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RP Military Equipment
Era- Alternative WW1Standing army- 700,000 personnel
Reserves- 70,000
Available for drafting: ~1,000,000
Heer(army):
-Milizkorps- Militia, 245,000, cannon fodder units, armed with Pre-WW1 equipment: Rifles, bayonets, leather helmets
-Soldatenkorps- Professional soldiers, 450,000, in brigades of 3000. Armed with WW1 German equipment: Rifles, grenades, gas masks, prototype submachine guns, steel helmets, etc.
-Kavallerie- Cavalry, 2000 Dragoons armed with carbines, 3000 Uhlans with lances
-7500 pieces of artillery, field guns, howitzers, mortars and larger siege artillery
-Panzerkorps-
500 K-Panzerkampfwagen tanks with four 77 m guns and seven 8 m machine guns
700 armored cars with machine guns
-Reservetruppen- Reserves, 70,000, armed with mainly defensive equipment: anti-tank guns, heavy machine guns, etc.
-Unique units- 2 festung class land battleships: 40 meters long, 30 meters wide, four twin turrets with 20 cm guns, 14 11cm naval guns, four 8 cm flak guns
Reichsmarine(navy):
200 ships total
-15 Kaiser Class dreadnoughts: 170 meters long, 300 mm armor, five twin turrets with 30 cm guns, eight 8 cm flak guns
-25 Brandenburg Class pre-dreadnought battleships: 115 meters long, 200 mm armor, three twin turrets with 28 cm guns, eight 8 cm flak guns
-55 Schwalbe Class armored cruisers:100 meters long, 100 mm armor, two single turrets with 24 cm guns, no AA defense
-90 B97 Class torpedo boats: 85 meters long, 100 mm armor, four 9 cm naval guns and six deck-mounted torpedo tubes
-10 Type UB II submarines: 36 meters long, two fore-facing torpedo tubes and a 5cm deck gun.
-5 I Class prototype aircraft-carriers, mainly used to refuel airships and to land planes, no takeoff runway
Luftmarine(air units):
-250 Vaterland class zeppelins, 400 meters long, carrying 8 tons of bombs and 3 flak cannons for defense. Powerful engines give a high top speed. Fireproofed cloth on the surface of the balloon and an aluminum gondola. Able to tow up to 12 Luftdrache fighter-bombers.
-Luftdrachen- ornithopter aircraft, based off of dragonflies, capable of hovering and forward flight, made of canvas and wood, cheap and easy to manufacture but needing highly skilled pilots to fly.
-Prototype zeppelins
-Various observation balloons