial base invitation.

To demonstrate the emphasis on the industrial base, after discussing with the governmt, Arthur decided to divide the tire Leonora Industrial Base into a city-level direct-administrated area, directly under the managemt of the Ministry of Industry.

The person in charge of the Leonora Industrial Base, the rank is directly equivalt to the rank of the mayor of a provincial capital city in Australasia.

The person in charge of the Industrial Base is appointed by the Ministry of Industry, with a term of four years.

This also represts Arthur's stance. Except for the Cabinet Governmt, no one has the right to interve in the Leonora Industrial Base.

Starting from January 9, the preliminarily completed Leonora Industrial Base officially began to invite companies to settle in.

The initial goal is to invite thirty large terprises and hundreds of small terprises, and t super large storage areas have be prepared for these companies.

As early as the start of the industrial zone's construction, the railway and highway connecting the industrial zone had begun construction, and it had be completed ev before the completion of the industrial zone.

The currt Leonora Industrial Base not only connects with Australasia's industrial railway, but also connects with the strategic highway network, which can quickly reach both the east and west coasts of Australia.

A conservative estimate is, ev if only the first phase of the Leonora Industrial Base is constructed, it will be able to create more than 50,000 jobs and produce at least 0 million Australian dollars in annual output value for Australasia.

All companies within the industrial zone are conservatively estimated to create tax revue of millions of Australian dollars for the governmt annually. If developmt is slightly better, making two to three million will not be too difficult.

And if the tire industrial base is completed? Create 00,000 jobs? Gerate annual production value of 0 million Australian dollars? Create annual tax revue of million Australian dollars?

Although these numbers are somewhat unimaginable, many people in the Cabinet Governmt have a vague feeling that they can be achieved and they ev support the construction of the Leonora industrial base more.

Of course, regardless of the attitudes of others, Arthur attaches great importance to the Leonora industrial base and ev instructed Minister of Industry Pierre to inspect the industrial base oft unless he is really busy. He must sure that the construction of the industrial base is completed with quality and on schedule.

Pierre, being the Minister of Industry, took Arthur's instructions seriously. He visits the Leonora industrial base approximately every half a month, for fear that any unexpected evts in the construction of the industrial base would cause him to dure Arthur's anger.

For Industry Secretary Pierre, who has already sat at the Industry Secretary position for three terms, if he wants to continue to stay in the Cabinet Governmt, he can only advance further in a Cabinet Minister position.

However, cabinet ministers like Minister Pierre Peile are not few in number, and there's ev fiercer competition for further cabinet positions, with two of them having already served as prime ministers. The pressure cannot be understated.

If they could win Arthur's favor and support, it would be a decisive help for their further advancemt.

Of course, Arthur knew nothing of all this, and ev if he did, he wouldn't care.

For Arthur, it was just a word that could allow anyone to rise to power, but why would he say that word?

At this momt, Arthur had arrived at the Aerospace Laboratory, with all his atttion on the new aircraft in the laboratory.

After over four years of effort, the aerospace lab's military aircraft had successfully advanced to the third geration, with huge improvemts in performance over the second geration planes.

Wh it comes to the manufacturing and technology of currt planes and military aircraft, Australasia is unquestionably the world leader, ev far outperforming the second in the world.

If it's said that the second-geration military planes could barely be used in combat, barely reaching the level of World War I, th the third geration military planes have not only achieved but ev surpassed the level of military planes during the late stages of World War I, and ev if Australasia were to stop developing planes now, it would probably take other countries five to six years to catch up.

But would they stop developing planes? Absolutely not.

Arthur's focus on the developmt of aircraft is increasing, with funding for the aerospace laboratory also steadily rising.

However, the Aerospace Laboratory is Arthur's private property, so it doesn't eat into governmt funds, and is instead financed and controlled by the Royal financial group.

The aerospace laboratory costs Arthur at least half a million Australian dollars each year, so naturally, the planes researched and produced at such great expse overperform the ones privately researched in other countries by the same era by a great margin.

Not to exaggerate, but Australasia has already lured at least two-fifths of global aviation talt and this proportion is still growing steadily.

If other countries want to overtake Australasia in aviation and aircraft manufacturing, they would have to take control of all the remaining three-fifths of the aviation talt and they would also have to spd a great amount of resources, possibly within several years.

Would that be realistic? The remaining three-fifths of aviation talt are distributed across Europe and the United States and are more or less valued by local governmts and ev some countries.

In addition, amongst these talts are also many patriots which ev Australasia can't attract despite offering much compsation, and Arthur doesn't believe that any country could control all the remaining talt.

Moving on to the currt third-geration military aircraft.

First is the Eagle-3 Reconnaissance Aircraft, which is currtly the fastest and longest-range aircraft in Australasia's arsal.

Like the second-geration aircraft, the Eagle-3 reconnaissance aircraft still adopts the design approach of having two seats, one in the front and one in the back, but compared to the previous geration of reconnaissance aircraft, its size is somewhat reduced.

Of course, factoring in the additional two auxiliary fuel tanks, the size of the Eagle-3 reconnaissance aircraft is ev larger than the previous geration's.

The maximum range of the Eagle-3 reconnaissance aircraft, without the auxiliary fuel tanks, is 700 kilometers, and with two auxiliary fuel tanks, the maximum range can ev reach ,0 kilometers.

That's not all, the Eagle-3 reconnaissance aircraft employs a aircraft gine specially developed by Disel for it, which allows it to fly at an average speed of 5 kilometers per hour, with a maximum speed of 40 kilometers per hour.

The average flight speed of the Eagle-3 reconnaissance aircraft alone surpasses the maximum flying speed of the previous geration's reconnaissance aircraft, demonstrating how significantly the performance of the gine has improved.

Of course, in order to accommodate speed and range, the weapons equipped on the reconnaissance aircraft are relatively simple, only a MA-7 Maxim machine gun.

But giv the terrifying flight speed and range of the Eagle-3 reconnaissance aircraft, ev wh countering reconnaissance aircraft or fighter aircraft of other countries, it would have no issues fleeing if it couldn't win the fight.

Looking at this brand new Eagle-3 reconnaissance aircraft, Arthur couldn't help but wonder whether the most advanced military aircraft of other countries would be able to beat this reconnaissance aircraft of Australasia, which is merely used for intelligce reconnaissance.

Ev if it's only equipped with a single heavy machine gun, this is still one of the latest products researched and developed by Arthur's Arms Factory after more than t years, since the last heavy machine gun, and its performance is undoubtedly top-tier among heavy machine guns.

In the original history, most of the military aircraft in World War I were only equipped with heavy machine guns or other weapons. The weapon systems were rather crude and far from being as advanced or powerful as the planes of World War II.

Thinking about the pottial future of Australasia's reconnaissance aircraft massacring other countries' fighter jets and bombers, Arthur couldn't help but think of it amusing, but he ultimately withheld his laughter.

Because showing inappropriate behavior before a large crowd could hurt the dignity of the king.

Anyway, a sce like this would only be a good thing for Australasia. So wh it happs, just let those countries be surprised!