Second of the Scharnhorst class, Gneisenau was an unlucky ship, meeting her demise as an active combat ship due to an unlucky bomb hit in February 1942, after the Channel Dash. However, perusing her Wikipedia page, this comes up...
Then I guess I'll go ahead and say that the Soviet economy massively outperformed the western economy until Gorbachev fucked it all up. Everything you said is western propaganda that does not reflect the reality of the Soviet economy. You cannot prove me wrong because we have no empirically...
2) is the real problem on your list to my mind. The earlier they decide to quit, the greater their chances as I see it of surviving (not least because the earlier they quit, the more Allied casualties even the Allies are going to see, will end up spared.) The problem is, the earlier it is, the...
My $.02 worth. A two or more track approach might be helpful. I see several different directions one could take:
ie.
-A simple blow back full auto only SMG (probably using advance primer ignition with a fixed firing pin ?)
-A more complicated selective fire SMG that fired from a closed...
Took me a while lol...
Fairly similar to OTL, the Khedive of Egypt is personally more pro-French than English, but in an official capacity recognises the importance of Britain as Egypt’s financier and protector against Ottoman suppression.
Yep.
It is, however, interesting to speculate, just how much more difficulty the Soviets would have had in inflicting an outright defeat on the Reich if there was no Lend-Lease, of any kind, and the Reich had been allowed to purchase, C.O.D. "non military" items like metal ingots or...
So they weren't for public consumption, that doesn't mean much because of the GIGO factor. They were fed garbage info so that is what they spat out. TBH I think very much it is pretty much impossible to empirically research the Soviet economy. We might as well admit that and move on. It is only...
Apart from radar suite, Orao is more complicated. My point is that Czechoslovakia and/or Poland produce the fighter.
Indeed. Thus the radome needs to start closer to cockpit than it was the case with F-20 or F-5.
Jesus christ, Anne. She can't possible be so godamn stupid that she ignores the alliances and other rulers. Charles is going to have a very difficult time ahead.
I'm not sure nerfing Christianity will butterfly away the reasons that the Turks migrated into Anatolia. I mean, the timing might be different, sure, and the results, but there's always a chance we still end up with a nomadic steppe tribe forging an empire and expanding into similar areas as...
I don't see any contradiction at all? Pig iron != cast iron, after all. Fontaine is citing directly from the documents of France's industry. None of the FRED numbers show a breakdown production from 1913-1918 by region, which is the important number because it demonstrates how much production...
There were a number of rather frantic efforts underway.
There was the Pensacola Convoy which was meant to be the first of a series of major troop movements across the Pacific. It was carrying an field artillery brigade (75mm), a wing of disassembled A-24 dive bombers (the Army version of the...