TL-191: Pax Romana - Neutrality for the Kingdom of Italy (1914-1944)

How would you all feel about Italy being a neutral country building warships of other countries during the time period between the Great War and Second Great War?
 
How would you all feel about Italy being a neutral country building warships of other countries during the time period between the Great War and Second Great War?

Happened a lot in OTL :

The interwar soviet navy was heavily helped by italian firms in his devolopement
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tashkent-class_destroyer (that was built directly in Italy)

It's a good method to keep instituional knowledge and skill, earn money and get more experience

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So, coastal ships, destroyers, and cruisers. Possibly even merchant vessels too if they can manage that. I also wondering of they would build a battleship for someone.
 
So, coastal ships, destroyers, and cruisers. Possibly even merchant vessels too if they can manage that. I also wondering of they would build a battleship for someone.

Very difficult, battleships are time consuming and need a lot of resources, if Italy build some it will be for Regia Marina not for other nations
 
Very difficult, battleships are time consuming and need a lot of resources, if Italy build some it will be for Regia Marina not for other nations
Figured as much. So likely just destroyers and cruisers then. And whatever odds and ends people ask for, like the coastal ships for Thailand.
 
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I have a suspicion that during the Second Great War that the ships of the Regia Marina would be wearing these red and white stripes on their fore decks for the purpose of informing the forces of the Belligerent navies that these ships are of a neutral power.
 
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I have a suspicion that during the Second Great War that the ships of the Regia Marina would be wearing these red and white stripes on their fore decks for the purpose of informing the forces of the Belligerent navies that these ships are of a neutral power.
Its a sensible move. The Italians had trouble identifying friendly ships from foes via their aerial recon aircraft, so this would make sense. I don't see that changing in this timeline.
 
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The Small Arms of the Italian Armed Forces during the Second Great War
Excellent work here. You know, after seeing the selection of guns here, it makes me wonder if armed neutrality finally allows the Italians the time to produce a semi-auto rifle to the numbers they want. The Armaguerra Mod. 1939 would supposedly meant to be issued to specialist units, paratroopers, and issued to infantry that would be best suited to exploit the advantages of a semi-auto.

I'm also curious to see if the Breda Modello 1930 would be kept in service through the war years... and what would replace it. It was not a good gun for the North African environment, its rate of fire was very slow, but I'm wondering if it would be slower to replace in service. That said, as far this picture goes, its perfectly fine that its there. Can't have excellent weapons all across the board. If anything its amusing that the Italians have one of the worst WW2 guns and one of the best WW2 guns in their arsenal.
 
Other places yes, but Manly with the U.S and CSA of their Immigration with Italian
While Italians immigrated to both the North and South, many more Italians immigrated to the Northern states via ports like New York and, later, the Great Lakes cities. It is still likely that Italian immigrants will migrate to the Northern states due to the prospect of finding jobs centered on unskilled or skilled labor, provided that events in Italy post unification follow our timeline without changes. Even during the Civil War Italians largely joined the Union Army for ideological reason that were in contrast to those of Southern Confederates. Post-war, in a divided continent, it is likely Italians will still find more job opportunities in the USA - industrialization kick started by a need to compete with its southern neighbor will mean factories still need people to work in them. The Confederacy up until the early 1880s would have still practiced slavery, which would have been an existing, ready source of labor for them - something the Italian immigrants might find hard to compete with, especially those with experience in agriculture. On top of that, the Confederacy may already be getting another source of immigrants via Mexico or even China (same as the USA). Even so, depending the on the individual Italian in question, they may still be opposed to the idea of slavery. So, if Italians wanted to immigrate to North America, the USA would still be the more popular option.
 
Of course , in TL191 Italian youth didn’t get Slaughtered and Trauma by the Two World war and It will help boost their population especially their colony
Possibly, yes. Mussolini not being in power here means that Italian immigration to other colonies will not have fascist agenda in mind. So if Italians see opportunities in Eritrea, Somalia, and Libya, then they would go.
 
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