I may referenced the aircraft carrier off of a misleading wikipedia article then that was false. I'll change it later
The T-34 has entered mass production. What is the T-34? It is the most damn cramped, hard to operate, and uncomfortable tank ever designed. At least, that's what the SEU intelligence would have you believe. And that's all true. It is the most damn cramped, hard to operate, and uncomfortable tank ever designed.But it incorporates the latest in everything. Sloped armor, decent gun, 53km/h (at least in theory, it's hard to attain it due to the design flaws. SEU has noticed and is fixing the gearbox), innovations in everything. Its cross-country performance is excellent. Also, it's cheap. Really cheap. Really, Really Cheap.
SEU has kicked out of the Japanese out of Korea. They now prepare for an invasion, both sides. The T-34 shows a performance that exceeds any Japanese tank, but Japanese tanks are crap, so that doesn't prove much.
The SEU has developed a Naval Radar for fire control. Their Radar tech, best in the World, has shown that they can target enemy vessels with terrifying accuracy, at a terrifying 3-4% hit rate (this is actually really scary, most Battleships have 1/2 that accuracy). Their Fire Control Computers are augmented with UBR tech and is also the best in the World. Combined with the Ultracharges (a step up from Supercharges. Damaging to the Gun Barrel and usually passed over in favor of Supercharges) and Superheavy Projectiles, this gives the 18-inch SEU Naval guns penetration superior to the [REDACTED]'s 20-inch guns. They can tear through Ninurta's Heavy Armor at the most vital locations and blow them up, assuming they knew what they were fighting. Of course, SEU wouldn't use Ultracharges where it isn't needed. Supercharges are enough to pierce most Battleships.
NAVAL GUNS REVIEW SNE: Due to having the British Empire, these guys received what is potentially one of the best Naval Guns ever, the 15-inch Mark 1. Despite the limitation that its mounting only allowed it to go up 20 Degrees, it is still a reliable and overall accurate design, even if the armor piercing capabilities are less than optimal. They are wire-wound, which means they are overall quite reliable and strong. Supercharges could be issued to combat this, but this creates Barrel Wear. It's a trade. The potential 18-inch guns the SNE could choose to mass produce is a copy of this design, which means it inherits much of its reliability and accuracy. The Islamic Caliphate: Due to the relatively rushed design of the gun, the 15-inch guns has some problems with reliability. This gun fails relatively often, especially in the heat of Battle. However, it is still a powerful Gun and has a fast Muzzle Velocity, allowing it to pierce armor well, with a high-quality Armor Piercing Shell and a decent High Explosive Shell. There are also no notable problems with its accuracy, it's actually not that bad. (Sorry Otus, your Battleship was kinda OP for its size and I needed to nerf it somehow.). Their 16-inch guns are better, incorporating design experience. The reliability problems have improved significantly, while the power has slightly been reduced. However, this is compensated for by being 16-inch guns. Their 18-inch guns are reliable and powerful, if a bit heavy. The shells it lobs and the range is matched by the SEU Superheavy shells and Supercharges. Socialist Eurasian Union: These guys have two wildly different Guns, one mediocre and one good. The 16-inch Guns were built-up, but due to being a first attempt had many issues with accuracy and reliability, in addition to a lackluster muzzle velocity. While most of these problems were ironed out (although not fully, some problems remain with reliability especially with Supercharges), especially in the export models to UBR, the problem of a lackluster velocity still remained. Due to this, Supercharged shells have been issued to UBR and SEU. This however creates the problem of Barrel Wear, which SEU can't fix. They exported it to India as well. The 18-inch guns however are engineering marvels. While it has a mediocre Barrel Velocity, it is very reliable and reasonably accurate. It is also quite cheap to create, as well as being very light (I mean that for 18-inch gun turrets, The 11-inch guns have a fast rate of fire and is reliable, light and accurate. on a human scale they're still heavy). Due