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  1. Prevent NATO Expansion, and Keep Eastern Europe Tied to Russia

    Militarising the EU would be a huge no no for many states in Europe who would probably fear either a Franco or Germanic hegemony as they're the most powerful states in Europe with the UK coming 3rd. So really for this to happen we're going to need a vastly different Cold War.

  2. Prevent NATO Expansion, and Keep Eastern Europe Tied to Russia

    Assuming you get the collapse of the Soviet union, and the freedom of the Baltic states, then Russia refusing to withdraw troops from Poland, Czechoslovakia etc would most likely be seen as an invasion by the people living there. To get this to happen, you'd need the Soviet union to survive or...

  3. Mr Clinton Goes To War (Taiwan Strait War 1996)

    This is DAMN well written! Superb stuff!

  4. BoB - the right strategy?

    The luftwaffe was at the disfunctional end of the spectrum due to its higher command echelons being a bit of a fucking mess to put it midly, and its upper echelon command IE the RLM being at war with itself. To get a heavy bomber you need to have a fair few things happen and you would have an...

  5. Malaya What If

    Yeah that's generally what his stuff is like, rapid fire and laden with jokes/comments for humor but still on the whole good history, but not for everyone :)

  6. Malaya What If

    This is relevant to our interest.

  7. Sea Lion ….. No Really

    Sealion threads. the neverending quest to try and justify a fucking terrible idea.

  8. How can you extend the Lifespan/combat usage of certain aircraft

    Aye the FB-22 would be too expensive to replace the A-10/F-16 in the air to mud role, but it would serve alongside the F-22 and give the USAF a world beating combo, The F-22 is still probably the best fighter jet in the world, and with more modern and longer ranged AAM's other than AMRAAM, the...

  9. How can you extend the Lifespan/combat usage of certain aircraft

    I'd disagree here, the F-18 is more than equal to any SU-27 or whatever the Chinese call it, and those pier level opponents, like Russia have been shown to be paper tigers. They'll trot out the SU-4785671856 Gigahawkski that they claim can hit Mach 5 on cruise and can engage targets and hit them...

  10. How can you extend the Lifespan/combat usage of certain aircraft

    What you're talking about there is the FB-22 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_FB-22 If the F-22 program hadn't been ended and production continued the FB-22 would have probably come along and that would replace the F-111 and basically any other strike aircraft outside of the...

  11. How can you extend the Lifespan/combat usage of certain aircraft

    Oh true, the USAF had (and still has) Strike Eagles pouring out their ears, but the 'vark can still go further and having the F111 available would give you the option of having to go either a 'small' aircraft like the Eagle or breaking out a Bone and using a strategic bomber, the F111 fills a...

  12. How can you extend the Lifespan/combat usage of certain aircraft

    IIRC the B47 was plagued by maintenance issues and more than a few crashed or just exploded. Really it was a 1st generation jet bomber and they'd not be expected to soldier on for that long, especially once the B52 comes along which surpasses it in every performance related metric. I don't know...

  13. How can you extend the Lifespan/combat usage of certain aircraft

    The A-10's BRRRT made it a media darling but it was far less accurate with its gun which tended to be more a 'to whom it may concern' than a focused reply, visibility was needed because until they got more modern upgrades A-10's relied on the eyeball for target ID and that often went wrong...

  14. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    Excellent updates, I saw the RN lost a BB and the Nelson was mentioned as being damaged, was it her that was sunk?

  15. How can you extend the Lifespan/combat usage of certain aircraft

    With combat aircraft, basically making sure like all of the reformists are in a horrific bus accident that slides into a comically oversized wood chipper would help. They railed against the F-111 and it would have been perfect for Afghanistan for example and was far superior to their much loved...

  16. What if the USA realised that the Sherman was not fit for use in Europe and decided to copy the T34 and the IS2?

    And yeah the 75 on the Sherman was not a 'short' gun. That is a Short 75mm gun the gun on the Char 1B. The 75mm on the Sherman was a perfectly capable gun for the war as folks have said.

  17. What if the USA realised that the Sherman was not fit for use in Europe and decided to copy the T34 and the IS2?

    and I will remind folks that a lot of the stuff about the superiority of German equipment/Men/training/doctrine etc is a product of Post WW2 stuff where the West wanted to get the rest of the world comfortable with working alongside former enemies so they could arm the West Germans. And a lot of...

  18. What if the USA realised that the Sherman was not fit for use in Europe and decided to copy the T34 and the IS2?

    Yeah by the time the T-34's coming along the UK would be working on the Cromwell, and the Cromwell wasn't bad at all. It was just too damn late. If the Cromwell had come out late 42 or in 43 in time to fight in North Africa, then it would have been a world beater. The 57mm gun would have punched...

  19. What if the USA realised that the Sherman was not fit for use in Europe and decided to copy the T34 and the IS2?

    Yeah the idea of keeping the same engine of a Churchill in the BP made zero sense. But yeah, I like that idea of having a Mark 7 fitted with the Comets 77mm gun, that would give it a gun to punch through a Panther frontally at long range.

  20. Seaslug and Red Heathen merge (one-shot)

    Yeah converting a Dido would be a bad idea, the class was vulnerable to torpedoes and really you've got more useful hulls in the Crown Colony class if you replace their rear turrets with it. But I like where you're going with this system and its iterations and future developments.
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