...Siberia over rail first, and it also has the ice problem. Peter I and his port worked for wooden sailing ships, but not for Maersk. There's a *reason* why Russia has placed such great value on warm water ports over the course of its existence, and why it's worked so hard to keep Sevastopol...
I don't think so, or at least that's not what testing revealed needed to happen. I'm sure if that was needed it would have been done, as it was the dihedral fixed the problem without massive structural changes.
No, I'm thinking you get more/less the OTL wing, but they decide to anhedral the tips, instead: is the effect the same? (I don't have the grasp of aerodynamics to know; AIUI, it would be, & there might be benefits to reduced stall, IIRC.)
Ah, bilingual problems
I tried to say something like “dependent” or “overly reliant” but the only word I could think of was lệ thuộc which means the same thing in Vietnamese
They will be among the first countries with access to German ones. That is the reason Iran builds its own - the British don't trust the Shah anywhere near as much as Berlin does the Sultan.
the problem here is that even in a world where the US persuaded France to give up the ghost and let Vietnam go, that immediately frees up the ancient Chinese-Vietnamese rivalry again; the Chinese put that on hold IOTL in the name of communist solidarity but even in 1973 Beijing wanted the North...
...as long as it was not positively willed by the Allies, could not have been avoided, proceeded just as directly from the action as the good effect,* and was proportionate to the good achieved, that is, proportionate to the military benefit gained by the destruction of that specific target.
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Agreed. With the probably-inevitable post-war economic slump there's going to be even less funds for a naval expansion, I would think after the Beyerns and Mackensens are finished the Kaiser could be easily persuaded to stop listening to Adm. Tirpitz and that's all Germany needs to maintain...
Chapter Two Thousand Eleven
4th August 1970
Berlin-Brandenburg International Airport
It was to Suse and Jo’s surprise that Kat was there to see them off and knew exactly what was going on. They had thought that they had made the arrangements on the sly. Sure, Kat had some idea of what Jo...
Talking about Ho being a communist. He was, but I don't see a reason why he couldn't have been persuaded to adopt Titoism neutering his utility to the eastern block. I think the fact that the North Vietnamese adopted economic reforms within ten years of winning the war shows that while being...
Andropov getting an extended reign of terror would be interesting. When I took up a Soviet history class, I personally nicknamed him "The Ultimate Nightmare" because of his role as KGB boss. I do approve of skipping to Gorbachev as well.
As for the whole Muskie situation, I say go for him...
The US Army had decided that hydropneumatic suspension was the way forward in the 1960s in the MBT-70. The reason it didn’t make it into the M1 was the very strict unit cost limit that the Abrams program operated under as an interim vehicle. Torsion bars are cheaper, so that’s what went in the...
IIUC tests showed the entire wing needed a 4 degree dihedral along their full span, but putting the 12 degree dihedral on the outer third gave an average of 4 degrees overall. I imagine if tests had shown the need for anhedral then the tips would drop like a TSR2.
Something else to consider:
Oman was a naval power of some note until the early 1800s, able to fight the Portuguese and govern/settle coastal colonies in Zanzibar. But, how'd they build their ships? The answer, it turns out, is imported Indian wood-- and construction might be financed with...
The Vietminh powerbase is in the north, British forces are mostly in the South, and Japanese military officers were crucial in establishing the Quảng Ngãi army academy which produce many Vietminh officers.