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  1. A real 96 Monte Carlo

    In 1994 Chevrolet brought back the Impala SS name, building a faster Caprice with the 5.7 V8 with 260HP and a 4 speed auto. The car was built until 1996, and the final version had a floor mounted shifter and front bucket seats. At the same time, the Monte Carlo was built on the Lumina platform...

  2. I finally thought of a POD that allows Germany to win WW1 and WW2

    Change Amerigo Vespucci name to Germanicu Vespuccio. The continent we know as America is named Germany for the same reasons as OTL In 1776 a country declares independence as the "United States of Germany" That country is usually known as Germany, even tough South Germans insist on calling it's...

  3. Group 4 Ford Mk IV in 1969

    In 1967 Ford had the best sports car in the world, the 7.0l Ford Mk IV. For 1968, the rules changed, and the top cars were meant to be the Group 6 prototypes with 3.0l engines. But the rules allowed for Group 4 cars with engines up to 5.0l and has long has they were built in a limited series of...

  4. German F-15

    The LW bought the F-4F at a time when the F-15 program was quite advanced. The German Phantoms were delivered btw 1973 and 1976. Could the LW have joined the F-15 program, buying F15A/B? What would have been the impact in the Eurofighter program?

  5. Best Middleweight Cruiser

    The WNT created an artificial class of cruisers that displaced 10.000 tons and had 8'' main guns. The conflicting requirements set for this ships, coupled with the limit on tonnage, lead to compromises, and comparing them is basically comparing priorities. In the same period (20s and 30s), some...

  6. Scouts/Super DD for the RN in the 1920s

    The RN didn't develop "Super Destroyers" to counter the French ships. Had the RN decided to do so, what would British equivalents of the large French DD of the Jaguar/Guépard/Vauquelin classes look like? They would use, like the french, an heavier gun than contemporary DD (They could use more DD...

  7. He112 (v7) with DB600 specs

    Does anyone have performance figures for the DB600 powered He112 v7 prototype?

  8. Best weapon, in its class, in WW2

    The idea is to nominate weapons that were clearly the best in their respective class (for example pistol, light howitzer, etc) of the ones that were actively used in WW2. My nomination is the Bofors 40mm Model 1928 for the medium AA gun title. Still used today, it was adopted by a number of...

  9. Scharnhorst & Gneisenau Mediterranean 1941

    An article in the last issue of LOS magazine mentions that when the KM insisted with the RM that they should use surface units to try and stop British reinforcements reaching Greece, there was a German plan to deploy the Scharnhorst & Gneisenau to the Med through Gibraltar. at the time the...

  10. KM 1928 BC design

    Been interested in admiral Zenker proposed 1928 design for a true battle cruiser. General specifics are 17500t displacement (empty or standard according to different sources) eight 12'' in four twins and nine 5,9'' in three triples, with high speed (34knots) and protection on similar scale to...

  11. South American Battlecruisers

    When the ABC powers ordered their battleships, they had previously operated Armoured Cruisers, rather than Battleships. If the Brazilian navy had decided to order two I class BC, rather than the Minas Gerais BB, with the Argentinian navy ordering two BC and Chile following suit, since they...

  12. WI: Long term consequences of a neutral Ottoman Empire in WW1

    What would modern Turkey look like if the country had mantained a neutral, slightly pro allied position in WW1? And could a more gradual evolution of the Middle East without the implications of the Arab Revolt and Ottoman defeat in WW1 have lead to a more stable situation on that area? What...

  13. Creative Madness - Fisher's preemptive attack

    According to M. MacMillan, who cites Marder's "from Dreadnough to Scapa Flow" as a source, Fisher did consider the possibility of a preemptive attack to destroy the German High Seas Fleet, only to be told off by the king: "My God Fisher, you must be mad" But was he? Could such a move be tempted...

  14. He112 V10 vs Bf109E

    "The RLM had already contracted for another six He 112s, so production of the prototypes continued. V10 was supposed to receive the 670 kW (960 hp) Junkers Jumo 211A (Junker's new DB 600 competitor), but the engine was not available in time and V10 instead received the new 876 kW (1,175 hp) DB...

  15. Soviet fighter question

    In the event of action against Japan, which of the soviet fighters in service in the winter of 1941/42 would do better against Japanese fighters? MiG-3, LaGG-3 or Yak-1?

  16. Tupolev ANT-22 for ASW

    The Tupolev ANT 22 was a huge twin hulled seaplane with six engines in three tended pairs. Once intended to carry midget submarines, it was not adopted because its speed and climbing decreased markedly with heavier payloads. It could fly very long patrols, but at at a very slow speed. Being...

  17. Mad Max sequels stay close to original film

    Most people now remember Mad Max from the two sequels, post apocalypse wasteland action movies that pretty much defined the genre. But the first film was a very different thing, a low budget highly violent "tough cop"movie that replaced the .44 Magnum with muscle car police cruisers as its...

  18. Ideal 600t WNT warship?

    The WNT placed no limits in the number of under 600t ships. Italy, France and Japan tried to build small TB and either cheated on tonnage (Spicas) or ended up with compromised limited utility ships. So what would be the ideal design for a large class of under 600t standard ships?

  19. Alternative MTB designs

    In the late 30s Siam bought a class of Torpedo Boats from Italy, the Trad class. 300t standard, thy were scaled down Spicas, looking like mini destroyers with 3x76mm, 6x18''TT (two singles forward and two centreline twins) along with 20mm AA. I've been wondering if a perfected design, with a...

  20. Alternative Allied Tank Busters

    Both the Germans and the Russians kept using aircraft with hard hitting guns as tank busters right to the end of WW2. The Russians complemented this with small hallow charge bombs dispersed form special containers. The allies tried 40mm AT guns on the Hurricane, and used 57mm and even 75mm...
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