Army & Air Technology of the Empire

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Army Units
Baseline: United States Civil War era equipment. Muzzle loading muskets and rifles. Limited number of repeating and breach-loading rifles. Primitive Gattling Guns.
1880: Victorian era equipment. Black Powder Bolt-Action rifles. Improved Gattling Guns in greater quantity.
1895: Spanish American War era equipment. Improved single-shot breechloaders. Smokeless Powder  Bolt-action rifles Primitive rifle-caliber MGs.
1905: Pre Great War era equipment. Improved Bolt-action rifles. Rifle-caliber MGs.
1915: Great War era equipment. Advanced Bolt-action rifles. Proliferation of light MGs, sprinkling of heavy MGs. Improvised Short range Anti-Armor equipment.
1925: Post Great War era equipment. Improving number of man-portable automatic weapons. Proliferation of heavy MGs. Early Specialised short range Anti-Armor equipment.
1935: Pre WWII era equipment. Semi-automatic rifles common. Early SMGs. Improved  Early Specialised short range Anti-Armor equipment. Light Anti-Armor guns
1945: WWII era equipment. Advanced semi-automatic rifles and SMGs. Early Assault Rifles. Improved Short-range anti-armor equipment. Heavy Anti-Armor guns. Primitive Long-Range anti-armor equipment.

Artillery Units
Baseline: Muzzle loading cannon on simple wheeled carriages. Very Primitive single-shot Black Powder rockets
1880: Improved mobility of field guns. Primitive Breech loading light field pieces.
1895: Improved Breech loading guns. Primitive Recoilless carriages for light field pieces
1905: Proliferation of recoilless carriages for light field pieces.
1915 Proliferation of recoilless carriages for heavy field pieces. Increase number of heavy guns. Experimental MLRS.
1925: Improved carriages. Primitive and limited use Self-Propelled Carriages for light guns. Primitive MLRS.
1935: Improved plotting integration. Improved Self-Propelled Carriages for light guns. Primitive Self-Propelled MLRS. Primitive Long-Range Rockets
1945: Self-Propelled Carriages for all field guns and MLRS. Early Long-Range Rockets.

Aircraft and Countermeasures:
Baseline: None, perhaps a few private experimenters with gliders or hot air balloons.
1902: Up to Historical 1906 aircraft and countermeasures
1906: Up to Historical 1910 aircraft and countermeasures
1910: Up to Historical 1914 aircraft and countermeasures
1914: Up to Historical 1916 aircraft and countermeasures
1918: Up to Historical 1919 aircraft and countermeasures
1922: Up to Historical 1924 aircraft and countermeasures
1926: Up to Historical 1929 aircraft and countermeasures
1930: Up to Historical 1933 aircraft and countermeasures
1934: Up to Historical 1937 aircraft and countermeasures
1937: Up to Historical 1938 aircraft and countermeasures
1938: Up to Historical 1940 aircraft and countermeasures
1942: Up to Historical 1944 aircraft and countermeasures
1946: Up to Historical 1948 aircraft and countermeasures

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.

Logistics:
Baseline: Horsedrawn limbers, covered waggons, foraging. Use of rail networks
1900: Improved coordination. Experimental use of motorised equipment.
1910: Motorized Headquarters and communication units
1920: Motorized logistics trains
1930: Small-scale battlefield transport
1940: Large-scale battlefield transport

Mechanization:
Baseline: None
1905: Experimental. Automatically granted in 1910. Requires 1900 Logistics.
1915: Early Armored Cars. Primitive Tanks.
1925: Improved Armored Cars, Early Tanks. Primitive APCs
1935: Advanced Armored Cars, Improved Tanks, Early APCs
1945: Advanced Tanks, Improved APCs

Signals/Intelligence:
Baseline: Wax seals, primitive codes.
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.