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  1. Super heavy tanks--any way to make them viable?

    You need to butterfly aircraft, missiles and longer range artillery just to get in the game. It is like someone, in 1947, launching a 120,000 ton Battleship with 20" guns. The tech had matured to the point where it was, barely, possible. The rest of tech had also advanced that the ship would be...
  2. WI: U.S. T-28 Super Heavy Tank Deployed In 1944

    I obviously don't know the specifics for every bridge, but the Heer had to actively work to strengthen bridges to handle the Jadtiger which was 25 tons lighter then the T-28
  3. WI: U.S. T-28 Super Heavy Tank Deployed In 1944

    Even an LST couldn't manage it without a massive redesign. The T-28 was ~15 feet wide. Bow opening on a LST was 14' wide. Only way to get it onto shore would be via cranes in a port or via a specially designed lighter. Going to need a megaton of combat engineers to rebuild every bridge in Europe.
  4. Super heavy tanks--any way to make them viable?

    Short version is no, at least not if I understand the question properly. Slightly longer version is that this needs multiple breakthroughs, not just in engine tech, but in metallurgy, fuel processing, fuel production, and basic manufacturing. There is also a reason that, even today, there are...
  5. Best fleet of WWII

    So the U.S., almost TWO YEARS before it enters the war, goes on a massive building program for vessels that were only of use IF they are in the War and the British Side. Long before the Two Oceans Navy Act, before Lend Lease (3/41), before any of the steps that gradually dragged the U.S. into...
  6. WI Soviet-Japanese War in 1939

    The actual question is WHY Stalin chooses to escalate. What is his goal? He can defeat the Kwangtung Army. Better equipment on the ground, including a massive advantage in both number of and quality of tanks available (even if you reduce actual Red Army inventory by half, they still vastly...
  7. Best fleet of WWII

    On the other had I also didn't count the 10 Essex class, 2 CVL, 1 Midway class, and 14 CVE that were completed/cancelled post 1945. I agree that we need to hold the Japanese to account. Their ending that war prevented the last two Iowa class BB from being completed as well. On the other had...
  8. Best fleet of WWII

    There ya go. Blame the French!!!!! :p:openedeyewink:
  9. Best fleet of WWII

    Undoubtedly the Battleship had seen its day, except as a fast fleet escort and, not incidentally as gunfire support ship. One might want to ask the Japanese defenders of the islands that the U.S. invaded what they thought of the usefulness of the battle line (it is likely to be a boring...
  10. Best fleet of WWII

    I find this sort of argument hilarious (it is also somewhat off the OP question, but that ship has sailed). The RN invested so heavily in ASW escorts prewar that it had to trade 99 year leases on SEVEN different territories for 50 OLD destroyers, the newest having been commissioned in 1922...
  11. WI: Hitler waits until 1941?

    He runs out of money and time.
  12. Not Our Hour

    BBC December 3, 1997 "... health disaster. Teams are being assembled from across the world at this time including the WHO and American Centers for Disease Control. "For those just joining us, there has been a suspected biological weapons release in the Middle East. It occurred at a border...
  13. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    They could do it. It would violate the hell out of one of the few major principals that actually hold tight to and reduce the respect that they had in that immediate Post-War period when they actually needed other powers to come along for the ride willingly. It would also drastically weaken the...
  14. Not Our Hour

    November 25, 1997 KABC (Radio) "In the latest massacre related to the Mexican Drug War thirty-seven people are reported dead in a major ambush. Mexican authorities have identified the target to be one of the emerging replacements for leadership of the so-called Pacific Cartel. Authorities...
  15. Not Our Hour

    BANG! rat-tat-tat-tat... "Target eliminated. Estimate 35 Kilo India Alpha. Zero Whiskey India Alpha. Item placed. Zero own loss. Extract nominal."
  16. My plan for a successful Sealion

    The difficulty there, of course, being that he was the only personality strong enough to keep Goring, Goebbels, and Himmler (and possibly Speer and Hess as well) from starting a power struggle that would have destroyed the Reich from within. Even if Goring managed to take over and keep the rest...
  17. Best fleet of WWII

    By 1942, when she was lost, the number operating would be in the low 60s due to previous losses. When you look at the squadron numbers they do not include the spares, they are only the aircraft that are flight ready. This makes even more confusing than it would be otherwise since to removes not...
  18. Not Our Hour

    Not quite JSOC, not quite CIA paramilitary. These guys are through the Looking Glass.
  19. Best fleet of WWII

    Actually none of the IJN carrier could manage their full "designed" complement for a strike by 1941. They all included 6-12 or so spares that were partly disassembled. The IJN, to a much greater extent than the USN lost huge amounts of hanger storage space when the later 1941 era designs came...
  20. Not Our Hour

    It was sort of fun not to exist. There was an empty box in the Miramar National Cemetery. After that everything had been wiped. None of his information, dental records, medical notes, driver's license, or the rest of the records of a life existed. The Team's clothes and equipment were "sterile"...
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