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  1. The MK-102 Automatic Rocket Launcher is used in the anti air role

    During WWII the US Navy developed the MK-102 for shore bombardment use during amphibious landings. This had the advantage of being a mount that did not have to depend on aiming the whole vessel. Depending on the projectile it had a range of up to 10K yards (9km). Fitted with proximity fuses...

  2. Beneath the Nile Silt

    At the time of the last Glacial Maximum with sea levels 120 meters lower what would have been the level of the Nile River relative to sea level. This is in the vicinity of Cairo. Cairo to the Mediterranean now is around 230km. Bing cites as 222km but I am assuming that is to the city limits. If...

  3. AHC Save AMC

    We are trying it with Packard. There can be aquisitions. There can be growth. There can be decline. There can even be mergers. But the name has to stay the same. With a POD no earlier than 1955 and no later than 1980 be able to have AMC independent and solvent in this the year of our lord 2015...

  4. Germany succeeds in deporting the Jews

    Let's say for sake of arguement that the Nazis get a peace in the West in late summer 1940. Maybe Dunkirk doesn't happen. The BEF gets captured. Halifax becomes PM and sues for peace. How ever it happens it does. As part of the peace Germany succeeds in deporting at least the Jews of Western...

  5. Richard Fairey Stays Home

    In the early '20s Richard Fairey traveled to the US and obtained a manufacturing licence for the Curtiss D-12 aero engine. The D-12 was arguably the most advanced aero engine of its time. Used in combination with the new Curtiss-Reed props the Curtiss CR-3 had dominated the 1923 Schneider Trophy...

  6. "Just let them go"

    I am sure this has been done before, but The idea is that with the election of Abraham Lincoln the Deep South still succeeds. But Linclon balks at use of force. The Confederacy is smaller due to Virginia, Tennessee and North Carolina deciding to reject Succession. Arkansas succeeds with the...

  7. An American Mosquito?

    Granted the USAAC was generally adverse to using A/C designed in other countries. The Not Invented Here Syndrome. Would it of been possibe for the US to have adapted the Mosquito perhaps constructed out of aluminum.

  8. Alternate US Strategies in Viet Nam.

    The title says it all. I mean we have all heard the massive invasion of the North etc. But what could the US realistically done differently. And this is not about the right or the wrong of the war. Purely about what other options the US could of used. Personally I think establishing a fortified...

  9. Industry and Power Sources in the Emberverse

    While the Emberverse is to a large degree a handcraft and artisian universe just what are the possible industrial capabilities and what are the power sources to run them. Computer run CNC and electronic controls are no longer possible but don't think that programable machines are totally dead...

  10. Role Models in AltHistory Fiction?

    In Alt History fiction there are several types of characters. Some are the actual historical ones simply set in a different setting or situation. Some are cut from the whole cloth and seem to owe their personalities to no living person (I really don't agree with that but then most readers simply...

  11. AH Books/Short Stories-Movies and Cast

    Any actor, any time may be used The Two Georges Col Bushell, Dryfus, seems the part/character was written with him in mind Dr Flannery, Gates McFadden, but only if she takes her clothes off Lt General Horace Bragg, Jack Nickelson (sp) Capt Stanley, Morgan Freeman or Samual L Jackson

  12. Mortars, How Early?

    How early could we see mortars of the infanrty support type? Not the monsters seen in the 19th century. And just what would the effects be on infantry tactics?

  13. Best/Worst Allied Piston Aircraft Engines 39-45

    We've had the Bomber Threads and now the Fighter Thread. But lets face it. All of them are hanger queens with out the complex assembly of castings and forgings up front converting high octane gas into horsepower. Best Allied Fighter A three way tie. First the Rolls Royce Merlin. Its birth as...

  14. A bit of comic relief Famous People in Alternate Realities where they are Failures

    A bit of comic relief. Famous People in Alternate Realities where they are Failures. That's right you read that right. Obama can wind up a cracked out homeboy, Hillary a waitress in a hash house. Pope John Pual II a butcher in Krakow. The rules, there none. Multiple uses of people is not only...

  15. Prevent the "Tommy Cooker"

    In WWII the M4 Sherman* had several unfortunate nicknames. The Germans called the Tommy Cooker. At the same time the British refered to it as The Ronson, because it lit first time every time. With a POD no earlier than 1925 change US Army policy as to the fuels used in armoured vihicles and...
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