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  1. Abolition of 19th C Slavery

    Yet, despite not having a dog in the fight, you continue down the same path. BTW: I have enough Southern kin to know exactly what "Bless your heart" means. Kicked for a week.
  2. WI- USA gets Singapore in 1940's Destroyers for Bases Agreement

    'tis more the pity. We need more frozen, icy, storm tossed, no dry season, cold summer- Actually we don't. Moving on.
  3. Wi: future offensive air system not cancelled

    a BIG pile of money.
  4. Abolition of 19th C Slavery

    It is sort of tragic that you would choose to go down this sort of play the man path on this subject. You clearly have a very solid background regarding the matter, and had earlier put for compelling arguments supporting your position. All that you are doing with these "zingers" is undermining...
  5. WI: Socialism failed to take over Russia, but was established in Germany?

    All the individuals kill by one side in a civil war "deserved killing"? I mulled Banning you for this clear support of mass political murder, but it is remotely possible that you did not mean to imply that ALL members of the Clergy and ALL "Capitalists" deserved to be murdered in cold blood...
  6. WI: The Germans halt their advance to Moscow

    Don't bump threads. They live or die on content, not being pushed onto the front page. Only warning you get on this issue.
  7. PC: Able Archer leads to limited Nuclear exchange followed by conventional warfare?

    Limited strike scenarios are almost impossible, especially in an Able Archer world. The only even low possibility limited exchange scenarios involve tactical weapons used against purely military formations once they have deployed. The ones that are sometimes seen in novels, where one side...
  8. WI the Nazis captured an atomic bomb?

    Well, your friend either misspoke or he is pulling your leg. The reason the U.S. went with the dual path U235/Pu239 development track was that the processing of U238 > U235 was so bloody difficult, while production of Pu 239 was much easier, but the Uranium bomb was a sure bet while the...
  9. WI tallboy/grand sland used against Hitler's Berlin bunker?

    No. But the butcher's bill could have been higher. A less foolish leader would have accepted that service as a corporal almost 30 years earlier did not make someone a military genius. The Heer could have stretched out the war for some time, possibly as much as six months, given the chance to...
  10. Can an M270 MLRS really take out a square kilometer?

    That was the theory. The Soviets, in Afghanistan, discovered that the fight until wiped out model wasn't nearly as effective as had been the case in the Great Patriotic War. Fight to the last man works less well when you do not have two sociopaths (Stalin and Beria) holding the reins.
  11. Can an M270 MLRS really take out a square kilometer?

    The expectation back during the recent unpleasantness, was that both the BRD & DDR would be largely destroyed, at least to June 1945 levels, if not worse (keep in mind that most scenarios called for CW, if not tactical nukes, as a basic element of any WP attack, although bio-weapons were...
  12. WI tallboy/grand sland used against Hitler's Berlin bunker?

    One critical difference is that Tirptiz was a readily identifiable target. Standing out like a sore thumb doesn't even begin to describe it and AAA/fighter defenses were nothing like those over Berlin. The Tirpitz does, however, give a reasonable example of the difficulty of this sort of raid...
  13. Grading Hitler's Military Command Competence

    It didn't generate the specific discussion I had anticipated initially, but the result of the Reich victory was discussed quite a bit over the course of the T/L, so I would say it did achieve the discussion.
  14. WI: Thande is never a member of AH.com?

    Seriously? Don't. Just don't.
  15. Can an M270 MLRS really take out a square kilometer?

    A Front, maybe two. Figure 6 MLRS per mile of Front. 10 reloads gives you full destruction of an area 2 klicks across and 60 klicks in depth with the batteries withdrawing around five klicks to reload reset and fire across a 640 mile line. With the M30 rocket that is readily doable (assuming you...
  16. Can an M270 MLRS really take out a square kilometer?

    Yes and no. Get 1,000 or so M270 with 10 reloads each and some air cover, and there would be much left of the Soviet maneuver formations
  17. Can an M270 MLRS really take out a square kilometer?

    Against a WW II force it would be incredibly lethal, provided it had sufficient protection from enemy air. This is the general rule of thumb for any system, e.g. a company of modern MBT would destroy a WW II armored division in 20 minutes with not only no serious damage, but effectively no...
  18. WI tallboy/grand sland used against Hitler's Berlin bunker?

    To quote from the wiki article on the plan (mainly because I am too lazy to type out something from a different reference). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Foxley
  19. Can an M270 MLRS really take out a square kilometer?

    Against soft skinned targets and exposed personnel? Fairly close. There are, of course, always bomblets that fail to detonate (one reason that Improved Conventional Munitions & CBU are no longer in the inventory of many countries), individual vehicles of personnel that will be shielded by a...
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