to the reliability and remarkable strength of the Barrels despite being Built-Up, Supercharges have been issued which lowers some of the reliability but greatly extends range and Barrel Velocity. They are 55 Caliber, an unprecendented length. The Federation: Despite inexperience and the fact it was pressed into service at only 3 months into development, the 16-inch guns they built have no glaring errors. While it is mediocre in almost every respect, and the only thing that is going for it is the fact it is slightly cheap, it can still fire, reload and fire again, hit its target and cause damage. In Naval Warfare, that's what counts. It may be a Master of None, but it is a Jack of All Trades. Their 20-inch guns approach the very largest effective Naval guns possible, and as such suffers from problems, ranging from unreliability to difficult loading to convoluted machinery. It is prone to failure. Lore post I made a while back. How good it is proportional to time of development as well as inexperience. SEU Battleship broadside weight: Beijing: 3.6 tons AP Zheng He: 8.5 tons AP Revolution and Java: 13.5 tons AP superheavy shells Yi Sun-Shin: 18 tons AP superheavy shells Caliphate Battleship broadside weight: Nergal: 15-inch variant: 8.2 tons AP 16-inch variant: 9 tons Euphrates: 7.3 tons AP Ninurta: 13.4 tons AP Federation Battleship broadside weight: Unnamed: 7.1 tons AP Unnamed 2: 10.9 tons AP SNE battleship broadside weight: Queen Elizabeth, Revenge, Admiral, Bismarck: 7 tons AP Lion: 8.5 tons AP Vanguard: 7.6 tons AP
The Caliphate has finished the first MB tank of the "MB" series. The MB-1, classified in the military as a "light tank." It has armour thickness of up to 6-25 mm, weighs 11 tons, sports a 37 mm Persian Gun, with a speed of up to 36 mph. It has been designed specially to maneuver the sands and rough terrain of the Middle East, an all-around nimble tank, its gun isn't spectacular, but it can reload quickly and fire fast, making it deadly against lightly armoured units, overall a great infantry support vehicle. (I guess I'll have to be riding with American models, as the MB-1 is literally the M2 Stuart, I would like to possibly develop into the Comet and Centurion models, but it may not be an option. Unless I pull a name switcheroo like the British did with the M4 and call it the Firefly, maybe I could just call the Comet something else and change it up a bit. Well, that's what I get for playing as a region that was a puppet state for so many years)
The SEU Navy is effortlessly destroying Japanese fortifications with impunity. 18-inch shells pierce through fortifications, and as the Air War rages on, SEU's rewnewable but less skilled fighrer corps begin to bleed out the Japanese, who are better but also precious. SEU is designing a new shell to destroy fortifications, as the HE and AP shells are unsatisfying. SEU is destroying just as fast as they can build.
India and SEU bear down on Japan. Yet they stubbornly refuse to break. India decides to just go home, because right now a man named Gandhi is advocating against war. It's SEU's problem. SEU is incredibly angry, but the bombings continue, just as the Japanese feebly fight back. The Japanese and SEU fight, both incredibly furious. SEU's goal is to break the Japanese will. Japan's goal is to make SEU give up. SEU won't stop. They'll win, even if they have to eliminate the entire population of Japan to do it. Future historians will judge them for their savagery, but in the end, Japan is killing their war prisoners, they kill and fight with their belief in their Gods and Monarch in their hearts and SEU will retaliate with the fury of Godslaying men.
Fun facts about SEU's Nuclear Program: They have an unlimited supply of Uranium to work with. They're making very slow progress. They've discovered Neutrons. There are lots of Jews. At this point, they're throwing things at the wall and seeing what sticks. Whatever they come up with will be used against the Japanese. They have no goddamn idea what they're doing.
The Muslim world isn't far behind on Nuclear Sciences. Great Muslim scientists have been studying chemistry and atoms for years, recently discovering atomic fission and neutrons. Although, compared to the SEU, the Caliphate has little thought on creating Nuclear Weapons as of now, and scientists marvel at the wonders of creating a new energy source instead.
