Table of Contents
Points of Divergence : Warships and military vessels
Points of divergence dealing with alternate developments of warships and navies. Entries in all three POD sections are sorted as chronologically as possible.
General musings
Pre Columbian New World naval powers: When, who, where, and how ?
Challenge: A seafaring culture like the Vikings in southern Chile
Plausibility check: Aztec navy
Implications of a more powerful French Navy (post-1500 POD)
Challenge: Pirates of the Great Lakes
Napoleon adopts Robert Fulton's steamship ?
Were BB Armor schemes misguided ?
Late 19th century German Naval Laws PODs
No Plan Z, early U-Boat expansion
How would the RN fare in a pre-WWI conflict against the USN and Kriegsmarine ?
Challenge: Maximum plausible ship explosions from shell hits at Jutland
Plausibility check: U-Boat Privateers
WI: No 1922 Treaty of Washington
A World War II era Russian Imperial Navy
Alternative Royal Navy for the 1930s
Pocket battleships for minor navies
Naval tech without the contributions of Charles Bowers Momsen
Challenge: Taking the Royal Navy out of commission by 1941
Plausibility check: Navalised Chobham armour ?
Alternative Soviet Navy during World War II
Why was the U-boat arm so stagnant ?
Challenge: Build the 600 Ship Navy... and keep it !
Challenge: Nuclear-powered navies
Challenge: Pick a ship scrapped in OTL and preserve it as a museum ship
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Specific types of warships
WWI Submarines and the Blockades
Australian submarines kept in the RAN (with a POD in 1914)
ASB WI: ASBs abolish air power, nukes and submarines
How effective were deck guns on submarines during World War II ?
Outline of possible German aircraft carrier development
Plausibility check: If aircraft carriers are not invented, how far do battleships develop ?
WWII US Navy aircraft carrier captains
WI angle-decked aircraft carriers in WWII ?
No WWII: Effect on Aircraft Carriers ?
Challenge: African aircraft carriers (with a post-1913 POD)
WI: The "Elektro boats" ready in 1941
Challenge:Scottish Aircraft Carriers
WI Canada retains CV capability ?
Challenge: Canadian Battleships
Challenge: New battleships after WWII
The US Navy Keeps its Big Guns, the Battleships stay active
WI: European Nations Operated Fleet Aircraft Carriers
Could the Rapier missile be navalised ?
Catamaran Aircraft Carrier - why/why not?
Challenge: Smallest carrier possible with ability to operate F/A-18
WI the US Navy offered the British CVs in the 1990s
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Specific warships or specific warship models/classes
Alternate dreadnought names for the Royal Navy
IJN carrier conversion question
WI the British Malta class aircraft carrier had been built (and how) ?
WI the Italian navy had build the Aquila aircraft carrier by 1940
WI the US aircraft carrier Yorktown was sunk at the Battle of the Coral Sea ?
Essex class carriers in other navies
Plausibility check: Priority for the Graf Zeppelins
ASB WI: The Bismarck ISOTed to August 1914
ASB WI: The Bismarck and Tirpitz ISOTed to 1914
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See Also
Points of Divergence: Ships and Vessels - For civilian ship PODs.
Points of Divergence : Aircraft
Points of Divergence : Wars and Battles
Useful Resources about Naval Military History
The Battleship Brothers - AH.com fanclub of warships.