First Half of 1933 After everyone finishes shaking off the effects of the hangover of 1932, work begins. At the January session of the council the three aquire proposials are brought forward, and all are aproved. By the time that summer is drawing to a close all three proposials are finished.
The first proposial, to aquire plans or physical scrapper trucks, goes on quickly. A batch of eleven are quickly bought, and are assigned to the airfield crew, while plans are aquired latter on and are given to a factory in the capital. (Actions requiring scrapper trucks have no negitive)
Meanwile, negotiations with a number of nations go forward to obtain a steady stream of steel and aluninum, which eventually winds up with gaurenteed supplies of 490 tons of steel and 300 of aluninum being avalible to the department anually. The first shipment will be next half.
After a rather eloquint presistation by an aeronautical engineer as to why contracting with another nation to buy aircraft is better than duplicating their suscesses, a contract is made with the Canadian Vickers company to purchise a trio of Vancover seaplanes, outfitted with mounts for a trio of lewis guns and the ability to hold up to 1000lb of bombs (450 KG). Licences to construct more are also aquired.
General characteristics
Crew: 9
Length: 38 ft 3 in (11.66 m)
Wingspan: 55 ft 0 in (16.76 m)
Height: 15 ft 7 in (4.75 m)
Wing area: 818.9 sq ft (76.08 m2)
Empty weight: 5,966 lb (2,706 kg)
Gross weight: 10,009 lb (4,540 kg)
Powerplant: 2 × Armstrong-Siddeley Serval IV 10-cyl. double-row, air-cooled radial piston engine, 310 hp (230 kW) each
Performance
Maximum speed: 94 mph; 82 kn (151 km/h)
Cruise speed: 86 mph; 75 kn (138 km/h)
Service ceiling: 4,800 ft (1,463 m)
Armament
Guns: 3x MM1911
Bombs: 1,000lb (450 kg) of bombs
Costs: One run costs 1ton AL
Meanwhile, at the dockside, work begins on a new submarine, the so-called Ray class High-Speed Coastal Submarine. Work on this goes well, with everything to specification, and the engineers who designed this bearly 200 ton creature state that they think they can make it slightly better.
Ray-class High Speed Coastal submarine
Displacement: 210 ton surfaced
250 ton submerged
Length : 42 m
Beam : 3.3 m
Draft : 3.1 m
Propulsion: Diesel-Electric
300 hp Diesel
1800 hp electric
single shaft
Speed : 13 knots surfaced
20 knots submerged
Range : 1250 nmi
Complement: 11
Armament :
- 3 torpedo tubes (6 in storage)
Costs: 75ton steel, 54 ton AL
Surfice Optimised (extra two knots surficed)
Underwater Optimized (extra three knots submerged)
Underwater Detection Systems (crew +1, better detection)
Larger Torpedo Storage (Stores 12 torps)
Mine Laying Capasity (Internal storage for 6 mines)
External Hardpoints (Allows attachment of extra torpedo tubes/minelayers/whatever)
Hardly Coastal: Increased range
Nearby a team sets to work creating a cheap, reliable, and effective coastal patrol vessel armed with a pair of torpedo tubes, a 40mm AA gun and a single MM1911, made out of local woods where possible. Work on this goes amazingly well, and the prototype is made in record time. The navy loves it, although they do say it could use a slightly better engine. In apperince, it is similar to the SC-1 class submarine chasers used by the American navy.
Displacement: 85 tons full load, 77 tons normal load
Length: 105 ft (32 m)
Beam: 14 ft 9 in (4.50 m)
Draft: 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)
Propulsion: Three 220 bhp (160 kW) gasoline engines, 2400 gallons fuel
Speed: 18 kn (33 km/h)
Range: 1,000 nmi (1,900 km) at 12 kn (22 km/h)
Complement: 27
Armament: 1x40mm AA gun (mounted forward)
1xMM1911 (mounted on wheelhouse)
2x18in torpedo tubes (rear mounted)
Costs: 8ton steel, 2ton AL
Uses new engine: Uses the new SDE M1933, increasing speed an extra two knots.
Modular Mounts: Allows quick mounting of items in two mounts, say a pair of new 40mm cannon.
