Alternative History

Once upon a time, this entire series of articles under the general title “Super-Battleship or Impractical Madness” began with fantasies about the Japanese ...

A heavy, salty fog crept slowly across the waters of Aniva Bay, obscuring the silhouettes of the ships like ghosts shrouded in gray gauze. On the ...

All articles in the series A vintage article from the January 1977 issue of *Aeroplane Monthly* that I think will be of interest to readers and ...

Many navies around the world had “Rendel”-class gunboats in their fleets. These were small, unprotected vessels, but each was armed with a single, ...

World War I gave birth to the tank, but Germany was among those powers that understood the significance of the new machine too late. While the ...

All sections of the article Zoom Out A separate line of innovation began in 1998 when Patrick Peebles adopted a cross-flow fan as part of the wing ...

The KV-4 super-heavy tank project, designed by S.V. Fedorenko, a designer at the Kirov Plant who specialized in tank armament   In the late ...

In the mid-1950s, when the world was gripped by the specter of a nuclear standoff, Soviet aircraft designers were seeking unconventional solutions for ...

This tank comes from a world in which Imperial Germany won the First World War. Exactly how it managed to do so is not particularly important in this case. ...

Earlier, we explored an alternate world in which the Russian Empire, at the turn of the 1880s and 1890s, adopted 7-inch guns for its navy. For simplicity’s ...