1939-1940. By that time, Japan's going to be half-dead already from SEU Naval Blockade and constant bombing. SEU is using Japanese shipping to train their Commerce Raiders, and they're intentionally letting some through to keep Japan fighting feebly, and suffering. The Ultimate Goal is to break the Japanese Empire, again but until then SEU's going to milk Japan's helplessness as much as they can, as they are treating Japan as a complete joke and using their attempts at fortifications as target practice. Japan really doesn't have any means to fight the SEU at this point, SEU is prolonging their suffering intentionally in order to use them. They're definitely going to use whatever Atomic Bombs they come up with on Japan, they have nowhere else to test it on and the only other viable location is the Siberian Wasteland, which doesn't cause enough suffering to their hated enemies.
The Federation has started negotiations with the USA for 4 Islands in the Hawaii chain in return for lots of food and supplies they need for their country to thrive again results in 4 posts
Canada leases dozens of rich mines in Canada for the Caliphate, mines such as Aluminum, Nickel, Gemstones, Diamonds, Potash, Iron Titanium... And Uranium... The Caliphate has pretty much delved right into Canada's resource industry, capitalizing on minerals, ores, timber and food. Canada doesn't mind that they're basically trading with one nation, at least they are being pressured to work their vast reserves and actually progress their country and economy. To improve the energy in the Sunayyad Empire, Coal factories are being used to power cities and towns, as well as Hydroelectricity.
The SNE is producing a new sub machine gun along with a new rifle for infantry troops. The mp40, a 500 rpm 9mm sub machine gun and the Gewehr, a German semi auto rifle that is reliable. These weapons will take a year to make and even more time to perfect. Along with that the SNE is now forcing drafts, even if the public is against it. War seems iminant and the SNE must be prepared. Men 18-32 must join any of the armed services. If they refuse they are suffering 2 years in prison. Anyone from 33-44 must work in a factory controlled by the government for at least 8 hours per day. These change are all needed. The SNE is also sending troops to Australia (Idk if it's taken or not) to invade. This will take 200,000 men from the SNE's army. They are prepared to put down any resistance. Then set up many bases to have influence in the Asian area. 2 naval ships (HMS Furious) are going there and are expected to arrive soon. (12 post or more)
The Federation sees this a dictator military control and is speaking against it They have also passed the espionage Act stating that treason during time of war is a death offense
Sunayyad's modern ways of winning war are simple. Get them to surrender. At the end of the day, war isn't about how many ships you destroyed, or about how many bunkers you control, it's about making the other side stop fighting. That's the entire goal of what war is, it's to make the other side STOP FIGHTING. [SOMEWHAT CLASSIFIED]: The mind games of war are incredibly dubious, people are people, people want to live, and people would rather surrender and live than die a horrible death and never have a slight possibility of seeing their family. That's why the Caliphate has created comfortable Prisoner of War camps, these camps are of course not resorts, but compared to a Gulag, they are definitely worth the chance. Yes, there is order in the camps, yes there is of course labour, but no one is getting starved or beat to death. This is a highly effective mind game, the SEU's Gulag strategy is not only morally wrong but ineffective, when given two options, surrender and be forced into unbearable conditions and most likely die anyway in a Gulag, or take the smallest chance you have and fight your way out, maybe getting the slight chance of winning. Or, would you rather risk a very small percentage of fighting, most likely to die, or surrender instead, be put into a reasonably humane camp and then most likely live and see your family again? [HIGHLY CLASSIFIED]: Rigged palaces are also being built in the beauty of the Persian Gulfs and the Meditteranean, Palaces made with gardens and exotic furnishings and architect. These are meant for the Generals of war, the generals who hold the most information. The strategy is simple, make the enemies information bearers as comfortable as possible, leave them to their own will in these military estates, and let them talk with each other and spill the beans... These estates are heavily rigged with spying devices, microphones, and even