Alternative History

Although not many people are familiar with this car, this project can be considered fully realized. The car went into production. It’s just that the production ...

Older readers of this site may recall that Bulgaria was referred to as the “sixteenth republic” in the 1980s. However, it never actually became a Soviet ...

As is well known, in the early days of its existence, Rome—then still a kingdom—was in a very vulnerable position. It was surrounded by city-states that were ...

A story about the experimental German tank destroyer Versuchs-leichte Panzerjäger IV (Panzerjäger 39), based on the Pz.Kpfw.IV tank The first German tank ...

I’m sorry to disappoint anyone who thinks this is going to be about yet another American startup developing a new super-heavy aircraft. That’s not the case at ...

Landsverk Pricken, Leo, Lansen, and other promising Swedish tanks from 1944–51 Contents: Despite their neutral status, the Swedish military was well aware ...

We have written about the An-70, a promising Soviet—and later Ukrainian—military transport aircraft, on numerous occasions on our website. However, all of ...

Although work on tiltrotors is underway in many places, the Bell V-22 Osprey remains the world’s only production aircraft of its kind. However, at the ...

I've added a few illustrations to this archived post from April 2020. The Me.155 was originally planned as a carrier-based fighter for the aircraft ...

Dear colleagues, as I promised—here’s the first AI-related post of the new year) Contents: The Suez Crisis of 1956 proved to be an extremely unpleasant ...