Chapter 1510 Remarkable Results

This was the final solution proposed by Britain, whether both sides agreed or not, the local British troops would be withdrawn, in fact the withdrawal had already begun, the British troops in Southern Rhodesia would be withdrawn to Botswana.

When Botswana became independent it was already agreed with Britain that the military bases would be retained and the building of the army would be under British guidance.

After Botswana’s independence, Alan Wilson also focused on this newborn country to express concern, this half a million square kilometers of the newborn country with a total population of 700,000, not counting 20,000 British soldiers and their families, enough to be called gifted, with the resources of the country’s model.

With Botswana’s nominal gain of independence and Whitehall’s emphatic concern, the standard of living of the local blacks must have been much better than that of their South African counterparts. Whitehall’s concern in a myriad of ways, at the beginning of Botswana’s independence, it quickly inventoried Botswana’s national population and set up a household registration system to prevent the influx of people from neighboring countries, which could not be said to be less than conscientious.

Life in Botswana was a ceiling for war-torn southern Africa, and the post-independence leadership maintained good relations with Britain. Britain also then stepped up the use of public opinion to create an information cocoon, shaping the local people on the other country’s vigilance, half a million square kilometers of the country only 700,000 people, some always have the unruly people want to harm my idea is normal.

What’s more, Botswana’s own national conditions are not too bad, not bad to the point of the Middle East countries, with the sparse population is already considered to have the qualities of a resource country, in today’s Africa, Botswana’s black people’s standard of living, but also compared to South Africa and some parts of the white people worse than the level of black compatriots in any country.

After years of shaping public opinion, the notion that neighboring countries are war-torn and bent on moistening to Botswana has become ingrained in the minds of the locals. Of course Britain is an exception, the local British army in sharing the benefits at the same time, abide by the fact that Botswana has been independent, the internal affairs of this country does not interfere.

Botswana’s status quo, and now Britain wants to copy to Kenya above the original intention, than Botswana, a landlocked country, Kenya has the East African coastline, facing the Indian Ocean, in the Nyerere more inclined to the Soviet Union’s set of systems at the present time, Kenya’s position is extremely important to the United Kingdom.

At present, Kenya and Britain around the independence of the negotiation is very smooth, if not the South Rhodesia problem is not resolved late, Kenya would have been independent now.

The British attitude has been taken out that the partition of Southern Rhodesia is irrevocable, but Ian Smith and Mugabe are still trading barbs around how much land is available, with Mugabe arguing that the whites are still getting too much land, and that it’s already more than the proportion of the population that the whites occupy.

Ian Smith countered that Harare, the capital that the whites had built over the years, had been handed over to Mugabe’s side and deserved to be properly compensated for the land, and it appeared that there was still room for debate between the two sides.

Since the two have so much time, Alan Wilson naturally has nothing to say, or people still think the British Empire has been difficult to the point of not being able to afford food.

This day home to see Pamela packing a suitcase, Alan Wilson looked at a suitcase full of pounds, helplessly reminded, “You do not bring so much cash to the house, or people see it and think that I embezzled.”

“Exaggerated, father, who would believe that the husband of the richest lady is embezzling?” Pamela shook her little hand and retorted, “This is all legitimate income that will stand up to anyone’s scrutiny.”

“My daughter, you still overestimate the intelligence of citizens.” Alan Wilson put down his briefcase, thinking to himself that he had lived a clean life, and never had more than five hundred pounds of cash inside his wallet, and although the main factor was that the photo was a bit too many bills to stuff in, compared to the rest of this family, it was really exemplary.

“I know, I’ll never let that scene come back to haunt you.” Pamela zipped up her suitcase and muttered contentedly, “I want to transport the tiger to the reserve.”

“Do you have a Caspian tiger, it might disrupt the local ecological chain.” Alan Wilson opened his mouth to persuade, it’s best not to do this, the question of who has the higher combat power of lions and tigers to unimportant.

Fear to the grassland environment tiger’s habits may change, solitary and group living is not completely can not be converted, if the tiger in Africa to become a group living, that destructive force can be too big.

“I’ve thought of everything!” Pamela directly came with an invalid objection, exuberantly saying, “The matter of Africa is still not up to Sophia and her family, does she still want to marry Albert or not. I’ll make a trip to the Rheinland Group Army, and this matter will be accomplished.”

“It’s better not to go, right? Albert is only an ensign now.” Alan Wilson sighed, thinking that it would have been better if Arnold hadn’t been at school today.

It was only logical that the objection was invalid, as there weren’t many daughters, Allen Wilson was significantly more tolerant of his daughter, and after a bit of self-congratulation he continued to follow up on his work, Makins was in charge of the military tours in the East, informing him of a piece of news, “They’re very interested in the technology of the artillery radar, and they’ve already made an offer to buy it. “Does the Faith Artillery Automated Command System count as being under the jurisdiction of the Batumi?”

