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Malaya What If
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Nope, just not issued a ration any more - have to buy their own.
Tuesday at 2:44 AM
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I'm not 100% sure on that - currently digging through that NACA report to see how they were planning on gearing the turbine (not very...
Apr 18, 2024
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@pdf27 I see, I misunderstood what you were saying and thought you were saying the engine should drive the turbine rather than the...
Apr 18, 2024
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That's fantastic, thanks. What I have in mind is that the two relevant scenarios in the early war are (B) and (D): the USAAF aren't...
Apr 18, 2024
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The reason I'm using "like" is that while at a component level it's a supercharger (centrifugal impeller turned by mechanical power at a...
Apr 18, 2024
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So now I've started to go down a turbo- and super-charger rabbit-hole this morning. Wahey. There are a whole bunch of interlocking...
Apr 13, 2024
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One thing to be careful of here is that my understanding of the early turbos is that they were running right on the material limits and...
Apr 13, 2024
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Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.
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In OTL they were all re-exported to Europe which needed them even worse. So getting rid of them is easy, if you can replace them. Not...
Apr 3, 2024
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A Better Rifle at Halloween
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And she would also be strong enough to do unpleasant things even without shooting them!
Apr 1, 2024
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A Better Rifle at Halloween
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More to the point, it will make those around him a target for the enemy. That's why Prince Harry never deployed to Iraq, and why he...
Mar 29, 2024
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Regarding the analysis of a carrier battle, there are a few points. The RN are not getting into a daytime fight unless cornered - why on...
Mar 23, 2024
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One additional point which is absolutely critical here: ASV Mk II is capable of detecting large ships at a range of 60 miles, while in...
Mar 23, 2024
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Malaya What If
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No other nation's aircraft ever had to fly into the sort of defensive firepower that the USN was able to put up in 1944-45, which is why...
Mar 21, 2024
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He wasn't expecting aircraft carrying aerial torpedoes to be able to reach him. That's the critical point - Torpedoes are big and heavy...
Mar 21, 2024
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Important note here: the bite-and-hold attacks were combined arms attacks as well. Bite-and-hold isn't about how you're fighting...
Mar 16, 2024
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