Recent content by Insider

How did your farmers managed to teach cow to shit in one place? Or do they go around the ranch and gather it. I know I know I am literary shitposting and offtoping but still, it seems strange. Granted, there are animals like hogs and chickens that can live confined to single place, as inhumane...

And not just WWII, look at troubled birth of british tigerfish and US mark 48. Making a new fish is as much art as science. I know, and that is just one of three major flaws USN had to deal with. The fact that other powers had problems with torpedoes doesn't absolve USN bureaucracy from lack of...

June 1944? That presents another scenario... Valkyries fly high in Germany, and generals throw a towel. Soviets are furious as they would not get all of Central Europe, they shift their forces and steam roll into China by the end of August 1944.

All it takes, is to make Arthur Percival a mildly incompetent commander, who would order his troops to dig in and fight for the last man and last round. Failing that replace him with somebody else. My pick is Percy Hobart who was kicked out by Wavell. Actually Wavell himself would be just as...

If it was automated and far more sensitive than human ears, then why not try visual display? I realise that hydrophone gives you surprisingly a lot of pieces of data, namely where is the source of noise (just azimuth, not range), and more or less what is it. The operator could discern whatever...

That dispute out there you cited, was it some private message? I have so many questions about torpedoes and hydrophone trivia but browser makes "The requested conversation could not be found." answer :( I do not want to clutter your thread any further. Couldn't they simply sail around the...

I searched the forum for this topic. It turned out that the question of the fate of India in different WW1 comes out every year or more often. However it seems that the question of India without WWII never occurred to anybody. Would the British empire be able to hold it. Would India regain...

I enjoyed it, it is really well written... is this alternative history? At first I thought it is about Tim Burton and Batman, but it turned out, he did was involved in it in OTL. So where is the POD and difference?

The H6K could take 2 torpedoes, or 2 800kg bombs, which were the 406mm AP shells in fact. It could also lift 2 tons of explosive instead. I feel something like that could be pulled of, actually, but... 1. The targets should be softer than battleships - a cruiser or aircraft carrier would be just...

I think that more then on current forces disposition you should concentrate on threats and needs. Is it drug smuggling? Illegal immigrants? Military incursions from Indonesia? Does military handle non military threats in PNG? Floods, epidemics, typhoons? What else ails these lands? Perhaps if...

1/3 of US GDP per capita in 1960 was something wholy different then 1/3 of US GDP per capita in 1990 and something different now. That is because US GDP per capita is rising. https://www.google.pl/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&met_y=ny_gdp_pcap_cd&idim=country:USA:GBR:CAN&hl=en&dl=en Of...

Are you from some other timeline? Our Mexico suffered huge revolution between 1910 and 1920 and then Cistero War in 1927-29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Revolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristero_War I wouldn't call it "stability" until 1935, give or take few years. The fact...

I would argue that the change was much earlier and most likely come with the Spanish Tercios. (or even earlier, during Husite Wars in Bohemia, but arguably Husites cheated by using wagons). True, the cavalry had to avoid infantry in squares. But most of the time, that was exactly the point. When...

Have Italians sell more of their precious arms to them. (IOTL the Greek armed forces have major supplier in Italy.)

Power play as always. Decision makers and law giver are generally old males, and women and young males are the "perpetrators" of this "crime". So they have to be punished. Is there is a way to challenge this... I do not have an idea but i would like to hear some.