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  1. Military tactics ( that were never developed or employed )

    Couldn't you just lay the mines during the transition to war and thereby avoid the issues of communicating with the submerged mines to activate them, and it adds in ambiguity as well, if you lay them months or even years in advance, then its possible they will be discovered, then develope...

  2. Military tactics ( that were never developed or employed )

    I get this is a fictional scenario, but I think the B1B didn't enter in to service untiln1986 and it was much more badly needed in its designed role as a low level nuclear strike aircraft. Over an above this the problem I think is geography, the B1Bs are flying from where, to get into a...

  3. What if China invaded and reclaimed Hong Kong by force in the early 1980s?

    IIRC there were 6 exocet launches, Sheffield was hit and sunk with one of two as a result of unspent missile fuel. 1 or 2 hit Atlantic Conveyor. The last one likely ran out of fuel and Glamorgan was hit by a single ground launched one , so potentially there's 2 more hits on RN ships. I'm not...

  4. WI: Iran shoots down the Soviet Bomber (1983 Incident)

    For what it's worth I don't think this would go anywhere really , I think you need much more that one aircraft to touch off a war, the US didn't strike USSR when various B47s , C130s ect were lost. And even more recently Russia didn't do much when a Russian Fencer was downed by Turkey so I...

  5. F-20 Tigershark

    Not sure how good a modernised F20 would be against say a Gripen, you can't really make it Stealth, you probably can fit a AESA radarbut like the Lancer and Bison upgrades for the Fishbed what you essentially underneath is still a Fishbed. And you get to the point where the design runs put of...

  6. Argentina's Darkest Hour

    Can I offer a wee word of advice, I appreciate that English isn't your first language but can you please stop flicking between the British and English fleets , British or UK ships/planes/troops is a good catch all. There were numerous troops from Northern Ireland , there were Welsh guards, Scots...

  7. Alt 'day' fighters for Luftwaffe, 1937-45

    Please don't take this in a sarcastic way. How would the zero fair in the circumstances you posit above?

  8. Military equipment during a continuous Cold War

    Am fairly sure there was a planned raf upgrade to the phantoms as well that were to be broadly similar to the luftwaffes f4f ICE upgrade program , am not sure what radar was intended but AMRAAM capability was to be included. As a side note to this, what happens in RAFG, does 19 and 92 Sqn...

  9. Military equipment during a continuous Cold War

    Wasn't one of them SRAM2 and one called golden Eagle which was a Harpoon spin off and the third a variant of what became stormshadow? Am sure the program was called CASOM

  10. USAAC/USAAF bombing switched to night raids

    I dont think they could tbh, unless they had another set of underwing pylons for bombs certainly although the vlr iwo jima based mustangs carried tanks and rockets on missions so maybe it is possible. The only thing is the luftwaffe could choose to ignore the mustangs in the air and make the...

  11. USAAC/USAAF bombing switched to night raids

    I hadn't thought of that does that offset the combined losses at night I wonder

  12. USAAC/USAAF bombing switched to night raids

    This is probably asb territory I was reading an article in aeroplane about the us and British strategic bombing campaign in Europe in WW2, apparently there was a disagreement between Eaker and Harris with Harris wanting the US to join the RAF in night bombing. At the casablanca conference it...

  13. USSR without nukes

    I would also add to this , the Soviets had penetrated certainly British intelligence fairly well with the Cambridge spy ring so if there's a UK effort to infiltrate agents into the USSR to do this then the KGB will know about it.

  14. USSR without nukes

    Ok so I would echo the previous posters for a kick off I cant see this happening, the USSRs priority is to gain nuclear weapons, at any price as its a matter of national survival from the soviet point of view, I just cant see it TBH. If we hand wave it for a period then I can see a greater...

  15. Extend the service life of these aircraft

    Ah ok understood I took it to mean better for the UK, apologies, my bad :)

  16. Extend the service life of these aircraft

    I'm not sure what you mean by better tbh. An austere Strike Eagle capability by the early 80s isn't better than a souped up buccaneer? Am not really seeing how that is? You referenced the designator role of the buccaneer in GW1, you are right they were but there was a program that had been...

  17. An Earlier Use Of Drugs/Drugs Epidemic/War On Drugs

    Thanks, so what caused the seemingly huge increase in drugs use in the 60s as opposed to say in the late 40s or after ww1 or ww2 thats what am trying to get too? I mean I would have thought that after the numbers of servicemen in ww2 that people getting high on amphetamines would be huge...

  18. Extend the service life of these aircraft

    Mike Intresting scenario , I suppose it depends when the Tornado falls apart, if its after the mid 70s why would the RAF build new buccaneers, F15 comes along at that time in its basic version in the a model, the Eagle had an A2G conventional capability baked in from the start and in the 1970s...

  19. An Earlier Use Of Drugs/Drugs Epidemic/War On Drugs

    Ok, so let me first say I'm not arguing any of the above is desirable or healthy and drugs blights lives. With that caveat out the way I was wondering, is it possible to have the large scale use of drugs such as pot , lsd , opiates prior to the 1960s in the US abd western europe, what would...

  20. 1935-45: alternative airborne weapons

    I agree I think there's a doctrinal issue over the use of battles for the Battlefield Air Interdiction / Interdiction role, I think you really need a fighter that can operate as a fighter bomber rather than a purpose built bomber , the fighter bomber can look after itself to a much greater...
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