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  1. P-39 Airacobra as a dive bomber?

    The 37mm gun was not a good tank killer (one of the great myths about the P-39 is that the Soviets loved it in the ground attack role because of the 37mm, not true, the Soviets used them as a fighter). The M4 cannon had a muzzle velocity of 2,000 FPS, about 1/3 lower than the M3 anti-tank gun...
  2. AHC: Olympics make money post-Montreal '76?

    LA needs to be the example going forward for ALL Olympic Cities. The insanity of building new facilities that become more or less useless once the Games are over (How many $150M Velodromes that seat 5,000+ does a country with no World Championship experience actually need?) has pushed the price...
  3. AHC: Olympics make money post-Montreal '76?

    You mean like LA did in 1984? Cleared $200M ($456M in 2015 USD). Just sayin...
  4. Japanese sink US carriers at Pearl Harbor, what next?

    Melt them back to ingots. Only way to be sure. :P In any case the hull form didn't really have that much more room than the Cleveland class hulls and took much longer to build.
  5. Japanese sink US carriers at Pearl Harbor, what next?

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  6. Japanese sink US carriers at Pearl Harbor, what next?

    Same thing happened with Enterprise after she was repaired following her final kamikaze hit. She was used for the "Magic Carpet" troop rotations to the U.S. from the ETO and then more or less thrown away.
  7. Japanese sink US carriers at Pearl Harbor, what next?

    The U.S. was about as paranoid about the Canal as it is possible to be outside the walls of a medical facility. Very large air contingent, large ground contingent (58,000 men, around 1/3 coastal Artillery and AAA artillery), and stout defenses, both against air attack and against warships. The...
  8. Brexit: An American Becomes English

    Please don't post current political based threads in post 1900. These should go into Chat or (as is the case with this post) Writer's Forum.
  9. US Victory Against the CSA/Great Britain

    Stop! Enough with this sockpuppet BS. If you think you have someone who is a sockpuppet, use the report button. Don't speculate or accuse. All this does is make everything that much less civil.
  10. Japanese sink US carriers at Pearl Harbor, what next?

    The really amazing thing is that they did it with a 20 year old ship that was obsolescent before the Raid. Always nice to have the most skin in the game.
  11. How much of an issue would partisans be if the Nazis won in the East?

    Part of the key is if they are getting ANY support. If they have no major power support (as was the overall case in AANW) they are not going to be any threat. Food, weapons, even clothing will run out quickly. In a Generalplan Ost scenario the insurgents also lose what Mao famously called "the...
  12. Japanese sink US carriers at Pearl Harbor, what next?

    Actually raising the carriers, especially Lexington and potentially Saratoga, would have been no more of a challenge than the West Virginia (which absorbed SIX torpedo hits, including two that penetrated deep into the ship after entering the holes caused by earlier hits and two major bomb hits)...
  13. Japanese sink US carriers at Pearl Harbor, what next?

    Not really warm, but pleasant. :) Midway was not meant to be the Decisive Battle. It was designed to disable the USN's version of the Kido Butai (Mobile Striking Force). This would allow the time necessary to complete the territorial acquisitions necessary to ensure a defensive perimeter that...
  14. Oi! Adolph! NO! - Earliest plausible intervention?

    Oh, absolutely hindsight helps. Still, you have someone who is already showing he's pretty aggressive making a move that effectively dares you to react while he is still pitifully weak and you are, by comparison, extremely powerful. Add in that this lead is in charge of the same country that...
  15. German nuclear bomb

    The reason the Ju-87 was banned from British skies was because it was a manned target sleeve. Early radars were very difficult to destroy. Their very lack of compactness meant that a strike on one was less likely to have an effect. Transmitters were HUGE, covering areas the size of football...
  16. Oi! Adolph! NO! - Earliest plausible intervention?

    March 7, 1936. Day the Wehrmacht crossed troops back into the Rhineland the French should have advanced to contact and destroyed the Heer forces. Once that was complete, drive through into Germany, destroy any armed German formations encountered. Keep it up until you are in Berlin or until the...
  17. WI the movie Avatar ended with the Colonel's infamous fan-made monologue?

    IMO too long between sequels. That may be a rather bad sign for it since Cameron is planning at least four more in the series. The real wrinkle is that ALL FOUR will be shot at the same time, They will then be released every two years, starting in 2018. Apparently Cameron had to wait for the...
  18. WI the movie Avatar ended with the Colonel's infamous fan-made monologue?

    How is it possible for the HUMANS to get less sympathy? The movie very effectively paints almost every human character as, at best, members of the Waffen SS on the Eastern Front, with other getting full einsatzgruppen personalities. The only exceptions are the few pure scientists, Jake, and the...
  19. Japanese sink US carriers at Pearl Harbor, what next?

    The attack at Pearl was a RAID. As such it was best suited for the Mobile Striking Force (i.e. Kido Butai). The Japanese Naval command structure was devoted, to a degree that is nearly impossible to overstate, to the Concept of the Decisive Battle. The main battle fleet was to be preserved, at...
  20. German nuclear bomb

    It wasn't impossible, it was just extremely unlikely. The Luftwaffe had the wrong sort of force structure for a strategic bombing campaign, its bombers were too poorly armed to even pretend to be defended making them incredibly vulnerable to fighters (the theory was they were too fast for...
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