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  1. Hitler got the A-Bomb

    How did he get the bomb? His Aryan scientists had utterly screwed the pooch and the "Jewish" ones were in the UK and U.S. working like hell to be sure he never got one.
  2. what if Japan Had Managed to Invade Australia? Germany and Japan merged empires?

    An utter impossibility. The logistical ability to invade a second CONTINENTAL LANDMASS while stuck hip deep in a war with China, simply didn't exist. There would not have been a troops shortage at Normandy. IIRC, there were no large Australian formation committed to the invasion of Northern...
  3. America Invades Jaoan in 1946

    I assume this is because the Bomb failed? By the time an invasion slot would have been open in the Spring of 1946, it is very likely that the Japanese would have surrendered. The Soviets would, by then, have almost certainly landed on Hokkaido; the USAAF would have burned every town with a...
  4. WI: Argentina was part of the Axis?

    Possibly a earlier U.S. entry. Certainly a more active entry by Brazil and Chile. Bunch of dead Argentinians.
  5. A "Saner" Soviet Union

    So the USSR becomes... Franco's Spain, with far more civil liberties? No reason it doesn't still exist. Of course the "Don't want to be here fine" bit will cost them all the Republics and probably a reasonable portion of traditional Russia.
  6. Sino-Japanese War Outcome Without Pearl Harbor

    Problem is that the first heavy bomber attack by B-17s didn't occur until mid-August 1942 and it was by 24 aircraft against a French railroad marshalling yard. The first strike against Germany wasn't until January of 1943.
  7. Results of July 4 Union Attack at Gettysburg

    Lee's Army had been very roughly handled over the prior two days, especially on July 2nd, where it had conducted a series of major attacks that had depleted most of his three Corps striking power. His intellegence of the enemy was less than ideal thanks to Stuart's famed ride, and logistically...
  8. Sino-Japanese War Outcome Without Pearl Harbor

    The question is too broad to have a single solution. The end can range from a China dominated in the south over to French Indochina by the Japanese with the USSR dominating a wide swath of the country along the Soviet border to a defeated Japan, having been manhandled by the Red Army in 1946, to...
  9. WI Iran Killed the Royal Navy Sailors?

    If the closest U.S. or British assets are at Diego Garcia or even in the UK, they can be wheels up in minutes and over Iranian targets within 8 hours of the "Go" order. With the political landscape that was in place when this incident occurred the UK could have significant air assets in Iraq in...
  10. WI Iran Killed the Royal Navy Sailors?

    Not a bad simile in many ways. Unfortunately things do not move at the relaxed pace of the summer of 1914. It was a full day before the London and Paris papers had the assassination story published. The satellite news organizations would have the entire history of the Iranian/West stand-off...
  11. WI no 'NATO Basic Military Requirement' programmes

    That was my point. Close enough generally isn't.
  12. WI no 'NATO Basic Military Requirement' programmes

    Have to ask - How do you define superior? Range? War load? Reliability? Crew size? Longevity? The A-6 had far more range and 50% greater war load (for that matter, the slightly later A-7 had MORE than 50% greater war load). Reliability was about the same, crew was two in both aircraft. The...
  13. WI Iran Killed the Royal Navy Sailors?

    No IF about it were it American troops. If its RN personnel - Given the close alliance between the UK & U.S. I would predict an Alpha strike off the nearest U.S. carrier within 12, at the outside 24, hours. Iran's Navy, Army & Air Force bases in the Gulf Region would be pounded by UK and U.S...
  14. WI Iran Killed the Royal Navy Sailors?

    A bloody mess doesn't begin to describe it.
  15. GerWWII: A Different Two Front War

    There should be plenty of doubt. The effort is logistically impossible. The Reich utterly lacked the logistical lift to make it happen. They are unable to control the sealanes across the Med, much less in the Indian Ocean, and have far too few transport bottoms to support a significant force...
  16. WI no 'NATO Basic Military Requirement' programmes

    The perfect world would actually be the aircraft package I noted; although the A-6 would have to up to "L", maybe "M" version to have kept pace with changes in technology and the F-14 would have to be the the "G" or "H" model (and the F-8 would be somewhere around "T":D). The problem is the...
  17. WI no 'NATO Basic Military Requirement' programmes

    Which current or former airframe was BETTER than the Super Hornet at: Air Defense AND Counter Air and Deep Strike and Anti-ship Strike and straight up Air Superiority off a carrier deck? How about... None Now, if you look at the missions broken up Air Defense (close-in knife fighting...
  18. Today: We have to get to the Moon as soon as possible.

    Probably should label it a DBWI if you want it treated as one. Original poster said nothing about a DBWI.
  19. Nuclear powerplants BEFORE Nuclear bombs?

    It would have been a LOT easier to construct the first bombs (which would have followed the "peaceful" use by, oh, 13 seconds).
  20. More Carribean to U.S. in world war I and II

    There are Islands that could easily wind up in U.S. hands, during or immediately after both wars, but the hard part is to come up with WHY the U.S. would want them. The Carrribean Islands the U.S. does possess are mostly hold overs from the late unpleasntness with Spain. The Virgin Islands are...
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