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  1. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    One solution is to use a binary explosive where the two components are stored and pumped separately only being mixed as they enter the hose and fill it.

  2. An AH Battle: An Alternate Battle of the Denmark Straight - (Operation Rheinübung) 1942.

    York Class Cavendish (Hawkins) Class The York's were slightly smaller than the Hawkins class and carried three twin eight inch gun turrets, so getting two forward and one aft triple sixes should be possible for the RN design team, As long as the principle dimensions of the Hawkins class...

  3. An AH Battle: An Alternate Battle of the Denmark Straight - (Operation Rheinübung) 1942.

    T2, Whilst your alt battleships seem reasonable I do have issue with your cruisers design. Are both the Admiralty and the RCNC all drinking lead paint! There is no way the RTN would except anything less than 8" guns on a Heavy cruiser unless the relevant Naval Treaties forbade them. There is no...

  4. Short Stirling used as Maritime Patrol Aircraft for Battle of Atlantic?

    The Early version would have the Stickleback arial system as mentioned in my earlier post. In the PAM time line I went all in with the original 112ft wingspan of the Sterling and four 2000hp plus Fairy Monarch engines !!

  5. Into the Fire - the "Minor" nations of WW2 strike back

    Finally found the reference I was looking for;- https://www.paxmanhistory.org.uk/blockade.htm At 117 foot long and capable of carrying 40 tons in the hold and a further 6 tons on deck these boats are far more useful for running supplies than the standard American PT boat IMVHO. American...

  6. An AH Battle: 1st Battle of Midway, 17 - 21 June 1942

    So Wolverine and Sable will both serve ITTL just as in OTL. The Worlds only Paddle steamer aircraft carriers!

  7. Into the Fire - the "Minor" nations of WW2 strike back

    If you give the British MGB-501 design to American boat builders they could be spamming them out in numbers far more quickly than building new submarines, Also the British did make some cargo MTBs to run to Sweden for Ball bearings IIRC.

  8. Malaya What If

    How long would HMS Regulus be kept down by the IJN attack and how soon afterwards would the be able to surface and transmit. Perhaps the local IJN commander considered the risk to the invasion fleet was such that delay the submarines ability io report was worth the political risk. see the above...

  9. An AH Battle: 1st Battle of Midway, 17 - 21 June 1942

    The threshold between tandem wings and canards gets very blurred once you vary from the almost equal wing area of a true tandem wing design which the Miles M35 could be said to have to the Much greater variance in wing area exhibited by the later M39B which is closer to what would be expected...

  10. An AH Battle: 1st Battle of Midway, 17 - 21 June 1942

    Thinking of the OP's canard fighter reminded me of this late war project by Bolton and Paul, the P100. ITTL perhaps a merlin engine naval fighter designed by Miles/Bolton & Paul is built instead of the Defiant. This could post war lead to this intersting piece of kit. This the OTL BAe SABA...

  11. An AH Battle: 1st Battle of Midway, 17 - 21 June 1942

    Were the USN using HF/DF at this time? The RN were struggling to get enough sets built to fulfil their requirements in OTL. ITTL of course this could be different.

  12. An AH Battle: 1st Battle of Midway, 17 - 21 June 1942

    I am not an aeronautical engineer, though I trained to fly gliders and was competition piloting paragliders for many years so all I would say is that if the Tandem wing was such a panacea why has it always been a developmental dead end. Every aircraft is a balance of compromises perhaps the...

  13. An AH Battle: 1st Battle of Midway, 17 - 21 June 1942

    In one word Brutal carrier exchange, first round to the IJN. Going back a bit, the Miles M39B was a very intersting aircraft but an absolute 'No No' as a FAA fighter as it possessed possibly the worst possible flight characteristic for that use, the very stuff of nightmares for a naval pilot...

  14. An AH Battle: 1st Battle of Midway, 17 - 21 June 1942

    I seem to recall that both of the miles canard aircraft had vicious stall characteristics, not so good for carrier landings!

  15. An AH Battle: 1st Battle of Midway, 17 - 21 June 1942

    Can I assume the dragonfly has a RR Kestrel engine or something similar?

  16. Short Stirling used as Maritime Patrol Aircraft for Battle of Atlantic?

    Early ASV sets had aerials on the top and side of the fuselage. As seen above, OTL ASV mark 1 entered service in Early 1940, the Mark II in 1941. The Leigh Light could have been in service almost a year earlier than OTL if there had not been bureaucratic inertia and down right obstruction. So...

  17. Short Stirling used as Maritime Patrol Aircraft for Battle of Atlantic?

    Losing the Dorsal Turret gives you room for an extra navigator/radar operator.

  18. Short Stirling used as Maritime Patrol Aircraft for Battle of Atlantic?

    Back to the Sterling's range. There was a trade of between a large weight of relatively small bombs (2000lb max per bomb) of 14,000 lb which limited the range to around 550miles, or a much longer range, some sources say around 2,000 miles but with a reduced bombload of 3,500lb. So you are...

  19. What if the British Royal Navy was allowed to keep the two power standard and build 3 more battlecruisers and 2 more battleships?

    My bad i was forgetting those were the large 6" cruisers. especially as in the last year I have been carrying out serious archive research into their designers!! I really dropped the Ball there, 00os.

  20. What if the British Royal Navy was allowed to keep the two power standard and build 3 more battlecruisers and 2 more battleships?

    As I stae in my post the whole point for the RN is to have cruisers limited to six inch guns. Anything bigger comes out of their battleship tonnage. So will not happen.
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