Technology (технологий)

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Naval Artillery
1885
1895
1900
1905
1910
1915
1920
1925

Naval Propulsion:
Baseline: Simple Reciprocating Engines, Engine Year 1890
1895: Complex Reciprocating Engines, Engine Year 1900
1902: Engine year 1905, Max. non-VTE power 5,000 HP/Shaft, Direct-drive Turbines
1905: Engine year 1909, Max. non-VTE power 12,000 HP/Shaft
1909: Engine year 1912, Max. non-VTE power 20,000 HP/Shaft
1913: Engine year 1916, Max. non-VTE power 35,000 HP/Shaft
1917: Engine year 1920, Max. non-VTE power 40,000 HP/Shaft, Engine year = year laid down.

Miscellaneous propulsion technology:
1900: Underway Recoaling
1906: Oil-firing boilers: Allows bunkers with larger than 10% percentage for oil
1915: Underway Oiling

Drive Shafts:
1890: Direct Drives: The basic drive option. No bonus or penalty.
1906: Electric Drives: Allows for Electric drives. Takes a additional 25% of engine weight in misc weight and provides a 15% bonus to range plus improved compartmentalization (effects number of torpedo hits to sink).
1910: Hydraulic Drives: Allows for Hydraulic drives. Takes an additional 10% of engine weight in misc weight and provides a 5% bonus to range.
1912: Geared Drives: Allows for Geared drives. Provides a 10% bonus to range.
1912: Diesel Engines: Allows for Diesel engines to be used as part of mixed drive units or standalone power. Takes a additional 30% of engine weight in misc weight and provides a 75% bonus to range. Can be combined with Electric, Hydraulic or Geared drives (Bonus and penalties stack).

BB/AC Architecture:
1880: Main guns in twin turrets, secondaries in casemate, tertiary in casemate or deck mounts.
1891: Mixed-caliber main battery (Main+intermediary calibers), Superfiring secondaries (Restricted Axial Firing Arcs) and Stacked Main Battery turrets OR Main caliber battery in AQY. [Pick One Only]
1902: All-big-gun ship with wing turrets OR Superfiring turrets (restricted axial firing arcs) [Pick one or both]
1905: Improved turret hydraulics, independent gun elevation, Torpedo Bulkheads, triple turrets
1908: Superfiring turrets (unrestricted firing arcs), "All or Nothing" Protective Schemes
1912: Quadruple turrets, Sloped external belts
1920:  No restriction (high or low) on caliber of turreted guns

Aircraft/Seaplane Carriers:
1910: experimental aviation ships; automatically granted upon completion of the 1910 Aircraft (1914 models) tech.
1915: floatplanes; flying-off decks for wheeled aircraft
1918: gunpowder catapults for floatplanes; separate landing and taking-off decks for wheeled aircraft
1922: hydraulic catapults; full length decks for wheeled aircraft; arrestor wires
1926: armored box carrier

Light Cruiser Architecture:
1880: guns in single mounts or casemates, on side/centerline
1900: ammunition hoists, deck torpedo armament, superfiring mounts
1910: twin gun mounts (require hoists); powered gun mounts; unrestricted weapon armor
1920:  No restriction (high or low) on caliber of turreted guns

Destroyer and TB architecture:
1880: single TTs - max 4, displacement 500t
1904: double TTs - max 8, displacement 750t
1908: triple TTs - max 12, displacement 1000t
1912: max displacement 1500t
1918: quad TTs, 2000t
1924: quintuple tubes, 2,500t

MTB:
1905
1910
1914
1918
1922
1928

Mine Warfare:
1880: Hand detonated mines. Running into mines with ships.
1897: Primitive Horn Mines
1900: Reliable Horn mines. Primitive paravanes and dragged booms behind small vessels.
1908: Early antenna mines. Advanced paravanes, active charges.
1918: Reliable antenna mines.
1922: Unreliable magnetic mines & countermessures.

Naval Artillery Shells:
1880: Solid shot
1890: High Explosive
1895: Semi Armour-Piercing
1905: Armour-Piercing
1908: Capped shells

ASW:
1910: ASW tactics, depth charges
1916: hydrophones, depth charge throwers

Night Fighting:
1908: basic tactics, searchlight, night scopes
1912: starshell + improved tactics
1918: Illuminating shells with parachute, improved night scopes

Rangefinding, Fire Control and Gunnery:
1908: centralized FC, early directors - 12kyd
1912: primitive FC computers -18kyd
1918: Spotting planes, Central director stations, long base-length RF - 24kyd
1930:  Electromechanical FC computers - 30kyd

Radar Technology:
1905: Early Huelsmeyer-type "radar", listening dishes, War tuba's.
1915: refined Huelsmeyer-type "radar"
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Armor Technology:
1880: Cast Iron -20%
1890: Compound -10%
1900: Krupp Cemented 0
1915: All Imp. KC types +10%

Torpedo Technologies:
1890: 800m@26kts range, 50kg warhead, compressed air 0.5t, 16" dia.
1890: 1200@26, 400@35, 100kg warhead, compressed air 0.5t, 16"
1899: 3000@26, 1500@30, 100kg warhead, early wet heater 1t, 18"
1905: 5000@26, 2200@35, 100kg warhead, imp. wet heater, 1t, 18"
1908: 7000@26, 3000@35, 100kg warhead, imp. wet heater, 1t, 21"
1913: 15000@26, 10000@30,7000@35, 200kg warhead, 2t, 21"
1918: 20000@26, 15000@30, 10000@35, 300kg warhead, 3t weight, 24"
1928: Reliable Oxygen Torpedoes

Electric Torpedo Propulsion:
1905: 2000@20/1000@30, +0 damage, 2t
1914: Torpedoes as capable as normal torpedoes at "slow" setting.

