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  1. Ogrebear

    A Time For Greatness: The Alternate Presidency of John F. Kennedy and beyond

    Nice international roundup there- thanks. Can we get some idea of what pop culture is doing please- are war movies more popular for example? How does the backlash against the military estimates work out since they got numbers and time wrong? What effect of Nixon's overwhelming majority on the...
  2. WI/AHC: Improved Manchester and no Lancaster?

    London wasn't brave or desperate either. However, it didn't stop the Air Ministry ordering many aircraft "off the drawing board". These included 11 Saro A.33s and 11 Sunderlands in March 1936, which was nearly 18 months before the prototypes flew (14th October 1937 and 16th October 1937...
  3. marathag

    Hawker Hurricane even more prolific and versatile?

    No, they were terrible. https://www.enginehistory.org/Piston/Rolls-Royce/RHM/RHM.shtml At Rolls-Royce, instead of taking off their jackets and sorting the Merlin problems out, they chose to simply dust off the old Kestrel, enlarge the capacity to 27 litres and put it back into production using...
  4. Rare earth metals in 70s and 80s

    Er, no? There are deposits all over the place, they're just not usually economical to mine. The rarer ones are about as uncommon as tungsten or mercury, the more common ones are about on the same plane as copper or nickel (yttrium itself is on this level). In practice, in the 1970s and 1980s...
  5. Proposals and War Aims That Didn't Happen Map Thread

    Russia was fight with Ottomans in 1806-1812
  6. Kingfish Chris

    The New Order: Last Days of Europe - An Axis Victory Cold War Mod for HoIIV

    A part of me was thinking of Gustavo Barroso (who died in the 50s). He did lead the Pro-German and antisemitic group in the Integralists. While Brazil did not have a dominant ethnic group, there could be a NatSoc path based on Extreme Catholic Nationalism (More extreme than Fascism), Extreme...
  7. McPherson

    An 1-engine fast bomber for 1935-45?

    You know the problem with twinned liquid cooled engines could have been solved with a bit more attention to heat burdendistribution and passive heat radiation, (Liquid cooled corncob Yellow Jacket.) but even then, one would be defeated by materials limits of the time to something like a 1500 kg...
  8. How much would it cost the modern UK to rebuild the Royal Navy to 1960s/70s levels of fleet strength?

    The entire QE project was officially £6.2bn, so the two ships themselves were probably about £2.5 - 2.7bn each (the rest being dredging channels into Portsmouth, the cranes for assembling the blocks on the Clyde, the barges and transportation of the blocks and various other infrastructure things).
  9. Rare earth metals in 70s and 80s

    ah, even rarer than rare then.
  10. RedSword12

    Rare earth metals in 70s and 80s

    Rare Earth Elements are common elements found in the ground, many of which are extremely important to the electronics industry. To acquire them, you have to tear up the ground in a way that is really bad for the environment, which is a price few countries other than China would be willing to...
  11. WI: Ford had built the Mustang as a wagon?

    Sure would have made long distance bombing raids more difficult. Oh. Wrong Mustang. ;):):p
  12. Afonso, Prince of Portugal lives

    Being the son of john, I assume he would continue his father's policies as he was raised as such. As for Portuguese colonialism, it is likely that the crave of wealth would exceed that of power (as you've mentioned) so I suspect that not only will there be a more trade oriented focus towards...
  13. Mad Bad Rabbit

    Rare earth metals in 70s and 80s

    "Rare earth metals" means lanthanides like gadolinium or yttrium.
  14. ThirdyLovesAH

    The Sudeten War: History of the World after an Alternate 1938

    Is stalin being oblivious to one major power? Which is ocean away?
  15. marathag

    Suicide weaponized by Soviet bloc

    very far behind in supplying body armor and medical gear
  16. marathag

    Suicide weaponized by Soviet bloc

    behind in electronics by a large margin, with Com gear, Radar and NV gear, and in nuclear tech. They never fielded tiny warheads, like the US did with low kt weapons in Falcon AAMs in the air, and Davy Crockett on the ground
  17. AHC: Turkic Japan

    :p the Altaic hypothedis is discredited now although Japanese and Korean probably arr distantly related BTW Turkics are nomads so someone's dream from another thread of having sheep herders in Japan will become reality much sooner if my scenario is realized
  18. Admiral Bloonbeard

    DBWI Hindenburg appoints a civilian government in 1933

    The problem with Weimar was that no one loved it. TBH, it would be a FAR worser fate if the Weimar Republic survived, the NSADP was a party full of insane nuts leas by Adolf Hitler who was even more insane than Mussolini. Had you ever read their works? The KPD is no better.
  19. Sir John Valentine Carden survives.

    My GrandMother was known to wound with a kind word if you disappointed her!
  20. AHC: Turkic Japan

    This is the argument that Japanese is an Altaic language even today....
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