Was a larger UK rearmament program in the 1930s possible?

loughery111

Banned
:confused: The Enfield was ok, the Bren and the Vickers too. The 25pdr and the Bren carrier were already around, the 2pdr was a very powerful AT-gun until the spring of 1941 and the RN´s hulls were as good as the ones of the KM and more numerous.

Suicide! The Baltic is way too shallow, the entrances are way to narrow and the seas are well within range of land based planes. The CV´s air wings would melt like ice in the sunshine, than the bombers come and on the way out you run into minefields and subs.


The designs of the Pz.III and IV were from that time.

I don't get your objection to the first point... I said that light weapons and artillery would NOT be out of date even if produced in 1935. Hulls for the RN, ditto. My exact words were "far from out of date" if I recall.

Read the other posts... at this point the LW has been mostly shot to pieces trying desperately to gain air superiority over France when the Germans decided they wanted Czechoslovakia despite the clearly superior military position of the Western Allies in 1938. The RN sortie is just the quickest and easiest way to stop the damned U-Boats in their tracks early on, if the Luftwaffe is indeed blown to scrap. And the RN building campaign is going to be partly directed at huge numbers of escort hulls, making such a venture survivable against submarines... especially given that the shallowness of the Baltic is not an advantage for a sub.

Finally, I was referring to the tanks the British would produce in those years. Those would mostly be shipped to Asia to kick the IJA to pieces. The Crusader is really the first thing they can use in Europe that will fight with something approaching parity against the Panzer III and IV. And, of course, since it will be fighting in 1938, the Heer will mostly have Panzer II's. Oh, happy day when the Germans get their asses kicked!
 

Markus

Banned
Miss Understanding?

As for the other fields of rearmament, infantry weapons and training would be far from out of date, as would artillery, mechanized logistical trains, and any hull built for the RN.

I interpreted that, that the systems were at least a bit out of date IOTL. Never mind.
 
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