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No the flame thrower was built on the L3/35.

Bolt some more on, you don't need the heavy turret just a casement.

The Italian Pilots were very good. For all the faults of the Italian military the Air force was very well trained and in the early and mid 30's their aircraft were world class.

Hear Hear. We are all people of our time and place and should remember that in the future people will try to apply their values and attitudes to us. How many of those we judge good and virtuous people will be looked on by their chattering classes with contempt and hatred?

I'm not sure I'd want to put a gas turbine engine in an aircraft with a fuselage cloth skin stretched over wooden stringers.

I wonder how they'd do against Gauntlets and Nimrods with more powerful engines and more guns? (Britain has more powerful Mercury and Kestrel engines than those fighters are fitted with so why wouldn't they re engine them with a war to fight)

I'll never understand how an utter prig like Fogg managed to get the girl. Just look at how he treats his valet, he's a b*stard.

You can actually make a reasonable sounding argument in favour of a mixed fuel boiler between the wars as a way to ensure that you actually have fuel available if your country has any coal mines of its own while still being able to pour on the oil for high speed steaming.

Back to the question of the Hurricane being more prolific you could continue production with a dedicated two seat advanced trainer version even as late as 1950 as a bridge between the much faster late war and early post war piston fighters and the much slower Harvard trainer.

Frogmen before war is declared? Ultimately Italy still loses badly given how extremely unimpressed the British will be with such an act. Twisting the Lions tail is one thing, trying to cut its throat while the Lion's asleep is something else

Wrong Mole, you need this one.

When Argentina responds to the blockade/sanctions/embargo by expelling all the Islanders who refuse to give up British citizenship it takes the wind out of Britain's sails.

In 1936 after a rail crash destroys a regiments worth of Vickers Medium tanks the British Army places a rush order for Improved Vickers E tanks with the new 2pdr gun, up to 25 mm of armour and a 150hp engine.

Your navy decides that Britain was right before WWI and that mixed coal and oil burning boilers are the best option.

Pity the Aussie ex pat going into a shop and asking for a roll of Durex.

In late summer 1939 Polish reserve armoured forces prepare to resist any German attack.

Does the sound of these Super Heavy Tanks moving up to attack count as the mythical Brown Note?

You should see what the French ordered to replace the Char 2C. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCM_F1

Who needs tanks to capture Narvik when you've got the Warspite?

For the LMG and again convince the War Office lubricated ammunition is unneeded. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breda_30