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Israel selling Phantoms to Argentina could happen... the day Hell freeze over. I think it would be political suicide for Israel. They needed every single Phantom, considering the losses suffered during the Yom Kippur war and operation Nickel Grass. Nickel Grass had the United States sending...

Good idea. Early Skyhawks (before A-4E) had a J-65 which was a licence-build Armstrong siddeley Sapphire by Curtiss-Wright. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_J65 A Skyhawk with an advanced Sapphire or a RR Avon would be pretty good (no afterburner).

For the Front national: far less. When daddy Le Pen (racism against muslims and jews) passed the baton to Daughter Le Pen in 2011, Marine LP was quick to ride the wave of euroskepticism. The FN core strategy was, and still is, anti-Euro. Europe is bad, steal your jobs, euro is too expensive...

Whoa whoa whoa. Please calm down. Thanks. And don't lecture me about French combat aircrafts, I've read books on the subject since 1989. And look at the Iraqi Mirage F1, the EQ-6: they could fire Exocets, yet (unlike the etendard) they had a multirole radar, not an Agave but a modified Cyrano...

Phantoms would have been horribly expensive, plus they are maintenance intensive. The Skyhawk, by contrast, would be a better bargain. Particularly with refueling pods to extend the range. Greece is one of the few countries that had both Exocets and Phantoms in its inventory. I can't remember if...

The nice thing with the Skyhawk, it is so agile, and has such a good t/W ratio, it can be used for limited fleet defence, with Sidewinders. Early AIM-9B were shitty, but the Falklands AIM-9 (can't remember the letter) was formidable. RNZAF did it. Brazil did it for the ex-Foch, the Sao Polo...

MAAARS !!! HERE WE COME ! Hey I just met you And this is crazy But here's my number So call me maybe…

Which sounds logical since the RAN carriers were former RN ships (HMAS Melbourne)

I forgot the North American FJ Fury, which was the F-86 half-brother, navalized. The final development, the FJ-4, was one hell of a fighter bomber, powerful, fast, with a large bombload. Pretty much a naval Hunter or F-100. I cut and pasted Wikipedia list of USN jets. When the J79 become...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_F3D_Skyknight

There are plenty of excellent designs the RN could have procured. Vought, Douglas, McDonnell, Grummann best fighters (the other were crap) Vought F8U Crusader of course. Crusader II and Crusader III. Grumman Panther, Cougar, Tiger, Super Tiger (with J-79) Douglas F-3D Skyknight, F-5D...

I'm working my way through 1986. The period of time between Chernobyl and Reykjavik will be one heck of an atompunk. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk_derivatives#Atompunk Atompunk died by 1965 ? meh. I totally suscribes to that description.

Millions of people dies, for a start. I wonder if such a war would screw global climate - would it cool the climate, would the ozone layer take a hit ? Also radioactivity. Three months after 2001 ? worlwide morale would sink to the depth. The human race would survive (this is no Cold War with...

Bring the Z-fighters and Japan will rule the Universe. Dragon. Ball. Z. No GT, ever, the horror.

a - JB-2 loon - Like V-1s probably (it's hard to beat that thing cheapness and simplicity) b - Reverse-engineered pulsejet, albeit the Vampire / Meteor / P-80 jet engine could do it, it would guzzle less fuel, but it would be an expensive piece of metallurgy wasted for each V-1. Early jet...

Errors in navigation was probably the lesser issue faced by the air-launched V-1s. Consider what follows. They launched V-1s from a He-111, an aircraft that was completely obsolete by 1944. Carrying a bulky and heavy V-1 under the wing degraded further He-111 performance (I even wonder how...

And here we go again, the V-1 as the wonder weapon. The thread that never dies. JB-2 loon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic-Ford_JB-2 Thousands of them to be build and used against Japan during the invasion that never happened. Technically, the Wallies could have reverse-engineered the...

Those are B-52s fuselages. Conroy thought BIG.

So Chernobyl has happened, as per OTL. OTL the Space Shuttle was grounded since STS-51L, Space Station Freedom was a paper project, KH-8 was gone since 1984, KH-9 and KH-11 had been grounded by two Titan explosions. KH-10 MOL had been dead since 1969. Observations of Chernobyl smoldering ruins...

"Ronald Reagan intimate opinion on the Strategic Defense Initiative was, and still is hard to guess. Supporters says from day one he grasped quite well the limits of technology; he knew the missile shield just would never work. In this case, supporters add, Reagan was playing bluff; the SDI was...