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  1. dbakes994

    Feeble Constitution - A Red-and-Green Russia 1917 Timeline

    Sorry, been rewatching Fall of Eagles and couldn’t help but hear this in Patrick Stewart’s voice...
  2. RedSword12

    What if communism didn’t exist

    No. Fascism doesn't need communism to exist. Mussolini didn't have to pretend that the USSR would invade Italy, and he still came to power.
  3. Gideon's Folly: What happens when the USS Monitor never shows up for the Battle of Hampton Roads?

    I've been working on a longer reply on just this point, but I just wanted to say: That is my strong sense as well. Johnston would keep falling back until he's literally in Richmond, and Davis would relieve him. How retrievable the situation would be at that point for Lee is hard to say...
  4. Case for coastal artillery until the 1980s

    Self-propelled artillery can scoot. But it was planned to use "general use" SPGs, specialized units like soviet A-222 Bereg, or scandinavian fixed positions mainly in anti-landing role, shelling beaches and landing crafts at approaches to them.
  5. AHC: communist Western Eurooe, capitalidt Eastern Europe

    Western Europe is so much more economically and military capable that this split would very quickly lead to a wholly communist europe, particulary if germany is included in western europe.
  6. AHC: Peerless Air Ministry
    Threadmarks: 12.09 The Trials and tribulations of producing the right aircraft

    12.09 The Trials and tribulations of producing the right aircraft Bristol Aircraft’s resistance to the fitting of another manufactures engine to their aircraft had caused real problems within the RAF and the Air Ministry. At one time during the height of the Taurus engines debacle the...
  7. Bering Strait Bridge Built During Detant

    Not at all feasible. The costs are mindboggling and even if the US and USSR were ASB mindwiped to love and trust each other completely, there are WAY cheaper and more substantive ways to show it.
  8. IJN Soryu's and USS Wasp's Durability and Usefulness

    Not true as IJN doctrine in naval avuation was more offensive then USN airoperation, dictating a proportionate defense as well on friendly forces when endangered by enemy airforces, so the USN with 3 CV's will be forced to stay in fighterrange of the main surfaceforce to provide at least a...
  9. How much would it cost the modern UK to rebuild the Royal Navy to 1960s/70s levels of fleet strength?

    What's the lowest possible "scrap" price we could con the US into accepting for just retired Frigates and Destroyers? Bermuda and the few remaining Caribbean possessions and outright ownership of the British Indian Ocean Territory?
  10. McPherson

    Was WW2 still inevitable without the Nazis?

    Because like Lee at Gettysburg, Washington did not want to fight there. Charles Lee brought on an engagement which he was ordered not to do. I will add that if Clinton had not been so incompetent, the Continental Army could have been destroyed. Battle of Monmouth Clinton could never read...
  11. IJN Soryu's and USS Wasp's Durability and Usefulness

    Japanese battleship doctrine was to open fire at 37,000 yards, which was not all that far off from American doctrine to open fire at 34,000. Regardless, neither navy expected such extreme-range fire to be decisive; both planned to close the range, though the Japanese less so than the Americans...
  12. The New Order: Last Days of Europe - An Axis Victory Cold War Mod for HoIIV

    You could also have a Brazilian NatSoc leader that is pro miscegenation, and believes that by breeding all the different ethnicities in Brazil he can create a Brazilian Master Race.
  13. A Hippie in the House of Mouse (Jim Henson at Disney, 1980)

    Tune in tomorrow for another anemic episode!! 📺
  14. The flame of British Liberalism burns steady and brighter: A timeline from 1945

    In February 1962 the Minister of Education, Michael Foot, wrote to all Local Education Authorities instructing them to submit plans for reorganizing secondary education on comprehensive lines, with a view to ending selection at 11 and the tripartite system of secondary education (grammar...
  15. Hawker Hurricane even more prolific and versatile?

    So what are you going to use instead that’s better? As I said, those early merlins weren’t great but compared to what the French Air Force had to use or what Bristol/ A-S/Napier were supplying they were fine. All the criticisms in that article are on point as far as I am aware, but what’s the...
  16. The Forge of Weyland

    At the moment, they might have left panic mode, but they are still in fire-fighting mode
  17. Pralaya

    Final Light: A Carolingian Timeline
    Threadmarks: BEYOND 2.VIII: The Partition of the Regnum Lotharii (?)

    Excerpt: The Carolingian World and how it functioned – Godwin Albertsson, Whitewell Publishing (AD 1899) A leading motive for the coming war between Francia and Neustria was the Treaty of Metz which has, intentionally or not, left out a clear plan of division of Lotharingia, an economically...
  18. Not James Stockdale

    AHC: Fletcher Class refitted with RIM-24 Tartar and Mk13 Launcher?

    Why would they need to? There were 150 Sumners and Gearings completed, plus new construction, and the Navy only really needed 60 or so AAW missile ships plus 80-100 ASW frigates through most of the Cold War. Plus the Fletchers were worn out from years of hard war duty.
  19. Premier Taylerov

    List of U.K. Prime Ministers 1945-2020

    This is... implausible. I cannot see how Churchill is going to maintain his government when he has apparently committed Britain to revoking the Fourth Reform Act and the entirety of Parliament is against him, and then wins a victory after a bloodier Abdication Crisis. (Also, it's Oswald Mosley...
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