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The Principe de Asturias is a good design for supporting somebody else in combat, but its much too small to be able to operate on its own. I can't see Australia or New Zealand being good with that, particularly if they are facing greater threats from Indonesia. If that's the threat, Australia...

If you're going that way start with the Legend-class cutters, two generations down from the Treasury class. You would have to figure out a way of expanding it to equip it with better weapons (it has no provisions to ASMs or air-defense weapons), but that's I'm sure a possibility.

Making the Type 23 work for American weapons would probably involve completely re-wiring and re-designing the thing, so yeah, scratch that idea. The ANZAC or Halifax wouldn't have that problem, but the Halifax is massively under-armed for many frigate jobs because it was (and is) meant to ASW...

Idea for you: when the 150th anniversary of the transcontinental railroad appears, how about a little show off of the surviving engine from that fateful day (it's in the California Railroad Museum IIRC) flanked by the big fellas of the SP and UP steam power and some historic diesels (a UP...

Nice. I can see the 6015 racing along the Water Level Route as part of the event. To Buffalo and return from Syracuse, then to Albany and back, the after the convention a bit of a tour of the eastern NYC, up the line to Montreal to meet up with CN 6060, then double-heading on CNR and NYC tracks...

You forgot Chesapeake and Ohio 614 and Milwaukee Road 261, and keeping Reading 2101, which had been operational before that and subsequently fell out of such use. If you add Canadian engines, you also have Canadian Pacific 2860 and Canadian National 6060, both of which were operating in 1998...

Fair point. Could NATO figure out enough of the small carriers that they tag-team with each other, and run sorta outside-guard on the convoys, both doing sun hunting and drawing off bombers that would otherwise be gunning for convoy vessels?

On the second page and nobody has mentioned the Alaska-class big cruisers yet? Useless hunks of shit those were.

As far as why the Netherlands might wanna operate a carrier, I might have an answer for that one - NATO might want lots of smaller (but still ASW-capable - this is important) carriers around for convoy escort and general find-the-Soviet-subs-before-they-find-you duties. A bunch of smaller...

Motorstorm: Invisible Fire (2018) Platform: Playstation 4 / Atari Ascension / Microsoft Windows Studios: Evolution Studios / Aftershock Creative / New West Creators After the success of Motorstorm: Land of Discovery, it was clear that a new sequel needed to be made to the impressive game...

Working on it. :)

It's way after the Auto Pact - the Auto Pact was signed in 1965, the earliest I can see the P76 hitting the road in 1972-73, and you'd have to see it succeed on both sides of the Pacific before production would be set up in North America, so the earliest we could see it happen would be 1975-76.

It's the same with Britain and France. Nobody thinks Europe or North America or the countries that side with us in the rest of the world - Israel, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, Egypt, Japan, Korea or South Africa - are gonna start shit. And wow, we wanna talk about success...

I was thinking exactly this with the P76. Inline-six or V8-powered car instead of a smaller one from Leyland. Australia isn't such a big market that Canadian or American tarriffs would be a massive issue (and even if it is, once the P76 is selling well, set up a plant in Canada to get around the...

I can see that point, but I think it would benefit the D&H more, particularly if they can get a route to Philadelphia. They are also more likely to do a deal with Amtrak for service from Scranton and Wilkes-Barre to New York.