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Not much choice about real life taking priority - Thursday night for instance I had a director emailing me about an exploding machine on test, and I'm waiting to hear back from a job interview for a Chief Engineer role on the other side of the country. Norway is out on one hell of a limb. It's a...

No problem. I've wanted to write that for quite a while, but life isn't conducive to writing at the moment :(

8th January 1942 The British situation varies radically by front, almost entirely dictated by the petrol situation: 1st Army is receiving priority for Petrol supplies, allowing I Corps to continue their investment of Berlin while II and III Corps reach and cross the Polish border, coming to...

OK, I think I see the confusion. Applying a little bit of mathematics to the problem will probably help: Assume that the energy per shot is the same as for the GE Minigun - 3000 Rounds per Minute = 50 rounds per second. 28V DC @58A is 1.62 kW (i.e. 1624 Joules/second). This means that per...

The impact on muzzle velocity is pretty trivial - you typically take it from as close to the muzzle as you can get away with, on most modern rifles it's under the fore-sight. This gas is also not vented but trapped in a tube, so the pressure loss within the barrel is very small. The effect is...

They very kindly offered a few years ago. For a variety of reasons, notably tax ones, I'm afraid it isn't happening.

I didn't have children when I started writing this. They're now both in school! The other issue is that the Entente are no longer distracted, and while not quite taking on the role of the world's policeman they're going to be looking very askance indeed at any country going around invading...

Not quite epilogue - I've got about 90,000 words written and still to publish, the story so far goes up to 2004! The end of the war is happening a bit faster than I was anticipating, and needs quite a bit of detail so writing this bit is something of a chore.

Thanks guys. It's 90% motivation - I've got an idea of what I want to write, but with two small children and a fairly pressurised job finding the motivation to do so is hard. My youngest has also just started school and isn't adjusting brilliantly - acting up a lot, and getting me up at 5am...

Thanks - it isn’t dead, I’m just finding it very difficult to write at the moment.

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That all depends on what you mean by a "strong" China - realistically they can achieve what they want by making it a bit stronger, but that is a world away from being a threat to their possessions. Quite limited compared to OTL: Melita Norwood works for them as IOTL and would see enough for...

Short term I would expect something similar to the agreement whereby they assisted each other by facilitating fallout sampling flights from each other's tests, plus possibly some of the "twenty questions" routine from OTL - both of which happened despite the McMahon act. Longer term I could also...

Look up where the army HQ is on a map. "Danger Close" with very heavy artillery is... scary. Not so far from what was done in OTL - the Légion étrangère was mostly German-speaking for quite a few years after the war. Any German government being involved in such a transaction would be a big red...

Nope - Clemenceau was broken up on the stocks in May 1941 and Gascogne was cancelled at the same time. To mix metaphors, far too many butterflies have flowed under the bridge by that time for the same aircraft to exist. Additionally, industry develops very differently which puts Dassault in a...

Only the 9 x 16" KGV version, not the monsters they later evolved into. Guard's Van has gone for good however.

Building blocks, yes. It'll be a very long term thing though, and nobody is thinking that far in advance yet. No, but they do think that if they occupy Germany for a century or so during which time no Germany is allowed anything more dangerous than a shotgun they won't pose a threat to them...

Essentially so far the Entente are helping the US to ship in the aid which went to the KMT in OTL. With a war on, they simply don't have the capacity to send very much more. After the war there is a great deal of scope for things to change, and a vast quantity of surplus or captured armaments to...

First off apologies for the lack of updates - two small children at home while I'm trying to work has sucked all the creativity out of me for now, and I just don't have the mental energy to work on an update. These are the original Audacious class design as it existed in 1940 - essentially...

Unless you have any specific questions, I can't be bothered. Really critical context like the fact that the British and Americans knew each other's plans and adjusted their own accordingly is being completely ignored, which makes the whole thread a bit pointless.