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  1. Military tactics ( that were never developed or employed )

    It's something the British Army has trained for continuously since WW2. The issue is that urban areas differ from Northern to Southern Europe and different again in Africa or South America etc with different construction methods, housing layouts etc. Israel I suspect has a more limited range...

  2. Military tactics ( that were never developed or employed )

    They tended to consider existing IRBM/SRBM in the 1960-70's

  3. Military tactics ( that were never developed or employed )

    The RAF Nimrod 2 fleet regularly flew with a pair of Sidewinder AIM 9L on the outboard pylon during the cold war from 1982 onwards.

  4. 1950s "Limited" Nuclear War

    You also don't know the impact SAC EW will have on Russian C3 , plus SAC and TAC will be going after Russian command nodes and bases around the periphery of the Soviet Union further degrading intercept efforts.

  5. 1950s "Limited" Nuclear War

    SAC had a lot of tankers so they could fly bombers deep into the Soviet Union. The US also had a lot of bases around the periphery of the USSR including access to bases in Iran, Turkey, Libya the UK, Iceland, Pakistan and bases in WESTPAC to attack targets in the Eastern Soviet Union, SAC had...

  6. WI: The General Dynamics F-111 is still born?

    The spec was too nuts. They wanted M2.0 from 40,000ft to 0 ft, a better compromise would have been M1.3 on the deck.

  7. WI: The General Dynamics F-111 is still born?

    The project was massively over budget and if the Olympus engines had continued to suffer from resonance issues it would never have achieved squadron service. Though politics were an issue.

  8. WI: The General Dynamics F-111 is still born?

    Much as I loved the TSR2, it had issues. They had problems with the rapid throttling causing vibration, they had to delay flight tests as the undercarriage was showing some issues when landing and a lot of the electronics were either not working correctly, the other issue was maintenance issues...

  9. A Better Rifle at Halloween

    Plus the UK wanted to charge an eye watering amount for the SMLE tooling. It's why Australia bought all their tooling from Westinghouse at a significant cost benefit even after paying the tariffs for imports into the Empire.

  10. A Better Rifle at Halloween

    9mm Parabellum is the best choice though, like all cartridges it's a compromise though historically it seems the best choice, it's powerful enough to be effective but not so powerful it's users need wrists of steel to use it in a pistol.

  11. European NATO Army alternatives: 1950 - 1990

    They did make a some EM2's in 7.62 x 51mm , in one of the earliest Forgotten Weapons Ian got to shoot one that made it to the US. The UK MOD concluded that the action would require a redesign to handle the extra-power so they abandoned the design and picked the FAL instead...

  12. European NATO Army alternatives: 1950 - 1990

    The reason the UK ditched 195mm engineering HESH gun on AVRE's was they found a MBT with 120mm HESH was more flexible and had much better combat persistence. For bunkers, AFV's, IFV's will definitely get wrecked by 120mm HESH

  13. European NATO Army alternatives: 1950 - 1990

    The Venezuelans actually did adopt the FAL in .280 (7mm) but converted them to 7.62mm. https://www.forgottenweapons.com/arms-of-the-venezuelan-coup/

  14. EE Lightining what-if thread

    I read a couple of old Friteninig hands on PPRUNE who had flown and serviced them. Engine fires were the main source of emergencies and hull loss. This is the Wiki page for losses only, it won't include any that made it down in one piece or had an emergency on the ground not resulting in a...

  15. EE Lightining what-if thread

    Not with how often Lightning's engines spontaneously combusted in flight.

  16. What If These Two Warships Met In Combat

    A more realistic one would be USS Texas and Bismark. Apparently Texas was on a neutrality patrol in the Denmark strait about 12 hours before Hood and Prince of Wales had their fateful encounter. I could see a spooked Bismark opening fire on a "RN Battleship", how long would Texas last?

  17. Could Yamamoto have pulled off an even more devastating PH attack?

    The tank loss would be a short term issue at worst. The USN would take time to rebuild the tank capacity to pre-attack levels, but they are relatively simple structures and could be replaced pretty quickly. The immediate loss of oil storage would mean it would take longer for the USN to...

  18. Soviet Air Force cold war sanity options

    The biggest issue is the engines. The Russians were happy with engines with low TBO's and short service lives compared to western engines and that continued all the way to the end of the cold war. The AEW issue is a harder one to crack, it certainly would have made a lot of sense for them if...

  19. What If These Two Warships Met In Combat

    The Belgrano's damage control was a joke, after the "refit" they had fire/flood doors with so much paint on them they couldn't be closed, that suggests they would be hard pushed to deal with a single hit from anything without losing the ability to fight the ship let alone anything else.

  20. What If These Two Warships Met In Combat

    If Sea Dart can see it, Sea Dart should be able to hit it, there would also be County Class around with Sea Slug which definitely had a SSM mode. The British 1000 lb bomb also came in a forged steel casing version which was effectively SAP so if any were aboard the carriers they should be able...
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