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Short Stirling used as Maritime Patrol Aircraft for Battle of Atlantic?
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Early ASV sets had aerials on the top and side of the fuselage. As seen above, OTL ASV mark 1 entered service in Early 1940, the Mark...
Saturday at 8:03 AM
sonofpegasus
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Short Stirling used as Maritime Patrol Aircraft for Battle of Atlantic?
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Losing the Dorsal Turret gives you room for an extra navigator/radar operator.
Friday at 11:07 AM
sonofpegasus
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Short Stirling used as Maritime Patrol Aircraft for Battle of Atlantic?
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Back to the Sterling's range. There was a trade of between a large weight of relatively small bombs (2000lb max per bomb) of 14,000 lb...
Thursday at 2:19 AM
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What if the British Royal Navy was allowed to keep the two power standard and build 3 more battlecruisers and 2 more battleships?
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A WNT limit of 7 - 7,500 tons would suit the RN much better than the OTL 10,000. I think everybody building 10,000 ton 8" cruisers as...
Thursday at 2:02 AM
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What if the British Royal Navy was allowed to keep the two power standard and build 3 more battlecruisers and 2 more battleships?
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My bad i was forgetting those were the large 6" cruisers. especially as in the last year I have been carrying out serious archive...
Wednesday at 2:32 AM
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What if the British Royal Navy was allowed to keep the two power standard and build 3 more battlecruisers and 2 more battleships?
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As I stae in my post the whole point for the RN is to have cruisers limited to six inch guns. Anything bigger comes out of their...
Apr 16, 2024
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Which was entirely justified. A large number of bombers started out as transport aircraft. Douglass B 18 Dornier Do 17 Focke Wulf FW...
Apr 16, 2024
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What if the British Royal Navy was allowed to keep the two power standard and build 3 more battlecruisers and 2 more battleships?
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What if rather than completing and keeping the Hawkins class 7.5" gunned Cruisers the RN was able to discard them in the ALT treaty in...
Apr 16, 2024
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What if the British Royal Navy was allowed to keep the two power standard and build 3 more battlecruisers and 2 more battleships?
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RN cruiser designers were in the interwar period trying to balance conflicting requirements. The RN needed to balance numbers of...
Apr 14, 2024
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WI:Spain Permits Luftwaffe Training 1939-1944
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This would become known to the allies very quickly. Spain would be told in no uncertain terms that this action meant that they were not...
Mar 27, 2024
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WI: 'Tall Boys' & 'Grand Slams' used by the US against & Japan?
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Calling 617 squadron with Avro Lincolns ! Scaling the bombs on the B29 picture, those are two tall boys at about 12000 lbs each. I do...
Mar 27, 2024
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A Better Rifle at Halloween
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I an not sure at under 30lb I would ever call the Lewis a heavy machine gun, Maxim's and Vickers are around double that weight and I...
Mar 27, 2024
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Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.
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With an HE round coupled with the very low launch signal the Piat would probably be one of the more practicable short range bunker...
Mar 27, 2024
sonofpegasus
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WI: 'Tall Boys' & 'Grand Slams' used by the US against & Japan?
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If you do a 617/19 Squadron raid such as sunk Tirpitz the effect within an anchorage with concrete Basins will be magnified. Hit the...
Mar 26, 2024
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What if the Blackburn Roc was designed as a single seat fighter?
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I have lost the reference but years ago I found a claim that the Alvis Peledes engine was based on the G&N 14P drawings with the...
Mar 25, 2024
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