Search results

  1. If Germany used chemical/bio weapons from the beginning of WW2

    The difficulty with chemical weapons is that, well, they don't offer any advantage against someone who can respond in kind. This is especially true in WW II, where the gloves came all the way off, on all sides. Every combatant had CW agents, no one wanted to be the first to break the taboo, but...
  2. Not Our Hour

    July 7, 1997 Notimex "...announced an alliance with the United States to monitor vessels entering Mexican waters. American efforts will be limited to ONLY interdiction of unauthorized arms shipments and drug smuggling. No other interdiction will be allowed and American vessels will host a...
  3. Not Our Hour

    "Where is this information coming from?" ""One of our people in Switzerland." "100% certainty? "Absolute." "Announce it. Suggest that the Grand Mufti announce a fatwa. Suggest as strongly as necessary" "Yes your Highness." June 28, 1997 BBC Saudi officials have just announced that they...
  4. Not Our Hour

    June 25, 1997 WH Situation Room. POTUS: "No, the real question is if they will buy it? I know they WANT to believe it. Question is if they will buy it?" DCIA: "It matches up with their internal belief system on the issue. It will also allow them to focus the anger somewhere with a lot less in...
  5. Not Our Hour

    Implausible? You bet. Impossible? Not so much. All of these are, at least so far, based on actual threats or potential threats. Dystopia as Hell? You bet. Impossible... not so much.
  6. Not Our Hour

    "...the Americans are enraged. "Why? They invaded two COUNTRIES, all we did was blow up a yacht." "That had four member of the Saudi Royal Family aboard." "The family is very large, they will barely miss- An aide rushed in. Excuse me Prime Minister! Four different busses have been bombed...
  7. Not Our Hour

    June 23, 1997 07:00 PDT KABC Radio "...supported by Imperial County Sheriff units have taken the two survivors of this ferocious gun battle in custody. "Carol, I can tell you that this looks like a war zone. As you know, I was embedded with the 24th Mechanized during the first Gulf War, and...
  8. Not Our Hour

    June 19, 1997 BBC Italian investigators have confirmed, with what is described a virtual certainty, that the assassins of the Saudi Crown Prince were Saudi nationals and members of Al Queda. After nearly a week of investigation and tracing movements of the presumed assassins, Italian officials...
  9. Not Our Hour

    June 10, 1997 ABC World News "As expected, the House of Representatives passed the 'American Safe Worship' bill today by a vote of 303 to 87. The bill, which passed the Senate last Thursday, makes any violent crime motivated by religion a hate crime punishable by a minimum 20 year sentence...
  10. Best fleet of WWII

    You say tomato, I say tomato. :D We are both right. The OP will never get a single answer, one doesn't really exist. He is, however, seeing just how deeply many of us (me cry much included) carry the gear-geek gene. We have, after all, debated, for two pages, the usefulness of a specific...
  11. Not Our Hour

    May 29, 1997 NBC 6 South Florida 11:00 news "...our lead story tonight: U.S. Coast Guard officials announced today that they have seized an apparent drug cartel ship carrying over $24 million. Department of Justice officials stated that a cartel might have been attempting to move funds out of...
  12. Not Our Hour

    May 27, 1997 WH Situation Room POTUS: How sure are they? SecState: As sure as the can be Mr. President. POTUS: Any confirmation from our sources? CIA Director: We have limited confirmation at this time. Some unusual traffic from their Embassy and a few questionable personnel movements...
  13. Best fleet of WWII

    Uh... While all the sniping about performance in 1941-42 is interesting (and I am sincere about that, as many of you know this is sort my favorite hobby horse), it has drifted very far from the 1939 issue. I understand why, there is no single answer to the question. That being said, you can...
  14. Best fleet of WWII

    A6M pilots regularly made combat flights from Rabaul to Guadalcanal, and had to fight their way in and out. That is a slightly longer round trip greater than this mission. That is not to say that they were pleasant flights. Eight hours in a fighter cockpit is not to be taken lightly and doing...
  15. Best fleet of WWII

    Not even close to limit of range. G3M and G4M operating out of Dau Mot and Tan Son Nhut could, and did, strike ships sitting in Singapore Roads while carrying a torpedo. Even if they had been close to range limit the A6M had had almost identical range to the G3M (and the G4M if the Betty was...
  16. Not Our Hour

    "If we show this to the Americans you know what they will do. There will be repercussions." "If we do not, when they learn of it, and they will learn of it, it will be much worse. Right now we can avoid most of splash damage" "You are probably correct. Can we deal with it and give to Clinton...
  17. Best fleet of WWII

    I have to respectfully disagree. Underpowered, overweight, and clumsy are not excellent fighter characteristics. It was the best aircraft the FAA had and it was used because the alternative was using the Skua, which was an even worse idea. Helmut Lent scored 110 victories (i.e 2 less than the...
  18. Not Our Hour

    Thanks for the kind words.
  19. Not Our Hour

    May 14, 1997 10:00 EDT CNN Well, there you have it ladies and gentlemen. Senator, now ex-Senator, Jim Inhofe, had officially tendered his resignation, effective immediately. The resignation comes just thirty minutes before a scheduled vote that seemed certain to expel the Senator for bringing...
  20. Not Our Hour

    May 12, 1997 NBC Nightly news. Todays top story: Jim Inhofe, Republican Senator from Oklahoma, whose recent attacks against Senator John McCain have resulted in outrage across the country, and who has already received an official censure from his fellow Senators, is now facing the possible...
Top