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Rather than bumping all seven of last year's Naval Challenges I'm creating a new thread with links to them. Hopefully they'll take off this year and generate some discussion.

Also as they'll all be in one place this time perhaps they'll produce a single over-arching timeline.

Naval AH Challenge #1: Royal Navy CVN

Naval AH Challenge #2: First American CVN Launched 1991

Naval AH Challenge #3: Cruisers in the RN and Conventional Subs in the USN

Naval AH Challenge #4: USS "Kirov"

Naval AH Challenge #5: Blue Water PLAN: 1985

Naval AH Challenge #6: Soviet Aircraft Carriers by 1960

Naval AH Challenge #7: Anglo/French SSBN 1973

While reviving these I did consider adding another three to five to bring them up to a round ten or an even dozen but it occurs to me that it might be more fun to run it as a competition with people posting their own ideas an a run off poll to decide the top three or five.

The basic rules would be the the POD couldn't be before 1945 and the idea has to be in keeping with the original seven challenges.

While reading these I've noticed that I've concentrated on the British, French, Russian, American and Chinese navies, so perhaps suggestions could be made for the Rest of the World's navies.

I've also concentrated on ships while naval aircraft could provide some fruitfull ground.

If enough people participate maybe there'll be enough entries for categories like American Ideas for European Navies, European Ideas for the American Navy, Indian Navy Ideas, Naval Aviation, stuff like that.

Anyway that's it, hopefully this will develop and run to a few pages of decent arguement and creative supposition.

Let me know what you think.
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