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  1. WarGames (1983), What did each scenario entail?

    Hi all! Just watched WarGames (1983) again. When Joshua is trying to 'learn' it goes through a vast number of nuclear war scenarios. I'll list what I could get below. What, aside from the obvious ones, did some of the more obscure ones entail? The list: U.S. FIRST STRIKE USSR FIRST STRIKE...

  2. Canadians in the Falklands War

    I start this post off with a question: During the 1982 Falklands War were there any members of the Canadian Forces attached to British units/ships as part of an exchange or as observers? I have searched high and low and can find nothing on this, just makes me more curious though. Now, on to...

  3. Back to +2%, where to spend it? (Canada Defence Question)

    A Canadian Defense in the 1980s question, lets set the stage... Brian Mulroney is sworn into office as the 18th Prime Minister of Canada on September 17th 1984. One of his first meetings is with his new Defense Minister Robert Carman Coates (*facepalm*, small POD, he does not leave those...

  4. Tomcats, not people, but Tomcats.

    Thanks to 'TheMann' for his great thread/timeline 'Canadian Power: The Canadian Forces as a Major Power' It got me to wondering about a specific event. The Iranian Revolution. In his timeline 'TheMann' gives a possible alternate outcome to the issue of Iranian Tomcats. We all know ITTL the...

  5. Which ship class would have been 'the best' for 80's reactivation?

    We all know that in the 1980's the US Navy reactivated the Iowa class battleships. Now, the Iowas may or may not be the perfect choice for this type of reactivation and I have seen may threads where it is mentioned that other ship classes (if still around and in good enough shape) may have...

  6. Valiant instead of Vulcan... Better or worse?

    I was looking over the specifications of the different V-Bombers operated by the UK and I came across a mention of the Vickers Valiant B.2. By Wikipedia and the other sources I found it was optimized for a low level strike. Stronger and larger airframe, heavier landing gear and faster on the...

  7. Could the CF-100 have been purchased by more Air Forces?

    The Avro Canada CF-100... yes, I know the attention gets paid to it's planned successor the CF-105 (poster bows head in reverence) but the CF-100 was a good all weather fighter at it's time as well. Belgium bought it (supposedly based on an awesome airshow demo), Canada used it for years and...

  8. A Different Bomber War in WWII

    The Oslo Mosquito Raid of September 25th, 1942. It didn't go quite as planned IOTL. The bombs didn't hit the Gestapo HQ as they should... but what if it had? We know today that the massed bombing raids by the heavies like the Lancaster, Liberator and Flying Fortress in WWII weren't quite as...

  9. Zion On The Rock

    Went to Chapters today and looked at Michael Chabon's book "The Yiddish Policemen's Union". For those that don't know it postulates a Jewish settlement pre WWII in the area of Sitka, AK. What if a settlement agreement had been reached and the Jewish population of Europe that could escape were...

  10. MBT-70 and The Iraq War

    The MBT-70 tank project was pretty advanced for it's time, a bit too advanced it seems as it 'reached' too far and never got to production. POD - Lets say the Americans followed the lead of the Germans early on, sent the 152mm gun/launcher with that pesky caseless ammo back for more R&D and...

  11. Project Habakkuk - WI it wasn't used for a carrier?

    What if the unspeakable happened. Jackboots on the streets of London in 1941. We know there are enough US shipyards to make enough Essex/Bogue class carriers to make aircover pretty simple. What about the amphibious forces though? LSTs aren't great for the North Atlantic, but Project...
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