navy

Thanks to Covid I have had a lot of free time, and have spent it getting back into writing. Among the various projects I have been working on has been an alternate history setting, the timeline of which will appear here.

I have been thinking about this scenario for quiet some time now. So basically at the end of the war, Japan still had a few ships such as unfinished battleships, carriers, and submarines at the shipyards at the time of the Empire's surrender to the Allies. All of these became property of the...

Putting aside how unlikely it is due to the basically uncontested US naval hegemony, how would a modern version of the Washington/London Naval Treaties look like? I would imagine the permanent 5 security council members would participate with maybe a few others too. Since no-one would build a...

WW2 had a great many naval participants but many of these navies didn't achieve as much as they had the potential to. With a POD after February 6, 1922 (Washington Naval Treaty), create the best plausible navy for an OTL WW2 combatant. The only thing set in stone is WW2 still breaking out...

You know the drill by now. WWI grinds to a white peace after the combatant nations have exhausted themselves. Only potential border changes are that A-L, Luxembourg and the German speaking regions of Belgium are up for referendum. Germany has lost most of its colonies. What does the German...

Yup, I'm rounding off the set.* So, WWI grinds to a white peace. The Ottomans have kept it together well enough to limp across the finish line, at most losing Kuwait and Hejaz, and having some border adjustment with Russia. Do the Germans want their battlecruiser back? If they do, do they get...

The year is 1590, decisive Ottoman and Uzbek military victories against the Safavid Empire, coupled with internal political problems put the Safavids on the verge of collapse. In OT, the Treaty of Constantinople in 1590 granted all land West of the Zagros Mountains and Caspain Sea to the Ottoman...

As the title says, how would the Royal Navy battleship develop without the Anglo-German naval arms race or even WWI? Say the Germans concentrate more on their Army, modernising their fleet but not attempting to challenge the RN? I’m assuming Dreadnought would still be built and all-big gun...

Austria-Hungary has limped across the finish line to a white peace! How does the k.u.k. Kriegsmarine develop in the 1920s and 30s? Given that they weren't laid down yet, is the Ersatz Monarch-class design adjusted to accommodate lessons from the war? Could the Tegetthoffs get Italian-style...

What the title says. As I have seen, the United States is the only country that has the separation of the Marine Corps from the Navy. This doubt comes from one of my alternative histories that I am reforming, the Mexican Armed Forces are made up of the Army, Air Force, Navy, National Guard...

How could the Soviet Union have been able to keep pace, or at least keep not quite so far behind, the Western navies? Divide by allegiance rather than nationality: include allied navies in the total strength of both spheres. Historically, of course, the Soviets were kept tightly bottled up...

Forward Following the success of the proceeding, A history of the two navies of the American Civil war, 1860-1865*, it was decided to attempt a follow up work dealing with Confederate naval history up until the present day. As it was realized the sheer amount of work required it was decided to...

Historically, Germany was an obvious candidate for having one of the world's largest navies, given the Hanseatic League and other Baltic and North Sea adventures. The army was rarely emphasized, and often fell behind, with German Kaisers and Stadtholders often recruiting mercenaries from smaller...

Most of the time Fashoda, the colonial crisis in Sudan, in alternate history is used as a way for the British to launch a desultory smack down of the French. To reverse that, with a POD of an intense colonial crisis which directs French attention towards Britain and unites French policies in...

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: A big thanks to "consulting admirals" @jsb @Luminous @hipper @RamscoopRaider @steamboy for their stellar contributions to this thread. It would not be half as interesting without them! For the uninitiated, US hull classification symbols are used as abbreviations for ship...

I don't know nearly enough about Chinese history, so I'd like to ask some experts here: could it have ever been possible for a Chinese dynasty to have a sufficiently powerful navy to control parts of Japan, the Philippines, or Indonesia?

Probably very close to ASB, but this is rooted in some actual historical facts... So what if by a miracle of diplomacy the Poles actually receive all those ships? (Perhaps the Western democrices in this timeline wanted a strong Poland to check potential German & Russian ambitions in the...

So, I was trundling along and found a website talking about Wilhelm II's brother, Prince Heinrich. So here is my what question is: if Wilhelm II died via throat cancer, say in 1901, and, ( I am none to sure who would be next in line, but for convenience sake we can just kill Wilhelm's entire...

I am working on a TL where the Byzies keep Crete and Euphimius doesn't defect to the Aghlaribs, so Sicilia is still part of the empire. Basil still becomes emperor and reforms the Empire and the navy, so a more successful naval state with Sicilia and Sardegna still kicking the Arabs butts. Now...

The Byzantine navy never seemed to have held prestige in Byzantine society compared to the army and such. It also nearly disappeared entirely under the Komnenos which left it at the mercy of italian city states. So the challenge is with a PoD from 990 through 1050, find a way to make the...