FD scale: "Interim Interceptor" challenge
It's 1952, and a hostile superpower has just unveiled the world's first strategic jet bomber. Your intelligence community is scrambling to find out details about the exact number of these planes in service, while your military, just beginning to break into the jet age, is hastily ordering a new and advanced interceptor carrying novel weapon systems, a large air-search and tracking radar, and new, afterburning engines to offer the required performance edge to catch the target.
However, there are too many innovations in this new design, and its development drags on, running horribly over budget and, perhaps, even facing cancellation. The air force generals are now screaming at their heads of procurement to create a cheap, fast to produce interim all-weather interceptor that can leap into action until the advanced design finally matures. The design is supposed to use as many off-the-shelf parts feasible. A conversion of an already existing airframe to the job is also an option. What does your response look like??
SB scale: "Torpedo Soup" challenge
The setting is the 1930s and your country has a bunch of cruisers around that date back two centuries or more. At this time, the system of treaties dictating warship displacement currently were not in effect. Thus, these aging cruisers are small and barely more powerful than a destroyer in any way but their armour - And even that is paper-thin by the standard of modern cruisers. It seems these old ships have out-lived their usefulness - Until a few intelligent - Or maybe slightly mental - people propose to turn these aging warships into something new: A warship that relies wholly on the torpedo as her primary offensive tool.
The aim is to turn an old cruiser into an arsenal ship for heavy torpedoes, perhaps a callback to the days of the Jeune École, to figure out whether a new revolution in warfare is coming, or if this new idea is just another in a vast pile of proposals that lead to dead ends. But who knows, maybe someone will turn it into a video game ship some day and make mad cash by selling it!
EDIT: I like the adversary aircraft idea, by the way.
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