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  1. Malaya What If

    Very interesting, I assume Force Z and the Light Squadron will be operating in close proximity to one another, the Light Squadron's a bit of an odd duck, you've got the large Dutch DD's that are a bit old but all of them have aircraft facilities aboard to launch scouts, but their AA armament is...

  2. Would Japan surrender conditionally without an invasion or atomic bombs?

    Exactly the Japanese have ZERO ways of making the Allies accept anything. They were still operating under the mindset that the 'weak and decadent' Westerners would quail at heavy casualties and go "Okay that's enough of that." The Japanese completely underestimated the will of the Allies on the...

  3. Would Japan surrender conditionally without an invasion or atomic bombs?

    Admittedly most of those would have been armed civilians with spears and satchel charges though. There's a reason the US is still using its stockpile of purple hearts that were made in preparation for DOWNFALL/OLYMPIC.

  4. Would Japan surrender conditionally without an invasion or atomic bombs?

    Totally agree with this, unfortunately there is the somewhat commonly held view that the Japanese in WW2 were sitting around visiting China and helping other Asian nations be free of their colonial overlords and did NOTHING WRONG AT ALL to deserve a sudden and violent attack by those evil...

  5. A better High Seas Fleet for WW1

    Indeed, the Falklands and Helgoland Blight showed exactly what Battlecruisers could do in the roles they were designed for, hunting down armoured cruisers and crushing hostile scouting forces that are not capital ships.

  6. A better High Seas Fleet for WW1

    THe speed advantage is something that was highlighted at Tishushima. The IJN fleet had a speed advantage of about 3 - 5 knots over the Russians and this allowed them to control the range and gave them more of an advantage in manouvering and this was something that Fisher had been thinking of...

  7. British Leyland insanity options 1968-86

    This is a good if sweary vid about Rover and there's info about the P8 there.

  8. Challenge: Fix the LCS Program

    Not with the tech of the time, the USN is looking at the so called 'Ghost Fleet' of drones and the like now- https://www.businessinsider.com/us-navy-ghost-fleet-drone-ships-western-pacific-counter-china-2023-9?international=true&r=US&IR=T - but back then I doubt you'd get the approval for it...

  9. Challenge: Fix the LCS Program

    Aye that would work too, really the LCS ships are kind of an example of the War on Terror mindset of the time, they're colonial gun boats of a different time. The OHP's were good little ships and it was shown they were tough seeing as one was hit by several exocets and another hit mines and got...

  10. Challenge: Fix the LCS Program

    Thats the thing, the 40+ knot speed requirement + all the other factors is bonkers, just drop the speed to 30 - 32 knots for a start and enlarge the hull, really the program would need to be completely overhauled and redone from the ground up to get something more useful and viable. Or just...

  11. Challenge: Fix the LCS Program

    The LCS needed to be about 500 tons heavier at least and preferably about 1000 tons bigger and the insane requirements to do EVERYTHING needs to be cut back. Or instead of something as a new design build either the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sa%27ar_6-class_corvette or...

  12. Jolly Good! A Bertie Wooster TL

    You're doing an amazing story here :) the world is a VERY different one from the one we know for sure!

  13. AHC Larger US Civil Defense program

    Well its the whole 'duck and cover' thing really, its a case of if there's a proper, full scale nuclear exchange, then really it won't matter and honestly it would probably be a mercy to die quickly. The Civil defence/duck and cover stuff was all done to give the illusion that everything would...

  14. Alternate warships of nations

    drawn by - I really like it in an odd way, the refit kinda makes sense!

  15. A Better Rifle at Halloween

    The SS Admiral Ganteaume was also the first ship torpedoed and sunk without warning OTL.

  16. A Better Rifle at Halloween

    Excellent updates, I have a feeling that the "spare no one and spare nothing to delay the entente.” will be taken in a horrific way and as Sqdn19 said, this will kill any support in Germany.

  17. Alternate warships of nations

    I guess the Greeks could arm the LCS with the Harpoons they pull off the Kortenaers, that's still something.

  18. Alternate warships of nations

    The thing is the USN has largely worked out the kinks with the LCS now and has the modules available for them that they were meant to have when introduced. But they were hugely over budget and the whole process of designing these things has been pretty much your classic example of the IMC at...

  19. Alternate warships of nations

    Speaking of LCS The LORGECS at the top was one of the competitors for USN's Constellation class Frigate, and is basically a stretched LCS (the one in the middle). The ironic thing is that the LCS was marred by technical limiations and engineering decisions because they wanted it to try and do...

  20. Alternate warships of nations

    [Psychiatrist] The Stretched LCS isn't real, the stretched LCS can't hurt you. The Stretched LCS It was one of the competitors in the FFG(X) program.
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