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Having spent 6 months in Iraq I'd have to disagree, the British soldiers are good at COIN ops, but their equipment and support was very poor (Snatch Landrovers, barely working comms systems etc). Its a different MO to how the US do things, ours is very much more a gently gently but iron fist...

Ahh thanks for clearing that up :)

The UK has fighters on scramble and they can be sent up if needed but I dunno how the system works and it was obviously worked over completely post 9/11.

One problem with hitting Buck Palace and the like, they are all fairly small targets in rather built up areas. You'd have to dive onto them not fly into them and that limits manouvering etc in a terminal dive (as passenger planes are not built for that kinda thing) so you'd either hit, or slam...

When 9/11 happened my unit (47 Regt RA armed with Starstreak SAMs) had its parachute Battery scrambled to London, their launchers are mounted on a tall tripod and not the tank so are far more portable. They set up shop atop Canary Wharf as well as at the Houses of Parliment and I think atop the...

I dunno, what are the Luftwaffe giving up to get their bombers and long range twin engine fighters which will probably be inferior in dogfighting like the 110 was?

Thing is matey, these bombers don't spring forth fully formed, to get them made, get the pilots diverted, trained, get the working doctrine (as the Nazi's didn't really have one) etc it takes time and effort and forign powers would notice this. You're having the Soviets who would probably...

Assuming that somehow they ignore this magic uber bomber force thats appeared to the point of being retarded. Which is what you're doing Nazi's and friends get X Y Z 1 2 and 3 Everyone THEY STAY AS PER OTL! ANY CHANGE IST VERBOTEN!

No, because the Convoy system would not be abandoned. Period.

Yeah but how's it going to happen? Again they are NOT going to abandon it because 'reasons' and even with the sinkings the WAllies will grit their teeth and stick to it And sinkings in 44? Please by then the U-Boat arm was beaten and broken.

I'm still wondering where these fully formed, working HE-177's came from or did Udet sing this song and BAMF they appeared by the power of Wunderwaffen and Wehraboo combined?

No they would do what they did OTL. Apply political pressure to make the US accept convoys as being a thing which ended out with the President saying King would Convoy ships otherwise he'd be fired. The WAllies are not going to abandon the convoy. There's no other option as individual...

So the brits are going to look at the massed sinkings off the US coast which Churchill was already bitterly complaining about to Teddy and go "HEY GAIZ! I HAF GR8TE IDEA! LETS DU DA SAME!" And then proceed to smash each other round the head with cricket bats whilst yelling TALLY HO...

The American's at that point didn't have a convoy. The British did. Why do you think the 2nd happy time slaughter occured? Because the USN didn't escort its ships, they didn't follow blackout procedures and they sailed alone. They might as well as put flashing neon signs above them saying...

Because the allies had the whole system set up for it. Convoys worked and even when losses were high it was mainly due to a wolf pack being loaded up with aces. Individual sailings would allow the U-boats to sink one ship, move on, find the next, sink that and so on and its impossible to...

The book's not a source saying they would its asking a question if losses became so catastrophic that could they? But the Admiralty and everyone knew that individual sailings would just lead to a greater slaughter. And the WAllies are never presented as perfect. That is purely Not-nazi...

What sources?

You can imagine it at the Admiralty. "Sir our losses are quite severe." "Indeed." "So I had this idea.." "I'm listening." "Well you know how individual sailing didn't work in the First World War, and that we know this as we spent the post war years studying the convoy principles and...

Thing is the UK will only take this so far, they won't permit a German asendancy in Europe or at sea. I think the UK will be looking for an excuse.

Nasty, the two Japanese Battle Squadrons have been decapitated in the opening salvo with both Admirals for the moment incapacitated and Kondo probably dying.