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    AHC: neutral or nato aligned balkans

    With a POD anywhere from before the 1st balkan war through WW2, how would you keep some or all of the Balkan powers out of the communist sphere of influence? Is there a possibility of a free romania or Bulgaria? Or would it have to come from the southern Balkans? Albania or Croatia? Bosnia ever?
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    Effects of an earlier F-117 shoot down?

    So, lets say that during Gulf War 1 one or two of the Iraqi S-3 battery commanders is competent and lucky enough to shoot down one of the first wave F-117 Nighthawks. What would be the political and design effects of such a shoot down, would the concept of stealth face a backlash? Transitioning...
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    AHC Alternate Saber

    What would it take for another Jet to successfully compete with the Saber MIG-15 duo. Instead of having those two dominate in terms of sales/popular consciousness give them some competition. Would an earlier Gnat, instead of the Meteor give the British enough pull or was the dominance of the...
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    Give the F-105 Thunderchief the pop culture reputation of the F4

    How would it be possible to elevate the F105 to the pop culture prominence of the F4? Could its life be extended beyond Vietnam in some way? Admitedly by the end of that war a full half of them were gone but could the remaining air frames be flogged off to fight in other wars? Perhaps in the...
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    Buccaneer Question

    If the Theoretical S.3 Buccaneer had been approved, and the remaining fleet upgraded to that standard (from what I've read the proposal was ripping the avionics out of a Tornado IDS and installing them on a Buccaneer frame) how long would they have remained relevant and viable as strike craft...
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    HMS Centaur Question

    After a bit of thinking, mostly spurred on by the 3rd Audacious class thread and the Crusaders not Phantoms thread, i have a couple of questions about the Centaur. First and foremost, at what point during her stint as an accommodation vessel did her material condition deteriorate at? She was...
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    Eagle of the Andes V2.0
    Threadmarks: 1.0

    AN: Welcome all to the Rebooted Eagle of the Andes that said while I am going to be updating this it’s going to be slow going. I’m not the fastest writer in the world, and things in RL are looming. That said, there have been some changes in the formatting. I’m going to try and stick with the...
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    WI: Biafra victorious

    Simple WI, the Nigerian federal authorities collapse either because Lagos is captured in the initial rush to war or an internal fight gets out of hand. What is the effect nationally, internationally, and internally? Would an early victory by the igbo mean that they are more tolerant of other...
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    WI Dassault F1 wins the "Deal of the Century"

    Lets say that the EPAF decide that they want the Dassault Mirage F1M-53 not the F-16. What roll on effects does this have on the F1, is it modernized the way that the F-16 was lasting longer in front line service? Certainly the addition of 449 units will effect the development history of the...
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    AHC/WI Type 42 with VLS Sea Wolf system?

    The Sea Wolf missile system was tested from 70 to 77, so the first batch of type 42 destroyers are not a possibility, but it have been deployed in a VLS configuration from batch 2 onwards? The Sea Wolf was tested as a VLS launched system on the HMS Loch Fada with those tests ending in 70 without...
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    WI/AHC One last gun line battle...

    This is an idea I had a while ago. It sprung off my Eagle of the Andes TL, which is still being rewritten, when I realized that in 82-83 there was a real possibility for there to be a ‘last gun battle’ around Cape Horn. The General Belgrano against her sister ship the Prat, or the Prat and...
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    WI: Make the Sea Vixen relativly common

    Could the Sea Vixen be used as a cut rate Phantom for those fleets which operated British built light fleet carriers? If that is possible could they become more common then they were in OTL, for example have the Australians, Brazilians, Argentinians, and Indians use the Sea Vixen as an air...
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    Carrier Essentials

    How would you make the carrier a widely deployed asset, along the lines of the battleship in the lead up to wwii in the post WWII world? In other words make having a carrier essential to having a navy worth the name.
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    WI:USSR Conventional arsenal sold

    After the end of the cold war the United States did a very good job at keeping the USSR's vast arsenal of conventional weapons contained. The United states paid a pretty penny to have them decommissioned on top of keeping the Soviet WMD arsenals under wraps. What would have been the effects of...
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    Eagles of the Andes, a Chile wank TL

    Welcome to my modest attempt at a timeline, it’s not perfect and I would welcome some constructive criticism on it, but I figured that without feedback I was just spinning my wheels. This is a TL which springs from my desire to see more middle powers, and for South America to be globally...
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    Carriers of South America: a Chilean WI

    Could the Chilean navy have bought and operated a carrier in 1970? I think that the Eagle could have been purchased, but don’t quote me on that. If Chile could have gotten their hands on it could they have afforded it, or is this just a pipe dream? Would they be able to get the Eagle or would...
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    Plausibility Check: Chile Buys the Eagle...

    Not having done a lot of looking at south america before i wanted to see if i could put together an interesting TL without my predjudices being shoved into it and found the whole Beagle Islands conflict. One of the things i was looking at was the possibility of the Argentineans using the...
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