Kind of like a WWI version of the M3 Lee?I was thinking that the hull shale could be reminiscent of the OTL German A7V along with the frontal gun being similar to later barrel busters/tank destroyers, maybe with it being on the right side.
Kind of like a WWI version of the M3 Lee?I was thinking that the hull shale could be reminiscent of the OTL German A7V along with the frontal gun being similar to later barrel busters/tank destroyers, maybe with it being on the right side.
Huh... I guess so.Kind of like a WWI version of the M3 Lee?
I meant having the main gun on a sponson on the side instead of set in the center of the hull or in a turret.Huh... I guess so.
An alternate Ford 3 ton M1918 I did about a year ago for a request by @Jim Smitty, it has a 1,59 inch gun which is slightly lager than the OTL gun.
Improved US built version of Grosspanzer-Wagon or K-Wagon.
77mm.Now, that's a land-ship! The addition of a turret seems very cool here. Its like one of those tank designs you would see out of a science-fiction or steam-punk magazine for the time. Very cool!
So, what's the armament that we're looking at here for this behemoth?
77mm.
Probably 30.06 like the Springfield.Oh. So it only has the one 77mm gun in the turret then? What about the machine guns?
I always pictured the Union steel helmet to be similar to the Swiss M1918
Incidentally, a very similar design was proposed in OTL as the Model 5, I think.
https://www.militarytrader.com/military-trader-news/american-experimental-helmets-from-wwi
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How likely would it be that the United States had experimented with semi automatic rifles and carbins based off of the krag jorgensen similar to how the garand was an evolution of the Springfield.
Not saying the US can't experiment though. They could very well have had experimental designs of the Krag before the Great War, but experimenting with a "semi-auto" Krag is... its hard to picture for me?
Very hard. The .30-40 Krag was a rimmed cartridge, and poorly suited to automatic weapons. One of the reasons the US ditched the round was due to the fact that machine guns hated it. The French suffered similar migraines with the 8mm Lebel. I always imagined that the US would simply copy the Mauser pattern rifles, just as the Confederates copied the Lee-Enfields.
True. Looking it over the Krag would simply be left behind in the long run, compared to other more reliable rifles.
Though I still think that the Union would have experimented with semi-automatic rifle designs as far back as pre-FGW, only never being widely introduced until post SGW.
This makes me think the CSA would be in a better position to develop a semi-auto rifle having the Mondragon and the Russian Tokarov (if not butterflied) rifles to study plus the need to deal with US larger population.Yes, the United States would have definitely tried to create a semi-automatic rifle to replace the M1903 Springfield. While its not technically bad that the US Army still uses a bolt-action rifle as its main infantry firearm - many countries at this time still used bolt-action rifles of course - it is however odd that the US Army would not experiment with semi-auto designs at all in TL-191. Simply capturing Confederate TAR rifles for use isn't sustainable enough, no matter how effective the rifle is. Given that even Mexico experimented with its own semi-auto design, I feel that the US would be incredibly embarrassed for not trying to make one themselves.
Who says they didn't experiment? Nothing in 191 contradicts the possibility of the Army or Marines developing a semi automatic rifle but never deploying it for cost or logistical reasons. Or at least never deploying it on camera as it were, our POV characters are not omniscient nor everywhereYes, the United States would have definitely tried to create a semi-automatic rifle to replace the M1903 Springfield. While its not technically bad that the US Army still uses a bolt-action rifle as its main infantry firearm - many countries at this time still used bolt-action rifles of course - it is however odd that the US Army would not experiment with semi-auto designs at all in TL-191. Simply capturing Confederate TAR rifles for use isn't sustainable enough, no matter how effective the rifle is. Given that even Mexico experimented with its own semi-auto design, I feel that the US would be incredibly embarrassed for not trying to make one themselves.
The CSA is in a better position to introduce a semi automatic rifle because they don't have a huge pile of GWI bolt action rifles and ammo sitting around like the US does. As such cost for them to introduce a semi auto/automatic is relatively less than that for the US. In terms of development they are probably on the same page, but deployment is differentThis makes me think the CSA would be in a better position to develop a semi-auto rifle having the Mondragon and the Russian Tokarov (if not butterflied) rifles to study plus the need to deal with US larger population.