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  1. The Polish Independent Airborne in Warsaw

    They didn’t wear the maroon beret,they had grey ones. It’s a great what if though. There was also 2nd mechanised commando and the Grenadier Company also capable of small unit and raiding operations, if you fancy increasing the numbers,

  2. RAF buys F-15Cs. Can they be used in the Falklands War?

    One scheme looked for U.K. air defence, in addition to the F15A which was closely examined was a conversion to the Vulcan mounting an air search radar that would have made Vulcan look like it had the biggest wart!

  3. HMS EAGLE in the Falklands

    I’d stick with the Hornet as is, except for the radar (Blue Vixen), obviously British comms, and ordnance. Not sure about changing the gun as it’s not really that vital and maybe too much of a faff to bother? Although there is the possibility of 25mm Aden if you must? I would consider the RF18...

  4. HMS EAGLE in the Falklands

    Or you develop the P1216 (dropped mid 80s) which was in all likelihood the ancestor of the YAK141....

  5. HMS EAGLE in the Falklands

    Invincible still sold to Australia, illustrious commissoned as planned, Indomnitable (Ark Royals original name) modified (as they were designed as such) as commando carrier (Illustrious following on later), Hermes sold to India. Two new redesigned CVA01s ordered with Eagle eventually...

  6. HMS EAGLE in the Falklands

    I did say IF....I think we all know nowt would happen. After all OTL the RN didn’t get two replacement air defence ships, they got the type 22s they’d have probably got anyway.

  7. HMS EAGLE in the Falklands

    The RN IF it had got a CTOL carrier (a mark 2 CVA01 as it were), by say 1988/89 then it undoubtedly would have been Hornets all round. Rafael and Typhoon are too far away, Tomcat just isn’t happening, reconditioned Phantoms would also be likely but not for long and two carriers is probably the...

  8. HMS EAGLE in the Falklands

    Do remember that the Argentine AAVs weren't the uparmoured AAV7 but in fact the very baseline LVTP7 with not very thick armour. All had returned to the mainland, well before the arrival of HM Forces (along as said with a lot of the initial landing force). 5th marines were indeed one of the best...

  9. HMS EAGLE in the Falklands

    The CVR can be topped by its ancestor the Tetrarch. During airborne tests of an interesting nature, one driver found himself finding out what 100mph on tracks was like!

  10. WI: Airborne Expeditionary Unit

    The US army publication Armor did have a thesis in creating such a force back in the 1970s/early 80s using the British CVR series as a basis, pretty much how the Soviets were using their BMDs. So the grunts would have had Spartans, backed up by more Spartans with TOW, Scorpion CVR with their...

  11. Warships in need of an ATL story

    HMS Warrior, oh I don’t know maybe hanging around a lot further west than Portsmouth, maybe around 1861 ish and maybe mistaken identities and mistakes made? Or has that been done already?

  12. Warships in need of an ATL story

    How’s about Theseus, Ocean and Glory being converted in 1959 to either ASW helicopter carriers OR as Sea Slug command cruisers? They could’ve easily made it through to about 1989 as ASW carriers and probably early 80s in the other guise.

  13. HMS Anson soldiers on

    Finbarr I’ll ask ya.....

  14. What can Portugal do to defend Goa?

    Short of Skippy the ASB transforming the 4000 into Imperial Codex Astartes not much. Although that could make for an entertaining storyline someone?

  15. British create armoured personnel carriers in 1940s

    The 15mm BESA would be excellent choice for an early AIFV,

  16. W.I?: British army create commando branch in the 1930s?

    The only official scout unit that the British Army had were the Lovats Scouts, and care to hazard a guess where most of the initial sniper and sneaky beaky stuff came from?

  17. W.I?: British army create commando branch in the 1930s?

    One way it could happen is that the Corps of Scouts is more formalised around say 1905, they were the intended users of the scout scope much used in both WW1 and 2.

  18. Military equipment if the Cold War continued till 2019

    Have a look on the secret projects website, tons of stuff there including BAE projects such as a small push turboprop attack aircraft loaded with downward firing 81mm Merlin mortar bombs (Merlin was a guided top attack project, STRIX was similar but for a better calibre of 120mm) other things UK...

  19. HMS EAGLE in the Falklands

    The Viggen could be a contender, after all it had a rather strong undercarriage already. Doesn't take up much space, very adaptable and already plumbed for a lot of Brit kit.

  20. British Amphibious question

    Err the BARV also landed at San Carlos. The RM have a few BARVs even now, as do the Dutch. I have a regular customer who was in the Carbineers during the 1960s and for a while they had a sqdn motoring around the Med and the Gulf in some LSLs and the like.
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