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08-22-2011, 01:37 PM
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It's always been one of my pet hates that the once great British aviation industry is now a sad joke.
We made some of the best and most effective aircraft of the early cold war era but after the 70's we just kept falling behind. Same with our naval industry, the nation that built HMS dreadnought can't even build her own aircraft carriers anymore 
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08-22-2011, 03:58 PM
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  Concerning the navy, I have a special tenderness for the Flower-class corvettes and Vosper-class MTB that equipped the FNFL (IMO it largely makes up for Mers-el-Kebir   ).
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08-22-2011, 05:19 PM
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I have a question about the British Defense Industries... if there was a revitalization, that saw the British producing armaments for the Commonwealth Nations due to an expansion of the Cold War, who'd be leading the industries?
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08-23-2011, 02:03 AM
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08-23-2011, 02:17 AM
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It's a twilight 2000 v1 type of world that had the timeline continued to present day. so basicly the cold war didn't end, communism never fell... but instead the Soviets and their satelites did what the PRC has done IRL to stablize their economies...
The soviets kept their poltical hegemony with "Black Winter"... this brought about the med alliance in the mid-1990s when France, Italy and Greece left NATO and created their own competing alliance that would be joined by several other Med countries. Such as the Libyan Republic (they overthrew Khadaffy early-1990s with a well orchestrated coup that brought in a government that was close to France and Italy who helped rebuild their country), Algeria, Morocco and Tunisan Republic... i'm still building the timeline... but wanted to get some of the stuff for the British Armed forces and their Defense Industry figured out... I've already done the German Democratic Republic done, and been working on the Federal Republic of Germany as well... The US armed forces has been pretty easy. it's almost done.
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Fuck being a hero. Do you know what you get for being a hero? Nothing! You get shot at. You get a little pat on the back, blah blah blah, attaboy! You get divorced... Your wife can't remember your last name, your kids don't want to talk to you... You get to eat a lot of meals by yourself. Trust me kid, nobody wants to be that guy. I do this because there is nobody else to do it right now. Believe me if there was somebody else to do it, I would let them do it. There's not, so I'm doing it.
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