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  1. AHC: Peerless Air Ministry

    I suppose a two thousand horsepower engine might not be enough to defend against William the Conqueror :).
  2. Mad Bad Rabbit

    AHC: Make gyrocopters the primary short- to medium-range travel method for the rich by the late 20th century

    "Who can get turned into chunky salsa when their lance hits their rotor blades"
  3. Challenege/WI: Assyria Regains Independence During the Medieval Period

    They could give them a state as the Crusaders established several states. They could even assimilate into Assyrian culture if necessary.
  4. Dark Age comics PODs

    What if Chris Claremont was the 8th co-founder of Image Comics alongside Todd McFarlane, Marc Silvestri, Jim Lee, Rob Liefeld, Erik Larsen, Jim Valentino and Whilce Portacio? Context: Chris was tired of Marvel's constant interfering and mistreatment of him after 16 years of being the leading...
  5. WI: The Portuguese Fight on at Goa

    Or they call britain's bluff and nothing of the sort happens.
  6. Q-Bam Borderpool Improvement and Core Thread

    Tethys already drew the borders a while back on the historical thread.
  7. Suicide weaponized by Soviet bloc

    And another reason for the Japanese was a shortage of the experienced pilots: they did not have an adequate training program and, with most of the experienced pilots being killed, the raw recruits could do very little besides suicidal tactics because almost nobody was left to train them...
  8. Case for coastal artillery until the 1980s

    Barrel liners generally have a 200-300 round lifespan. The biggest cost is sensors (radar especially) since you require multiple redundancies. There is, however, something to be said having four/five ship killer missiles on a couple mobile mounts.
  9. Suicide weaponized by Soviet bloc

    That's what happens to every tank on earth without air supremacy mate.
  10. Suicide weaponized by Soviet bloc

    I have read that they, at least for part of the period, didn't expect first wave divisions to survive as discrete entities at all, and planned to sweep up their battered remains once replacement troops had driven past and reorganize them completly. The NATO (or rather, american, as I know...
  11. Hawker Hurricane even more prolific and versatile?

    As that article says by September 36 the Merlin G is being type tested and the ramp head issue was over : There was never any fear of the ramp head Merlin fighting in the Battle of Britain; its development had all but ceased by the time of the type-test of the Merlin G (Mk.II) in September...
  12. The US adopts the FN Model D in 1937 after a more successful Axis intervention in the SCW

    Hard to tell without actual user reports, although it’s not ideal. The HK21 was bottom-feed and seems to have been OK.
  13. Case for coastal artillery until the 1980s

    ...always a risk. Modern warships don't have that sort of protection, couple hits from even a 155mm gun will mess up the sensors on a 1980's destroyer*. However, if the goal is to defend a large open port area (Long Beach Harbor, Capetown, Portsmouth, etc.) with no helpful geography features...
  14. St. Just

    Final Light: A Carolingian Timeline

    Hoping Guy becomes the ITTL equivalent of Louis for Neustria :p Looks like Frankreich managed to reassert itself in Lotharingia for now, but I'm sure the Widonids will be sure to exploit the upcoming fracas between the Red Capet and the Saxons...
  15. TL-191: After the End

    In the US, in 2021, the House of Romanov generally has a negative reputation for its alliance with the Entente. However, at the same time, Tsarist Russia was never viewed by either the US government and general public as anything approaching an existential threat, like the Confederacy was. In...
  16. Case for coastal artillery until the 1980s

    According to the regimental history of the Royal Gibraltar Regiment, they were last fired in 1973. The regiment's Heavy Troop continued to train on them until 1975, when they were replaced by 105mm Pack Howitzers. I suspect their true replacement, however, were the land based Exocets that were...
  17. Suicide weaponized by Soviet bloc

    I am not sure they went to such extreme lengths, but the Soviet doctrine did differ in that they replaced entire units to send the damaged attacking one to the rear for repair and refit, while NATO's emphasized individual replacement. The Soviet system arguably had the advantages of being more...
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