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  1. Universal Conscription in a major Country

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bevin_Boys
  2. Have the Fairey Rotodyne successfully enter service

    https://ehs.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/decibel-level-chart.pdf
  3. WI: 9/11 was done by Neo-Nazis?

    you can get he idea of the scale of damage from a large ANFO truck bomb thanks to the actions of PIRA using their often US 'Irish -American' sourced funds the 1990s PIRA truck bombs were usually ANFO with additional semtex and other plastic explosives used to increase power or for...
  4. Worst possible justifiable VP?

    or indeed the current VP and flag the thread ofr being current news
  5. Military Aircraft that should have entered service

    really needs Vulcan B3 / Skybolt and Valiant B2 for completeness
  6. Automotive WI - Austin and Nissan maintained ties

    the Arna was the wrong mix of components ... the dull origami Nissan styling with the unreliable alfa engine and electrics ... vs what it could / should have been i.e. afollow on the alfasud with Nissnan powertrain, electrics and QC
  7. Lamb Reigns Supreme, How would U.S. society / culture be different today?

    lamb under a year at slaughter , Hoggatt 1 -2 years at slaughter, mutton 2 +
  8. HMS EAGLE in the Falklands

    yes they did and most of a Chinook ... the unimogs and G-wagens posed a problem as Mercedes when given the chassis numbers refused any support as they were effectively 'stolen' the argentines never paid the original invoice ... iirc the aa guns ended up with 2503 sqn RAuxAF
  9. HMS EAGLE in the Falklands

    other than the third Invincible class vessel you mean ?
  10. Panavia Tornado Without the UK

    it iis quite clear you do not understand the role ofthe Interdictor war plane the ADV is quite clearly an interceptor the IDS is quite clearly an interdictor especially when carrying a large tac nuke as the Tornado Gr 1 originally did
  11. Panavia Tornado Without the UK

    the Tornado was never designed or intended to be a dogfighter UK air defence policy and practice saw the role of the interceptor , especially once they had F-4s to be to go and kill Bears etc at realtively long range out in the G-I-Uk gap ...
  12. Fictional inventory of modern airforces

    you do realise the Bucc is a catapult laucnhed carrier aircraft and formed part of FAA carrier air groups when the RN had cat equipped Carriers ... ?
  13. WI- A MAGA Hitler instead of genocide

    and the fact that people cannot see the irony of condemning Hitler while sat their in their MAGA hats as Trump assaults anyone who is not a psychopathic white supremicist and con man is something which really must be noted. USAmerican exceptionalism has gone beyond the ridiculousness it...
  14. Would a world war in the 50's or 60's have jump-started tech?

    if the third world war is fought with nuclear weapons, the fourth world war will be fought with rocks and sticks ...
  15. WI widely used United States one-dollar coins?

    if nothing else it makes vending machines so much simpler ... what; s the current normal range of prices for a can of fizzy pop from a machine in the US ?
  16. WI widely used United States one-dollar coins?

    which is the approach that other nations with broadly similar value currencies did , e.g. loonie and toonie in Canada, 10 bob note in the UK in the lead up to decimalisation and then the pound note going in favour of the pound coin in the early 80s.
  17. AHC: Make football a popular sport worldwide.

    that's one of the things with cricket , there;s at least three length formats twenty20 can be over in 3 to 4 hours the so called 'limited overs' / 'one day' or ' day -night format ' as well as the 4 / 5 day test match format meanwhile gridiron packs 80 minutes of play in 3...
  18. WI - UK and European versions of American Collage Sports

    as others have pointed out there were well established lower leagues in Europe and as many nations domestic soccer championship had an FA cup analogue as well as the leagues the lower league teams havign a chance to progress right through keeps them relevant. BUSA in the UK is not...
  19. AHC: an 1-engined Mach-2 fighter for the RAF

    the Victor was the same the theory was in a total hull loss all 5 would be dead , but in a situation where the aircraft remained semi controllable, the pilots would concentrate on keeping the aircraft in such a position as to allow the rear crew to bail out through the hatch before...
  20. How long could apartheid South Africa and Rhodesia last with a major foreign backer

    I think that this is something people forget that ' White South Africans' are not homogenous, there;s the 'english' saffas and the Boer / Afrikaaners at the very least. even if you being in 'Dutch' white immigrants they are more likely to align themselves with the English and any...
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