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  1. Offshoot of one man tank ASB, WI

    On his way home from Guadalcanal, Joe Collins sees the 37mm Oldsmobile cannon used on PT boats with an improvised mount...then he returns to CONUS via North Africa and sees the Bren gun carrier. On the way home, he comes up with the idea of combining the two...something along the line of an...

  2. WI the T-92 (240mm) self propelled howitzer was produced 9 months earlier

    and in enough of a quantity where some would have been placed in the National Guard after the war? could this have been the Army's first nuclear artillery piece and used instead of the 280MM? beyond the effect of being used as a bunker buster on Iwo and Okinawa...

  3. US New Construction Testbed Capital Ship

    This is an idea that I've been knocking around in my mind for a while now... BLUF - to have either an Alaska design that makes sense and have one hull built as a technology testbed or to do the same with the Iowa class Kentucky....the overall idea is to have a capital ship that is economic to...

  4. WI - 1.1 inch developed as a Gatling type weapon

    Just a random thought.... What if someone in the Navy looked at the 1.1 inch gun and thought about adapting it to a Hotchkiss revolving cannon and adding a motor drive...sort of predating the Vulcan by about 15-20 years... Would this have a basis for an improved AA gun design that was far more...

  5. What if for some reason, New Orleans got the 2028 Olympics

    I know in some ways this is almost ASB, but a Summer Olympics in April or October in New Orleans could be interesting ********************************** featuring a new stadium to replace the Louisiana Superdome? there are two potential locations; 1) along the Mississippi river on the North...

  6. A Tirpitz WI scenairo

    Just an odd thought that came to me this afternoon: Background: as a butterfly/offshoot from Zheng He's Alternate Indian Ocean TL What if, during the summer of 1943 several larger US carriers were deployed to Scapa Flow en-route to the Pacific to act in concert with the RN to take out Tirpitz...

  7. A Different Hurricane Katrina -- better preparation

    Since we're at the 10 year point after "she who won't be forgotten" what about a few things that could have lessened the impact of the aftermath... 1- "the unknown computer modelers"...the true unsung heros and heroines of the Information Technology Lab and the Coastal and Hydraulics...

  8. The Island - P&S: Louisiana, Mississippi, Beaumont/Port Arthur, TX
    Threadmarks: Introduction

    I've been doing some research over the last few days before starting this thread as a stand-alone. The quickest way I can describe this timeline is to think of it as a mixture of the Old Breed (US Marine Corps) and friends (aka military retirees from all services) with a dash of the Bayou Perdu...

  9. WI - Rearmed USS Utah at Wake as a floating gun position

    Fearless Leader's amazing Wake Island thread https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=291180 got me thinking about how to get extra firepower there in late 1941; one fairly cheap way would be to take a couple of the 8inch turrets off of the Lexington or Saratoga that...
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