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  1. Saratoga CV-3 Preserved

    When the ships to be preserved got chosen the initial preservation was as mothballed ships ready for reactivation. The only outlier was the USS Texas, ship preservation as a museum is expensive and a tedious process with decades needed to really get ready. You need lots of cash to even make it...

  2. Malaya What If

    What is forgotten so often by armchair historians such as myself (the description of historian should really be amateur enthusiast) is that the Japanese air arm during the second world war was not ever as advanced as thought. Much like the description of every Panzer IV as a Tiger and every...

  3. Mr Clinton Goes To War (Or Bill and Hillary's Wild 90s)

    Very little the Chinese have in the era would intercept a Sub-Harpoon. Only the Luhu class had a moderately effective SAM and it was very shortrange.

  4. Mr Clinton Goes To War (Or Bill and Hillary's Wild 90s)

    Changing torpedoes on a modern submarine is not as easy as people think. It is a bit like the analogy of trying to make an Apple program run on a Microsoft operating system. It requires numerous fixes and can go wrong for reasons not understood easily. The torpedo is linked to the fire control...

  5. Mr Clinton Goes To War (Or Bill and Hillary's Wild 90s)

    I am enjoying this and the time chosen is interesting because the Taiwanese had begun integrating a massive technological advancement in armed forces while China was trying to do the same but was nearly a decade behind in most resepcts. My only nitpick is that the Mk 46 is a short range ASW...

  6. WI: Turboprop Engine P-38 For A Late 40s/Early 50s Escort Fighter/Long Range Interceptor.

    The biggest issue at the time with turboprops is that the airframe needs swept wings and or all moving tailplanes to function properly at high mach numbers. The Skyraider is a perfect example of an aircraft for which a turboprop exists. This being the Double Mamba.

  7. Malaya What If

    Awesom information El PIP, Torpedo production, testing and use was an example of building the weapons in limited numbers due to the cost and complexity of the weapons. It is also clear that German, British and American torpedoes had a lack of testing under operational conditions that resulted in...

  8. Malaya What If

    To be honest I have no idea on the exact reason for the torpedoes of that mark being used in Singapore almost exclusively. As far as why it was not produced more widely, I am wondering if the effort put into getting more speed out of the torpedo resulted in excessive wandering or other issues...

  9. Malaya What If

    http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WTBR_WWII.php Scroll down to the Mark XIV torpedo. states entire stock was in Singapore, this should be the torpedo used in theatre. Mark VIII is also likely to be present. details for this are on pre WW2 page. I remembered reading this page several years ago...

  10. Malaya What If

    Some of the useful information with regards to bombs and Fuses is in the links below. What is very clear to me is that the RAF would not have been shipping large amounts of bombs to Singapore due to the shortfall in home and Middle East needs. I would suspect the estimation of 42 days for a...

  11. Malaya What If

    I have spent lots of time trying to find out what munitions actually existed in Singapore and come away with very little. I can find info on the state of the RAF stockpiles in 1939 but singapore which being a major node of the Empire should have had significant stocks seems to have little info.

  12. Alternative History Armoured Fighting Vehicles Part 4

    As someone who has been kicked for a week in the past I can say that it did not stop me from contributing after the infraction. atribution to sources is absolutely essential to maintain the forums. Without attribution it is not impossible for the forums to become victim of a lawsuit is not...

  13. Malaya What If

    The RAF suffered from a huge problem in the early war years. That was that it started the war with a rather pathetic inventory of bombs both in type and size. It also suffered from a lack of numbers. The majority of weapons would be in the 250lb and 500lb sizes and again the vast majority would...

  14. Malaya What If

    Worth remembering that the ability of aircraft of the era actually skip bombing was minimal and required faster aircraft mid war. The other fact is that without a radar to show distance and the like it takes an incredible pilot to carry out such a mission. Then you need to think of the aircraft...

  15. How to operate and design an Aircraft Carrier

    I have noticed that several threads on the idea of Germany building aircraft Carriers instead of Battleships have been posted. It is not a bad idea and suffers from the same failure design wise the Battleships had. That failure is due to ceasing any design or building work for over a decade...

  16. Make the Graf Zeppelin an Essex equivalent

    It is worth noting that even today building aircraft carriers is alot harder than it looks. Aircraft Carriers are a contradiction in terms of requirements and the facts remain that no other vessel has such a large internal compartment with only bracing around the sides not even occasional...

  17. Could the Entente navies have forced the Dardanelles?

    The single biggest mistake of the Campaign was attempting to do it in a probing fashion rather than waiting until the forces to carry out the attack are actually ready. What was needed was a investiture of the fortrifications that held the Greek/Turkish lines from the Balkan war boundaries. The...

  18. Greater Armenia in Present Day?

    Sadly Armenia has been ignored and almost forgotten amongst the many sad and tragic crimes of the 20th century. The Treaty of Sevres would have given good borders and followed a territorial line defined by ethnicity of the majority population. I do wonder if perhaps it's imposition would have...

  19. Malaya What If

    I learn so much from the discussions within threads. What I need to do is learn to save links so I can refer to them later lol. On another note the British really have little choice over strting Matador. If they do nothing they are allowing the Japanese to get entrenched and the Thai...

  20. Soviets beef up NVAF

    The only possible use of the aircraft your suggesting is to head out into the waters the USN Carriers are operating in and target the aerial refueling aircraft or possibly intercept USAF cargo aircraft if they can get past the USN. I can imagine the joy of the F8, A4, F-4 pilots on finding...
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