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A lot of ww2 showed that the close-range firepower of the SMG was good to have in assaults and rough terrain. Just adapt the 9x19 rather than try to use the .45 APC for SMGs. The naval guns were generally too heavy to be manhandled when placed on a carriage for field work - and an important...

M2 4,2" Range: 4km Shell weight: 11,11kg Weight: 151kg (max weight of a part, 79kg). Rate of fire: 5 shots/minute. 120mm Grk m/41 Range: 6km. Shell weight: 18kg. Weight: 285kg Rate of fire: 10 shots/minute. The smoothbored 120mm mortars had a much higher rate of fire than the rifled 4,2" M2...

First of all, what needs to stay. 1. The Garand. An excellent weapon. It might have been heavy, it might have had a too powerful round, it might have been expensive. But compared to other semi-automatic rifles of the era it was reliable and quite good. 2. Mortar choices. 81mm and 60mm French...

Yeah, Karl XIII would probably marry Catherine - she is a good option for a Swedish King and would not need to convert. OTL Adolf Fredrik, or rather his wife Lovisa Ulrika tried a coup in 1756 to re-introduce absolutism in Sweden, which failed due to people getting drunk and revealing the plot...

The Holstein-Gottorps were not mentally unstable. And I should remind you that at that time (and still) the Romanovs are the senior Vasa heirs. :P

While slavery is not profitable for a society as a whole (a non-slavery society is bound to be richer than a slave society, all other things being equal), it is very profitable for the slave owner - and that goes for whatever work the slave does. A lot of early industrial work was hard labour...

The harbour capacity was fine - Benghazi, Tripoli and Tobruk are all great natural harbours. The port infrastructure was lacking - cranes, dock workers, dockside railroads, warehousing, machinery to move around goods and dock workers were all missing. But none of that was as crucial as the lack...

If I remember correctly, Libyan oil lies deep and only the Japanese, British and Americans have the know-how to extract deep oil during the 30s, and all three are dependent on US industry to deliver the equipment needed for it. Should Italy join the war, they may like the Japanese find that they...

With both Austria and Prussia involved, they have enough troops to be pretty much everywhere on Jutland, especially as they can communicate by telegraph (the Prussian army had a telegraph corps since 1830). Should the war drag on and naval dominance become an issue, the Austrians could make an...

Sweden used minie ball rifled muskets with percussion locks, the same kind as Denmark, Britain and Austria used at this time - some of them were converted older rifles, but there were enough rifles to equip the whole army by 1862 or so. Still, as the Prussian were a generation head with...

The Danish navy alone was enough to dominate the Prussian one (which consisted of 4 steam gunboats at this time) and defeat the Austrian one (4 stream frigates). However, the Swedish army is really not good enough to make a difference against Prussia's army and von Moltke the Elder - the...

I know. Norway only needed friendly relationship with Sweden to not get invaded and friendly relations with Britain to maintain their economy (fishing and merchant shipping). That is why I added Britain being supportive of the Union - without that, Norway will never voluntarily join. For the...

It would require some major changes. Scandinavianism was a fringe movement among some of the Swedish and Danish elites - the Norwegians wanted independence. Some of the core problems with a Scandinavian Union is that Sweden and Denmark had been arch-enemies for a long time and even if they were...

I was using it as the post-Stolypin term of a successful self-owning peasants with enough money to invest in his farm and have a few farm hands employed, but still worked actively himself in his farm. I think one of the problems for Russian agriculture was not only that emancipation happened...

I'm not certain if this is a joke or not. The CSA had no navy.

The fighers can be flown over, just as they were OTL, with the pilots flying back either by regular civilian flight BOAC flights or just by the motor gunboats of the Gay Viking Clsss that were makign ball bearing runs across the North Sea when the dark season hit 1944.

Considering Sweden is supposed to join the Allies to fight alongside them, I'd suspect there would be secret talks and radar stations and modern fighters would be purchased before the actual declaration of war. The Allies did have a surplus of P-51D Mustangs mid-1944 that Sweden purchased...

Almost every ship on that image has torpedo tubes, so it is not as bad as you may think. A lot of those ships were not really expected to survive post a torpedo launch anyway - destroyers and MTBs primarily. Sweden has torpedoes for 2-3 larger naval battles, but not more than that. Depends on...

HMS Dristigheten was not a seaplane carrier - she was a seaplane tender, and unable to leave port on her own power. She was mianly used to experiement before the construction of HMS Gotland and during the war she was used as a depot ship. HMS Wasa was not modernised in the 30s and became a...

As @DrakonFin says, it will be a state union with two different heads of state, two different parliaments, two different set of laws and two different armies. If the union somehow survives, it will probably be neutral in the cold war - that would be acceptable both to the Soviets and to NATO...