Recent content by Kevin Renner

  1. What's your favorite map projection?

    A holographic projection of a sphere.

  2. AHC: Prevent the Fall of France in 1940

    I will go the most likely option. The French send troops into the Rhineland

  3. AHC: P-40 lasts the whole war

    Actually some P-40s were fitted with Packard built Merlins. F and L models. Performance was better than the early Allison models but iirc they only had a single stage supercharger

  4. The MK-102 Automatic Rocket Launcher is used in the anti air role

    During WWII the US Navy developed the MK-102 for shore bombardment use during amphibious landings. This had the advantage of being a mount that did not have to depend on aiming the whole vessel. Depending on the projectile it had a range of up to 10K yards (9km). Fitted with proximity fuses...

  5. AHC: P-40 lasts the whole war

    Ford is allowed to to ahead with its V-1650 had these engines are prioritized for P-40s. Realistically Curtiss screwed up every project post P-40

  6. USA's "Project Cancelled"

    The Sargent York Aside from the issue of low speed on the chassis as I see it its largest single problem was the software controlling the gun laying. Plus just how long could it engage targets in terms of firing time before its dry. But is there another use for such vehicles? Ditch the...

  7. If Lincoln was not assassinated could he have feasibly pulled an FDR and chose to serve 3 or even 4 terms?

    Even with out his assignation there is a real possibility that he would not survive his second term. At least that's my opinion.

  8. WI: Lenin had children

    One thing you will not see is the North Korean system of Dynastic Communism*. I agree that if Stalin rises to power his paranoia will lead to their deaths. But probably in a politically useful manner. I can imagine a Pravda headline circa 1942. "Son of Lenin Dies Heroically Leading Attack on...

  9. Effects of Montana Class Battleship in WW2

    The Montana's would have been a bigger waste of steel than the Alaska's Each Montana represents 35 1800 ton LST's. Thats 175 for the whole class. I'm not saying the LST's dont get built. But something won't. A lot of somethings

  10. Why are all the countries the Soviet Union invaded overlooked?

  11. Why are all the countries the Soviet Union invaded overlooked?

    As a related subject if Russia only fought defensive wars how did it get so large.

  12. Fixing US borders

    Shouldn't that be phrased as Illinois's independence from Chicago

  13. Who is the most influential man in history?

    Mesoamericans did know about the wheel. Toys have been found with them. But with out draft animals there's not much use beyond the wheelbarrow. Which is damn useful by itself

  14. Truman Runs in '52

    When I was young there was a running joke about the Truan memorial being the Truman Sewers.

  15. Who is the most influential man in history?

    OK Let's set the bar at 500BCE. 1) Three way tie Christ,Mohammed and the Buddha 4) Euclid* 5) Christapho Columbo If we set the bar at recorded history or then it's the aforementioned scribes The first three leaving aside questions of theology are responsible for a large part of the culture and...
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