Newfoundland practices mandatory conscription of all males upon reaching the age of 18, this is due to the fact that the population is small and in the event of an invasion, woefully undermanned to do anything about it, however most of these conscripts are demobilized. She however maintains a standing army of twenty regiments of a thousand men each, situated in two ten thousand man brigades, though with the out break of the Second World War the garrison at home was increased by ten thousand and an additional thirty thousand volunteered to join the expeditionary forces bound for Europe.

The smallest sized unit in the Army is a squad of ten soldiers of mixed composition, generally having one machinegunner, two grenadiers and seven riflemen of which one is a radio operator and one is a medic; however depending on terrain and the strength of opposition, the composition and gear carried can vary. At the moment the army is using Lee-Enfields as main rifles, Sterling Submachineguns and Brens as Light Machineguns, however a rearming programme is taking place where the Lee-Enfields will be replaced by Semi-Automatic versions of the Sterling but progress is slow as they are trying to re-chamber the Sterlings for .357.

Current Infantry Weapons:

Lee-Enfield  Carbine  

Sterling Submachinegun 

Bren Gun - 

Hi-Power 9mm Pistol

Semi-Automatic Sterling (5% deployed)

The Navy does not practice mandatory conscription, it is a completely voluntary force due the nature of it's vessels, though this does not mean that the Navy is understaffed it employs fourteen thousand seamen. However the one thing that makes the Newfoundland Navy completely different to most other Navies is that it consists almost exclusively of U-Boats. The only other vessel type in the navy is battleship, of which there are only two employing a thousand men each, the rest crew the 240 U-boats that make up the bulk of the Navy, having a crew of fifty each. U-Boats can be produced fairly rapidly and completed within six months, this is dude to the fact that the ship is built in parts and the parts assembled in dry docks; theoretically Newfoundland could make 48 Subcaps a year and 20 Subprefs but that would hurt production of other wartime gear.

The Navy has two U-Boat classes: Subcap and Subpref, 'Submerge  Capable' and 'Submerge Prefered' respectively. 

Subcap: These make up the bulk of the fleet, numbering at 190 of them. Subcaps tend to stay on the surface and use submerging as a tactic to evade enemy ships; for this reason they carry less torpedoes then Subprefs and can only remain submerged for a maximum of 12 hours. However, they have faster dive rates then Subprefs, being able to dive a staggering 5 meters a second and are armed with guns on the deck.  The deck guns are so: a 9cm naval gun on the forward deck, a 40mm gun on the rear deck and two anti-aircraft machine-guns at the top of the conning tower. Some variants give up more torpedoes so they are able to carry two small Gyrocopters in the front, they are stored below deck and are raised up when surfaced by hydraulic lifts, there are 60 of these so called 'AE' variants. 'AE' variants only carry 7 torpedoes, whereas the standard carries 14; they have a maximum speed of 17.7 knots (surfaced) and a maximum range of 16,000km at 10 knots when surfaced; They have a maximum dive depth of 300m.

Subpref: 50 of these are in service with the navy, each also housing a crew of 50. The Subprefs are advanced U-Boats that were specifically designed to remain underwater for a prolonged period of time, having the ability to remain submerged for three days before rising up to recharge battery cells. It also has a more hydrodynamic shape that allows for faster submerged movement compared to the Subcap and faster descent rates (7 meters per second), coincidentally, the shape also gives it a smaller sonar profile making it harder to spot. The Subpref has three sets of engines: diesel, electric and silent running electric. The diesel engine is used when surfaced due to oxygen requirements, however this is only in open ocean when enemies are not near; the electric engines run off banks of batteries and are recharged by the diesel engines, the Subpref only needs to rise to periscope level to recharge as a snorkel on top feeds oxygen to the engine; the silent running motors produce very little noise and help make the ship stealthier when in enemy waters, however they are massive power drains. Is armed with 24 torpedoes; has a maximum speed of  16 knots surfaced and 17.7 knots submerged, with a maximum range of 30,000km at 10 knots surfaced; has a hydraulic torpedo loading system so is very quick to fire.

Newfoundland has a small airforce to complement the fact that they have no carriers, it is mainly incorporated as part of the navy though as most of the aircraft are AE-Subcap Gyrocopters. They do however have 40 airplanes guarding Newfoundland airspace, most of which being American made P-38 Lightenings, they are working on acquiring rights to produce the plane in Newfoundland as they are impressed by it's speed, range, armament and ability to fill the place of fighter, escort and fighter bomber, the other dozen or so airplanes are Lancaster bombers retrofitted for recon and paratrooper insertion. A small carrier is in the middle stages of being built and negotiations are taking place with the UK to procure more ships.