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  1. Cold War NATO navies.

    Something that has come up in a couple of recent threads is that during the Cold War the Soviets didn't intend to interdict Atlantic Convoys, despite it being likely that all sorts of stuff would be being rushed to Western Europe. As a result so much NATO naval procurement in oceanic ASW escort...

  2. Cold War Canada Wank?

    I recently watched a YouTube video on Canada's CF5, in particular the story behind it's selection. I don't know much about Canada's defence policy overall, but from this video it looks like Canada changed what it wanted to do from defending Europe to mobile operations in support of peacekeeping...

  3. WI Lightning-Firestreak in Six Day War?

    IOTL the US supplied 2 F104A and 3 F104B in June 1967, the first of 18 F104A and 6 F104B ex USAF aircraft to be delivered. However as the 6 Day war loomed the US withdrew these aircraft to Turkey, leaving only 22 Hutners in Jordan most or all of which were destroyed in the war. IOTL the RAF...

  4. EE Lightning in the VRET?

    Post Suez the RAF had an urgent requirement to find a replacement for the elderly Venom FB.4s still operating in the fighter/ground attack role in a number of overseas theatres. As the highest priority was in the Middle East a series of trials, known as the Venom Replacement Evaluation Trials...

  5. WI Rupprecht's Bavarians weren't 6th?

    In 1914 the German armies in the West were numbered 1 through 7 from right to left; 1, 2 & 7 were commanded by Prussian generals, 3 by a Saxon general and 4, 5 & 6 by Royal Crown Princes. Von Bulow, a general staff officer, was given 'operational control' over 1st and 3rd Armies in August and...

  6. WI Nuclear power in Australia?

    Up until the late 60s nuclear technology was seen as the new whiz-bang thing that countries had to get. Australia got a small research reactor from Britain in 1958, an even smaller research/training reactor from the US in 1961 but there was also a proposal to get a British power reactor as part...

  7. Half hearted programmes/capabilities/projects?

    I've been thinking a bit about submarines lately and the difference between what it means to have enough subs to train the surface navy in ASW and enough to have an offensive force, and how Australia landed in between both. Similarly we didn't really support the Fleet Air Arm despite having...

  8. AHC: no (minimised) US kit in NATO.

    This is an English speaking board, and the biggest English speaking country is the US so its hardly surprising that when discussing that when discussing various countries military hardware options invariably someone suggests that said country could/should have gotten this or that piece of US...

  9. Broken back warfare - Britain 1918

    The Germans win the Battle of Riga Gulf and capture Riga in late 1915. The Germans capture the left bank of the Meuse at Verdun and hold the salient, not withdrawing to the Hindenburg line in 1917. The rest of the Western front is pretty much same as OTL. The Russians withdraw from the war in...

  10. WI earlier Merchant Uboats?

    The merchant uboat Deutschland was ordered in October 1915, launched in April 1916 and undertook her first cruise as a merchant uboat in June 1916. Her sister boat Bremen was a few months behind, undertaking her first merchant voyage in September 1916, in which she was lost without reaching the...

  11. Ferrari P5 in 1969?

    Straight after the (June) 1967 race, the FIA’s regulatory body convened to discuss ways to limit the increasingly dangerous speeds in Sports car racing. It was decided to impose a 3-litre (120-litre fuel tank) on Group 6 Prototypes and a 5-litre limit (160-litre fuel tank) on Group 4 Sports...

  12. Who is 8th in 1937 and do they matter?

    I think a lot of people are familiar with the table below, from 1937 originally in Paul Kennedy's "The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers" and hosted in the Combined Fleet website, but these are only the 7 great powers and equal 90.5% of world warmaking potential. What country would be 8th on...

  13. WI Lola T160 designed for Big Blocks?

    The Lola T70 was a highly successful from 1965 and even in 1967 was doing well enough in its MkIIiB form but by then it was obvious it needed to be replaced, so Lola designed and built the T160 for 1968. However the T160 was designed for Small Block Chevys just as the likes of Chaparral and...

  14. WI Buccaneer as a Hunter replacement?

    The saga to replace the 9 sqns of Hawker Hunter FGA9/FR10 went from P1154 to a mix of Spey Phantoms (more or less) and P1127 Harriers. I have a bee in my bonnet about the Lightnings ground attack capability being developed and used instead of the Phantom as the supersonic, heavy hitting, runway...

  15. How to keep the Pound a dominant Reserve Currency?

    I was surprised to learn that in 1965 the US Dollar was 73.2% of global reserve currency holdings with the Pound Sterling being a whopping 25.3% of global reserve currency holdings with the French Franc at 1.1%. By 1973 the Pound was down to 5.3% and the West German Mark had surpassed at at...

  16. Endgame in a CP victory?

    PoD: Prince Henry is named Supreme Commander of the North Sea after Dogger bank 2 Feb 1915 as well as Baltic Sea where he took command 31 July 1914. As a result over the years the KM achieves more than OTL, the US doesn't declare war until August 1917 and the Germans launch operation George...

  17. Revaluing Currencies under Bretton Woods?

    Does anyone know anything about revaluing currencies, in particular the major non US currencies, during the Bretton Woods system up to 1971? Britain devalued the Pound against the US dollar in 1949, 4.03 - US$1 to 2.80 and again in the infamous November 1967 from 2.80 to 2.40 -US$1, which saw...

  18. CGNs (DLGNs) for CVN America and JFK?

    So as not to hijack this thread on USN Kirovs. It's possible to align USN CGNs with the nuclear carrier they were meant to escort, for the most part. The Long Beach and Bainbridge for Enterprise, California's with the Nimitz and the Virginia's with the Ike and Vinson. The Truxton doesn't...

  19. Shortening the Cold War?

    With a PoD in November 1969 (when the SALT I talks started) is there any government policy/ies and programmes that 'Free World' government/s could put into practice, either in isolation or in partnership with other like minded governments, that could peacefully bring the Cold War to a...

  20. To Carrier, or not To Carrier, that is the question!

    In this document (starting page 184) the Chief of Defence Staff (1961-66) RAAF Air Chief Marshall Scherger is questioning why Australia needs a carrier (either refitted Essex class or new build CVA01) to replace HMAS Melbourne when so many other things needed to be done, like mine warfare...
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