Must. Go. Faster!: Speed increased to 25 knots, if used with the SDE M1933 this is increased to 30 knots.
Cheap little bugger: Cost is halved.
Detection Systems?: Improved underwater detection systems make this a grand sub hunter.
In the workshops, however, work goes into producing a new unified engine system, capeible of being mounted into nearly anything, and even able to be made larger or smaller at whim. The SDE M1933, as its designation is listed, is a rather small diesel engine that can be tied into others with no ill effects. The power output of a single engine, however, is rather lacking, which is a pity. Still, the engineers think they can make it far better.
Weight:400KG
Horsepower: 50HP
Fuel: Diesel
Prodction run takes up 4ton steel, 4ton AL
Cheaper.: Costs halved
Light as can be: weight of only 300KG
More Power!: produces 100HP
Faster Making: Batches doubled
Any Fuel: Runs on just about anything
Aluninum Not Required: No AL used in the system
Never, Ever breaks: needs half the parts
Meanwhile, in the land of building things, work starts on a new airfeld capible of dealing with jsut about any mess. Despite the lack of heavy equipment, work goes on well enough, at least until eleven scraper trucks arrive. When they do, the workers pushed it into overdrive. The airfield, now with a trio of runways, is large enough for just about any arcraft, with a length of atleast 6000ft, and nearly a hundred feet wide. They also constructed a number of hangars, taxi ways, and support systems, including a pair of air trafic control towers, fuel farms, and even have a number of sites selected for anti-aircraft gun instilations assoon as we have the guns for them. Its proximity to the capital has allready made it a prime locale for aircraft coming in or out, and there is word that one of the transportation communes is looking into starting a trans-alantic air service using it.
Three concrete runways, 2x 6000ftx100ft, 1x 75000ftx150ft
Two ATC towers
Six large hangars
various other facilities
In other parts of the island chain, work begins on a large factory complex of three buildings, two to contain a trio of production lines each and the reamining one to contain but a single vehicular production line. While work on the vehicular factory goes fairly slow, the two armament works are completed in record time, allowing two lines in each to be tooled before summer is over. Staff has been hired, and nearly everything is primed.
1x Ray Class
1x CDV M1933
4x SDE M1933
200x RM1891
The head of the naval arm is estatic over the Ray and the CDV, and is glad about the new aircraft.
The head of the Armored arm states that while they are happy with the current model of tank in use, a form of self-propelled anti-tank gun may be useful, as would having more tanks.
The head of the Defense arm has stated their worry about the lack of artillery in all its forms, aswell as lack of anti-aircraft armaments. They also ask when they can expect to start receiving AEM M1932's in bulk.
The overall head of the Armed Forces has stated that stocks of smallarms is worryingly low, and that an additional 500 machine guns, 9,800 rifles, and 5,000 sidearms would be a useful addition. He also echoed the worry of the Defense arm head about artillery, and those of the Naval arm. They are glad that rifle production has started, and that they have a trio of aircraft to play with. They are somewhat confused about the new airport, seeing as the three aircraft on the island are all seaplanes.
The council is currently content with your work.
One office building
One large warehouse
One small workshop (No production lines possible)
One small drydock (On loan from armed forces)(500t maximum)
One Large Workshop (One line RM1891 (200 units per half-year), one line 7.62x54mm rounds)
Two large factories (Three lines each, one in each untooled)
One medium veicular factory (one production line, untooled)
Eleven Scraper Trucks
5000t timber per half-year
As much stone as is needed
1921t steel, stockpiled, 490 ton anually
85t aluminum, stockpiled, 400 ton anually
2 middling architect(s)
3 basic architect(s)
3 basic aeronautical engineer(s)
5 middling engineer(s) (basic)
5 skilled engineer(s) (Basic)
2 basic engineer(s) (basic)
1 basic Weapons Engineer(s)
5 material engineer(s)
4 basic material engineer(s)
3 middling naval engineer(s)
3 basic naval engineer(s)
1 middling naval engineer(s)
1 skilled electronics engineers(s)
3 basic electronics engineer(s)
36 laborers
6 skilled laborers
Ray HSCS
CDV M1933
SDE M1933
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