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Would it not be better to have the orange go diagonally replacing Northern Ireland's cross? I would think a good point of departure would be if Queen Anne became queen of the Netherlands forming some kind of personal union?

Ladies and Gentlemen - I give you the Vietnamese state of El-Salvador! lol Who wants to dream up the timeline where that becomes a reality?!

From what I have read (so far...) about Ashraf, she was in many ways seen as the bastard stepchild in her early years and it was always Princess Shams, the elder half-sister that was spoiled rotten. I may introduce Ashraf and Shams later on in the story, mainly to explore the way they would...

Chapter 2: A Grand Tour In 1931, Mohammad Reza was sent by his father to attend school in neutral Switzerland – specifically to avoid the Crown Prince getting caught up in the Great Game between the great colonial powers. Mohammad Reza was sent to Ecole Nouvelle to begin classes in mastering the...

A Constitutional Iran Point of Departure Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was known for believing in mysticism and that he was ordained by fate to lead Iran into modernity. This was fuelled by his mother who nurtured this side to his personality from a young age. What if Mohammad Reza grew up more...

South Africa would be another candidate, but would depend on the point of divergence. There would be some uncomfortable moments when trying to prevent the National Party from gaining power and introducing Apartheid. Hong Kong and Singapore post war were still relative backwaters and did not...

Or perhaps Or perhaps use something like the pips used here for the China Police? They look similar enough. I imagine they would be almost identical from a distance. Instead of the Crown, you could use the Tiananmen/Laurels instead?

Hmmm... I'm not a real fan of that ensign... Looks far too... Russian/Finnish...? I don't know. Something about it looks somewhat strange for Canada.

Well I would in some ways agree, but hey it's a wank, so I guess who cares? :P If it were me, just have the Supercat and the Typhoon, one as a strike platform and the other as an air superiority platform. There is also the EW Platform that would be needed on a carrier that size as well as AEW...

Didn't at one point, US Carriers carry the Hornet, Tomcat, Prowler and the Viking, in addition to all the support/helicopters?

I don't recall seeing this, but help me out... why did this happen?

Bumpity bump bump. Any chance of an update? I would hate to see this TL die a slow lingering death!

Yes, but in the mid-90's in OTL the Upholder Class were all sold to Canada because the govt of the day wanted an all nuclear submarine fleet. If we look at that it was originally conceived as a class of 12 boats, apply the same test I do as in the Type 45, it's possible that we would never have...

I think that by 2030, these ships will need to be replaced. I did think about an upgraded Albion Class as a replacement, but there we go! As for Britain purchasing the Canadian Surface "Cruiser", I'm unsure to be honest. If I remember correctly, the Canadian cruiser is over 10,000 tons and I...

I was very much thinking the same thing, only they'd be a lot uglier and less warlike than what one would traditionally associate with a warship...something like this: Image from www.thinkdefence.co.uk Ugly...yes, capable of doing a wide range of constabulary/policing functions, 100%...

I agree entirely. I think this is a problem that all navies are having in OTL in that they are all designing high end units that are cost-prohibitive and as such, only a very limited amount of units are able to be purchased. The role of a global corvette or in your case the Type 27 is to...

I don't necessarily agree that my fleet was a britwank. The Global Patrol Corvette are ships that cost about 50mil pounds plus a USV system and modular mission pack. They're slow and based off a commercial design, but cheap and efficient. The nuclear deterrent has been reduced from 4 ships...

Ah ha. I guess that'll be alright then! I guess butterflies can make it so that the Typhoon and CVF coincide and were developed with that in mind!

This was what I figured. Let me lend my thoughts on what the Royal Navy of TTL looks like in my head: 2x Queen Elizabeth Carriers (CTOL operations 60k tons empty) 4x Mistral Commando Carriers (Mistral BPC 250, 25k tons empty) - Replacing HMS Ocean, HMS Albion and HMS Bulwark 10x Type 45...

It might also be interesting to see some of that money set aside for capital investment spent on expanding or modernising Britain's dockyards. Britain's RN was simply ill-equipped to handle very large fleet carriers as they were limited due to dock size. It might be worthwhile to invest in...