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  1. Pick your own "Unsung Heroes" weapons.

    No. The USAAF got tired of sending telegrams to the families of pilots who got killed in New Guinea and Guadalcanal. The P-39 was so poor in hot and humid conditions that the aircraft couldn't even climb over the Owen Stanley Range (14,000 feet) on New Guinea. The British decided that they...
  2. 1930s US Army "Sanity" Options?

    You REALLY do go out of your way to be nasty don't you? Ironically I read that article earlier today. BTW: You should be very thankful you decided be this level of pointlessly insulting with me. If you had done it to another member you would be on a seven day vacation.
  3. Pick your own "Unsung Heroes" weapons.

    Yes and no. For the War the U.S. & UK fought it was a POS. Horsepower dropped off so badly in hot and humid conditions at at over 20K the aircraft was a liability in both the ETO and PTO. It was, however, hell on wheels at around 10K. If the aircraft had enough time to get to that altitude in...
  4. 1930s US Army "Sanity" Options?

    Maybe. The primary reason historically was that the Army Chief of Staff (the one and only Douglas MacArthur, guy's like a bad penny, always seems to turn up) and the Ordnance Department decided that the Army had so much .30-06 that it wasn't reasonable to get a new round. Of course that "huge...
  5. AHC: Democratic President Trump

    Current politics
  6. 1930s US Army "Sanity" Options?

    Not so much the Pederson, which IMO, was an inferior design to the Garand, but the .276 cartridge would have been the single best change possible. The U.S. might STILL be using the caliber to this day. As has already been noted the U.S. Army was provided such a small budget that getting...
  7. Wank the RM/Kriegsmarine 1929 POD

    In what role? ASW wasn't a major KM need, especially by 1943 (which was when the early versions of the Fi 282 would have been ready for prime time). If the KM wants to build 1,800 ton surface combatants the ship type needed was destroyers. One of the KM's great weaknesses (much as was the case...
  8. Wank the RM/Kriegsmarine 1929 POD

    Well, since you have apparently decided to continue the discussion... The actual tonnage of the Lepzig class (which, for purposes of moving the discussion forward, can be left for another day) is, while not immaterial, considerably less critical than the hull form. I am unaware of any...
  9. Pick your own "Unsung Heroes" weapons.

    P-38. No, that that one. This one:
  10. The U.S. Signs an Alliance with Britain and France in 1919-1920

    EXTREMELY unlikely. The American electorate was very turned off by the post WW I politics, all of which tended to reinforce the very worst beliefs that were held toward the British (and less so of the French). While American losses in the war pale compared to a single bad quarter suffered by...
  11. Wank the RM/Kriegsmarine 1929 POD

    I thought you were not going to reply to me any more. I had a rather nice reply I had prepared (actually posted it before I deleted it when I read your reply about no wanting to discuss further). Probably for the best, considering.
  12. Wank the RM/Kriegsmarine 1929 POD

    Well, since you won't bother to discuss further I suppose we have nowhere to go.
  13. Map Thread XV

    Wait... WHAT?
  14. Wank the RM/Kriegsmarine 1929 POD

    Best bet here is to simply buy Japanese. Type 94 was as good as things got in 1938, arguably overall a better design than the Italian F200/450 (the Germans called it the F5W). Truth be told the same goes for the Type 95 submarine torpedo.
  15. Wank the RM/Kriegsmarine 1929 POD

    There was, however, more an enough time to construct/convert a dozen or more of them after the IJN abrogated the Treaty in 1936 (took 8 months to convert HMS Activity from a cargo ship to a CVE). A dozen CVE would give the RN a close to 1:1 ration to ocean going U-boats in 1939 (or 1938 in the...
  16. Wank the RM/Kriegsmarine 1929 POD

    Lepzing was 8,100 tons, her sibling Nurnberg was 9,100 tons. More critically the Lepzig class was only 5 feet shorter than the Cleveland class. The KM ship has notably less beam, which would have a serious impact of air wing size (which is why I gave this sort of conversion only 20 aircraft)...
  17. Wank the RM/Kriegsmarine 1929 POD

    Well, that would work except for the fact that the number of submarines the KM could have before the agreement was exactly zero (the Reich decided to test the waters and laid down six Type I, none of which reached commission until after the Agreement). The number of post 1906 designed...
  18. Wank the RM/Kriegsmarine 1929 POD

    Prefacing this with the statement that the 1935 Angle-German Naval Agreement was, by a mile, the most idiotic thing His Majesty's government did in the interwar period... If the KM wants to persist in chasing carriers, this would be a way to do it. A better way would be to use the Lepzig CL...
  19. Main Reason for the Lopsided Coalition Victory in 1991 Persian Gulf War

    Yes. Stealth. Paveway. Patriot. Low Altitude helo attacks against border radar stations cleared attack lanes for Coalition non-Stealth platforms. Aggressive leadership (including by the new NSA at 73 Eastings) allowed Coalition forces to get inside the Iraqi decision loop. Iraqi officers used...
  20. If Trump had lost

    Current politics. Locked.
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