Hellcats (and all high performance radial engines) were vulnerable to a hit in the oil cooler. Late models of radial engines were not air cooled they were oil and air cooled.
The aircrew cost more to train than the aircraft costs to build. Then you have to train new crew and build a new plane for every mission. The RAF night fighter pilots will be delighted with the slow low level targets they can find and kill. The Defiant instead of being a joke will be the first...
I think buying Austin in 1925 is a bit too late. Austin had gone into receivership in 1921 and Herbert Austin lost his complete control of the company. By 1925 the company had been restructured with new and updated models like the Twelve and the Seven selling fast.
The Midland bank might have...
Great work but one tiny nitpick that doesn't change the good work Sheffield had a 6 inch (152mm) main battery that fired 112 pound (51kg) shells.
The 5.25 inch dual purpose gun primary guns on the Dido class cruisers and as secondary guns on the KGV battleships fired an 82 pound shell possibly...
I imagine the Royal Navy could spare some forces to singe Francos beard. Plenty of places that would be vulnerable to a quick bombardment it wouldn't cause much damage but anything to divert attention and resources from the Gibraltar campaign. Also SOE would probably be in the country being...
The RN might launch a handful of cheap coastal escorts to a modified whaling ship design as a way of giving some small building yards a boost. These get plenty of use in anti sub exercises the design gets tweaked and improved and by 1938 and the Munich crisis British, Canadian and French yards...
Great Britain has 8 capitals with varying degrees of autonomy. The United Kingdom is different and has 4 capitals.
United Kingdom capitals
London England but controls foreign affairs, defence and Westminster has a veto over the other 3 countries parliaments acts.
Edinburgh Scotland
Cardiff...
The civil war in Spain was still rumbling on with the Army still clearing hold outs in rural areas only really ending in about 1944.
SOE will be happy to help anyone with a grudge. I can see the entire Spanish armed forces rushing around trying to put down insurrections and secure the cities...
The RAF doesn't currently have AWACS and unless the battle takes place over UK airspace it doesn't have ground radar either. Unless there's something I haven't read about.
The thing is if the F22 is in a dogfight something has gone very wrong. The F22 would have AWACS or ground/naval radar guidance and a Typhoon will have to beat a lot of missiles and electronics long before it can get a lock.