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  1. The Malouines War: France in the Falklands Redux

    1st RPIMa for the army, Commandos Marine for the navy and CPA10 for the air force. I think they'd all theoretically have the capability to do the job.

  2. The Malouines War: France in the Falklands Redux

    Au contraire mon frere, they'll just have a funny accent. 1st RPIMa is a direct descendant from the Free French SAS Squadron.

  3. The Malouines War: France in the Falklands Redux

    True, but surely that holds for any aircraft type? They managed to operate from the islands in our world (albeit mostly Pucaras and MB-339s rather than true fast jets) so they obviously understood how to move aircraft to an airfield away from their home field and operate them.

  4. The Malouines War: France in the Falklands Redux

    As far as I'm aware the RAF didn't have to do anything to the aircraft to use them from improvised fields so, as long as there's enough fuel, consumables and weapons flown into Stanley, there shouldn't be anything stopping them from using the airfield. It's not Heathrow but it's a proper airport...

  5. The Malouines War: France in the Falklands Redux

    They'd have worked much better than any of the existing Argentine fast jets - the RAF regularly practised working from unprepared locations with the Harrier force in Germany so even a basic airfield should be enough to keep them working until the SAS visit.

  6. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    Only as the ranging gun on tanks originally. It was the L1 as a stand-alone weapon until fairly recently. (image taken from an archived page from the Army's website).

  7. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    That's just military designations L1A1 7.62mm Self Loading Rifle (SLR) (Also referred to as the L1A1 7.62mm Rifle)[4][31][3][32][33][27][30] L1A1-A4 Bayonet (For use with the SLR)[3][1] L1A1/A2 Blank Firing Attachment (For use with the SLR)[31] L1A1/A2 .50 inch Machine Gun (Also referred to as...

  8. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    Amateur hour. The UK has 37 different items with the designation L1.

  9. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    If you've put smoke in front of the bunker you don't even need Sappers really - if you can get a couple of lads to the bunker unseen they can throw a couple of grenades through the firing slits. A couple of explosive/fragmentation will take care of the immediate threat and a smoke/phos might...

  10. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    My Granddad was one of the first ashore on Sword Beach and went all the way through to Bremen. According to my Dad the only thing he ever said about the war was once when my Dad was a teenager and squared up to him after some argument. He just looked at my Dad, said "I've killed better men than...

  11. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    I think she was still current wife at the time, but yeah, the Major was his father-in-law.

  12. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    Jeremy Clarkson did an outstanding VC documentary centred on the mad Major.

  13. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    They do but a mortar bomb is in the air for a fair while, they're not pinpoint accurate and they're aiming at a moving target. Until we get the guided rounds like Merlin being developed in the 1980s, hitting a moving tank first time with a mortar (or even a stationary one) would be almost a...

  14. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    Without guided bombs you'd need to be a hell of a shot to hit the top of a moving tank with a mortar!

  15. Malaya What If

    From memory, Admiral Sir Henry Leach (1st Sea Lord during the Falklands Conflict who essentially told Maggie to man up and understand that the RN's ships were there to go to war) remembered his father (Captain John Leach, Prince of Wales) as melancholy about his chances of survival on their last...

  16. The Malouines War: France in the Falklands Redux

    Ship Shape and Bristol Fashion (I assume). How do the French AA capablities compare to the RN's at this stage? They seem even lighter on escorts than the RN Task Force was in '82.

  17. British and commonwealth rocket development

    It's in Cumbria, north east of Carlisle. I went there once (I don't even remember why we were there, maybe it was an overnight stop when we walked Hadrian's Wall?) and it's bleak. The kind of place that people from Orkneys would spend a few days at and start complaining about how bleak, wet and...

  18. British Army 'sanity options 2.0', 1935-43

    You could say that for every single army in the late 1930s. All of them were fielding tanks with guns in the 20mm to 45mm range. The British Army, along with others, were also fielding CS tanks with larger calibre weapons to deal with AT weapons and dug in infantry. What's the driver to a gun...

  19. British Army 'sanity options 2.0', 1935-43

    Lifting the legs and turning the entire gun means standing up and exposing the entire crew to enemy fire and making them easier to spot. A 360deg traverse carriages allows the crew to stay behind cover and under camouflage a lot more. Again, the Army didn't order heavier and more complex...

  20. British Army 'sanity options 2.0', 1935-43

    Does a simple carriage allow all the features the 2 Pdr had (the 360 deg traverse, the extremely quick set up time, etc.)? If not then the functionality isn't still there. Again, they didn't just weigh the carriage down for a laugh. If you want to make the carriage lighter you have to lose...
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