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  1. The Iron Spear (Alternate Swedish AFV Development)

    Swedish tank development post-1945 was not that great. There were numerous false starts and failed projects during the 1950s, with the end result being that a lot of equipment stayed in frontline service beyond when it probably should have. It also resulted in the Swedish Army having to buy...

  2. JA 37 Viggen Avionics Development

    A guy on another forum I frequent translated (from Swedish) quite a long discussion on the development of the JA 37; http://sturgeonshouse.ipbhost.com/index.php?/topic/1070-translation-of-a-seminar-on-the-development-of-the-ja-37-viggens-avionics/ I'm reposting it here in case it could be of...

  3. Duel of the Imbeciles: Alaska vs. Tirpitz

    Yet another naval hypothetical; somehow the USS Alaska (or one of her sister ships) encounters the Tirpitz in late 1944 (somehow the Tirpitz has managed to completely evade being damaged by British bombing or sabotage efforts). Who wins? Based on my limited knowledge, the Alaska would win at...

  4. Did Self-Loading Rifles Have to Wait for John Garand?

    This isn't an alternate history scenario, per se, but I feel it's most relevant to the interests of people here. Could be useful for people writing TLs and such, although I'm not much of an expert on the validity of the conclusions presented...

  5. WI: (Mostly) Wingless Shuttle

    Based on my memory, as well as some documents I've read (http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/729770.pdf), the STS had a large crossrange requirement from early in the program. This was due to various Air Force requirements, one of which was to be able to return to the launch site after one...

  6. Royal Navy WI: Interwar Submarine Design

    So, I recently found out about the R Class Submarines from 1917. While it appears the design had some issues in practice, it looks like it was a fairly innovative design. I'm curious about what might have happened if its design had been developed further during the interwar years. Could the RN...

  7. Ural Bomber Developed: Changes in Soviet Aircraft Development

    In response to a question that popped up elsewhere on the internet. Suppose that, around 1941/1942, the Germans develop a reasonably sized high altitude strategic bomber force, which they deploy against the Soviet Union. How is the Soviet aircraft industry going to respond? In OTL, most of...

  8. Western Allies Usage of Soviet Equipment

    That a large amount of American and British equipment used by the Soviets as a result of Lend Lease is well known. What is less well known is that at one point, the British considered producing copies of the T-34 and KV-1...

  9. Tsybin RSR: Soviet Blackbird?

    Interesting aircraft design I found while reading various things on the internet today; the Tsybin RSR. http://www.testpilot.ru/russia/tsybin/rsr/rsr_e.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsybin_RSR According to wiki and other sources, it was intended to be used as a high speed strategic...

  10. AHC: Independent Tibet

    With any POD post-1900, have an independent Tibetan state survive to the present day. Also, how would such a state look today?

  11. USS Indianapolis Sunk En Route to Tinian

    In reality, the USS Indianapolis (CA-35) was sunk with great loss of life after delivering crucial components of the Little Boy atomic bomb to Tinian. However, what if the Indianapolis had been sunk a few days earlier, before arriving at Tinian? Obviously, this would have resulted in the loss of...

  12. ABM Timelines?

    I was wondering if anybody had seen any timelines on this board discussing the development and deployment of Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) technology. Search function only turned up one or two fairly short threads from a few years back.

  13. Sea Dragon

    The Sea Dragon rocket was a concept put forth by Robert Truax in 1962. It was a proposal for a two stage launch vehicle capable of putting over 500 tons into LEO, potentially at a cost of around $100/kilo. In order to save costs, the vehicle was planned to be constructed out of low cost...

  14. XF8U-3 Chosen Instead of Phantom

    During the late 1950s, Vought developed a follow-on version to the F8U1 and F8U2 Crusader, the XF8U-3_Crusader_III. In a fly-off against the F4 Phantom, it was found to have superior maneuverability, but the F4 was chosen due to the provision of a dedicated RIO. Suppose, however, that the F8 was...

  15. Wright Bros. Release Patents

    As a counterpart to the thread about what would have happened if the Wright Brothers had died earlier. As mentioned in that thread, the Wright's main breakthrough was the development of appropriate control systems. However, once they developed this, they went to great lengths to keep their...

  16. AHC: Positive US Military Coup

    Challenge: Adjust OTL events (with a post WW1 POD) so that the US undergoes a military coup. Also, have this be generally seen as a positive development (so no "MacArthur takes over and creates fascist dictatorship).

  17. Russian/Soviet Boneyard?

    For those of you who don't know, there is a massive amount of old American military aircraft stored at Davis-Monthan airbase in Arizona in various stages of salvageability. More info: http://amarcexperience.com/Default.asp I was wondering if anyone knew if there was a Russian/Soviet equivalent...

  18. Most Idiotic Usages of Aircraft

    So, I thought of a question I'd like to ask the board. In your opinion, what is the most egregious instance of an aircraft (in military or civilian service) being used in a role it was not designed for or poorly optimized for, and suffering badly for it? One example, which I find to be quite...

  19. American Independence (No Revolutionary War)

    In a scenario where the American Revolutionary War does not happen (for whatever reason), when would the 13 colonies achieve independence? When they did, would they get tacked on with Canada, or as their own thing? Would they end up as a dominion, or something else?

  20. Vapor Trails - An alternate timeline

    Intro December 17, 1933 (1): Wehrmacht officers assembly at Kummersdorf to view a test of the A1, a new rocket designed by engineer Werner von Braun. The design hasn’t had all of the kinks worked out yet, and the rocket’s alcohol / liquid oxygen engine explodes on the pad. (2) There is one...
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