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Coming up with their own version of this:
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McPherson
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Net effect = zero. The design issue is RANGE (measured as endurance minutes in time aloft() engine aspiration and cooling. Bury a Merlin in a P-39 and the same issues will cramp the Merlin as cramped the Allison. The design choices in the aircraft mid-engine layout were WRONG. Not my opinion is this; those are practical limitation of engineering options facts.
MOO. To quote Tom King; "unacceptable".
SBD with just one change= Monty in a Japanese prison camp, pronto, and Slim conquers Rommel after GAZALA.
One needs to examine that barrel and the tail control. One wishes this had replaced the BF 109. The USAAF would have flown with joy and the PVO would have breathed a sigh of relief that the LW veteran pilots were crippled with (^^^) Willy Messerschmidt's latest mistake in aeronautics.
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Weird shower thought I’m tempted to turn into a full thread - the Bolsheviks lose the Russian Civil War, with a very Pyrrhic victory for the Whites that leads to them collapsing to various warlord territories, possibly with Black and Green groups still operating. Many of the surviving Bolsheviks go into exile in the west, with one Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, valiant defender of Tsaritsyn, ending up in Germany.
All as set up for a political machination-off between Stalin and Hitler in Weimar Germany.
Is this even vaguely plausible, or am I into full-on slightly-creepy ASB territory here.
All as set up for a political machination-off between Stalin and Hitler in Weimar Germany.
Is this even vaguely plausible, or am I into full-on slightly-creepy ASB territory here.
Bolsheviks losing is vaguely plausible. Them winning wasn't a foregone conclusion. Surviving Bolsheviks in that case would go into exile. Stalin ending up in Germany could happen, but him vs. Hitler in Weimar Germany seems rather fanciful. Very unlikely but not impossible.
Full on ASB is usually geological/biological, self-inserts, time travel, teleportation, etc.
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McPherson
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Gladeon Barnes had a 2 man special. There was the T2X series and the Christie prototypes that could lead to an American BT or T-34. None of them were as good as the Sherman.
Sorry, forgot we are talking the US here. I was referring to the Medium tank M3, not the light tank M3, Half track M3, Submachine gun M3, or fighting knife M3.What?
Otto Kretschmer
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Assuming no Barbarossa what is the main Soviet tank and fighter around 1943-4
McPherson
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I don't know. Why don't you find out and tell us? I would love to learn that answer.
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Just to help with a start point.
Otto Kretschmer
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Definitely T-34M is going to enter production in 1941 and replace T-34 in production by 1942. This is what was gonna happen without BarbarossaI don't know. Why don't you find out and tell us? I would love to learn that answer.
10 Soviet Tanks of World War Two - The Good, the Bad, and the BEASTLY
The Soviet Union went through the same stages of tank production in the interwar years as the allies. An unclear understanding of what the modern
9 Soviet Fighter Planes of WW2 - Some fantastic Airplanes Here
When we talk about Soviet military vehicles of the Second World War, the focus is usually on tank production. But while that’s where the Soviets made the
Just to help with a start point.
WI Rax Roast Beef never started diversifying their menus in the mid-1980s and stuck to their core working class costumer based?
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Does anyone know where to find detailed information on the color-coded/rainbow war plans? Ideally copies of them. Wikisource has War Plan Red, but no other that I can find. Alternatewars.com has Green, Tan, and White, but I'm particularly interested in War Plan Red-Orange.
Grey Wolf
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Get into the right Twitter communities, as in talk to the relevant experts etc, and then ask. Twitter provides direct access to answers once you find the right people
Slim was already on his way to Burma in the original timeline whilst Auchinleck was still listening to bad advice in the desert but yet to be Gazala'ed. I'm not sure that (unless Monty does MASSIVELY better than Percival's effort and routs the IJ Malaya invasion as soon as it hits, causing butterflies and panic in the IJ Burma invasion rear), Slim going to Burma would be butterfly'ed.
(As an aside, wiki claims Monty's brother, Brian, was working under Slim in the original timeline in Burma Corps… Hmm. Interesting possibilities there for a narrative angle in a timeline.)
Otto Kretschmer
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Would Soviet tank design be different if they bought Panzer I and II instead of the Christie tank?
Did the sloped armor on Christie tank somehow inspire the sloped armor on T-34?
Did the sloped armor on Christie tank somehow inspire the sloped armor on T-34?
BBC-2's Newsroom was transferred to BBC-1 in the mid-to-late 1960s, particularly 1966-67, retaining its original timeslot of 7:30 PM (and renaming it as The Seven Thirty News). How it could affect the primetime schedule not just of BBC-1, but also of ITV as well?