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If you write it, we'll read it. It's your story so tell it the way you want to, I'm enjoying the slow burn and ambiguous details

Keep on writing, this too shall pass

Well, 2 things. 1) The M113 was never called the Gavin. 2) It actually wouldn't have been a bad name for it if Sparky hadn't poisoned the well. Many of the parameters for the M113 were set out of a desire to make it as close to airmobile as possible. I will also note that the AIFV variants...

The M113 is excellent... within its niche. And it's niche is not charging at the front line of an attack. The M113 is a support track, and it excels at that. I will note that the Army is *not* completely replacing the M113 even now, they're instead rebuilding almost half of the inventory for...

Sparky, as in M113 Uber Alles Sparky? He's still bloviating... and people still pay any attention to his idiocy?

The Power of AWACS compels you! The Power of AWACS compels you! All your kills are belong to us!

E-3B AWACS, since all the birds it controls are technically its weapon systems. *ducks for cover from the fighter pilot mafia*

I wonder if with the increased tensions and such in the years leading up to this that the media circus of deception regarding Sergeant York DIVAD might not occur. There's a great post in the War Room about how the system actually worked and just needed tuning when the NYT and WaPo pretty much...

Very likely Vietnam will stay out of things completely, because the treaties that would have bound them to the Soviets had expired by 86 and they were just coming off of a war with the PRC. So you'd likely see them waving their hands dramatically and staying the hell out of things. They'd...

the F-18L is *not* carrier capable, it is the land-based only version of the Hornet, with non-folding wings and much lighter landing gear. The wings, without the folding mechanism, are strong enough to mount *Sparrows* (and later AMRAAM) on the wingtip instead of Sidewinder. In many ways it is...

Two birds I would be interested in seeing possibly get more traction would be the F-20 Tigershark and the Northrop F-18L. With the timing, the Tigershark might be seen as an attractive upgrade/replacement for the F-5E's that were still very widespread, with a lower learning curve than F-16's...