Have even more attack aircraft than the six "Kates" actually sent and add maybe some dive bombers from Junyo and Hiyo for the attack on Guadalcanal on October 25th. And if they all get shot down, it would further weaken the Japanese Advance force before Hiyo has to fall back on Truk because of...
Have you ever seen maps and pictures of the defenses at Tsingtao? They pretty much did there as you are suggesting. Though, not an island, but a peninsula.
The British Army had many colorfully named regiments over the years drawn from all areas of Great Britain and the British Empire. Some of these include the names of regiments raised from Britain, such as the Sherwood Foresters, the Royal West Surrey Regiment, the Coldstream Guards. Regiments...
Here is a toughie. What changes could be made to the Koninklijke Marine immediately post World War 1 to make it a better fighting force for its many tasks. They made several small armored gunboats, nice looking cruisers after WW1, and completed a cruiser sized coast defense ship before WW1...
The Japanese worked on their version of the Buzzard in the mid-1930s called the Nakajima NWD. 160mmx170mm 41 liters; rated horsepower 900hp at 2200rpm; Max 1040hp at 2400rpm; 695kg weight.
Have the original 16-Shi Japanese Navy specifications for the successor to Mitsubishi's A6M "Zero" fighter ever surfaced?
As I understand it, there was a delay in starting design work on the 16-Shi design for a successor to the new A6M in 1940 and 1941 because of problems with development of...
I expect that it is more likely to see an earlier iteration of a cartridge like the 7.62x51 through an earlier "necking up" of .250-3000 to .30 caliber as was done in 1920 with the .300 Savage cartridge. Whether .250-3000 or .300 Savage is used, only a negligible difference in weight and length...
Have the original 16-Shi Japanese Navy specifications for the successor to Mitsubishi's A6M "Zero" fighter ever surfaced?
As I understand it, there was a delay in starting design work on the 16-Shi design for a successor to the new A6M in 1940 and 1941 because of problems with development of...
Having Hiyo not suffer it's engineering casualty before Santa Cruz would have provided as many as 18 A6Ms, 17 D3As and 2 B5N2s to the number of aircraft available for the battle. 37 total aircraft. Would another 37 aircraft of the types described made a difference? Enterprise received two 250kg...
Britain did not lacked for possible engines that could be developed to replace the Merlin. Peregrine is kind of a modernized Kestrel. If Peregrine, then we see the Vulture X-24, which is basically two Peregrines stacked with one crank. No Merlin also leaves room for the Exe and further larger...