Alternative History and Future Speculation

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Discussions on how alterations in history might alter the outcomes for built and unbuilt projects
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Advise my fictional state II
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Giving up Britain's Nuclear Deterrent
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Rozanoff kills Duncan Sandys, April 3, 1954
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Space Race Role Reversal
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I am working on a science fiction story and need some help with designing and drawing
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French Nuclear Submarines
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B-70 with SST GE4 engines
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F-35 if was airforce only
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"Pseudo S-Tank" on a Scorpion chassis?
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Japanese Navy air service, 1938-45, with hindsight?
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Ye-8 to Mig 23?
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European Manned Spacecraft
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Air Service of the Japanese Army, 1938-45 alternative
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DARPA TRADES
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MCDonnell-Douglas win VFX instead of Grumman
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Kayaba Ku-5
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If no TFX and the boeing proposal is chosen, when dose the f-111 become operational
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Idea about the Ise Hybrid Battleship/Aircraft Carrier
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Towing Combination Against Allied Convoys
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The Luftwaffe WITHOUT Messerschmitt
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An independent engine manufacturer
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A younger and healthier Neville Chamberlain
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Britain and France left standing after the Cuban Missile Crisis goes hot
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Alternative history powerplants
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A world without the NPT
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Yellow Palace
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US-Franco Rafale
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How hard would it be to build a P.1216 today?
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Could HMAS Australia have been saved from scrapping ?
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Soviet/russian "Blue Hats"?
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What if yak-141 fleet instead?
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Tank development if the Cold War had continued
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Cjc
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What are the futuristic technologies that are likely to show up in aircraft in the next 10-20 years? Maybe on a larger timescale?
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Delta wing F-16s: SCAMP, F-16XL, Falcon 21 and more
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A NATO frigate
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The Forever War 1936 to 1956
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Super Sabre AH
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Alternate 80s Britain: How would the services cope?
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Fluff
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Falklands and Carriers
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What if these influential aircraft were not adopted, how would it have affected other designs?
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What if no Yamato
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EwenS
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Post Battle of Britain: Luftwaffe/Axis options
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Polikarpov I-180 impact on Soviet fighter production
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Lascaris
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NATO Battle tank for the 60s
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Eurocommunism in the 1970s and the USA
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What if the Soviet Union collapsed in 1995 instead of 1991?
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Kat Tsun
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US Air Force buys the Boeing Model 820-104 or Model 820-111 rather than XC-142
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Effects of more airstrikes on the chances of the Bay of Pigs invasion dislodging Fidel Castro
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Sherman Tank
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Radio-controlled bombs made common before WW2
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What if WWII had not interrupted the development of the flying boats, specifically in the Atlantic?
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US Army Air Force orders the Boeing Model 413 instead of the XF-11 or XF-12
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Eastern front whatif.
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US Army Air Force acquires a jet-powered version of either the Vultee XP-54 or Northrop XP-56
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Deltafan
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Boeing model designations after 797?
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Effects on the French-Israeli split not happening?
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A surviving East Germany - People's War
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Course of passenger airship development in Germany w/o Nazis in power
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Make Supermarine great again
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What if Mars and Venus were habitable?
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What if the US spanloader designs had reached the hardware phase?
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Alternate Paris Summit 1960
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Both F-22 and F-23 get built
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Northrop goes early with 1-engined F-5?
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In what scenario could the Mirage 2000 have achieved more export success (but within the control of France and Dassault)
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A Tentative Fleet Plan
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RN Battleship Development if war hadn't broken out in 1939
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MRCA gets cancelled
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If the whole USSR(1991) crosses back to June 22,1941…
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Elon Musk tries in (alternative) history
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Keyboard Commando
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Making F111B work
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Royal Navy got Essex carriers - with a twist.
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Feasibility of making Napier Sabre reliable earlier?
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The best VSTOL combat aircraft design?
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Skylancers for the Marine Corps; Super Tigers for... the CIA (U-2 cover)
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Luftwaffe Planning Document
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edwest4
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Skylab A is not salvaged: a brief TL
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Supersonic Super Mystère / Etendard
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Alternative scenario: UK went with Nuclear propulsion for CVF/QE Class
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Mount Pleasant airport is built in the 1970s
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De Gaulle becomes Pro US
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Mark 71 MCLWGS enters service
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EE Lightning with a bit of good luck?
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Heinkel 177 A7 R2 - an alternate version
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The He-178B Fighter Jet?
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Heinkel gas turbines and applications - what if
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Alternative German jet program?
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Alternatives to CVF
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After the Battle of Britain: further development for the RAF?
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No Mirage
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Getting the best mileage from Jaguar program?
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Mirage F in 1960?
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What if Japan was pushed to have a greater military role after WW2?
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Czechoslovakia decides to fight, September 1938
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Alternative scenario: What if France went with a non-nuclear propulsion for the CdG?
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WWI doesn't happen: what happens to military technology?
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RAF buys only monoplane fighters from early 1930s?
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Anglo-French RR Spey timeline
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Glasnost/Perestroika in 1968 instead of 1989
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Alternative names for Rafale
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BAP "Independencia", Peruvian Navy battlecruiser (AU)
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Sud Aviation ECAT: French T-38s and F-5A
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