Technology

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China's technological progression can be found here.

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China's tech tree as of 1912H2

Naval Artillery
Baseline: Muzzle-Loading cannon. Primitive Breechloaders. Solid Shot. Primitive High Explosive Shells
1880: Breach loading guns. High Explosive Shells.
1895: Quick-Firing guns. Semi-Armor Piercing Shells
1900: Smokeless Powder.
1905: Improved Smokeless Powder. Armor Piercing Shells
1910: Capped Shells

Naval Propulsion:
Baseline: Simple Reciprocating Engines
1895: Complex Reciprocating Engines, Oil Spraying up to 10% of bunkerage.
1902: Turbines, Underway Recoaling

Capital Ship Architecture:
Baseline: 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 Main caliber battery in AQY. 
1903: All-big-gun ship with wing turrets (1903 Superfiring turrets must be researched seperately before 1905 tech)

Aircraft/Seaplane Carrier Architecture:
Baseline: None

Cruiser Architecture:
Baseline: guns in single mounts or casemates, on side/centerline
1900: ammunition hoists, deck torpedo armament, superfiring mounts. Cruisers under 6000 tons may have cross-sectional hull strength > 0.9

Destroyer, Torpedo Boat, and Motor Torpedo Boat Architecture:
Baseline: single TTs - max 4, displacement 500t
1904: double TTs - max 8, displacement 750t Type A MTB

Motor Torpedo Boats
1905 - Type A

Mine Warfare:
Baseline: 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.

Night Fighting & Remote Sensing Devices:
Baseline: Mk1 Eyeball with limited optical enhancement (eg Binoculars), standard searchlights in regular mountings.
1905: Early Huelsmeyer-type "radar", listening dishes, War tuba's.
1908: Basic tactics, Specialized nighttime acquisition Searchlight mounts, night scopes

Rangefinding, Fire Control and Gunnery:
Baseline: Local control of individual guns. Limited non-rangefinding magnification equipment for main batteries. Iron sight aiming. 2km All ships equipped w/o misc weight allocation.
1905: Continuous Aim Systems. Short-base rangefinders. Dedicated Spotting infrastructure. Primitive centralization. 6km
1908: Centralized FC, early directors - 10km

Torpedo Technologies:
Baseline: Spar mounted Torpedo, Primitive Self-Propelled Torpedoes with improvised warheads.
1890: Early Self-Propelled Torpedoes with Compressed Air engines. Primitive warheads. Early contact fuses.
1899: Early Wet Heater engines Early warheads.
1905: Improved Wet Heater engines. Improved fuses
1908: Improved warheads

Submarines and Countermeasures:
None

Army & Artillery :

Land Units
Baseline: United States Civil War era equipment. Muzzle loading muskets and rifles. Limited number of repeating and breach-loading rifles. Primitive Gatling Guns. Muzzle loading cannon on simple wheeled carriages. Very Primitive single-shot Black Powder rockets. 
1880: Victorian era equipment. Black Powder Bolt-Action rifles. Improved Gatling Guns in greater quantity. Improved mobility of field guns. Primitive Breech loading light field pieces.
1895: Spanish American War era equipment. Improved single-shot breechloaders. Smokeless Powder  Bolt-action rifles Primitive rifle-caliber MGs. Proliferation of QF hydraulic recoil carriages for light field pieces.
1905: Pre Great War era equipment. Improved Bolt-action rifles. Rifle-caliber MGs. Improved Breech loading guns. Primitive Recoilless carriages for light field pieces.

Aircraft and Countermeasures:
Baseline: None, perhaps a few private experimenters with gliders or hot air balloons.
1902: Up to Historical 1906 aircraft and countermeasures

Amphibious Technology:
Baseline: Lifeboats and the use of enemy harbors.   
               Can offensively  use 3 deployment point / turn. Can launch 1 amphibious invasion / turn.
1905: Shallow draft barges and shallow draft support ships. 
               Can offensively use 1/6 deployment points / turn.  Can launch 3 amphibious invasions / turn.

Logistics:
Baseline: Horsedrawn limbers, covered waggons, foraging. Use of rail networks
1900: Improved coordination. Experimental use of motorised equipment.

Mechanization:
Baseline: None
1905: Experimental. Automatically granted in 1910. Requires 1900 Logistics

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