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  1. Would strategic bombing work today as well as it did in WW2 against cities?

    Well, today it would probably be a war crime. Specifically Article 51.5 of the 1977 Protocols to the 1949 Geneva Convention ... and, yes, that means that using nuclear weapons on a population center is a war crime. Of course, once you have reached the stage of using nuclear weapons on civilian...
  2. Nazi Victory: What happens to the extermination camps?

    sloreck laid it out preety much on the button. The details were hanging in the air, not the goal.
  3. Nazi Victory: What happens to the extermination camps?

    That is what happens with plans, in and out of the military. Some guy gets a clever (or so he thinks) idea and gives it to his boss. Boss likes it, adds to it, tells the guy to rewrite it. Next guy reads it, makes suggestions... I have personally seen things go from a couple lines on a Post-it...
  4. No Meth = no Blitz?

    What is missed, as @Johnrankins pointed out, is the scale involved. Ten million sound like a LOT of meth, mostly because it is, but when you are sending it to a couple million troops over a four month period, it really isn't. Even of you shrink the number down to 500,000 troops, that is still...
  5. Nazi Victory: What happens to the extermination camps?

    This would be the one real sticking point. There was a appallingly tidy profit running out of the camps to some highly placed officials bank accounts. The utility of the camps would diminish once the Reich had won and completed the elimination of the Jews/Roma/German Communists and the odd PoW...
  6. American FAL?

    I posted it and deleted it. Shouldn't have posted it at all. Apologies to all.
  7. American FAL?

    I am going to take my own advice. Walking away now.
  8. American FAL?

    Here, I will make you happy. You are right. I am wrong. 'kay?
  9. American FAL?

    I DIDN'T SAY IT WAS DESIGNED THAT WAY! ...and with that, I am done.
  10. American FAL?

    Okay, 4th Time. Does NOT matter.
  11. American FAL?

    Point XIII is interesting. It is the "don't listen to the soldiers who use the damned weapons, look at my spreadsheet" rule. I am also struck by the fact that the author discusses the tumbling and fragmentation of the 5.56 as a feature. It isn't, its a bug, one that has, thus far not been...
  12. American FAL?

    Kurtz means short (even I remember enough of my high school German to know that). The U.S. went to a 25% smaller cartridge. As I noted, have fired the 7.62 NATO out of an M1A1 and a couple different bolt action deer guns, .30-06 out of a Garand and a number of different bolt action rifles...
  13. American FAL?

    Since we have utterly derailed the thread (apologies to the OP)... On 2nd thought, not going to re-argue the entire 5.56mm vs. any actual rifle round. The U.S. and NATO is stuck with the round, especially now that the Army, stupidly IMO, chose to ignore the 6.5mm & 6.8mm cartridges that were...
  14. Death/mistreatment in the Gulag - Deliberate or incidental?

    This is the key. There were specifically prisons of different regimens. When a prisoner was "convicted" the regimen was a specific part of the sentence. A sentence to a "Harsh Regimen" facility was close to a death sentence. A sentence to a "Mild Regimen" was not much worse than any other prison...
  15. American FAL?

    Kurtz means short. The 7.62 is 25% shorter than the .30-06. It also, based on extensive personal experience, both in bolt action and semi-auto rifle set-ups, has much less recoil. That was why there was a belief (incorrect as it turned out) that the M-14 would be usable in full auto without a...
  16. If Jackson Had Survived?

    You are formally notified that ANY discussion regarding the Confederate flag controversy is to be discussed in Chat. I would strongly suggest you heed this.
  17. If Jackson Had Survived?

    WAY too politically charged. It got messy, even in Chat.
  18. PC/WI: Improved SEPECAT Super Jaguar developed instead of PANAVIA Tornado?

    No. The Crusader. Some of the fighter community at NAVAIR wanted to save the Crusader as the primary fleet fighter. Vought went so far as to try to get the Fleet to buy a Crusader III (MACH 2.4, big radar, etc) instead of the Phantom. Navy didn't bite, the work load was too great for a single...
  19. If Jackson Had Survived?

    Not in this Forum. :evilupset:
  20. PC/WI: Improved SEPECAT Super Jaguar developed instead of PANAVIA Tornado?

    That is the problem. The idea here is to take it out of its niche and turn it into something it wasn't and would not ever become. The airframe was near it functional max, making any upgrade rather pointless and the changes necessary to bring it into the same capability envelope as the Tornado...
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