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  1. Alterntive History Armoured Fighting Vehicles

    A great opportunity was lost IMO with all those WWII surplus T-34s, which could have been transformed into APCs. The Israelis did convert captured T-55s into the Achzarit Heavy APC. In a similar vein, the Swedes converted their WWII Strv m/41, the licensed produced Czech TNH tank which the...

  2. If Sherlock Holmes was written in the American-West?

    The character of Sherlock Holmes was supposed to be an all brains type, a human computer with no emotions or even need for female companionship. The problem with this is he doesn't fit the mold of the Westerner, who is a romantic and laconic man of action. Holmes was Captain Picard while Captain...

  3. William Pitt in America.

    Maybe they can offer him the city of his namesake.

  4. If Sherlock Holmes was written in the American-West?

    There was a TV show called "Have Gun-Will Travel", about a former West Point officer turned gunfighter/detective. The main character, played by Richard Boone, was a Shakespeare quoting dandy with expensive tastes in wine and women. He lived in the Hotel Carlton in San Francisco and took...

  5. AHC Opposite Vietnam.

    US trained and equipped the Pakistani air force, and they shot down both Soviet and Afghan aircraft.

  6. Return of Body Armor

    Cuirassier breast plate could not stop rifle bullets. They did stop sabre and bayonets and some early muskets. Though of limited use, it none the less had psychological value for the heavy cavalrymen. By WWI it was badly obsolete, kept around for the same reason as colorful uniforms still used...

  7. Return of Body Armor

    Rather implausible that cotton could stop musket ball. I'd like to see a demonstration.

  8. WI: Stalin given details of Barbarossa?

    Stalin couldn't have known about the operational details. The point of this exercise is not prescience and prevention, but how to respond more efficiently with more detailed, actionable intel.

  9. AHC Opposite Vietnam.

    The Stingers were at the upper limit of technology the Afghan tribesmen could operate.

  10. Return of Body Armor

    WWII bomber air crew brigandine with manganese steel plates.

  11. WI: Stalin given details of Barbarossa?

    We all know Stalin's spy rings informed him of the coming German invasion, which he dismissed as counter intel. He didn't believe them, and feared calling up reserves would be interpreted as an act of aggression by Hitler. But what if a copy of the operational details of Barbarossa landed on...

  12. Return of Body Armor

    I had a thread about this. My solution is to use brigandine armor with manganese steel plates. https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=190010&highlight=manganese

  13. WI: Mormon Taipings

    In 1837 the guy who who start the Taiping Rebellion had a vision that he was the younger brother of Jesus Christ after reading the Bible and suffering from a fever. What if he was introduced to Mormonism at the same time?

  14. Gadhafi wins Lybian Civil War

    Because they know North Korea is scared and cornered but not suicidal. Their nukes and their crazy antics are a form of deterrent. Unless South Korea invaded the north, there's little worry of Kim actually using a nuke.

  15. So... why didn't Imperial China keep northern Vietnam?

    I'm saying back then the people who lived in that era didn't make nationality distinctions like we do now. People didn't think of themselves as Korean or Chinese, or Vietnamese. They had a much more local identity. I'm from this town, village, etc. Korea had its own monarchs and the people there...

  16. A H Challenged- contact with the New World not a castrophe for people living there

    The trouble was the nature of the Spanish contact. The New World saw a rapid colonization of the Caribbean, the outbreak of diseases leading to the conquest of Mexico and Peru, followed by even more European settlers and diseases. It's like the ancient Greeks suddenly being hit by the Black...

  17. AHC: Make American Football Dominant Sport in Europe

    Introduced as an Olympic event for the first time at the Berlin games. It was sort of a pan-Germanic game and most popular in those territories Germany claimed, Austria, the Sudetenland, etc.

  18. AHC: Make American Football Dominant Sport in Europe

    Have Hitler promote football/soccer instead of handball. After the war it becomes associated with Nazi ideology and withers like handball did, gets transformed into an indoors game. American football then fills the niche.

  19. So... why didn't Imperial China keep northern Vietnam?

    Vietnam was basically a frontier province that broke away. Calling it an occupation is more a contemporary Vietnamese nationalist interpretation. As students of history we know you can't occupy a place for a thousand years. There's no difference between a literate person in Vietnam or...

  20. Gadhafi wins Lybian Civil War

    This is a good beginner's reference. http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?162240-Bluffer-s-Guide-North-Korea-strikes!-(2009) All you have to do is look at a map and look up the range of artillery. Seoul is well beyond the range of all but a fraction of North Korea's...
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