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That show was great, but IMO needed another two or three Episodes to make room for a Soviet POV and generally more international reaction to all this, because I doubt that an earlier end to Vietnam would have been the only significant change.

FN Herstal, Colt, Vickers... there's plenty of companies and even more countries where arms development goes radically different without his contributions/without his providing competition to drive innovation. Hell, Browning invented the modern pattern with the FN 1900.

Fire departments used those helmets well into the 90s too.

According to the dude I talked to, and somewhat ironically, genuine Wehrmacht helmets are damn near impossible to find in Germany, as they were all recycled into other things or re-purposed for various fire brigades and eventually tossed in the 90s.

Eh, I spent a small fortune on a post-war ex USN M1.

It pains me that TTL, the gloriousness that is the M1 helmet is associated with the baddies of the war.

The Vickers gun is not the worst war booty to have. When the UK retired the last of them in the 1960s (which is in itself a sign of how good it was, given that it's basically a souped up maxim with some parts built upside down) they took one, measured it out to as close to factory spec as they...

My condolences. :) That said, I was mostly referring to the "in good health" part and kinda annoyed with something IRL when I wrote that. His living until 1954 isn't too out there, if still unusual, but this spawn of Satan's asscrack was never in good healt at any point after 1941.

Given that hitler had 1) Parkinsons, 2) wasn't in good health since the 30s because of 3) The utterly moronic and incompetent so-called medical treatments by Morell and others, it's amazing he lived as long as he did. Sure, the war not going to shit from 1943 onwards certainly helps, but that he...

Those pilots should be getting the Navy and Air Force Cross for having the balls to do this.

IRL, there was testing for C-130s to be used as CODs. For a very brief time.

Heretic! To the fires with you! :biggrin:

Liberty Prime because there totally never was a game named Red Alert 3.

ISn't that from Trinity and Beyond? As so well-narrated by Bill Shatner?

I crashed something to the tune of twelve Eurofighters in that mission.

If there's one area the Fatherland Kriegsmarine would be good at, it's subs. Hell, IRL we're still rather good at them.

Even if the technology is related (and that's not a given) it would still take a number of years to shrink it down and make it cheap enough to put it into a mass-deployed weapon like a torpedo. That said, there will be tech progress that sticks (conventional cloaking devices among them) but not...

The armour and the torpdoes would pretty much break the setting, so in that version, the generator burnt out and was unsalvageable, though it did give them some pointers towards next-gen hull construction methods, some of which all post-Engame ships have. All Starfleet vessels carry a few...

Changed the edition again, mostly because it gives me more room to play with and making it a post-war one gives me the possibility to use all my ideas. Jane's All the Galaxy's Fighting Starships #8 (2429 edition) Name: U.S.S. Samuel B. Roberts (NCC-3431-C) Type: Fleet Destroyer Class...

With Bluth staying at DIsney, that means no fifty million Land before Time movies. While the loss of the original is just that, the rest of them will thankfully be nixed by Disney even if the original is made.