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  1. United States Military uses the M1903 as it's standard rifle in WW2?

    What if instead of adopting the self loading M1 Garrand as it's standard infantry rifle in the 1930's the United States military keeps using the bolt action M1903 Springfield? The reasons for the change aren't important, maybe they just couldn't afford it because of the Depression, but what are...

  2. Automatic rifle used as infantry rifle ?

    The Chauchat was an unreliable, easily broken piece of crap. The Browning was too heavy. The Huot started off as a bolt action rifle, the Canadian Ross, converted into a light machine gun and never really saw much production despite some potential. The FG-42 is a weird one. The Germans could...

  3. The most ridiculous aircraft design

    Actually the V173 is supposed to have had considerable potential. It's one of those designs like the Douglas Mix Master that came just too late to be fully explored.

  4. The Moon Landing was Fake! How did they get away with that?

    Why not just fake the Moon landing as a side mission of the successful Mars landing?

  5. Rumsfeldia: Fear and Loathing in the Decade of Tears

    This thread needs a separate story thread. It's simply too long to effectively search if you miss anything.

  6. Small Firearms WI Challenge: Have the British Army adopt the Vis pistol

    Not a particularly earth shaking event but how could the British Army adopt the Polish Radom Vis semi-automatic pistol as standard issue sidearm in the 1930's? In 1932 Britain adopted the Enfield No.2 revolver in .38/200 as the replacement for the famous Webley .455 revolver. During the war...

  7. Dowding and 'big wing'

    Not necessarily, I remember reading that one reason Bader wasn't assigned to 11 Group was that he couldn't get to his plane fast enough in a squadron scramble due to his tin legs.

  8. AHC: Make Belgium a naval power

    Yes. ...........

  9. AHC: Make Belgium a naval power

    Though not necessarily a big one. The Belgian Navy is, always has been, pretty small and at some points in the country's history totally non-existent. While the Belgian army and air force during the Cold War were quite respectable in terms of quantity and quality of equipment the navy never...

  10. Anglo-French Alliance Post World War 2

    Or Franco-British Alliance if you prefer. What if in the post war years the governments of Britain and France decided to cooperate more closely in an effort to create a viable third power between the USA and the USSR? I don't mean a full on unification of the two countries or them becoming a...

  11. AHC: British strategic bomber

    On the old board they once made Louis Armstrong the first man on the moon. Modern alternative historians have grown fat and lazy, there's not one of you man enough to have Lady Gaga become Pope starting with a POD at the Battle of Cannae.

  12. AHC: British strategic bomber

    One thing that always bothers me with these challenges is that people always seem to obsessively focus on making a POD as late as possible. This forum covers a hundred and fifteen years, so why limit things to a post V-bomber or even post WW2 world?

  13. AHC: British strategic bomber

    The RAF wouldn't have wanted B-52's post 1982. By that time they were on their way out, due for replacement by the B-1 and heading for their current role which is basically explosive ordnance transport rather than a true strategic bomber. The newest B-52's dated from 1962, which would make...

  14. Unknown Aircraft that could have been great .

    The Douglas XB-42 Mixmaster. The speed of a De Haviland Mosquito but with twice the bomb load and 500 miles more range.

  15. Rumsfeldia: Fear and Loathing in the Decade of Tears

    Given the amount of out-sourcing to private companies that the Rumsfeld administration has done will there be a feeling of "Strong Federal Government Bad"? Perhaps it will create a feeling of "Strong Federal Government Not Properly Controlled By The Public Bad" will arise instead. On a side...

  16. Rumsfeldia: Fear and Loathing in the Decade of Tears

    I thought that was Tobin Wolf?

  17. Rumsfeldia: Fear and Loathing in the Decade of Tears

    I do wonder where that policy originated from as I doubt even Rumsfeld is so insane/stupid as to order the execution of wounded American soldiers.

  18. Rumsfeldia: Fear and Loathing in the Decade of Tears

    I was wondering how the latter had managed to squeeze into an F-16 cockpit.

  19. Holy Batsignal! WI Orson Welles did "Batman"?

    Probably licked a hallucinogenic goat.

  20. Gloster f.5/34

    Weren't the Sea Gladiator and Swordfish mostly wood and fabric?
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