WW1 with more progressed tech

[Max Sinister]

A bored ASB decides to spice up WW1 a bit. It goes back in time to August 1914 and makes some big changes:

- All parties in Europe receive a lot of cars (about as many and same tech level as they had in 1930), plus the factories that would've been necessary to build them (which can be easily used to build tanks, too).
- All parties receive some airplanes, just as they had in 1930, too. The tech level is sufficient that fighters and bombers can still be deployed during the war. Paratroopers and helicopters are out of reach, yet. Same for rockets.
- All parties have radio and telephone everywhere and fully usable, not only for a small part of the population.
- The ASB changes the minds of all people, that nobody will think that anything is unusual. Plus, as many people as necessary will have the knowledge to drive cars, fly planes and so on.
- The officers and staffs won't get the strategical / tactical knowledge how to use the new tech in war, though. They've got to find that out by themselves.

How would WW1 look like?

[Straha]

the kaiser wins leading a coold war between America and The Kaiser's gemrnay with Louis Armstrong landing on the moon.

[euio]

Earlier tanks.

[M79]

OK, so we've fast forwarded the technology clock to approx. 1930 our time.

Basic rule of military/industial complex per a trusted history professor: technology advances four times more quickly when a war is on

Thus, assuming the war starts with 1930 technology from OTL, we can think that the war will start with fairly advanced biplanes and accelerate into the equal of at least F4F Wildcats or F6F Hellcats. Rockets will move forward move quickly in the US, perhaps Goddard becomes an equal to Von Braun towards the development of satellite-launch rockets. Assault rifles could become common place within a few years, especially if Browning continues the evolution of the BAR. Antibiotics might become mass-produced before war's end and artillery might take a backseat to tank development. Russia is toast as they lack the industrial capacity to keep up with the advanced weaponry of that time even twenty years before WWII. Germany and the Allies fare better but if Brest-Litovsk kicks off in say 1916 or even 1915 there is a good chance for the Western Front to become just a very stable hell-line. German submarines might begin to evolve into Type XXIs by war's end and that spells real trouble for UK if they perfect assembly-line production inland with prefab sections moved to the coast for assembly. Look for mass bombings of civilian targets, perhaps with counterdevelopment of radar and flak jackets thus body armor. Once again Germany will try to find a way to bring bombings to the US with minimal success until late in the war if at all. I see both sides working on the beginnings of atomic weaponry research and many of the synthetic chemistry applications could draw out the war for another year or two.

[Berra]

No. Less biplanes, trenches and cool stuff. Wouldnt the ASBs give them airships and cool stuff.

[euio]

WWI zepplin battles would be cool.