Search results for query: *

Forum search Google search

  1. Boldly Going: A History of an American Space Station

    Finally found a link to the earlier "catamaran" design the Martin Marietta "Spacemaster" concept. And yes I doubt they would have gone for an 'all-in' design like a Catamaran but that was likely something they would consider before they considered boost-back and vertical landing. (Most likely...
  2. The last Hanover

    Sophia died shortly before her father (and is mentioned in the diary entry relating to Elizabeth's father's death. The Lady Falkland of the letters is Elizabeth's sister Lady Amelia FitzClarence. I can assure the others will be featured (though you may recall that Munster's relationship with his...
  3. Armored trains post ww2

    Yeah, but the rubbish speed is partly due to the general crumminess of the American rail system. Decades of almost nil investment, deterioration of network and overloading of capacity can make these things slow down to a crawl. Unless the rolling stock is physically limited, I'm sure they'd be...
  4. McPherson

    WI the Enterprise in Pearl Harbor?

    USS Oklahoma capsized after she settled and that was a post attack USN error. I have covered that here.
  5. WI the Enterprise in Pearl Harbor?

    I'm sure they would have tried everything!
  6. What if the InterWar RCN was given the same portional funding as the RAN?

    Something along the lines of your fic or @YYJ's The Rainbow would probably do it
  7. AHC: Sweden wins the Great Northern War

    Aren't you forgetting about the War of Spanish Succession? Most of those potential partners are either involved in WoSS or exhausted by it. Butterfly WoSS away/end it quickly, and you have a point.
  8. WI the Enterprise in Pearl Harbor?

    ...consensus was that it was impossible for the Japanese to do. See the Hewitt board's treatment here. Of course, as we all also know, that view was *not* universal, and Halsey and even Stark started to raise concerns about it after Taranto. But Richardson was as dismissive of nets as Kimmel...
  9. McPherson

    WI the Enterprise in Pearl Harbor?

    If I wanted to kill an aircraft carrier at Pearl Harbor I would go for dive bombing and try to get a magazine explosion. Level bombing and torpedoes in those shallows are too "iffy".
  10. FRG withdraws from NATO

    They asked stationed troops to leave and commanded their armies and fleets on their own in Peacetime. They stayed in the alliance, upheld their defensive commitments, and had extensive preparations to re-integrate their militaries into NATO structures once a war was on. Doesn't sound like they...
  11. RelativeGalaxy7

    What if the InterWar RCN was given the same portional funding as the RAN?

    Wait long enough and you’ll see how my timeline pans out 😛. On a more serious note, you need something traumatic to happen to Canada to justify anything.
  12. WI: Iraq invades Saudi Arabia?

    Even the Republican Guards were like this? I was under the impression the Guards, using scripted operations, were able to decisively beat Iran in '88 (routing one force after another along the front). They were used in Kuwait in the same way, and could've gone farther. At one point btw Kuwaiti...
  13. McPherson

    What were the biggest tech and weapon mistakes and missed opportunities of Germany in ww2

    Of course. THAT was what I was trying to show. The DC-3 was chosen for a reason to compare to the Swallow.
  14. McPherson

    'Sanity options' for the Italian army, 1935-42

    Here is the part that makes one head scratch... 1. The Berlin Maniac is a backstabber. He will come for Italy at some future moment, just like he went after his "ally", the Moscow Madman. One cannot trust him. 2. Benny the Moose making a deal with London is going to be a hard "no", because...
  15. FRG withdraws from NATO

    They didn't leave NATO technically. They just downgraded their membership.
  16. FRG withdraws from NATO

    I don't know what timeline you talk about, but IOTL France left the military structure of NATO in the 60's.
  17. What were the biggest tech and weapon mistakes and missed opportunities of Germany in ww2

    The 262 is a red herring. It was never designed with swept wings from the get go - the outer panels were swept for COG reasons and then the inner leading edge was swept to reduce buffeting. The aerodynamic benefits were an accident, rather than designed for. Their P.1101 was designed with...
  18. WI the Enterprise in Pearl Harbor?

    ...answer of where Enterprise would have docked had she arrived on Dec. 6. The Museum summary repeatedly uses the word "normally." It is not *impossible* that Enterprise could have been sent to berth at Lexington's normal spot (F9) - she wasn't using it, after all. I am unclear about how long...
  19. Claymore

    Alternative History Armoured Fighting Vehicles Part 3

    The original StuG III concept (a true assault gun) carried the short-barrelled 7.5cm StuK 37 L/24 - only later adopting the longer-barrelled 7.5cm guns when AT capability became a more pressing issue. The M9 GMC, on the other hand, is not a StuG/Assault Gun at all but rather is a US doctrinal...
Top