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  1. hugh lupus

    HMS Warspite in Falklands war

    Not the Warspite but for fun and in honour of Waitangi Day I did this https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/the-wrong-knot.380621/
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    AH for the Spanish Civil War?

    Part of my 'An extra knot' is an alternative SCW with a rump of Asturias and the Basques holding on.
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    Jutland Redux - A summer soltice shootout

    Just found this and am very happy to have done so! Excellent work. Regards Hugh
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    The Admirals

    This will be an alternative 1930's that has as a start a slightly different WW1 .Imperial Russia still falls, but again in a slightly different way, which in turn affects other places/people. I have no intention to ''Big up'' dictatorships of any kind. This is the story of people, not creeds. At...
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    The Admirals

    I’m still writing the end of ‘An Extra knot’ and adding to ‘Mr. Donaldson’s Company’ but I thought I’d post this and test the water so to speak. All my other works are linear so to speak and all got regular updates, this one isn’t and won’t, if only because this coming year promises to be very...
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    The Admirals

    The Russian autumn is fickle; by day it can sweat the great coat off a man, but its nights can turn a man’s toes bright blue. But hot or cold the political officer knew his duty; the two hundredth and twenty second tank regiment was going back up the line and it was his duty to see that they...
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    AHC: have the world wars be unifying experience for the British Empire.

    And war often has the opposite effect! https://nzhistory.govt.nz/war/the-gallipoli-campaign/introduction. ANZAC day is huge here....and for good reason.
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    AHC: have the world wars be unifying experience for the British Empire.

    This may be a failure of imagination on my part but I can't see a way of doing this via war, what you describe is something like this... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Federation And for that IMO you need a much earlier POD
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    AHC: have the world wars be unifying experience for the British Empire.

    In what ways do you think they were not?
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    Except this time .....it is .

    Except this time .....it is .
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    Was the Imperial Federation dead by 1900?

    In this https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/u-s-military-isoted-to-1900-united-states.241407/ I had the same problem. My solution was twofold I/twin capitols. 2/ Federate India. 'India' was never a whole and there is no need to treat it as one.....and isn't that how the British ruled...
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    Have the BAe Nimrod AEW be more successful and enter service

    Ah ha...an expert☺
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    Have the BAe Nimrod AEW be more successful and enter service

    Hangs head in shame a vows not to rely on memory while on ah. Com and working at the same time. But yes absolutely correct and that only reinforces the point I was clumsily trying to make. Engine reliability is far and away better than it was. So back in the day with Speys or something...
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    Have the BAe Nimrod AEW be more successful and enter service

    Don't be amazed . A good craftsman can work 'dead on' if he has to. That should bring both shame and pride. Pride that we could produce such men and shame that we relied on them far too long.
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    Have the BAe Nimrod AEW be more successful and enter service

    Even today with far more efficient and reliable engines ETOPS certified aircraft are limited to One hour on one engine distances. Nimrods exceed that so yes 4 engines. Unless you want to limit the search radius?
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    Have the BAe Nimrod AEW be more successful and enter service

    Like most British aircraft of the time the most important thing was not the drawings or the build parameters or anything like that.What was important, vital even was 'Institutional knowledge' You knew that part 'A' needed a few thou shaved off in order that it fit part 'B' even though...
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    Have the BAe Nimrod AEW be more successful and enter service

    I helped build Nimrods and worked on a major rebuild of one. I've even been close up to the AEW version before it was scrapped. Back in the 80's I did maintenance work on the Dan Air Comet 4's. Yes I'm old. But a more labour intensive to build, poorly conceived, maintenance unfriendly aircraft...
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    WI: Edward VIII captured by the Germans

    I cannot recall where I read it but Edward even in exile had a British security detail who had orders to shoot Edward if any attempt was made to uplift him
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    How long could Gibraltar hold out against Spain in WW2?

    From memory various costal sites, I'm at work now and don't have access to my notes but I seem to remember them building a railway spur to haul the guns at one point. There is also a youtube video of them being fired in the 1980's which is most impressive. They are BL15/42's adapted for land IIRC
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    How long could Gibraltar hold out against Spain in WW2?

    I did some research for this for my own time line where Gib falls and is then retaken. The fifteen inch guns are from an aborted South American battle ship and were moved around a lot and the Spanish Army became quite good at this. The Rock has a major weakness....water. Effectively it has two...
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