TL-191 Uniform, weapons and equipment of the Secondary Combatants.

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The infantry weapons used by both sides of the Hispano-Japanese War
 
I wonder how much Filipino resist against the Japanese in the following years
good question, and I had another thought about the Post-War use of the Spanish Weapons

I'd imagine that a lot of those Spanish guns that the Japanese captured during that conflict would eventually be sold off to the Russians and Canadians during the FGW as and later on in the interwar period to the Canadian Rebels and the ones that gone to Russia, might find their way back into Spain during their Civil War in the 1930s.
 
good question, and I had another thought about the Post-War use of the Spanish Weapons
Don't forget about Mormons remember that too, S .M.

The Japanese will probably sell those weapons up to the Mormons and the Canadians rebs too before the US go AWOL and Declare war on them in the 30s
 
British Battlecruisers and Large Cruisers

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HMS Tiger Battlecruiser (1914)

Specifications (following 1942 reconstruction)
Weight: 34,122 long tons fully loaded
Propulsion: 4x Brown-Curtiss geared steam turbines, 9x Admiralty 3-drum boilers
Range: 6,500 nautical miles
Speed: 30 knots
Aviation Capacity: 1 Supermarine Walrus Floatplanes, 1 catapult
Sensors: Type 79 early warning radar and Type 286 fire control radar
Armor:
  • Main Belt: 229mm
  • Conning Tower: 76mm
  • Turrets: 229mm
  • Barbettes: 229mm over main deck, 102mm under main deck
  • Deck: 76mm
  • Casemates: 152mm
  • Bulkheads: 102mm
Armament:
  • 8 x BL 13.5-in/42-caliber MK. V(N) guns (4x2)
  • 10 x 6-in/45-caliber BL MK. VII casemate guns
  • 32 x 40mm QF Mk. VIII "Pom-pom" AA guns (4x8)
  • 12 x 20mm Oerlikon AA guns (12x1)
Ship​
Builder​
Laid Down​
Launched​
Commissioned​
Fate​
HMS Tiger (42)John Brown, ClydebankJune 20, 1912December 15, 1913October 3, 1914Sunk by US Navy Aircraft near the Falkland Islands, August 17, 1943.

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HMS Renown Battlecruiser (1916)

Specifications (following 1941 refit)
Weight: 36,080 long tons fully loaded
Propulsion: 4x Parsons geared steam turbines, 8x Admiralty 3-drum boilers
Range: 6,580 nautical miles
Speed: 30.75 knots
Aviation Capacity: 2 Supermarine Walrus Floatplanes, 1 catapult
Armor:
  • Main Belt: 229mm
  • Upper Belt: 38mm
  • Conning Tower: 76mm
  • Turrets: 229mm
  • Barbettes: 178mm
  • Forecastle Deck: 31mm
  • Main Deck: 127mm
  • Magazine Protection: 127mm Slopes
  • Over Engines: 76mm
  • Over Boilers: 63mm
  • Bulkheads: 102mm
Armament:
  • 6 x BL 15-in/42-caliber MK. I guns (3x2)
  • 20 x 4.5-inch/45-caliber QF MK. III AA guns (10x2)
  • 24 x 40mm QF Mk. VIII "Pom-pom" AA guns (3x8)
  • 16 x 12.7mm Vickers AA machine-guns (4x4)
  • 8 x 533mm Torpedo Tubes (4x2)
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HMS Repulse Battlecruiser (1916)

Specifications (following 1939 refit)
Weight: 38,300 long tons fully loaded
Propulsion: 4x Parsons geared steam turbines, 42x Admiralty 3-drum boilers
Range: 4,700 nautical miles
Speed: 28.3 knots
Aviation Capacity: 2 Supermarine Walrus Floatplanes, 1 catapult
Armor:
  • Main Belt: 229mm
  • Upper Belt: 152mm
  • Conning Tower: 254mm
  • Turrets: 229mm
  • Barbettes: 178mm
  • Forecastle Deck: 31mm
  • Main Deck: 146mm
  • Funnel Uptakes: 38mm
  • Magazine Protection: 102mm Slopes
  • Over Engines: 89mm
  • Over Boilers: 51mm
  • Bulkheads: 102mm
Armament:
  • 6 x BL 15-in/42-caliber MK. I guns (3x2)
  • 4 x 4-inch/45-caliber QF MK. V DP guns (4x1)
  • 12 x 4-inch/45-caliber BF MK. IX guns (4x3)
  • 16 x 40mm QF Mk. VIII "Pom-pom" AA guns (2x8)
  • 16 x 12.7mm Vickers AA machine-guns (4x4)
  • 8 x 533mm Torpedo Tubes (4x2)
Ship​
Builder​
Laid Down​
Launched​
Commissioned​
Decommissioned​
Fate​
HMS Renown (72)Fairfield, GovanJanuary 25, 1915March 4, 1916September 20, 1916September 1944To Germany as war reparations, sunk for weapons tests in the North Sea, April 2, 1946.
HMS Repulse (34)John Brown, ClydebankJanuary 25, 1915January 8, 1916August 18, 1916Sunk by US Navy Aircraft during the Second Battle of Bermuda, April 6th, 1943.

