History, Politics And Current Affairs

Hi gents Semi-back-on-line. Life's been very weird lately. I was supposed to retire in January, and have instead wound up extended beyond retiring age as the Chief of Navy Fellow, teaching at the Australian Defence Force Academy until the end of the year! Which has made me amazingly busy learning ma...

From Wiki (make of it what you will :D ): An active/passive air-to-air version for use against slow-moving support aircraft, a so-called "AWACS killer", was announced at the 1992 Moscow air show with 200 km (110 nmi; 120 mi) range.[6] That would be less than the 300–400 kilometres (160–22...

Hi Gents - comments below If our premise is that Australia has effectively been at war since TLW 1999-2000ish, wouldn't a lot of these issues have been addressed in the intervening five years? I mean of course not overnight, but I'd think the issues were at least identified and thought about suffici...

Hi gents Of course such an expansion won't be easy. Let's start in the mid-90s with the gradual expansion of the reserves. That will be OK from the basics level (uniforms etc) from internal resources. When the sharp expansion happens there are actually a goodly amount of Oceanian resources available...

Pt 2 Now we have to roll back a little to look at the structure of the CCP factions. Following Mao's death in 1976 (an event to genuinely be celebrated) there was your usual communist power struggle between CCP chairman Hua Guofeng and vice-chairman Deng Xiaoping. Deng won the fight, and became Chin...

Hi James. This could go any way with China. That said, the central event here seems to be Deng Xiaoping's southern tour of Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Guangzhou and Shanghai, from 18 January to 21 February 1992. The talks and remarks made by Deng during the tour resumed and reinforced the implementation of hi...

The RAN will be larger in manpower terms than this. a.) The RAN would be markedly larger than the 2024 level of 14,745 personnel and 52 vessels, with 90 ships listed in the 2005 orbat, as well as the fleet being described as strapped for manpower. Based on the type of ships employed, and factoring i...

Certainly fine by me. This piece has any number of inputs and this reads well.

Cheers: Mark

That looks like it works!

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I'm not entirely sure what version this is, so I'm sure there are errors in it. WHat date is best for the timeline?

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Bernard Woolley wrote: ↑Tue Oct 22, 2024 3:53 pm I seem to have returned to quite a bit of stuff being posted! I was only gone for four days, guys!

maaaaaaybe??

<looks shifty and sidles away quietly>




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So our story POD is late 1989, but Australia and Southeast Asia largely carry on as in @ until 1998/1999*. *As a side note, I think the one area of difference will be that with the continued Cold War, Vietnam is going to have a more modernized force, with that meaning Thailand is likely to get clea...

Thanks Bernard. As per Mark’s suggestion, and if it is alright, I might proffer a slightly edited version tonight that incorporates existing national service; doesn’t quite seek to turn the entire nature of Australia on its head; and includes a draft of a Howard address to the country. If I might r...

Then that's a very good option for NZ. The E-2 is better suited to a MARCOP role in NZ waters than is an E-1 as it's faster on transit. I'd suggest as a mod that the engines be upgraded with an eye to best possible fuel efficiency , and that (if possible) underwing tankage be added to further extend...

Hmmm.... Hmmm.... So if we have a fleet of S-2T (100+) C-1T (6) used as conversion trainers routinely, and also to support S-2T flights at regional airports, those flights also being training missions E-1T (11) Doing a comparison of E-2 to E-1 I can't see any real advantage to having a mixed fleet o...

IIRC (and that's unlikely as my memory leaks like a sieve :D ) this was discussed years ago, and in TLW-verse there were no E-2 available at all, hence the Tracers, Also, they'd be yet another airframe type. As I've mentioned, a lot of the stuff I'm finding is unfinished, not fully edited or partial...

No rush, Simon. There's no deadlines here and we are all just having a bit of fun.

Now, back to marking some papers.....

Oh, it's after midnight, papers can damned well wait.

Cheers: mark

From memory, Simon, this 'archive salvage+post' was not even partly finalised before the loss of the old board and like everything was/is not canon until Bernard says so. I certainly can't remember everyone who had inputs into this piece before the loss of the old board. I think I wrote most of the ...

Thanks Jotun - that's a good point. That said, I think that an operation like this would be 'sold' internally as broadly as possible. it would indeed be sold as 'a message for Bonn', (and as you rightly point out)' for NZ, Chile, Brazil, the Caribbean and Central American countries not on the USSR's...

More from the archive... DARKSTAR oOo May 2005 ‘Air Commodore Myrtle, sir.’ The new CAF did not even look up from his work. “Come in, Wally, and can we have tea and sandwiches please, it’s after lunchtime, isn’t it?’ His ADC shook his head. ‘it’s 1830 sir. And I’ve organised something more substanti...