I'm reading it at the future and with references to the USSR still existing and World War IV (!) it certainly feels both like AH and Alternative Future (if that can be a thing). It would certainly take quite a PoD for our 2029 to be like the one depicted in GitS!
A GCM-A 30mm cannon mount, which was mounted on many RN warships and some RFA.
A GAM-B01 20mm mount. These cannon were fitted to almost every vessel in RN & RFA service.
A 20mm Oerlikon. While this weapon dated back to the Second World War, it was still in widespread service with Allied...
Which was why Japan had access to intelligence that no other US ally had…oh…wait, what’s that? They didn‘t? It was the U.K. that had the position of getting access to stuff that even other members of the Five Eyes didn’t and still does? 😀
Sounds like Mansfield ’went native’ to some degree...
In the spirit of the film and TV threads I thought I'd start one for cross-overs that never happened.
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Father Brown - A Marple In Kembleford (2014)
While visiting her old friend, Mrs McCarthy (Sorcha Cusack), Miss Jane Marple (Julia McKenzie), assists Father Brown (Mark Williams) in...
The Man Who Didn't Save the World (2014)
Hour long documentary that challenged the claims of the 2013 film, including the claim that Petrov had the authority to order a retaliatory strike. Petrov himself appeared in the film, dismissing the idea that he saved anyone. Missed out on the Oscars...
A post war shot from circa 2018, showing an RAF Lancer B.1 in formation with a Typhoon T.1A and a Tornado GR.4. The RAF made extensive use of the Lancer and Tornado during the Third World War.
Bevan swung the Cabinet decision towards building a British Bomb. So, I guess it depends on whether Hugh Dalton is spoken to as badly by Dean Acheson as Bevan was and if Dalton reacts similarly.
On a weird random note, was just reflecting on the fact that in this TL the classic sitcoms Dad's Army, 'Allo, 'Allo and It Ain't Half Hot Mum won't exist. I guess Perry and Croft will write something else.