Larynx gives Britain a real foundation for long-range guided strike

The British branch of the alternate history starts with Larynx, the Long Range Gun with Lynx engine, a program that had already reached flight trials. Developed under Professor Archibald Low, the radio-controlled monoplane was launched from the S-class destroyer HMS Stronghold in 1927. Later trials sent aircraft roughly 100 miles, with one falling only about five miles from its target, and testing continued through 1929. German investment in command guidance during the mid-1930s could persuade the Admiralty to fund this dormant line of research more heavily. With Britain's large defence industry, the result might resemble a slow, propeller-driven, 200-mile-range cruise missile by the opening of the Second World War. The speculative British response therefore revives and accelerates demonstrated technology.