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1938 In a controversial move the Fleet Air Arm adopts the General Aircraft Gannet as its new single seat carrier fighter. What's...

The problem is that until 1941 the RAF doesn't have spare fighter aircraft to use as fighter bombers, if you're going to do close air...

Probably short barrel. The Royal Tank Corps had a rule that the barrel of the gun couldn't extend beyond the tracks of the tank. This...

Yep, they were worried that such a large aircraft fully loaded with bombs wouldn't be able to take off from a wet and muddy grass...

All proper Jags are green, and are come with at least 1 blond bombshell.

Private Clarkson what the hell are you doing to my Victoria's back door?

If only Rolls Royce had put the resources wasted on the Vulture into the equally powerful Griffon...

Matilda II's reputation rests on it being "The Queen of the Desert" able to shrug off everything the Italians and most of what the...

After WWI the Royal Navy gave the Dominions entire (if small) navies worth of ships.

The Americans aren't exactly guiltless either. At least the British didn't use the same number for different pieces of equipment. How...

The Morris Suppository?

The A11 runs from London to Norwich so they could name it the Norwich.

That would be

I could easily see a third being ordered in the aftermath of the Falklands War and a Commando carrier to replace the Hermes.