“Does it count as being under the control of the Batumi? You can see that the US is now sticking to others like a licking dog, so you’ll know whether it counts or not.”

Alan Wilson lightly grunted, then said, “The imaginary enemy is definitely the Soviet army, so if you notify the American side, the Americans will definitely nod their heads as well. It’s better to notify them, don’t make it look like we’re secretly selling them.”

A certain big country inherited the Soviet artillery doctrine and was properly the second in the world in terms of size, but of course in this day and age, the second in the world and the world’s penultimate were pretty much the same in front of the Soviets, the difference between three hours and three days.

The traditional artillery method of measuring distance with the fingers is known as the jumping eye method, and is a simple method of measuring distance commonly used by the military.

The specific method is to extend the arm forward with the thumb upright closing the left eye so that the right eye sight points along the side of the thumb to the left side of the target and the head and hand remain stationary, then close the right eye so that the left eye sight passes through the same side of the thumb and remember that the sight is aligned with a certain point in the field, and then visually measure the width of the target from the left side of the target to that point and multiply it by ten, i.e., the distance from the standing officer to the target.

The principle of the jump-eye method is that the distance from a person’s left eye to his right eye is about one-tenth of the arm’s length, multiplied by ten times the width of the target being measured.

Soviet artillery, on the other hand, used optical rangefinders, which were used to measure the inclined distance of an airborne target or the vertical height of a target from the ground, and were also available to ground artillery, and could be used to observe the distance between a fixed target and a moving target on the ground, which was ten times that of a telescope.

However, in the anti-artillery above, or the European side of the country is more professional, after all, faced with the direct threat of Soviet artillery, handheld laser rangefinders are the British Army’s standard instruments, this time the same was looked at the British artillery radar.

Artillery radar utilizes radar to scan the trajectory of artillery shells, allowing an estimate of the location and point of impact of enemy artillery.

Compared with other ranging equipment, the radar has the characteristics of fast reconnaissance, long distance, all-weather work, etc. Allen Wilson knew in his heart that if this time the military purchase negotiated, the laser rangefinder and artillery radar, both will be used in the head of the Vietnamese.

“By then, if the sea military exercises in the Gulf of Thailand or off Saigon, the effect should be good.” Alan Wilson at this point has even begun to think about the curatorial war, if the Royal Navy can be a threat in the direction of Cambodia, it can greatly enhance the relationship between the two countries, the most important thing is that the Soviet Union will definitely jump.

Just as he had predicted, the US government had a flexible moral bottom line and showed the magnanimity of the free world with regard to purchases such as artillery radar and laser rangefinders, which were clearly directed at the other army power, the USSR, and which in no way violated the ban of the Paris Coordinating Committee.

Since there was no opposition from the United States, Allen Wilson was of course optimistic that the more things needed, the British-made lp-7 laser rangefinders, “Simberlin” artillery positioning radar appeared in the procurement, so as to talk about the northern line of the Roatan Railway, which should be called the ROK Railway, connecting the Rhodesia, Uganda and Kenya, and promoting the development of the African Victoria Grande Armée, which was to be the largest railroad in Africa. Kenya to promote the development of the Great Lakes region of Victoria in Africa.

The “Simberlin” artillery reconnaissance radar is a short-range mortar reconnaissance radar, a second-generation mortar reconnaissance radar developed by the United Kingdom, which entered service with the British and Federal Republic of Germany in the 1970s.

It is mainly used for mortar positioning and calibration, with a detection range of up to 10 kilometers for 80mm mortars and 14 kilometers for 120mm mortars.

In the current time, properly belongs to the category of high-tech weapons, but see in strengthening the army only the Soviet Union can feel the danger of this point, purely defensive weapons.

In the United States on the procurement of men, a big country or expressed spend a small amount of money to do big things stingy nature, after discussions with the Ministry of Defense, Alan Wilson said that can be upgraded to the Marconi avionics system for the export of fighters, which is considered the British side of the greatest sincerity that can be taken out, if it does not work can only be up to this point.

In the military technology open door, but also between the two countries on the development of Africa’s consensus is more and more obvious, the United Kingdom that the colonial era has passed, a major country should be obvious out of the mature mentality of the great powers. This would be beneficial to the mutual interests of both countries, and such a sincere attitude won appreciation.

Finally after several months of repeated tug-of-war, this one involves dual-use cooperation and development program, finally came out, including the two countries’ military exchanges and East Africa regional development plan.

“We didn’t make much money on the military, but we made a lot of money on the African issue. Ian Smith and Mugabe have not talked well? What’s the point of dwelling on the minutiae when the points have been split?”