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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Retrofuture spaceships
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Alternate Sea Control Ship
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The 'other' Sea Wolf?
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Turkey and Persia Major Combatants in World War 2
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Additional Type 45s
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1960s Middle Eastern Manned Spacecraft projects?
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A simple scenario - WWII japanese use same quality of oil and aviation petrol on aircraft .
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Scharnhorst and Gneisenau are purchased by the Netherlands instead of continuing the 1047 battlecruiser project.
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What if CETME competed at US Army Trials 1953?
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JPL "spare" planetary program, in the 70's.
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Could Britain have done more to avoid World Wars 1 and 2?
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UK HTP Torpedo continuation
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RN Ark Royal AH carrier starting 1920's
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It's 1948...or maybe 1945. What would you do with Implacables / Illustrious carriers ?
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Getting UK projects earlier
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Operation Mad by Steve Pace
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“Space Ark” 1951 (Film “When Worlds Collide”, Paramount)
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The 2005 French Guyana war with Brazil or "France own Falklands"
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D.Sandys resigns over a scandal
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DD Arleigh Burke Variant
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What happens if China didn't become communist?
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Antonio
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B-70 as a high speed U2/TSR-2 alternative
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Cuba marks the 60th anniversary of the Bay of Pigs invasion with a space launch
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Large Weilandcraft is built
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NASA approves full-scale development of the L-301 scramjet-powered aircraft
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Deviant Art site of alternative History Aircraft
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Q-band Tartar for the RN
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V Bombers instead of TSR2
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Avro F.177 instead of Saro?
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What if the USAAF scrapped all their C-45, C-46 and C-47 transport planes in 1946?
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AWA.166 instead of Bristol 188
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UK Tactical Strike System, not Semi-strategic.
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Franco-British aircraft, from 1959
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The U.K. develops the gas turbine significantly quicker
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Alternate Manned Orbiting Laboratory, 1966: NASA, USAF, and the Lew Allen solution
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Visualizing the Tactical Ground Battlefield in the Year 2050: Workshop Report
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Airmen of Vision design competition
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Aero Business: Last Man Standing...Natural Selection? or...
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UH1Ds and CH53s for BAOR
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Fate of the British Harrier if the GD Convair Model 200 enters service?
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Buccaneer as a british F6D Missileer... AAM truck
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UK Contributions to NATO -1959
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Bombers in a world with no V2
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Rebuilding the Royal Navy in the 50s
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Stargazer2006's Bell-Boeing XV-16A PLR (Power Lift Rotorcraft)
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Making more of the Daring class
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Nassau Agreement falls through
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"5th" French republic in 1946?
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Germany kills off Typhoon in the 90s
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Small battleship alternatives/ pocket battleship counters?
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Whispering during 1930s ...
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Royal Navy Carrier Doctrine 1946 to 2020
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Military/space technology effects of Nixon in 1960?
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NATO NFR80
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By the light of Green Flax, what happens next
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F14 for the UK scenario
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Engines integrated in the above and below wings of a biplane ?
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Tales from the Loop
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RN post war carrier conundrums
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Eureka ! a naval Northrop N-156
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Alternative Sea Slug launcher
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Without World War 2, how would the RAF develop?
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F-89 with different wings (one for Bobtdwarf)
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OR337 (SR177) The Winner If Competitive Tender
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Chinese Turn-Of-The-Century Battleship Dreams
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A new drydock for the RN
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Replacing the Type 12 Leander
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What if the UK had accepted the US offer to trade the 4 Illustrious' for future Essex production?
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Less Independance-class, more Saipan carriers, to foreign navies postwar.
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Rhineland War 1936
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F.155T the last minute submissions
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No Canberra
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An Earlier Western US-A/RORSAT?
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"Red Card" a British SARH AAM GDA.103/AST.1193
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Unknown Soviet Warship Designs
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Radio-controlled decoy ships in World War 2
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P-47 to the Rescue?
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What if there had been a Falklands type conflict at another pivotal point in history?
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A fake Curtiss WWII fighter
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The P.39 option
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Late 1960s Trainer Competition
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Royal Navy decides to abandon carriers earlier- options?
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Which projects would have generated maximum controversy it produced?
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Alternatives to Type 45 for RN
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Two Whiffery Questions . . .
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Cruiser Destroyer
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CVA 01 in service: Task Group
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NIGS evolutions
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French EA41 rocket came into Allies possession in 1942
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Post WW2 with no German wonder weapons
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R.A.F. what might have been.
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RN Cruisers postwar
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The Lockheed Orion alternative
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"What If" Aeronautica Macchi C.202 Variants
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Alt 19th Century weapons
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Should the UK continue to operate Tanks?
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Rods From God
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A three way space race - with a twist (NASA vs AEC vs USAF)
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What would you choose to fund? UK options?
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UK Hawk SAM
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