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  1. British Army adopts an Auto Pistol before 1939

    By 1939 the British Army was the only major Army not to have adopted or planned to adopt an Automatic Pistol and still issuing a revolver as the only sidearm. While the British Army didnt issue sidearms on anything like the scale of Continental Armies with infantry NCOs nearly always carrying a...

  2. The Armstrong Siddeley Cougar an alternative engine for the RAF

    I wrote this as a starter for a Gloster F5/34 naval fighter story but havent been able to construct a decent timeline. In 1932 Armstrong Siddeley released its latest engine the 32.7 litre (1995ci) 14 cylinder Tiger a 700hp 2 speed supercharged engine perfect for high performance aircraft. It...

  3. Boeing Washington MkII

    This idea for an earlier Washington bomber came about from two directions. I have always been interested in the Rolls Royce Vulture and how it was a near miss but RR had worked out where it went wrong by the time the engine was cancelled. The Vulture is redesigned with RR Merlin sized...

  4. Earliest Tube Alloys bomb

    If the US had stayed neutral (Hitler and Japan had been sensible and had done everything possible to keep the US neutral) No Manhattan project at all seems unlikely but without Pearl Harbour it doesnt get the Billions it got. What is the earliest that the Tube_Alloys project could build a bomb...

  5. An Independent India and the 2nd world war

    If a manpower starved Britain had offered independence to India in exchange for defeat of Germany in WWI. What would have happened in WWII would India have declared war against Germany in 1939 and sent its troops to fight in North Africa. More importantly would they have declared war against...
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