Chapter 924: The Impact of the Lake Eyre Canal
While several European countries were embroiled in a crazed war of mutual slaughter, the Royal Munitions Factory in Australasia received an entirely new assignment.
Based on the specific circumstances of the frontline battles, the Australasian Ministry of Defense issued new armament manufacturing requirements to the Royal Munitions Factory.
What was noteworthy was that the Ministry of Defense's requirements did not focus on weapons, but instead called for certain improvements to existing ammunition and artillery shells.
Indeed, the new armament manufacturing list consisted almost entirely of ammunition. Unlike before, the Ministry of Defense required the Royal Munitions Factory to manufacture bullets and shells with sufficient lethality. New bullets had to cause at least severe injuries whenever they struck the enemy.
This decision had also been made according to the Staff Department's plan to effectively deplete the manpower of the European countries.
For the short term, the new bullets manufactured by Australasia would only be used against the enemy. But once the enemy realized that something was wrong, they would naturally begin large-scale research into these new bullets as well, striving to inflict even greater casualties on their foes.
In this way, at least in Europe, the conflict would turn into a war of attrition between the Anglo-French-Russian alliance and Germany and Italy. The purpose of researching the new bullets was to effectively kill the enemy's manpower. As long as both sides made extensive use of them, the proportion of severe injuries and deaths on the battlefield would rise dramatically.
Arthur was quite interested in researching new weapons. For that reason, he became one of the first people selected to inspect the new ammunition developed by the Royal Munitions Factory.
After arriving at the Royal Munitions Factory, Arthur and several senior generals from