aircraft carriers

So, before I get to posting anything about alternative IJN carrier development, I need to check my facts on what actually was done, for right now, with one exception, here is an image I created to help get needed info in one place. As near as I could extract from the mess that is Wiki, this is...

Imagine you are an ASB who is partial to the Imperial Japanese Navy, and you can choose one of the carriers of the IJN's 1st Carrier Division at the Battle of Midway to survive that unfortunate rendezvous with destiny. Alas, all three of her colleagues are going to die. Would you rather have...

Hello, alternate historians! In my mind recently, I have constructed a scenario that basically goes as follows. It's a long read, but I hope it's understandable: Preliminaries At the Battle of the Coral Sea, Takeo Takagi actually listens to Chuichi Hara and so does not send out his dusk...

The POD of this Pacific War scenario is to do with this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Salamaua%E2%80%93Lae In the midst of this: Around this time, the Indian Ocean Raid by the Kido Butai was being planned: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Ocean_raid My proposed chain of...

As it says on the tin. In OTL work was suspended in june 1940. What if it wasn't but instead work on the Tirpiz was suspended (and thus the Tirpitz was never completed)? I guess the Graf Zeppelin could have been completed in late 1940 or early 1941. But then? What could she have done? It's...

In our much beloved TL, The Whale Has Wings, a powerful ATL Royal Navy carrier force with ATL aircraft conducts a night strike on Wilhelmshaven in 1939, to the detriment of the Kriegsmarine. My question is, could a similar thing be done IRL with OTL's resources? The POD is that, after the...

As we naval history nerds know, the Japanese aircraft carrier Soryu and the American aircraft carrier Wasp died horrible deaths during the Pacific War. However, what stands out is that both were caught with their pants down: Soryu getting jumped by Yorktown's dive bombers while refuelling and...

HMS Colossus conducting her speed trials in June 1940 - with the situation in Europe worsening many 'issues' were overlooked in the haste to bring her into service and several of them such as the steering faults where not rectified for several years. One of the ‘ATL Riddles’ that occupies far...

A new kind of war In the Great War, the Royal Navy invented the aircraft carrier, the first ships to be modified to launch and recover combat aircraft. Although they did not accomplish much during the war, the promise was clearly there. Soon after the war the Japanese and American navies...

I know what you're thinking: "you're rebooting this TL again?" You see, no matter how muc I tried to make it work, there was no simply no way the opening scenario could happen, and simply editing the whole opening post would create confusion. So, I simply decided to start over once more. So...

I know the Whale Has Wings and sequels (now available in paperback) but this is such a rich vein of underperformance that many other scenarios could be tried. Mid-1935 Vickers Venom The ministry feel that this airframe could try a larger power plant (say the lightened Mercury IX). Is all that...

Inspired by a previous thread of mine I thought I'd have a go at writing an alternate history of the British armed forces. Primarily focused on the aircraft carriers of the CVA-01 program but also including other things. Apologies now if I end up veering into ASB territory but some small...

So every couple of months this site seems to have a thread to the effect of "what if Ukraine got to keep the Soviet nuclear arsenal/a multi-million men army/Tu-160 bombers, etc", often with follow up questions with the regards "how would this impact the Maiden movement/the current Ukrainian...

So, after some dissatisfaction with The Kriegsmarine Gets Wings, I've decided to reboot it. The general outline of the TL will remain the same, but a few details will be changed. So without further ado, I present The Kriegsmarine Gets Wings: V2.0 ---- Prologue December 29, 1944 The Atlantic...