Things change when the laser range finders/markers and on-board computers are standard
And HMS Cockchafer.
As related before in other threads, my friend used to serve upon HMS Dainty - as you can imagine this caused all sorts of fun on shore leave!
I'm not sure if the naming was motivated by cruelty or some sort of social Darwinian attempt to make "Super Sailors" who could endure the nicknames.
“Bringing Up Baby (1938) was the first film to use the word gay in an apparent reference to homosexuality. In a scene in which Cary Grant's character's clothes have been sent to the cleaners, he is forced to wear a woman's feather-trimmed robe. When another character asks about his robe, he responds, "Because I just went gay all of a sudden!" Since this was a mainstream film at a time, when the use of the word to refer to cross-dressing (and, by extension, homosexuality) would still be unfamiliar to most film-goers, the line can also be interpreted to mean, "I just decided to do something frivolous."[19]”
I've never heard of a Womanizer being a term for a gay man. Always as a term describing men who are sexually interested in Women beyond society's bounds of acceptability.
Yes. That's what's being described. It could be rewritten as: "(prostitutes were referred to as gay women, and a womaniser was referred to as a gay man)".
Design it around the Pegasus engines instead of the Mercury engines, with bomb load of 2000 lbs for starters (basically half-way between the Hampden and OTL Belheimn). It will still be a juicy target for the LW fighters and AA during the day, but it would've been a far better bombtruck for night bombing duties, and offering better cruising speed and altitude than the Hampden. The 2000 lb bomb load should easily transform it into a torpedo bomber, so there is no need for the Botha (saves material worth for 560 aircraft) and Beaufort.
Do away with the useless, heavy, excessive drag inducing dorsal turret. A Beaufighter type rear position with a pintle mounted mg would be just as effective.
FWIW, when Cotton's reconaisance unit was trying to make Blenheim faster, the work and result were:Do away with the useless, heavy, excessive drag inducing dorsal turret. A Beaufighter type rear position with a pintle mounted mg would be just as effective.
The only way a Blenheim is doing much more than 270mph is in a dive or with a strong tail wind.
Remove the Defiant turrets and use them for air defence or ground defence. The unarmed Defiants can then be used for training, aerial recon and for experinental wing mounted cannon trials or finally as a source of engines and spares with the empty casings used on decoy airfields. Every one of these would be a better option than OTL.
Perhaps the best thing might be that DP does not make a single Defiant in the 1st place?
The thing is we need to know how much foresight we want to deal with.
Was that really a serious problem though? I'm not arguing they were using old kit, but the RR armoured cars did a decent enough job in Iraq and Western Desert. As for the Far East, would any of the modern kit even have been sent there? And given all the other problems would it have made a difference even if it had?
