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  1. Low Frequency LORAN Guided Bombs

    Was browsing Wikipedia's history of LORAN when I came across this tidbit: Given that accuracy, would it have been possible to equip bombs with LORAN guidance packages, similar to modern JDAM packages? Given the electronics of the time, I rather doubt it would have been down into the 500...

  2. WWII WI: Teslabahn

    So here's our WI: Towards the end of the Weimar Republic, the Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft, with state support, begins a program of 100% electrification, excepting truly minor branch lines. This continues under the Nazi regime and is finished, along with some dedicated coal power plants, by...

  3. Pearl Harbor WI: Pea Soup Raid

    Simple change for the Pearl Harbor Raid: What happens if the Japanese air attack strolls up to Oahu only to find a heavy fog obscuring the harbor?

  4. History of the Supercarrier

    History of the Supercarrier POD is that the atomic bomb program is delayed six months, resulting in first atomic bomb test in February of 1946. Japan surrenders in October of 1945 due to starvation, economic collapse, and continued air raids (most of which simply serve to bounce the rubble)...

  5. F6F Bearcat

    As I understand things, there was no technological impediment to the development of the F8F in place of the Hellcat and it was in many respects a Hellcat as designed by the LWF mafia. So what would be the impact if the Bearcat was developed and produced in place of the Hellcat (assuming for...

  6. WI: American Eniwetok in 1900

    So there is the point of departure. In 1898 or 1899, the Germans receive one of the Sulu islands in exchange for Eniwetok. What do we do with it then and how does that affect the Pacific War? Does the Fleet choose it over Guam to be the subject of its Great Base plans in the 1920s and does that...

  7. WI Challenge: Das Abschreckungkorps

    With a POD no earlier than V-E Day, have the Federal Republic of Germany develop its own nuclear deterrence force (not necessarily native, plausible cooperation between Germany and other European states such as France is fine) with which it has the stated intent of attacking Russian cities...

  8. AH Challenge: Reverse the roles of North and South Vietnam

    With a POD no earlier than 1939, have the Vietnam War be a largely conventional fight between a South Vietnam that receives large amounts of US military aid but no troops and a North Vietnam that is largely supported by Soviet Long Range Aviation. Bonus points if this involves an Operation...

  9. WI: Strategic Bombing of Nazi Power Plants

    What then would be the effect of the USAAF and/or the RAF attacking these power plants from an early stage of the war (August 1943 for instance if only the USAAF)?

  10. A Brief History of the Douglas F-6 Missileer

    A Brief History of the Douglas F-6 Missileer March 23rd, 1968 marked the beginning of a new age in aerial combat. At 1137 local time, two US Navy F-4B Phantom II fighters, Streetcar 304 and 305, both of which were providing MiGCAP over North Vietnam for a strike by Navy and Marine Corps A-4...

  11. Milder Iranian revolution plausibility?

    In order for a particular timeline I've been pondering to work, I need to moderate the Iranian Revolution such that the resulting government is still pro-Western. That provides the critical change that I need for the timeline. The question, of course, is how do I get that. If Khomeini is killed...

  12. WI: A Douhetian WWII

    Let's say that Douhet has a bit more influence in military theory than he historically did. Not enough to cause much change to the starting forces of WWII, but enough so that the Germans engage in the mass use of air dropped chemical weapons during their strategic air campaign over Poland, and...
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