Yeah Italy both north and south probably should have warranted direct comment
Not yet. Hand grenades won't come in yet, thats actually a point in adoption that in the original outline where they didn't get the F1 until relatively late, like basically when the US did. yes tMills bombs are thing, but doctrinally at this stage there isn't much for them versus what the original brigade was doing in terms of fire and maneuver, this changes as the warlord era intensifies
Yep, pretty much what I was already thinking, I'd even looked to where Bofors has or should have the liscening by the twenties cause versailles... though I suppose technically you could rules lawyer and either do that go through switzerland or say 'this is not a post war new thing, we were already contractually enjoined', but Krupp's subsidaries in Sweden or switzerland struck me as the best partner justification during outlining
Its not immediately politically possible (The 1919 arms embargo was something John Jordan really pushed and he managed to get HM Government to agree which proved to be a major headache in the FSO to get around even though there were members who wanted to bin the thing as early as the following year) and this will show up with ties to Vickers as well as with airplanes, (Historically what the English affiliated northern warlords did anyway in what they procured from England). So of England's surplus will filter into Southern Russia when we get to there during the whole post 1919 fiasco but thats a whole other mess in the transcaspian
The war time decline is principally (as I understand it) a result of ersatz manufacturing / defects in the steel, which doesn't seem to be a design problem (indeed it was probably a combination of late war ammo quality and manufacturing in the steel causing the barrel ruptures) hence Bofors not having that problem when they manufactured 1923 guns because they used locally made ammunition and steel. (which that had been Bofors policy for almost forty years by that point... though admittedly Swedish government did probably nudge them to using local steel because of the post war recession due to the bottom falling out of steel manufacturing also)
r made czech medium tank with 75mm guns - there were few prototypes in OTL.
Yeah, as I've made that comment before, Flint [edit okay failed is harsh, flunked ] out of grad school [couldn't hack it, whatever you wanted to call it proved that he could do the work, etc, etc.], and doesn't (and has repeatedly shown, he doesn't know how to do research). And like Martin mostly relies on pop culture history rather than, frankly church law was pretty much the best way to get a fair trial before basically the 1800s start.
The interesting thing, is that culturally vikings, the normans under rollo within the subsequent generation or two really define chivalry through a hybridization of existing norse martial ethos, and trading naval traditions with the adoption of heavier continental horses and increasingly more available armor (also a lot easier to get around Charlemagne's laws about don't sell weapons to foreigners, when youre no longer a foreigner, not that those laws really were practical in the first place, and it also helped that Charles was long dead by then) become the French Chivalric and thus knightly orders of the 12th century's basis.