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  1. Impact of fully adopted and reliable 20mm in BoB

    How would the Battle of Britain have been impact had all the RAF's Spitfires and Hurricanes been armed with reliable 20mm cannons? This would entail the Spitfire Mk.V's armament of 2x20mm cannons and four x.303 mgs for all the RAF's Spitfires in the BoB. And for the Hurricanes, it's four 20mm...

  2. Queen Victoria demands to tour India 1895

    Telling her ministers and advisors to go sod themselves, Queen Victoria decides she wants to visit India, and in 1895 intends to accompany Abdul Karim on his return to India. You're in charge of managing the visit, assuming a month in transit, two months in India and a month return trip. The...

  3. 1945-1980 British car industry without badge engineering

    After Austin bought Morris in the 1950s, we began to see obvious badge engineering in British cars. For example, ADO16 range of 1960s had nearly identical cars under six brands https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMC_ADO16 Austin: 1963–1974 MG: 1962-1973 Morris: 1962–71 Riley: 1962-1969 Vanden...

  4. Repulse with Glorious

    Had Repulse been with Glorious on that fateful day, does the carrier live? Assume Repulse is well to the farside of the carrier, so not readily visible from &G.

  5. Kormoran vs. Averoff

    Thinking back to https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/april-1942-alternate-indian-ocean.305957/page-149#post-12782151 Let's replace HMAS Sydney with the Greek cruiser G. Averoff. This would bring up some significant tactical differences.... 1) Relative speeds. Kormoran could do 18...

  6. Why didn't Canada use F-106 Delta Dart?

    Instead of buying the F-101 for NORAD, why didn't the RCAF buy the single seat F-106? Canada would have saved on personnel and would have benefited from the internal weapons bay.

  7. Royal Navy vs. the Continent 1917

    Okay, just for comparison sake let's put Britain's dreadnoughts and battlecruisers of 1917 against all or Europe's up to 1917. We'll include all ships lost IOTL. Mod's can move this to ASB if they wish, but I'm not suggesting a POD to bring this to be, but instead seek an example to compare...

  8. What does Japan do if Pearl Harbor prepared in advance?

    What does Japan do if Haiwaii and Pearl Harbour are overtly prepared in advance? I mean by summer 1941 there are effective radar chain systems and demonstrated effective fighter director SOPs, an effective and large fighter force conducting, five fleet carriers on station at PH (Saratoga...

  9. Battle of Calabria with larger Italian force

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Calabria The Italian main force consisted of the battleships Giulio Cesare and Conte di Cavour, eight light cruisers and another 16 destroyers. This battle takes place in July 1940, months before the FAA strike against Taranto. So, with a few PODs...

  10. Why no British cars made in North America?

    In the mid-1960s Canada and the USA signed the Autopact, an early free trade agreement that gave preferential treatment to cars assembled in North America. Several European and Asian auto manufacturers set up North American plants to exploit this new regulatory environment. For example, Volvo...

  11. POD to get a united Korea by 1945 onwards?

    Reading this agreement, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taft%E2%80%93Katsura_agreement it would seem there were some potential PODs where Japan's invasion of Korea and the subsequent post-war fighting and eventually two state "solution" came about. How can we get Korea to have history more like...

  12. HMS Hermes (95), reasonable interwar rebuild

    HMS Hermes (95) had IMO three flaws that I would like to address: 1) The huge destabilizing island and tripod mast 2) The inclusion of six 5.5" low angle guns (with FC directors on tripod mast) 3) The aft lift being exposed to the sea on three sides (was thus designed to enable aircraft to be...

  13. Six more Ark Royals instead of the AFDs

    Instead of building the Illustrious/Indomitable/Implacable AFD carriers, let's have the RN build six more Ark Royals. The later units can have higher displacement and modifications as the treaty limitations expire, but all ships are essentially Ark Royal clones, with full double hangars...

  14. Anglo-French war games, Malaya-FIC 1938

    In 1937 the Second Sino-Japan war began. France, while concerned about Japanese intentions in the SEA region did little to reinforce its military strength in FIC, instead depending on locally sourced soldiers and obsolete aircraft...

  15. Why so few nose intake fighters in RAF?

    The RAF has two nose intake jet fighters I can think of, the SARO SR.A1 and English Electric Lightning. These two fighters and the Gloster Whittle E28/39 are the only nose intake jets in the RAF. Meanwhile, everyone else was making nose intake fighters into the late 1950s or longer. Why not...

  16. Could Britain have helped Europe's Jewish population 1941 on?

    http://www.deathcamps.org/reinhard/allies.html It has been estimated that in March 1942, 75 - 80% of the victims of the Shoah were alive, whilst 20 - 25% were dead. By February 1943, the percentages had been exactly reversed. Put another way, in that eleven-month period, a minimum of 3 million...

  17. Difference if Stanley airfield extended in April 1981?

    http://wikimapia.org/5685805/Former-Runway-Extension Built by Royal Engineers and Royal Air Force personnel following the cessation of hostilities in the 1982 Falklands War, this 2,000ft/609m extension of the original Port Stanley Airfield runway was made entirely of AM-2 Aluminum Matting laid...

  18. Safe the Daimler Company (British marque)

    How can we save the British Daimler Company? It's likely too small to survive solo, but instead of BSA selling it to Jaguar in 1960, we need a buyer in the mid-1950s that will keep Daimler a going concern. The marque definitely needs a modernization, and needs to stop producing short runs of...

  19. Most Negligent Naval Commanders in British Empire history?

    The British Empire's naval history is full of tories of success, often against great odds through effective leadership, preparation, abilities, training, luck and available/competitive kit. But sometimes things do not go well. Ships, the navy and sometimes the empire itself are put into danger...

  20. Would Humber Imperial V8 have been successful?

    Here's the prototype Humber Imperial V8, powered by a Chrysler V8 engine via Rootes partnership with the American firm. The Imperial is essentially a deluxe version of the Super Snipe. Also available as an estate wagon Had the V8 Imperial been launched, would it have been successful...
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