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    HMS Courageous and HMS Glorious Converted Earlier?

    Under Article VIII of the Washington naval treaty HMS Furious was, due to having started her conversion before the 12th November 1921, considered an experimental ship and therefore exempt from the rule of having to be 20 years old before being allowed to be replaced. Since her two sisters HMS...
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    A Truck Division for AMC?

    Coming back to an idea for a more successful American Motors Corporation, based out of Chicago, one of the things I need to look at considering general trends is pickup trucks. I'm in two minds about this: on the one hand I could do like Ford and simply have them be AMC badged, the other is to...
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    Nuclear Submarine Export Customers?

    Suppose for a moment that the UK decided to either spend the money to develop themselves – perhaps due to taking a more French national sovereignty position or not heading down the HTP path – or manage to negotiate with the Americans so that they were able to sell nuclear powered submarines to...
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    West Germany Buys the F-16

    All the discussion about possibly sending fighter aircraft to Ukraine reminded me of something I'd wondered about previously: How do you get the F-16 into West German service? The most obvious juncture is in place of the Tornado. As I understand it the Tornado was originally seen as a...
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    Tierra del Fuego and the Falklands War

    Supposing for a moment that Argentina didn't have access to Tierra del Fuego, flying from airbases located further to the north would their aircraft still have enough range to reach the Falkland Islands?
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    British Protectorate of the Republic of Formosa

    Inspired by this thread posted by Strategos' Risk. For the sake of this thread assume that the French decided to push things further than our timeline and manage, likely at the cost of a smaller indemnity, to get Germany and Russia as the other two members of the Triple Intervention to agree to...
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    Beverly, Hercules, and Argosy Cargo Aircraft

    The Blackburn Beverley, Lockheed Hercules, and Armstrong Whitworth Argosy were cargo/transport aircraft of roughly similar dimensions introduced in the mid-1950s, or in the Argosy's case slightly smaller and later in the decade, with the Hercules being the much more successful. Other than the...
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    Number of Escorts for a Hypothetical Royal Navy

    Assume for a moment that the Royal Navy has three large conventional aircraft carriers and three large amphibious assault ships, operated with the expectation that two of each will be operational at any time with the third in port. They might also have a trio of amphibious transport docks but...
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    Comet and Earlier Transatlantic Passenger Jets

    The de Havilland Comet was the first aircraft to introduce regularly scheduled transatlantic passenger services with the Comet 4, only to be very quickly eclipsed by the Boeing 707 which entered revenue service three weeks later. Travelling westwards due to range and prevailing wind issues the...
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    The ESA With a TKS Like Spacecraft?

    I've always liked the concept of the Soviet Transportnyi Korabl’ Snabzheniia (TKS) spacecraft which was made up of the Vozvraschaemyi Apparat (VA) crew capsule linked via a tunnel to the Funktsionalno-Gruzovoy Blok (FGB) module. With the FGB having inbuilt solar panels, radiators, fuel tanks and...
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    Indian Ocean Raid

    In our timeline when the Japanese launch the Indian Ocean Raid in 1942 the invasion of Malaya and Singapore had succeeded and the invasion of the Dutch East Indies recently wrapped up. Do people think that the Japanese would have still launched the raid if they were still fighting in Malaya and...
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    Japanese Emperor Demoted Post-WWII

    Japan is in the interesting position of having an Emperor as head of state but not being an Empire, instead they're the State of Japan. After the Second World as part of the governmental and societal reforms the Emperor made the Imperial Rescript on the Construction of a New Japan part of which...
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    No Battle of Okinawa?

    The Battle of Okinawa was an incredibly bloody affair which, similar to the Battle of Iwo Jima, has been subsequently questioned as to whether it was worth it. Just over six weeks after it concluded the first nuclear bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, three days later the second was dropped on...
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    Harriers, Ski-Jumps, and Deck space

    On aircraft carriers without steam catapults like the Invincible-class ski-jumps allow aircraft to get airborne with a shorter takeoff run, with a heavier payload, or a combination of the two. The US Navy operates the Wasp-class with Harriers but doesn't incorporate a ski-jump as they don't want...
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    Different Outcomes of the Invasion of South Georgia

    The invasion of South Georgia in 1982 as part of the wider Falklands war is often overlooked, however it had a number of interesting incidents including one of the few times in history that a warship has been hit by multiple recoilless rifle rounds and anti-tank missiles. The British defenders...
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    Germany Without Colonies

    So I was wondering what happens to the various territories Germany controlled in our timeline if due to [Reasons] they decided to not enter the colonial game? In Africa I would expect their colonies to either be divided between the British and French such as Togoland and Cameroon or become...
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    AHC: Chilean Tierra del Fuego

    In our timeline the southern Chile-Argentina border runs west to east before turning roughly east-southeast to Punta Dungeness, going across the Strait of Magellan, and then south down Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego to the Beagle Channel. So is there any way to have the border instead continue...
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    Alternate Sites for GM in Canada?

    Thanks to Robert Durant's relationship with Sam McLaughlin events, through several twists and turns, saw the Oshawa based McLaughlin Motor Car Company becoming a part of GM and renamed General Motors of Canada. The original plants were much nearer the centre of town diagonally opposite from each...
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    Allied Occupation of Japan

    I’m looking at doing a timeline where thanks to some prior changes – the Ryukyu Kingdom being a British protected state, the war in Europe going a bit differently – the UK is more involved in the Pacific including the Battle of Okinawa which ends up with there being a British/Commonwealth...
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    British Ryukyu

    I'm looking for the best way to have the Ryukyu Kingdom become a Brirish protected state similar to how the Kingdom of Tonga was between 1900 and 1970 – basically the UK handles defence and foreign affairs whilst the local monarch mostly retains domestic control. Easiest solotion seems to be...
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