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  1. Zimmerman denies the telegram

    How so?

  2. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    How did the DD tanks perform - this must be an early use of the concept?

  3. What if the British Royal Navy was allowed to keep the two power standard and build 3 more battlecruisers and 2 more battleships?

    What Britain really needed was more Destroyers and escort vessels and more Crusiers At the Beginning of WW2 it had a total of 61 crusiers - of 40 light Crusiers (with 8 building and of those 40 ,18 were C, D and E class ships), 15 heavy Crusiers and 6 anti aircraft cruisers (all converted C...

  4. Malaya What If

    I really don't like big mac but whoever us up timers might want to replace him with - that individual would have exactly the same problems and restrictions driving any hesitancy in ordering such a op.

  5. Malaya What If

    Yes there was an assumption that some of the new Japanese aircraft the British and Americans had seen or been made aware of up to 1941 were German designed aircraft And despite information from China where the Japanese Pilots where achieving a very one side kill to loss ratio the British and...

  6. AHC: Make Escort Carriers Prevalent Among Developing Nations During The Cold War.

    When I was thinking about the OPs question those are the 2 things I kept circling back too and my list of potential nations rapidly dwindled

  7. Zimmerman denies the telegram

    Regarding France being close to revolution Was it? I mean there was no Turnip winter for the French peoples as there was for the Germans and the 'mutiny's' in the front lines were not quite as serious as is popularly thought Gun Jesus does a good video lecture on it

  8. How "should" WWII in 1940 have gone?

    Only whats on the interwebs The Italian SAFAT 12.7mm used a less powerful cartridge (12.7 x 89 - MV 765 metres per second (2,510 ft/s)) than the US .50 cal (12.7 x 99 - MV 2,910 ft/s (890 m/s) for M33 ball) Also as Captain Thunderbolt mention on post 220 - the Browning .50 cal incendiary had...

  9. How "should" WWII in 1940 have gone?

    Well they did have a good plan Use .303 MK 2 Browning until the HS 404 20mm is operational We here on althist.com simply want them to have a better one! And for me that is effectively an analogous M3 .50 cal with superior explosive ammunition from 1939/40....until the HS 404 20mm is ready

  10. AHC: Make Escort Carriers Prevalent Among Developing Nations During The Cold War.

    Indonesia? Pakistan - if only to 'match' the Indian Navy? Argentina did have a Colossus class in service (2 in fact - Independencia - In service 1959 Decommed 1970 and Veinticinco de Mayo in service 1969 Decommed effectively by 1990 but officially 1997) Would they need a Sea Control Ship?

  11. AHC: Make Escort Carriers Prevalent Among Developing Nations During The Cold War.

    Not sure if already mentioned but Adm Zumwalts Sea Control Ship concept from the 60s would fit this and indeed a number of 'Helicopter carriers' used OTL by many nations including the UK came about after this. So which nations not already using carriers could / or needs a sea control ship?

  12. What if there was no major fleet action between the Grand Fleet and High Seas Fleet in WW1?

    He must have heard us

  13. How "should" WWII in 1940 have gone?

    The MK XIV got the 20mm / 50 mm (Edit Wow I obviously mean 50 cal) but the later still Mk 24 got 4 x 20mm (same story with the later Seafires) 20mm made total sense however its implementation took longer than expected and in hindsight the .50 should have been adopted IMO - but only with hindsight

  14. How "should" WWII in 1940 have gone?

    While we are on the subject my go to air gun for the early part of the war is a AN/M2 .50 using explosive ammunition Now a .50 Browning bullet does not contain a great deal of explosive (0.8 grams compared to 13 Grams in the Hispanio explosive round) but the Italians switched to explosive...

  15. How "should" WWII in 1940 have gone?

    Does he not assume a Belt Fed not Drum fed and certainly not without development during the 30s? He writes "The SEMAG/Oerlikon Type L was on commercial sale, to anyone who wanted it, from the early 1920s onwards. Any nation with a reasonably competent gun industry could at modest cost have...

  16. How "should" WWII in 1940 have gone?

    It was used extensively in Germany as the The Reich Labour Service (Reichsarbeitsdienst; RAD) and also in the USA as the Civilian Conservation Corps - both nations had suffered heavy unemployment in the depression and these initiatives were used to provide unemployed men useful and gainful...

  17. January 1943. The German View

    Chaotic Neutral

  18. What if there was no major fleet action between the Grand Fleet and High Seas Fleet in WW1?

    Yes I just wanted to make it clear I was not talking about the smaller MTB or S boats more common in WW2

  19. What if there was no major fleet action between the Grand Fleet and High Seas Fleet in WW1?

    So what I am hearing here is that the RN needed better PR? Beatty was Beatty (bloke gives me heart burn) and was more interested in his own image. The Distant blockade was chosen (much to the dismay of the German commander's) instead of the close blockade for fear of mines, littoral warfare...

  20. What if there was no major fleet action between the Grand Fleet and High Seas Fleet in WW1?

    The original 'Castles of Steel' quote came from an observation by Winston after he witnessed the fleet leaving Portland on the South West coast and heading for Scarpa Flow a few days before Britain went to war. “We may now picture this great Fleet, with its flotillas and cruisers, steaming...
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