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  1. EE Lightining what-if thread

    I mean to an extent, but you can't cut the number too much in the Cold War, especially if you assume that Soviet SSMs will be hitting your bases? And especially for many of the smaller export nations, the force size rapidly drops too small to be easy to support, and you end up in a number's...

  2. EE Lightining what-if thread

    The issue is how much is it worth, especially if you are anyway crashing a few at low level on land where 2 engines does nothing to save you and the extra cost means you can afford many fewer anyway and in wartime numbers matter?

  3. European NATO naval alternatives : 1950 - 1990

    Is that not the gap between the old and new? ie the old is very old and starting (to be generous) to wear out and the new is very new and only just coming into service and the gap was badly managed and should have maybe been shorter but the Cold War peace dividend and Afghanistan and Iraq did...

  4. British Rail sanity options : 1948 - 2000

    One real issue might be the Korean War rearmament drive? English Electric for example would have been busy with many defence orders, and it built maybe some of the best early diesel locomotives. That and with hindsight not simply ordering like for like replacements of the steam sizes but going...

  5. European NATO naval alternatives : 1950 - 1990

    Yes and was a lot of the OTL issues of the Upholder/Victoria-class was how cheap they tried to be by taking them partly operational at a heavy discount from GB and then not spending lots of money they would inevitably need? I mean they bought them for $750 million (1998) that's presumably a lot...

  6. British Rail sanity options : 1948 - 2000

    Is the problem that you can have 1/2 a turntable or 1/2 a water tower for example, so you end up paying to maintain a lot of items that you only need for the steam trains, that cut the savings of the conversion to D&E?

  7. European NATO naval alternatives : 1950 - 1990

    Considering how important, NORAD is/was for the USA and how it at some point in Cold War did they not even have some US dual key weapons as part of it, could they not have asked to join Subs at the same time?

  8. European NATO naval alternatives : 1950 - 1990

    How much more or less would it have cost to carry the 32 × BGM-109 Tomahawk on SSGNs (say make the flight II 688s but with 32 tubes, or just make all the 688 flight II from the start?) and not on the reactivated Iowas in 1980-90s?

  9. British Rail sanity options : 1948 - 2000

    The mains issue is that they don't actually save money without cutting the steam support infrastructure and manpower, the diesel and electric locomotives cost more to buy than steam, they are just mostly far cheaper to support and run? Running them overlapping for a long time simply doesn't lead...

  10. European NATO naval alternatives : 1950 - 1990

    Does a 'double ended' work, as the existing Sea slug ran the full length of most of the ship already? Is some of the modern size not driven by massive sound dampening, computer system as much by endurance requirements? Would SSNs for more people in the Cold War not be just as fun, say Canada...

  11. Unbuilt Japan

    I mean, in an AH with POD that Japan kept all of Sakhalin post 1918?

  12. British Rail sanity options : 1948 - 2000

    Is the problem not that once you start using diesel and electric in any areas then you need facilities for them that are different and incompatible with steam engines and thus running both at the same time over lapping for any time is the worst option as you need to pay for two sets of...

  13. European NATO naval alternatives : 1950 - 1990

    With hindsight, the Tigers should never have been build and definitely never rebuilt for helicopters, for similar crew size you can get a Colossus class if you are running it with a reduced helicopter only air group, so why run a Tiger that's far worse? You could even just fit missiles to the...

  14. European NATO naval alternatives : 1950 - 1990

    I think with hindsight they should give up of them and start work on new post-war ships or just work on finishing Audacious, the issue is they need to anticipate how much smaller the RN will get and how much larger CVs need to be to operate modern late Cold War jets, they simply can't waste...

  15. Gaston Glock was never born

    What about Hiram Maxim? Or Dieudonné Saive? Both I think are well ahead of Glock and maybe others on that list, apart from Browning? The issue is since he was not first somebody would very likely have made a polymer Browning hi capacity pistol, and it would have worked well at some point soon...

  16. Sanity options 2.0 - Polish armed forces

    With hindsight, is it not worth trying to do so? I mean, look at the casualties during the long occupation (and not even taking into account the post-war soviet occupation...) would damaging the German army sufficiently that they can't win the BoF in 1940, not almost certainly be worth almost...

  17. Sanity options 2.0 - Polish armed forces

    Are SMGs not cheaper that anything else, especially if you can make an early very simple tube Sten/bent metal PPS like gun? You could actually afford to make a million of the Sten or PPS pre-war unlike almost anything else, and it might actually make a difference to the level of firepower of the...

  18. What If These Two Warships Met In Combat

    That would be one silly ISOT have HMS Invincible and Inflexible as well as HMS Carnarvon, Cornwall, Kent, Macedonia, Bristol and Glasgow, come out and bump into the Argentinian Operation Rosario invasion force on Thursday 1 April at close range? Do we have an order of battle for the Argentinian...

  19. What If These Two Warships Met In Combat

    I mean all LW ASW torps should be able to do it theoretically if you can remove safeties, the question is do they need a factory reset to be able to do it and can the CVs crew actually reprogram & remove the safeties built in to stop it from hitting the surface ships that fires it at a sub or...

  20. Soviet Air Force cold war sanity options

    Thinking more on this, what about looking at Viggen (or Su30/Su34 but fixed) style canards, to keep the Mig 21 delta wings and rear and centre fuselage as much as possible unchanged for cost and production reasons? With just a new front end added with its nose and intakes and small fixed canards...
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