[b]Name:[/b] The British Empire [b]Primary Color/Flag:[/b] [hider][img]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/1200px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png[/img][/hider] [b]Core Population:[/b] United Kingdom: 47,500,000 British Raj: 377,800,000 British Africa: 63,743,225 Other Constituents: 39,205,000 Total: 528,248,225 [b]Military (Troops and vehicles): [/b] Army: 892,697 Total 224,000 Regular Army with 173,300 Regular Army Reserve 438,100 Territorial Army with a Reserve of ~20,750 Royal Navy 9,762 officers and 109,170 ratings. Royal Air Force consisted of ~118,000 [hider=Divisions] Brigades are roughly 1/3 the size of a Division, the UK had many units that were only full-strength Brigades at the outbreak of WWII but would quickly become full strength Divisions by April of 1940. RA = Regular Army - 1 Armoured Divisions, 1 Tank Brigade, 8 Infantry Divisions (9 Divisions and 1 Brigade) TA = Territorial Army - 18 Infantry Divisions, 6 Motor Divisions, 3 Tank Brigade, 1 Heavy Armoured Brigade, 2 Cavalry Brigades, 7 Anti Aircraft Divisions, 1 Light Armoured Infantry Brigade (31 Divisions, 7 Brigades) Northern Command [list] [*]5th Infantry Division [RA] [*]23rd Motor Division [TA] [*]50th Motor Division [TA] [*]25th Army Tank Brigade [TA] [*]46th Infantry Division [TA] [*]49th Infantry Divison [TA] [*]5th Cavalry Brigade (Actually Cavalry.) [TA] [/list] Eastern Command [list] [*]4th Infantry Division [RA] [*]18th Infantry Division [TA] [*]54th Infantry Division [TA] [*]12th Infantry Division [TA] [*]44th Infantry Division [TA] [*]21st Tank Brigade [TA] [/list] Western Command [list] [*]38th Infantry Division [TA] [*]53rd Infantry Division[TA] [*]55th Motor Division [TA] [*]59th Motor Division [TA] [*]6th Cavalry Brigade [TA] [*]23rd Army Tank Brigade [TA] [*]42nd Infantry Division [TA] [*]66th Infantry Division [TA] [*]24th Army Tank Brigade [TA] [/list] Southern Command [list] [*]3rd Infantry Division [RA] [*]1st Armoured Division [RA] [*]43rd Infantry Division [TA] [*]45th Infantry Division [TA] [*]48th Infantry Division [TA] [*]61st Infantry Division [TA] [*]20th Light Armoured Brigade [TA] [/list] Aldershot Command [list] [*]1st Infantry Division [RA] [*]2nd Infantry Division [RA] [*]1st Army Tank Brigade [RA] [/list] Scottish Command [list] [*]9th Infantry Division [TA] [*]51st Infantry Division [TA] [*]15th Infantry Division [TA] [*]52nd Infantry Division [TA] [/list] London District [list] [*]1st Motor Division [TA] [*]2nd Motor Division [TA] [*]22nd Heavy Armoured Brigade [TA] [/list] Anti-Aircraft Command [list] [*]1st Anti-Aircraft Division [*]2nd Anti-Aircraft Division [*]3rd Anti-Aircraft Division [*]4th Anti-Aircraft Division [*]5th Anti-Aircraft Division [*]6th Anti-Aircraft Division [*]7th Anti-Aircraft Division [/list] Middle East Command [list] [*]British Troops in Egypt [list] [*]7th Armoured Division [TA] [*]7th Infantry Division [RA] [/list] [*]Mandate Palestine [list] [*]8th Infantry Division [RA] [/list] [*]The Sudan [list] [*]1 Division Total [RA] [/list] [/list] [/hider] [hider=Army Equipment] [hider=Small Arms] [u]Rifles[/u] Enfield Pattern 14 (P14) - Used as a marksman weapon until the No.IV Mk.I(T) was introduced, also issued in large number to the LDV. M1917 Enfield - Issued to LDV. Martini-Enfield - Used as a reserve arm by Commonwealth troops from India, New Zealand, etc. Lee Enfield [u]Submachine Guns[/u] Thompson - US Submachine Gun in use until creation of Sten gun in 1941 [u]Machine Guns[/u] Bren light machine gun - Light machine gun for infantry use introduced in 1930s and used throughout the whole of the war. Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR) - Issued to Home Guard Lewis Gun - In service with some infantry at outbreak of war in small numbers, issued to British Home Guard for the rest of the war. Vickers "K" machine gun also known as VGO - Fast firing aircraft machine gun, used in specialist roles on Long Range Desert Group and Special Air Service vehicles in North Africa, as well as a short-lived infantry machine gun with the Commandos. Vickers machine gun - Standard medium machine gun of the British Army since 1912. Browning M1919 - Mounted on many lend-lease vehicles. Browning M2 - heavy machine gun, mounted on many lend-lease vehicles. Besa machine gun - in 7.92 mm BESA and 15 mm BESA forms used as armament on British-built tanks and armoured cars only. Vickers-Berthier - Light machine gun adopted by Indian Army pre-war and used by Indian Commonwealth troops. [u]Handguns[/u] Enfield No.2 Mk.1 Revolver Webley Revolver - many marks in .38 and .455 calibres Browning FN-Inglis "Pistol No.II Mk.I*" Colt M1911A1 Webley No.I Mk.I - Automatic pistol in .455 inch. Issued to the Royal Navy Smith & Wesson Model 10 Colt New Service Colt Official Police. [u]Grenades[/u] Grenade, Hand or Rifle, No.36M Mk.I "Mills Bomb" [u]Infantry Anti-Tank Weapons[/u] Boys Anti-Tank Rifle [u]Other[/u] Smatchet Kukri [/hider] [hider=Artillery] [u]Anti-Tank Gun[/u] Ordnance QF 2-pounder [u]Guns and Howitzers[/u] BL 4.5-inch Medium Field Gun Mk. I BL 7.2-inch Howitzer Mk.I (Introduced 1940) BL 8-inch Howitzer Mk VIII (Replaced by above in 1943) BL 60-Pounder Gun M116 Howitzer (US Supplied Mountain Howitzers) QF 3.7-inch Mountain Howitzer (British made) [u]Anti-Aircraft Artillery[/u] 40 mm Bofors QF 3 inch 20 cwt QF 3.7 inch AA gun QF 4.5-inch Mark 1 to Mark V [u]Mortars[/u] 2-Inch Mortar 3-Inch Mortar [/hider] [hider=Vehicles And Armour] [u]Light Tanks[/u] Light Tank Mk VI Light Tank Mk VII Tetrarch [u]Medium tanks[/u] Vickers Medium Mark II - Small Scale use in Africa [u]Cruiser tanks[/u] Tank, Cruiser, Mk.I Cruiser Mk III [u]Infantry Tanks[/u] Tank, Infantry, Mk.I, Matilda I (Phased out in 1940 for Mk III Valentine) Tank, Infantry, Mk.II, Matilda II Tank, Infantry, Mk.III Valentine [u]Self-Propelled Guns[/u] Unsure on timeframe for these two, placing them here as they are the only one that don't have defined dates for their Lend-Lease starts. T48 57 mm Gun Motor Carriage - 680 provided by Lend-Lease from America. Many had gun removed to convert them back to Armoured Personnel Carriers. Multiple Gun Motor Carriage M14 - Provided by Lend-Lease from America. Many had guns removed to convert them back to armoured personnel carriers. [u]Other Armoured Fighting Vehicles[/u] Loyd Carrier Half-track Car M2 [u]Utility Vehicles[/u] Willys Jeep "Tilly" - utility versions of civilian cars. [/hider] [/hider] [Hider= Royal Air Force] These numbers are of Operational/Active RAF Units, there were a total of 10,208 Aircraft in Service in September of 1939, with only the below being in Operational Units. As well Squadrons 400-499 were squadrons of the RCAF, RAAF, and RNZAF. [url=https://ww2-weapons.com/raf-squadrons-in-september-1939/]616 Squadrons Total[/url] 99 Squadrons - UK 21 Squadrons - France 21 Squadrons - Middle East and North Africa 14 Squadrons - British Southeast Asian Holdings [url=https://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=171599#p1528204]Strength of the RAF on 31st August 1939:[/url] Metropolitan Air Force - Fighter: 773 - Bomber: 1,313 - Torpedo Bomber: 30 - Army Co-operation: 132 - General Reconaissance (landplane): 261 - General Reconaissance (Flying boat): 64 - Total: 2573 Overseas: - Fighter: 143 - Bomber: 344 - Bomber transport: 44 - Torpedo Bomber: 36 - Army Co-operation: 78 - G.R. Flying boat: 32 - Total: 677 Grand total: 3,250 [/hider] [hider=Royal Navy] Ships: 15 Battleships (2 Nelson, 1 Hood, 2 Renown, 5 Royal Sovereign, 5 Queen Elizabeth) 7 Aircraft Carriers (1 Ark Royal, 2 Courageous, 1 Furious, 1 Eagle, 1 Hermes, 1 Argus) 15 Heavy Cruisers (2 Exeter, 13 County (2 Australian)) 41 light Cruisers (2 Edinburgh, 8 Southampton, 4 Artehusa, 3 Sydney (Australian), 5 Leander (2 New Zealand), 2 Emerald, 3 Effingham, 8 Despatch, 2 Cardiff, 3 Caledon, 1 Adelaide (Australian)) 8 Anti-Aircraft Cruisers (8 Cairo) 1 Minelayer Cruiser (Adventure) 113 Modern Destroyers 68 Old Destroyers 53 Modern Submarines 12 Old Submarines 54 Escorts (4 Australian, 2 Indian) 44 Fleet Minesweepers 2 Monitors (HMS Erebus and Terror, because damn are those names awesome.) Fleet Disposition [img]https://i.imgur.com/7Ydin2G.png[/img] [/hider] Ideology: Unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy Technology: Lacking compared to Germany, otherwise mostly modern.