cameras, making the generals as comfortable as possible and more likely to spill useful information with each other. Or, of course beating them until they give out information is a possibility, and yes that is used, mostly during the case of when information is needed ASAP. In the end, the great treatment of prisoners does not change what happens in war, to get an enemy to surrender you need to have a reason to, and that's why the Caliphate's troops are one of the most well trained, brutal and brave men in any standing army. Although not everyone is at the same level of willing to die a hero, all soldiers are also taught with a religious understanding, pushing towards a Jihadist mindset of defeating the enemies of Islam and receiving many awards in heaven by Allah for courageous and honourable deaths while fighting. Wartime Jihadism is not to be confused with terrorism, in fact, the Caliph speaks against terrorism highly, and suggest that Jihadism is only meant for war and for the enemies who are fighting you, not innocent civilians. In that case, Muslim conquered areas during the war are treated well, people aren't slaughtered (most of the time), houses aren't burnt down (most of the time), and people aren't tortured and interrogated (most of the time). The fact of the matter is that the Caliphate Army focuses primarily on brutality against an enemy fighting force, using psychological warfare and advertisement to drop the morale of their troops and cause mass surrender, which doesn't sound bad when the prisoner of war camps feature humane conditions. Advertise, Socialize, Propaganda, make your enemy know that they're fighting Leviathin, and not a catfish,
The New Great Library of Alexandria is finished, built in Alexandria, Egypt. To commemorate the fatal loss of the Library of Alexandria hundreds of years ago, the Caliph, an advocate for World History and the main source for the ideology of bringing back the Golden Age of Islam and the splendour of the Ancient World, has ordered the Library to be rebuilt, this time much larger, more pristine, more knowledge, encyclopedias and books, gardens, and all done with Ancient Greek/Egyptian architect like the Ancient model, of course with a modern exquisite flare. The Library features massive pillars and arched roofs with the details and stories of mythologies carved into sculptures at their bearings. The pillars and walls are painted a luxurious gold and blue, with a hint of purple and red, ultimately making the entire library stand out. Upon the front of the Library is a beautiful fountain and hanging garden, the entire courtyard and inside is filled with statues of wonderous Pharaoahs, Egyptian gods and goddesses, and even Muslim and Greek scholars and philosophers. The entire site is surrounded by an exotic garden, walled off with the most pearly gates and walls, where unique plant life and animals live, featured with rustling streams and still ponds with beautiful Chinese and Japanese flares, all a peaceful aroma, a place for Zen and a place for the arts and for study. Inside, the walls seem to be alive, old forgotten hieroglyphics and stories which were once forgotten now fill the walls with glorious colour. Since the Library is so big, it features many massive sections, Middle Eastern, East Asian, European, African and American history, every section has walls filled with dozens of stories tall with books, everything from history books, encyclopedias, dramas, picture books, novels and poetry, literally anything. Not every section is without their design, the European section features massive arches and Cathedral/Gothic themes, the Asian side features an East Asian flair with Japanese and Chinese architecture, and all the others fit their own architectural style, with sculptures, paintings, pottery, rugs, clothing and all the sorts directly taken from that area, acting as a Museum as well. (The SEU would not be happy to know that the Ancient Japanese section is very large and is filled with ancient arts and texts which would have been destroyed by the SEU) This entire library is planned to fit well over 20 million books, and over 174 million other items, from ancient books, carved stone tablets, Ancient Chinese carved wood blocks and even the manuscripts from Leonardo Da Vinci himself. Everything you can find is at the New Great Library of Alexandria, visiting it will not bring disappoint, and the Caliph suggests for SEU, USSR and Federation leaders (Maybe even SNE leaders as well) to visit and take a look. The Caliph is very proud of what he has made and is even more excited for the Ancient City of Babylon to be rebuilt in 1953. (If he even lives that long).
