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Hi everyone, Robert McNamara is infamously known on those forums for his particular handling of US military procurement. Selecting the losing contender instead of the one the military prefers, using the Total Procurement Package System that worked poorly with certain weapon programs...

This is a take-off from Anthony Williams "Foresight War." What if you time-travelled back to the 1930s and gained access to the ears of engineers, politicians and generals? What would you suggest? You are not allowed to "predict" World War 2. To keep this thread "alternate" please do not repeat...

the heart of the Centaur class carriers is the use of two capital ship plants, producing 76,000shpin total. Hermes got improved plants for 80,000shp. If the RN had driven more powerful plant machinery prior to WWII, then arguably the Centaurs would be larger carriers. Ideally to something...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centaur-class_aircraft_carrier How would you proceed to get all 4 Centaurs a) to the same standard and b) keeping their catapults ? The objective is to make them the mainstay of the RN since - Audacious are too few - Ark Royal is a wreck right from 1963, leaving...

May 17 1965 - with some differences. The supersonic requirement for a trainer is canned, end result is an AlphaJet / Hawk hybrid. Staunchly subsonic, can't growth into Jaguar. Breguet still goes under and is forced into Dassault as a job program 1967-69. The program is consolidated as a Fouga...

Let's assume that USSR started to experiment with carriers in late 1920s, with planned rebuild of the training ship "Okean" into the light/training carrier "Komsomolets". While slow and of limited usefulness (roughly the equivalent of USN's "Langley"), this ship still allowed Soviet Navy to gain...

Could it have happened? Certainly the Lansen is a capable aircraft and the UK sold a number of Hunters to carry the Swedish Airforce over until the Fighter variant came on stream. The Drakken is very attractive and bar rate of climb compared favourably with the Lightning. The A.36 has if...

The British Army of the Rhine (BAOR) based in Germany for the duration of the Cold War was a significant component of British defence spending and equipment in the postwar era. It is a very complicated subject, and . unlike the Royal Navy or the RAF has not been such a popular subject for books...

Just a random idea in passing... In the 50's some aircraft carriers and heavy cruisers were converted for Regulus 1 launches. Then the much improved Regulus II was cut short by Polaris. Whatif - Regulus I and, most importantly, Regulus II were developped in non-nuclear variants ? and later...

As said in the tin. A short TL I posted on another forum. June 18, 1940 The unfinished Jean Bart battleship make a daring escape from Nantes. Its captain, Ronarc'h, hesitates between a) going to Cablanca (as he did OTL, alas !) b) going to Clyde estuary, Scotland, as were his orders before June...

OTL in 1963, the Royal Canadian Navy received their first Sikorsky CH-124 Sea King Helicopters. They flew from Canadian ships for more than 50 years. I greased and refuelled Sea Kings on the flight decks of HMCS Athabaskan and HMCS Iroquois. I also washed innumerable GE-T58-8F engines...

Meant to post this back in February. https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-51644229 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/26/books/clive-cussler-dead.html Rest In Peace :(

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/04/tech-takes-a-back-seat-to-interconnected-human-stories-in-tales-from-the-loop/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_from_the_Loop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_from_the_Loop_(role-playing_game)

Zumwalt forgotten offspring - smaller Sea Control Ship and much larger CVV are far well known. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VSTOL_Support_Ship https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/sea-control-ship-scs-and-vstol-support-ship-vss.7635/ Whatif VSS happened to be the right size and cost -...

Scenario to develop NIGS instead of cancellation. Option 1. continue as is. Option 1a. Separation of Tracking and Search sets, as per SCANFAR. 1-a-1 NIGS missile becomes similar to scaled up Sea Dart based on RP.21 a 20" diamter ramjet boosted by 24" booster. This would use polyrod...

Hi all! Edited to neaten up some things. Simple POD: Some bright engineer at Grumman notices that aircraft designed to fit two abreast in a 58 foot wide hangar won't fit 2 abreast in their allies 52 wide hangars. Management concurs and also observes that having more than one customer is good...

Louis Breguet died in 1955, unfortunately, and the company was finally eaten by Dassault in the late 60's. They nonetheless gave a lot of worries to Dassault when they won ECAT in 1963, later known as the Jaguar. Because, you see, by the late 50's Dassault had managed to crush any opposition on...

Apple has released the first three episodes of For All Mankind, an alternate history TV series. Ron Moore, of Battlestar Galactica, is running it. The premise is that the Soviets were lucky with the N-1 and the first man on the moon was Alexei Leonov. As a result, the space race continues...

I working on Timeline were Germany win WW1 How would affect this Aircraft development ? Some Background Information on what is Different in this Timeline USA remain neutral in WW1 except they went almost armed conflict with Great Britain do Sea Blockade USSR establish in 1917 with June...

Somewhere in an alternate universe, in 1959 SNECMA picked RR RB.142 Medway for the Mirage IVB (in place of selling their soul to P&W to get J75s) and even if this one was later canned, RR and SNECMA stayed in touch. Concorde's Olympus in 1962 happened as per OTL. In 1963 SNECMA OTL TF-306...