air force

Post 0: Introduction Reading about the history of spaceflight, Gemini stands out as an odd duck. It is a program which post-dates the approval of Apollo as a three-person capsule, and was initially supposed to be a minor upgrade to Mercury. Even the addition of a second seat was something its...

Would they be enough to: Stop tactical attacks by medium bombers, fighters, etc on logistics, troops, tanks, etc, Defend strategic areas, From Poland to European Russia Stop a potential silverplate raid Soviets had a hardened tactical force by the late 40s, the Yak-3s, La-7s were probably one...

Could the above weapon good clothing and Indian Air Force have made a major difference in the outcome of that war? Indian forces in OTL were handicapped by the lack of modern firearms in some case using World War 1 era rifles whereas the Chinese had ak-47, Indian soldiers wore sweaters and had...

Welcome to the new thread ! If you have any civil aviation or air forces related roundels, markings and other emblems from timelines and alternate worlds you'd like to share with others in the Maps and Graphics Forum, this is the thread for you. The older two threads have run their course and...

In 1976 the Imperial Iranian Air Force started to take possession of what would be 80 total Grumman F-14 fighter interceptor aircraft along with 714 Phoenix Missiles. Although the government is now an Islamic Republic the F-14's are still in use today although only numbering about 40 as the...

Okay, so, before the German unification, Prussia was once famously referred to as "the Army with a Country" due to how large and influential its military was, to the point where it basically ran the country (or so I've heard). In the Hoi4 alternate history mod Kaiserreich: Legacy of the...

Under what circumstances could a strategic position holder in the RAF submit advice to the civil authorities to bombard with gas (momentary / persistent / nerve) OPFOR civilians without the officer being required to resign. 1) British politics often obscures the decisive moment. This involves...

Since we've done the RAF, Luftwaffe, and the Japanese Air Forces to death, and the USAAC and USAAF were wanked more than enough IOTL, let's talk about the Regia Aeronautica Italiana, aka the RAI. With a POD after Mussolini's rise to power and the establishment of his dictatorship (1st Jan 1925)...

If the British monarchy were to be abolished, what would the various sectors of the Armed Forces (The Royal Navy and the Royal Airforce) become? And what would naval ships be called instead of "HMS"? My initial thoughts is that it would probably weigh quite heavily on how and why the monarchy...

Hello, fellow allohistorians. I'd like to discuss the development of a somewhat larger (but not overblown) Maltese Air Wing post-Maltese independence in the 1960s. This is part of my tongue-in-cheek LOSERS project. The main POD behind the changes to the Maltese Air Wing is a somewhat higher...

As with my older thread concerning a greater Icelandic standing military, I want to talk about the possibilities of a far earlier air force tradition in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg's military history. A tradition that leads to the existence of a proper (if small) permanent air force for the...

With a POD no earlier than the 1920s, try to ensure the creation of small, but official armed forces on Iceland. A defence force not that much bigger from the current one, but with a greater military capability, instead of just being a heavy-duty law enforcement supplement. Things I'd like to...