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  1. ATL Challenge: Airplanes designed for global war on terror?

    POD: It's 1990's and either RAF, AdA/MN or USAF realizes need for aircraft available for OOTW and wars in which the enemy has no air defenses beyond MANPADS. The aircraft will have to have usefulness in a major war scenario too, in which the enemy has air defenses. Thus various light attack...

  2. WI: Black Buck raids with F-111K's?

    IE. RAF raid from Ascension to Falklands using F-111K's if they had been bought. Simply, possible or not?

  3. Carriers delenda est. Happier, more efficient navies without carriers

    So, let's create a few scenarios in which navies are better off without carriers. Let's start with easy ones: - Thailand: Instead of HTMS Chakri Narubet the Thai Government decides to buy a hospital ship built upon modified GTS Finnjet. Operating in humanitarian missions, the hospital ship...

  4. Fastest French space program with post-1945 POD

    Since this site has more than fair share of UK or US space program wanks, how about going French? No significant US or UK co-operation allowed. Israel is a fair game. What could be the fastest way to get a French space program with post WW2 POD? Later on this can become an EEC space program...

  5. Mini-TL: Cold War Finnish Defence truly limited by Paris Peace Treaty terms
    Threadmarks: 1. Introduction and POD

    Introduction and POD The Treaty of Peace with Finland in 1947, often called the Paris Peace Treaty, imposed military restrictions upon Finland, just like with Italy, Romania, Hungary and Bulgaria https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Peace_Treaties,_1947 Treaty text in English...

  6. WI: The Axis use more coal-powered ships?

    The KM, RM and IJN all found their capabilities limited by lack of fuel oil. Now, oil-fired ships are obviously much more efficient to use and offer tactical advantages. But, as neither Germany, Italy, or Japan provided sufficient domestic oil. would it have been more efficient to use...

  7. AHC: Less well performing industries & procurement

    A common theme for what-if's is how to improve particular industry or defense procurement etc. How about the other way around? How to make US health care less efficient, prevent Nokia's or Apple's rise, and what would be the effect? How to make UK defense industry less performing?

  8. AH Vignette: Finnish Navy in the Cold War

    Finnish armed forces were born under dark skies of the Civil War, but certainly had luck in 1920's and 1930's. The armed forces developed capabilities which were, if not the best, at least among the best in fields such as winter warfare, signals intelligence, fighter tactics and integrated...

  9. AH Vignette: USS Alaska

    As Saddam Hussein's armored troops invaded Kuwait and Saudi-Arabia in August 1990 the USN's forward deployed forces were the first to act. Missile Battlecruisers Alaska (CBG-1) and Samoa (CBG-6) performed admirably. Their 12" guns provided naval gunfire support with the new long range munitions...

  10. WI: Poison Pill for Soviet Navy - Battleship reparations

    Now, it's 1945 and the Allied leadership have a cunning plan: All major surviving Axis surface combatants are turned for Soviet Navy. The idea is for them to soak up Soviet upkeep costs and prevent them to spend money to something actually useful. So, Nagato, Conte di Cavour, Andrea Doria...

  11. WI: German SAM's lead to earlier space race?

    Now, a train of thought entered my brains... WI, instead of V-2 Germany focuses on shorter range tactical missile, with roughly 100nm range. ie. enough to reach London from occupied France. While this missile is being developed, by 1942 a need for new kind of aerial defence surfaces to replace...

  12. WI: UK citizenship for all inhabitants of Hong Kong?

    Is there a possibility, that some British cabinet pre-1997 can take a long view on potential of HK immigrants and simply decides to grant full citizenship for inhabitants of HK? This would either enable HK's more leeway if living in Hong Kong, or the opportunity to move into UK with their...

  13. Wall of Steel - A Finnish AAA timeline 1920-
    Threadmarks: Chapter 1

    Wall of Steel - A Finnish AAA timeline This is a small timeline focused on development of Finnish air defenses before and during the Winter War. A wank? Sure, but even the most astute observer of nuances of alternate histories can surely indulge him/herself into joys of self-love. Besides...

  14. AHC: De Havilland Vampire - the British superfighter of WWII

    So, in hindsight De Havilland Vampire was probably the best of first generation jets, and it was a beauty. It also had good range and fairly good armament. It also was a very adaptable aircraft with night fighter and carrier variants. Could we have tweaks, with it could we get it into widescale...

  15. WI: No Soviet carriers?

    Historically, Soviets built four Kiev -class and one Kutznetsov -class TAKR's. Their mission was to help in defending Soviet bastion areas. What if, taking a look at costs of a carrier program Soviets decide to abandon the concept and make investments in other areas instead? Say, better area...

  16. First and last escorted air raid on mainland UK during WWII?

    Now, the reputation and public image of wartime RAF Fighter Command is built upon it being capable of fighting the daytime raids during Battle of Britain. But BoB was fairly short time period during WWII, after which Germans switched primarily to night and nuisance raids. When was the first and...

  17. WI: STOL light fighter instead of Harrier?

    WI: Instead of VTOL fighters just STOL light fighters are developed? From layman's point of view it would seem easier to develop a light STOL fighter than a full-blown VTOL plane with more complex thrust vectoring techology? Of course it would not have full flexibility of a Harrier but then...

  18. AHC: Russian Space X?

    Now it seems the glory days of Roscosmos - leveraging from Soviet era infrastructure and technology - are coming to an end thanks to SpaceX but also other actors bringing in the improved technology. The AHC is, how could Roscosmos build a succesful follow-ups to Soviet era technologies? The...

  19. AHC: Make your (or someone else's) country smaller with 20th C POD

    Let's make our countries small again! For starters, Finland: Soviet Union decides to demand Lapland from Finland in 1944, let's say from Rovaniemi upwards. As it's economically inconsequential and far away it's almost nothing compared to territorial disasters of losing Karelia and Porkkala...

  20. WI: No Vietnam war 1945-1975?

    Now, let's say due to various events during WWII in 1945 France decides to quit Indochina in quick order, while UK is in no mood to intervene and Ho Chi Minh succesfully woos US adminstration. As a result, Vietnam turns into Yugoslavia by the South China Sea, a communist state but not aligned...
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