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  1. 1930s US Army "Sanity" Options?

    As you say it is very much a chicken/egg. I can see your position, even appropriate the logic behind it, just don't happen to agree. Sort of the whole thing with AH, most things are less than black or white along the edges.
  2. 1930s US Army "Sanity" Options?

    This may be true, however, the existence of the aircraft is more likely to reduce the pace that actual combat capable aircraft are rushed into the system. There will also be a very high probability that those very large number of combat obsolescent aircraft will be put into service (given public...
  3. 1930s US Army "Sanity" Options?

    Potentially. Assuming the French managed to get them into operation. IIRC a number of Hawk 75 were still in their shipping crated when France fell.
  4. Did Britain or the CW use the US 37mm M3 gun?

    The British operated the M3/M5 Stuart in the Western Desert. Since it had the 37mm M6 gun the British did use the 37mm (used it in combat about a month before the U.S force in the PI engaged after Pearl Harbor).
  5. Massively Multiplayer: Gaming In The New Millennium

    I flat-out can NOT believe that someone would STILL try to defend Gamergate or victim blame Zoe Quinn. Have you been residing in a cave the last couple years? We divorce you. To Coventry with you.
  6. 1930s US Army "Sanity" Options?

    Expanding the AAF in the early 1930s, even as last as 1938, is a waste of time and money. The revolution in aircraft was so sudden, and so all encompassing, that all that came before was obsolete in the blink of an eye. In 1936 the best B-17 model available was the "B". No tail guns, no power...
  7. 1930s US Army "Sanity" Options?

    The .276 was the "intermediate" round that never was. Instead of going a lighter (both in weight and recoil) round (doesn't have to be the .276, could have been any number of cartridges in the 7mm/.280 range) the U.S. went from the .30-06 to the .308, which was still too powerful (which is more...
  8. Wank the RM/Kriegsmarine 1929 POD

    A lot would depend on the level of discussion between the KM and the IJN regarding capabilities of systems. The KM did buy Italian torps, so it isn't that far outside the box.
  9. Wank the RM/Kriegsmarine 1929 POD

    We did, a couple pages back. I was pushing for the KM to buy Japanese.
  10. WI: Settler colonialism Was Used Worldwide?

    The problems in Africa are less related to if the European "settlers" were there or were not and much more to the fact that the colonial empires didn't much care where they set up borders (or intentionally push two hostile groups into one administrative area so they would kill each other instead...
  11. 1930s US Army "Sanity" Options?

    Interesting thing about the M-1 is that it was possible to convert it to full auto. In Band of Brothers (the book) Dick Winters talks about it. He also said that when he talked to the soldier who had come up with the method 20 years later, the guy claimed he had forgotten how to do it. Thing is...
  12. Map Thread XV

    Please leave current politics at the door.
  13. Rommel Survives the War: Do the Allies Prosecute Him?

    Really? This added to the discussion how?
  14. Rommel Survives the War: Do the Allies Prosecute Him?

    Know about it? True. That was, at least in part, why Rommel was willing to at least listen to the July 20 plotters, he saw the Nazis as destroying Germany. Rommel would have been a very interesting case. He was, without any question, guilty of overseeing slave laborers (well over 200,000 of...
  15. What was/is the best 7.62mm NATO Battle Rifle?

    (&$%!!! You are right. :firstimekiss:
  16. What was/is the best 7.62mm NATO Battle Rifle?

    The FN SCAR 17 has the advantage of being more or less brand new, having begun production in 2004. U.S. SPECOPS seems to love the weapon, although they decided to stop procurement of its 5.56 sibling, citing cost vs. performance concerns compared to other options like the M4 and H&K 416. I am a...
  17. Pick your own "Unsung Heroes" weapons.

    The Marines appreciated ANY air support they got on the 'Canal (if someone had shown up in Nieuport 17 with U.S. markings and hit the Japanese the Marines would have been ecstatic). The P-39 was pretty much limited to the CAS and barge hunting role due to power issues in the tropical climate.
  18. WI de Gaulle dies before taking power in 57/58

    You REALLY need to reconsider your posting style.
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