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  1. Not Our Hour

    April 8, 1997 White House Situation Room POTUS: "John, you know what this will do to our operations In Afghanistan?" UK PM: "I do. I have a couple of Lads from Six on the way to Langley right now. We are continuing to develop our sources. I don't see how we do NOT act if we get proof."...
  2. Map Thread XIV

    Fix your bloody sig. NOW.
  3. RN AEW E2B-C

    Even the CVA-01 would have required a substantial redesign. Her plans were for an 18' height hanger deck. The Hawkeye is almost 19' tall to the top of the radar fairing. That would require a change of at least four feet in hanger deck height (Nimitz class carriers have a 26.5" height...
  4. Not Our Hour

    April 7, 1997 White House Situation Room "How good is the source?" "The Brits are pretty sure, they have better assets in the area than we do. The HUMINT side is as solid as we get in that part of the world, Mr. President. We can not back it up with any significant SIGINT at this...
  5. Not Our Hour

    April 4, 1997 BBC A National State of Emergency was declared today by Her Majesty's Government. The water supply to the Northern City of York has been declared to be "Unsafe for consumption, bathing or cooking." Sources within the Home Office have stated that this announcement is in relation...
  6. Fairey Gannet AEW-3 in Falkland war - From Hermes carrier

    That is sort of a nice summation for why the entire Falklands War took place. The British gutted the RN (only so much money and the decision was not to spend it on what appeared, at the time, to be unnecessary expense) making themselves appear vulnerable. The Argentine Junta needed to do...
  7. Question on battleships at night

    Difference in the Solomons was that most of the fighting was a relative knife-fighting range and in seriously restricted waters. More or ideal torpedo conditions, especially when you have experienced combat commanders facing non veteran officers who don't use their advantages. Even then the Long...
  8. Question on battleships at night

    PoW actually had two separate surface search radars. The Type 284 was the gunnery set and the Type 271 target indicator set. She also had three separate Air search/gun laying systems (Types 279, 282, 285) Repulse was also fitted with a Type 284 set during her July 1941 refit. edit: BTW the 273...
  9. Question on battleships at night

    Perhaps. It is still unlikely the the IJN High Command would send either of their, at the time, largest surface assets as a convoy escort. The Battle Line ventured out of Home Waters exactly ONCE before September of 1943 and that was with the Main Body at Midway. Nagano was probably the...
  10. Fairey Gannet AEW-3 in Falkland war - From Hermes carrier

    The Gannet utterly alters the battlespace. It provides a minimum of 125 miles additional raid warning (combination of range and altitude) or 20-25 minutes, assuming the attacking aircraft at on the deck. If the inbounds are at altitude the range goes out the max of the radar set. Extra 20...
  11. Question on battleships at night

    A lot depends on the meeting conditions. If you assume even beginning conditions (crews at battle stations, both sides aware that there is a war on) The Japanese get chopped to furless bits in about 40 minutes and might get one or two hits in return. Closest we have to this sort of engagement...
  12. Not Our Hour

    March 17, 1997 Paris safe house. "The transmitter failed. I waited until the authorities had arrived, as planned, and pressed the button, several times."
  13. Not Our Hour

    March 16, 1997 BBC "... was partially foiled today when French troops, deployed across the Capital since the deadly attack in the United States three days ago, engaged a pair of suicide bombers before they were able to enter a football stadium. One bomber was killed before he was able to...
  14. Decuple Scientology

    Seriously? A 2004 Necro? FFS.
  15. Not Our Hour

    Invoked the HELL out of that debate.
  16. Not Our Hour

    March 13, 1997. "...the dead include Senator Jesse Helms, Republican from North Carolina, Senator Edward Kennedy from Massachusetts, Senator Rick Santorum from Pennsylvania, Congressman Ron Paul, Texas, Congressman Jim Bunning of Kentucky, Congresswoman Karen Thurman from Florida. The death...
  17. WI Malta class aircraft carrier

    Zombie on a raft sighted. Alpha strike inbound. Zombie negated.
  18. A Kinder, Gentler Nation Continued: A Collaborative Bush wins '92 TL:

    You used STORMFRONT as a source? Never, never, bring that crap anywhere near this Board, the New Board, its future replacement, unto the last generation again.
  19. Not Our Hour

    Oval Office February 17, 1996 06:30. POTUS: "Okay, we need to get ahead of this. Call a Press Conference for 8:00 PM. Get me a briefing paper that I can hang my hat on. I want to hang this bitch out to dry, show that we are doing no physical injury to these bastards, the works. "Get Justice...
  20. Not Our Hour

    January 6, 1997 "...has CONFIRMED that British forces operating as part of the Coalition in Iraq have killed Saddam Hussein and two of his sons. The Iraqi leader was apparently moving from one secure area to another when his convoy was intercepted by a squadron from the 7th Armored Brigade...
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