The question was Air Forces rather than combined forces and the fighter force of the Western Allies would certainly have prevailed and as others have pointed out the Soviet Union had no strategic bomber force at that time.
A task force and thousands of troops to take out one platoon with no armour, artillery or air support.
So with the current garrison to get the same overwhelming odds they would have to pretty much beam in the entire Argentine armed forces. Surveillance satellites may notice that kind of...
They kill at 50 ft, also rolls of razor wire with empty oil cans attached along them don't do a whole lot of good to an inflatable or come to that any kind of powerboat's propeller.
Look these guys come alongside a merchant vessel in a boat down at sea level. A bucketfull of water dropped over the side of the merchant ship will go straight through their boat without even slowing down. Gravity rules OK.
By the way my son is a merchant seaman and a some of my pals are ex...
Looking at the timeline I drew up it would have started in the early 60s. BREL were developing tilting trains then and the motive units that I suggested for this TL would have been able to power HSR. I'm still wondering whether the HSR network for G&PL would be standard-gauge, broad-gauge or...
All good points but in '35 Supermarines were not declining and Mitchell was still there for a few more years. Smith would have taken over a going concern.
Well Carlito's POD was '35. Given air ministry backing gas turbines, made first priority, are available in volume instead of piston engines. Remember all of the resorces that were spent by RR, Napier's and Bristol on their various sleeve valve designs that didn't produce results until after...
Don't you mean "Project Cancelled"? Richard Payne wrote "Stuck on the Drawing Board". Camms list of jet designs starts with the Sea Hawk then goes through the Hunter to the Harrier. Not a jet person, I don't think so!
I don't know where Wood gets his information from, personally I think his...
Remember Whittle was not the only one developing jet aircraft in the UK, Geoffrey De-Havilland Snr stated he could have had the Vampire in production years earlier than it was. As another post said Gloster and Carter only got to design the Meteor because all of the successful design teams were...
When the ceasefire was called the British 1st Armoured Division was the only unit fully refueled, rearmed ready to rock and roll. It would have taken another 24 or maybe 12 hours to replenish the US armoured units. That's not to say 1st Armoured (UK) couldn't have leapfrogged the US units and...
Sorry I meant Agent of Chaos, the Hegemony of Sol is the "Evol Empire" in Agent of Chaos. All of Spinrad's book are engaging, Bug Jack Barron predicts the rise of reality TV today with chilling accuracy fifty years ago.