Yeah, constantly blowing up orbiters isn't good for operational efficiency, so the only real way to achieve high flight rates is with more orbiters. This would drive down costs per launch significantly, as the shuttle system would be operating closer to its designed capacity. But NASA will...
The main question here is when and how the Bolsheviks gain Poland. For example, if Poland falls before the corridor is handed over, I think it is most likely to end up as a League Free Territory (simply calling it a free city seems insufficient). If it falls after Germany has withdrawn troops...
Given that the Tsarist government and the Provisional Government had been overthrown for failing to give the exhausted Russian population peace, the Bolsheviks starting WW2 would go down as well as a lead balloon. And most importantly: no Bolshevik is so crazy they wouldn't know it, and know...
Well, there's little detail known about him at least in English-language sources. What we do have sounds very much like other reformists who were embittered by Gorbachev's recklessness. But without more details of how he handled the power he had in his OTL positions and the subtleties of his...
Or a more overtly anti-Semitic one, where the actual existing Israel is something that needs to be destroyed by human action so a "true Godly Israel" can take its place.
Regards,
fasquardon
To make the chances of crew surviving better - same as they do with US weaponry. Israel not having the population of either the US or USSR means the design trade-offs for weapons are different.
Really? Do you have any sources for that? I would have thought that in the later 40s and the 50s...
The problem is, how to get a long term alliance between the Soviets and the Israelis in the first place. That would take a change that by itself would majorly alter the Cold War.
For example, let's take a fairly simple PoD:
Eisenhower doesn't miss the opportunity to get Egypt on-side. So the...
In regards to your 1st point, if you ask me, getting the Ottomans onto the Entente side at all is an awfully big ask. But the original question wasn't "how do we get the Ottomans to side with the Entente", it is "how long does the Ottoman regime last if they did". So... Yeah, I agree. This...
Fair enough.
Hm, well, the real winning move almost certainly didn't involve invading Afghanistan, so yeah you have a point. (I only say "almost certainly" because while I can't see how the invasion made anything better, it is possible for me to be wrong.)
The invasion actually undermined...
Sir, you are a model of restraint!
That's another timeline I want to see you write!
Maybe with the 5 engine Atlas, the US pulls ahead in the early space race, and somehow in the Soviet Union, Chelomei builds the UR-500MK with Kuznetsov engines as a result...
See, I have saved you and you now...
You are aware that the Soviets won the war in Afghanistan in OTL right?
Yes, going in was almost certainly the wrong call, and yes the war was expensive. But in no way can you say it was hopeless and the "dying" USSR didn't have what it took to win. They could win, and militarily they did...
The Soviets and Argentine Junta actually got on pretty well - better than they did with Cuba.
That doesn't mean that the Soviets will send weapons though - for a start, the Argentine equipment and doctrine is based around US hardware - Soviet weapons wouldn't be terribly helpful. For another...
Pretty much how they did things in OTL? Take advantage of American distraction and hubris and land a blow that hurts so much that the US lashes out at convenient targets that have nothing to do with Bin Laden's group. Worked in OTL well enough.
And yeah, a nuclear war would be truly ghastly...
Well, what kind of hardliner? Gorbachev was generally considered a hardliner when he rose to power.
And the general consensus among those labeled by the CIA as "hardliners" was that some sort of reform was necessary. But obviously a different personality to Gorbachev would have done things...