Submarines:
1900
1905
1910
1915
1920
1925
1930
1935
1940

Line Infantry:
1870: 6/1
1880: 8/1
1895: 10/1
1905: 12/1
1915: 14/1
1925: 16/1
1935: 18/1

Light Infantry/Cavalry:
1870: 3/1
1880: 4/1
1895: 5/1
1905: 6/1
1915: 7/1
1925: 8/1
1935: 9/1

Army Mobilization and Reserves:
1895: Can maintain one reserve unit per 2 active strength units
1900: Can maintain one reserve unit per one active strength unit
1905: Can maintain two reserve units per one active strength unit
1910: Can maintain three reserve units per one active strength unit OR can bring units from reserve to active status in seven days.

CBR Warfare:
1880: Blankets with smallpox, trebuchets with dead animals.
1905: Tear-producing substances, chlorine,plague fleas and rats etc.
1910: Phosgene
1915: mustard gas, anthrax spores
1920: Early nerve gases

Heavier-Than-Air Crafts:
Baseline: None, perhaps a few private experimenters with gliders
1902: Primitive flying machines: Wright Flyer, Langly Aerodrome etc. 1906 historical year
1906: Historical 1910 aircraft level
1910: historical 1914 aircrafts
1913: historical 1916 aircrafts
1917: historical 1918 aircrafts (wireless possible in multi-engine types)
1921: historical 1922 aircrafts (wireless possible in single-engine types)
1921: historical 1922 aircrafts
1925: historical 1926 aircrafts
1929: historical 1930 aircrafts
1933: historical 1934 aircrafts
1937: historical 1938 aircrafts

Dirigible Airships:
Dated: None
1898: Type 0: Volume 10 000m³ nonrigid airships, 30kts
1905: Type 1 Volume: 20 000m³ and 4 tons military payload over 700 nm speed 40 kts
1910: Type 2 Volume: 40 000m³ and 9 tons military payload over 1200 nm speed 50 kts
1915: Type 3 Volume: 70 000m³ and 16 tons military payload over 2200 nm speed 60 kts
1920: 4 Volume: 130 000m³ and 31 tons military payload over 3900 nm speed 65 kts
1925: Volume: 210 000m² and 60 tons military payload over 5200 nm speed 70 kts

Anti-aircraft Guns and Directors:
1903:  Machine gun caliber weapons aimed by hand and eye. Field guns firing non-AA specific ammunition.
1910:  Purpose designed weapons and ammunition, including hand adjusted timed-fused shells for larger calibers, and tracers in machine guns and autocannon.
1918: Improved timed fuses. AA fire plans. Central post AA fire control.
1926: Improved ammunition supply for automatic weapons. Early AA fire control tables. Dual Purpose guns.
1936: Mature AA fire control. Radar guided AA fire control. Proximity fuses for guns larger than 75mm.


Amphibious Technology:
Baseline: Lifeboats and the use of enemy harbors.
1905: Shallow draft barges and shallow draft support ships
1910: LST ships
1920: Landing support ships and LST carriers
1928: Mulberry harbors and amphibious vehicles.

Railway Guns:
1900: Railway guns of up to 150mm, armored trains
1905: Railway guns of up to 254mm
1910: Railway guns of up to 356mm
1915: Unrestricted caliber railway guns

Motorization:
1900: Experimental
1910: Motorized HQ, Artillery units; improved tactical mobility 
1920: All supporting elements motorized; improved strategic mobility
1930: Troops mounted; improved tactical firepower/mobility, strategic mobility.

Light Armor:
1905:  Historical 1907 civilian vehicles (unreliable) with improvised armor and machine gun mount.  Prerequisite:   1900 Motorization. 
1910:  Historical 1912 armored cars
1915:  Historical 1917 tankettes (unreliable) and armored cars
1920:  Historical 1922 tankettes and armored cars

Heavy Armour:
1910:  Historical 1916 tanks (very unreliable).  Prerequisite  :    1900 Motorization.
1915:  Historical 1917 tanks (unreliable)
1920:  historical 1922 tanks

Signals/Intelligence:
1895:  Ability to create simple codes.
1900:  Ability to use and break simple codes, bored crews at wireless stations listening to radio traffic
1905:  Basic encoding protocols, dedicated radio and telegraph line listening stations
1912:  Centralized cryptographic institutions, enforced radio discipline, Room 40
1920:  Primitive mechanical encoding/decoding machines etc.

Rocketry:
1910:  Black powder rockets .Comparable to light field guns in effect  but utterly unreliable and inaccurate.
1920:  The start of new rocket theories, experiments with vastly different propellants, active mechanical flight stabilization.
1926:  Experiments with liquid fueled rockets. Dependable solid fuel rocket weapon systems on light field gun level.
1935:  Solid fueled siege rockets, liquid fuel rocket weapon systems in experimental phase.
1942:  Solid fueled area effect missile systems (Katyusha), less reliable long range liquid fuel rockets available (early A4) in small quantities.