Noice!

i can see the response to this as setting up a barrier of unarmed commercial vessels and having the sub go underneath. The vessels then surround the USS Darpaship and it pings off them until it hits one, creating an incident.

Whenever I see a pic of a ship like this:

meh, cool plane which should have been kept in the inventory (well suited for COIN and I did think it was being used in counter narcotic operations in South America) but for Iraq and Afghanistan, probably better providing a couple of hundred upgraded AN-2s.

I swear that I've seen a JSDF recruitment ad with the Star Blazers them but my google-fu is failing me.

Obligatory.

So, how quickly IS China building these? Are they getting it down to an art-form and able to knock up an island from a reef in, say, a month?

Daaammmnnnnn... That's an impressive image.

the big booms amongst the swarming boats at the 16 second mark of the second video sure do interesting. I wonder if everyone made it back to land.

The Ukrainian Spider Response Group DO NOT fuck around!

So...

is it? Poo. Google image search has let me down.

Anyone else see a potential family resemblence here?

Perhaps a more interesting question would "Would the cars drive on the right in New York and on the left in Los Angeles"?

The Nazis would have harnessed the German-American population (less the Jews) which would have likely still been sore about the anti-German sentiment which existed in WWI and local bodies such as the Ku Klux Klan to do a lot of its localised dirty work. With a bit of targetted assassination (as they had already shown…

By literally ringing China with F-35 operators...

I wonder what the restrictions on that particular technology transfer may be? It's not like anything in the A-10 is state of the art - it's just a well-designed package for the job it does.

Seeing as it looks an awful lot like the XB-70 and shares the same name as the one I mentioned, I guess so.

Coal operators would sell to the nazis, the Pinkertons would enforce labour control and whatever was left of the miners' ability to organise would soon be crushed by both. You underestimate how good the nazis were at turning one group of people against another.

The US was the centre of world oil production until the early 1950s or so when easily accessible oil was found by American engineers in Arabia. In this alternate timeline, American oil would be extracted en masse and exported to the Reich to support their standard of living. It is likely that the US would be reduced…