Limited WW1 and CP victory - status and equipment of major air forces in 1930s

Starting scenario and purpose of this thread:
Discussion about technical properties of ahistorical and historical plane types, and the tactics and strategies of their potential usage in this ATL.

The year is 1936. World War One ended 19 years ago after three years of open warfare. The primary battlefields of this conflict where on the Eastern Europe, where the bulk of the German and Austro-Hungarian military met the might of Imperial Russia, while the French fought and bled on the narrow Western Front on German Alsace-Lorraine between neutral Belgium and Switzerland.

How the experiences of this conflict, especially the large distances and relatively more mobile warfare in Eastern Front have affected the postwar air warfare doctrines and equipment of major air forces? Would a shorter war have delayed the creation of independent air forces?

What kind of planes do the major airforces employ, and how they envision to use them in future war?

What kind of plane types, for example, are in use in the German Luftstreitkräfte, Workers' and Peasants' Red Air Fleet of Russian Republic, Aéronautique Militaire of France, Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service of Britain and in the United States Army Air Service? Not to mention the smaller AFs like Corpo Aeronautico Militare, K.u.K. Luftfahrtruppen and Osmanlı Hava Kuvvetleri?

Overview of this background scenario:
WW1 ended 19 years ago, when the neutral and rearmed Britain assured the increasingly war-weary Germans that instead of finishing off the exhausted French who had spent the last three years in the gruelling trench warfare in the Western Front Alsace and Lorraine, it would be in their best interest to enter negotiations with Paris.

It didin't take long from Germans to accept the proposal. After the treaty of Brest-Litovsk had ended the hostilities between the Central Powers (Germany, A-H, Bulgaria and lately joined opportunists Romania and Ottoman Empire), the war in the East was finally over. The resulting peace treaties ensured that the future of Europe would be anything but peaceful. The war had been a traumatic experience to all participating sides.

France was bloodied and embittered.
German Empire nominally victorious but still externally surrounded by hostile major powers and internally divided, as her people viewed the spoils of war in the Baltic provinces and small colonial gains in Africa and frequently asked whether the peace had been worth the sacrifices of war.
In the East, the Russian Republic was pushed into radical political turmoil as the Menshevik-SR-coalition of Petrograd Soviet sought to secure the new-found freedoms of their new state with ambitious land reform and the first free election of the Constituent Assembly. And in Central Asia and Caucasus, the resurgent Ottoman Empire sought to exert her influence to former Russian territories and secure her new spoils of war.

Many international observers stated that the real winners never fought in the war. Britain had opted for neutrality and focused on the implementation and pacification of the forming territories of Dominion of Ireland during the Home Rule crisis in 1914, largely due the earlier Anglo-German naval détente and the skilled way diplomats of Wilhelmine Germany had handled their international pre-WW1 relations during the Moroccan Crisis and the Balkan Wars. The decision paid off - as continental Europe burned, British diplomacy limited the conflict and threat of implementation of British military might ultimately ended it. Italy, more or less forced to neutrality due the importance of her foreign trade and attitude of Britain had also been able to profit from the war by trading with Vienna and Berlin on profitable prizes, just like Belgium and Netherlands. This economic boost did much to stabilize the turbulent political life of Italy, ensuring the survival of her parliamentary democracy during the first postwar decades. Not to mention the US, where the rise of Progressivism was signalled by the new term of President Roosevelt...
 

Spengler

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Sounds interesting, I enjoyed your timeline on Paradox so I want to see more. Also I want to know how radical (left and right) politics develop.
 
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