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    Steam Gun Boat

    I am interested in Steam Gun Boat, a British WW2 design for a relatively large, well armed ship which was intended to be used mostly in coastal waters and was to be easily mass produced in non-military shipyards. However, it has proven to be to complex, and they were forced to produce them in...
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    Effects on USA in case of early Central Powers victory

    My idea goes like this, CPs manage an early victory before the US enters the war. How and why CPs won is not important here, I am interested what effects would it have on the US. What would be the effects on the economy, society and military of the country. Would the great economic crisis of...
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    Madsen machine gun

    I want to ask some questions in regards to Madsen light machine gun. It seems to be a very revolutionary weapon for its time, providing automatic firepower in a relatively light package. It has also been used for over a century, with weapon still being used by Brazil in a police role. But my...
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    Nixon without Watergate

    I was wondering how would Nixon be remembered without Watergate scandal? Let us just say that Watergate is either never discovered or never happened. There seem to be some good sides to Nixon, most of which are forgotten considering he was the only US President to resign because of the scandal...
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    Hawker Harrier?

    I really do not understand why did the British abandon their own domesticaly produced V/STOL aircraft in favour of F-35 which certainly will not be ready for service for forseeable future. They have built/are building two carriers, but those two without aircraft can only be oversized helicopter...
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    Use of Pike

    I wanted to ask why were pikes, after Macedonians and their succesor kingdoms, so rarely used throught history until later Middle Ages? They seem like a very good weapon while on defense, useful even in hands of relatively poorly trained troops and are perfect weapon for infantry to use against...
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    More Ju-88s?

    Of all the German bombers of WW2, I think that the most useful and cost-effective of them all was Junkers Ju-88. It served from 1939, although in very small numbers at the beginning of the war, all the way to the end of the conflict. It had numerous variants, and was used not just as a tactical...
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    Finding a ACW timeline.

    I have once read an ACW TL, which I believe had Philip Kearny in a prominent role, because he did not die in 1862. Also, TL had a massive Confederate postwar settlement in Mexico, because after war they were exiled from the US. There were other things as well. The Union reinforced its regiments...
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    Flamethrowers in ACW

    I am wondering are flamethrowers possible in the scope of American Civil War. Could they be made, and if they could, how would they be used? Would they be useful in the sieges such as Vicksburg and Petersburg? Are they even technically feasible for the 1860ies US?
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    Better prepared CSA?

    I have been doing a little reading about American Civil War, and only when I dug more deeply I realized how much was South inferior to the North in industrial capabilities. They were simply outmached in industry, military and industrial manpower and in some cases agricultural production because...
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    French Army prepared for WW1

    No army was truly prepared for World War 1. French held on to Elan, the constant attack and reliance on the bayonet to win. They also used their brightly coloured uniforms, even after their use was obviously obsolete. Now I am asking you, what can be done to make French army better prepared...
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    Earlier Renault FT-17?

    Could the FT-17 been pressed earlier into service? It was after all, a first modern tank, with all the things that made modern tanks what they are today (Fully rotating turret, engine in the back, crew in front). So are the next few things possible? - FT-17 put into service earlier then OTL...
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    Earlier Sea Hurricane?

    What has to be done to put Sea Hurricane earlier in service then in OTL which was in 1941? I know that British had two seater fighter aircraft on their carriers because of real or imagined navigation issues, but what POD is neccessary to have naval variant of Hurricane on a Carrier before the...
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    No Lend-Lease for Soviet Union

    If the Western Allies stopped sending LL aid to SU after 41, how much longer, and bloodier would Eastern front be? Aid provided by the LL can not be underestimated, because it enabled SU to concentrate more of its manpower to building war materiel and to be liable for conscription, instead of...
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    Austrian marriage for Queen Elizabeth

    What would be the consequences if Queen Elizabeth agreed to marry Charles II, Archduke of Austria? How would the nobility, people and the Church of England react to their queen marrying a Catholic prince, a son of one of the biggest Counter-Reformists in Europe. For that matter, in what faith...
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    German T-34?

    Everybody here knows of the Soviet T-34 tank which was considered one of the best tanks in the world when it first entered combat in 1941. 84 thousand were produced in two main variants and it is an icon of the Soviet struggle in Second World War. Now my question is, what would happen if the...
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    British Sturmovik?

    I believe everyone here has at least heard about IL-2 Sturmovik, the Soviet WW2 ground attack aircraft. It is considered one of the best ground attack aircraft of the war, renown for its heavy armor and armament. On the other hand we have the British Fairey Battle aircraft, a light bomber...
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    Soviet and European space cooperation?

    Was there a possible way for the ESA (or its predecessors) to work with the Soviet Union regarding the space exploration? I recently saw that the ESA is using the Soyuz rocket on Guiana to launch Galileo GPS satellites, could that kind of cooperation come earlier and be much larger? EDIT...
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    Alternate Yugoslav resistance movement during WW2?

    During WW2 there was a Communist resistance movement in Yugoslavia (Partisans) that fought against Germans, Italians and collaborators. They were one of the most succesfull resistance movement in Europe and at times they controlled rather large tracts of land that ware essentially free...
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    No Final Solution?

    We all know the horror of the Nazis Final solution, what would happen if the Jews and other "undesireables" were interned in concentration camps, but not killed off? What would be the effect on postwar trials, and during the war, would nonexistant need for transport and industrial scale of...
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