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Swiftsure class Armored Cruiser (1940-1942)

Specifications (As originally completed)
Weight: 19,500 long tons fully loaded
Propulsion: 4x Parsons geared steam turbines, 9x Admiralty 3-drum Boilers
Range: 10,000 nautical miles
Speed: 33 knots
Aviation Capacity: 2 Supermarine Walrus Floatplane, 1 catapult
Sensors: Type 79 early warning radar, Type 284 and Type 285 fire control radars.
Armor:
  • Belt: 241mm
  • Main Deck: 38mm
  • Bulkheads: 25mm
  • Turrets: 240mm
  • Barbettes: 150mm
  • Box Magazine Protection: 89mm
  • Over Machinery: 64mm
Armament
  • 9 x 9.2-in/50-caliber BL MK. XVI main guns (3x3)
  • 12 x 4.5-in/45-caliber QF MK III DP guns (6x2)
  • 34 x 40mm/39-caliber QF MK VIII "Pom-Pom" AA guns (4x8) and (2x1)
  • 24 x 12.7mm Vickers MK III AA-Machine Guns
  • 12 x 533mm Torpedo Launchers (4x3)
Ship​
Builder​
Laid Down​
Launched​
Commissioned​
Decommissioned​
Fate​
HMS SwiftsureSwan Hunter, WallsendSeptember 1, 1937February 4, 1940December 22, 1940Sunk by US Navy warships in the Denmark Strait, November 12, 1942.
HMS TerribleDevonport Dockyard, PlymouthNovember 11, 1937May 2, 1940March 15, 1941Sunk Japanese warships during the Battle of the Indian Ocean, April 24, 1944.
HMS TriumphFairfield, GovanSeptember 5, 1937February 15, 1940February 3, 1941Sunk Japanese warships during the Battle of the Indian Ocean, April 24, 1944.
HMAS AustraliaCammell Laird, BirkenheadFebruary 2, 1938March 30, 1941March 2, 1942June 1965Scrapped in Brisbane, 1969.
HMS New ZealandSwan Hunter, WallsendAugust 9, 1941Early 1944 (Planned)Cancelled, February 1942. Broken up on the slipway, June 1942
HMS King AlfredJohn Brown, ClydebankSeptember 30, 1941Early 1944 (Planned)Cancelled, February 1942. Broken up on the slipway, May 1942
HMS MinotaurCammell Laird, BirkenheadSeptember 6, 1941Early 1944 (Planned)Cancelled, February 1942. Broken up on the slipway, May 1942.
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Credits go to Tzoli over here for his depiction of his British Armored Cruiser
 
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A couple of US Navy personnel examining an ex-RAF Gloster Meteor Mk. I at RAF Manston in Kent prior to being sent back to the US for evaluation, circa Autumn of 1944.

Throughout 1942 and 1943, the Royal Air Force, much like their American and German counterparts, would conduct a program a develop their own turbo powered fighter plane, which would result in the form of the Gloster Meteor fighter, which first took flight in March of 1943. The Air Ministry would make efforts to fast track the promising new aircraft's development and production to help them to try and regain the intiative in the Air War over Europe. In end though, the Meteor (much like the Griffon powered Spitfires and the Tempest) would prove too little too late to stave Britain off from it's defeat, in the face of numerical and skill superiority of the US Navy and Luftwaffe over British skies. During the last days of the war, small numbers of the Meteor fighters would see action against the American and German rivals, including one alleged engagement against a formation of German D. 262 fighters, thus potentially making it the first dogfight between turbo-powered fighters in the history of aerial warfare (but it is disputed if that engagement ever took place.) None the less, the few RAF pilots who flew them did manage to shoot down four American and five German planes in the Meteor, while suffering the loss of four Meteors.
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A Gloster Meteor Mk. I of No. 616 taking off from an airfield in Norfolk, circa June 1944.
 
Here’s a question: should the Republic of Quebec army use a variation on US Army rank insignia or would they tweak the British-Canadian insignia with which they are more familiar?

I believe the Irish Republic mostly borrowed from British precedents when uniforming their army, but the modern Republic was born out of the Irish Free State (Technically a British Dominion, like Canada), a situation rather different from that of Independent Quebec.



Now I have a vague mental image of the early Quebecois Army wearing re-dyed US Army uniform, while carrying British-Canadian surplus equipment (I’ll bet quite a few T-191 geeks would happily post photographs from this period as “Things that look like alternate history, but aren’t).
 
Too Little, Too Late
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A Hawker Tempest Mk. V from No. 254 Fighter Squadron based out of RAF Henlow, Summer of 1944. In the March of 1944, in a bid to regain aerial supremacy over the skies of England from the growing aerial might of the Luftwaffe and US Navy, the British would introduce into service the Hawker Tempest, an improvement over the earlier Hawker Typhoon which was powered by the Bristol Napier engine, which gave the plane a max speed of 435 mph at 17,000 feet on decent aviation fuel, thus making it one of the fastest piston engine fighters of the SGW. However, due to the blockade, the aircraft of the RAF were all fueled by synthetic gasoline, which had hampered their potential. Never the less, the Tempest proved to be a formidable aircraft in the hands of an experienced pilot and fought in numerous adversaries in the skies above England in the closing days of the war, which they would score a total of 24 aerial kills and 41 probable or damaged for the loss of 17 Tempests. Following the end of the war, several Tempests would be taken to Germany and the United States for evaluation, while a few would remain in RAF service until 1949.

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A Prototype Hawker Tempest Mk. II from the Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment at Martleshem Heath, late March 1944.

As early as 1942 while the Tempest project was ongoing, the designers of the plane wanted to fit a more powerful engine to the type. This would culminate in the Mk. II variant of the Tempest, which was fitted with the experimental Bristol Centaurus engine, which would be a dramatic improvement over already powerful Mk. V variant with a higher top speed of 440 mph at level flight. An order had been place for 400 units to be made for the RAF in 1943, which was increased to 750 units by April 1944 as part of the War Emergency Fighter Program. Unfortunately for the British, the war would come to an end before any serial production Mk. II left the assembly line. All of the prototypes and pre-production airframes that had survived the war would be subsequently be taken by both the Americans and Germans evaluation for their own purposes.
 
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