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These were for earlier times to eliminate formations of aircraft. FYI, the US had the same on the Hercules part of the Nike-Hercules system untill they were replaced by Patriot in the 80s so the operational thinking was pretty similar. For the low level part the SA-7 Strela 1 and 2 entered...

Off course not, why launch an operation you are not certain has a good chance of success? Stalin wanted this launched in 43 or even 42 but after their learning experience at Dieppe as well as the landings in Italy in 43 they waited, built, prepared and shaped the battlefield (not the least by...

You would need air parity at the very least, without contesting and not allowing allied air to operate virtually unopposed it does not matter how many forces you try to move to the area as they will be chewed up before they get there and their supply situation will be interesting to put it mildly.

Now now, language boys. Just a couple of points; Picture 1: This is reloading an eight cell sea sparrow mount on the sponsor of a carrier or an amphib, seing as they carry their own reloads and have the cranes / lifting apparatus in situ it is a very different thing from reloading a VLS on a...

A couple of things on Japan; Hansell found himself on the wrong end of the battle of the high altitude precision VS low level incendiary bombing lobbies, made even worse by the apparent inefficiencies of the early raids under his command partly due to the existence of strong jet streams (unknown...

To go from the top; as far as i know the law that was introduced in the Chamber of Deputies in 2017 to ban the use of any Facist symbols, images etc. has not been ratified by the Senate, there are still monuments to National Socialism (Facist) leaders and for the time period in general dotted...

Seing as our friend has gotten his hand on a anti-shipping special combining a mix of RDX, aluminium powder and TNT i think he has more than enough oooomphhh to get the job done.

My apologies if the semantics got in the way. The evaluations for going from 8 to 4 engines have been done to death but for some reason or the other they always seem to firmly land on the "let´s not do it" side of the equation wether that is for real technical issues or "it´s not sexy enough"...

Yessss.......it certainly looks to big to me.........

Thank you very much for the continuing effort at this fantastic yarn, been reading this pretty much since its inception and it is a pleasure to see a well crafted, well thought out yarn.

BZ, this has to be one of the better TLs out there, great characters, well within believable butterflies and just a damn great read. Thank you for the continuing effort.

For some really in-depth technical and other papers (including the drivers and reasoning for increased German-Japanese technical co-operation(now, how realistic that would have been is another question seeing how xenophobic our Japanese friends were)i would recommend this site, some good fiction...

The Jeanne d'arc was a helicopter carrier along the lines of the Soviet Moscow class. Our french had a second carrier in their defense papers for a long time but i think they removed it in either 2012 or 2013 so as of now there is no mention of a second carrier.

With a caveat that i am not a naval engineer or specialized in CVNs in particular the RN should give themselves a big pat on the back for not buying the CDG design as the french designed it as it is a dog of a ship for a few reasons, in no particular order: -Reactor: they took a reactor...

All i can say after finding this one a few days ago and coinciding with having two days off work is what a great sleepless time it's been. Keep it up, truly excellent and coin tosses are nice to sort things out :D