Search results

  1. Why did ROC get such bad rep?

    No intent to offend you or yours but, ya, he was that bad. His wife was possibly worse. Chiang is why the PRC exists. While that may not be the end of the world today. his incompetence and greed led directly to Mao & Cultural Revolution (also, arguably a few rather nasty brush fire wars). He...
  2. Why did ROC get such bad rep?

    If he had been a joke it would have been okay. The problem was he wasn't a joke, he was a thief, and a rather poor one at that.
  3. Brit carrier at midway?

    F7F could likely have managed it as well. :D It is one of the really difficult issues regarding the Swordfish and the Albacore in this sort of scenario is that they never faced the same level of CAP that Nagumo's carriers had on that June morning. The issue with the U.S. torpedo attack...
  4. Plausibility: Post-World War II American V-12 and V-16 Cars

    You mean like this bad boy? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche_930
  5. Brit carrier at midway?

    Issue here is scaring up an additional 60 Wildcats. There just aren't that many spares at Pearl. Victorious was working with the Sara almost seven months later, Wildcats were a high stock item by then. One thing that this is likely to achieve, at minimum, is that it would resolve the endless...
  6. The role of a Sovetsky Soyuz-class battleship in the Soviet Navy?

    It wouldn't be, but neither would a Soviet Soyuz. The Soviets couldn't produce armor in sufficient thickness to allow for that. What a 35,000 ton ship would be is capable of dealing with the KM Deutschland class "pocket BB" and the Scharnhorst class as built, and be an utter over-match for...
  7. The role of a Sovetsky Soyuz-class battleship in the Soviet Navy?

    Actually the best sort of ship for the Soviets, assuming they wanted a heavyweight, would be a souped up Colorado class (600', maybe 6x16", 25 knots). Be hell on wheels in confined waters and outgun anything the Reich had in the water at the time, much less the Swedes, Finns, or Turks.
  8. The role of a Sovetsky Soyuz-class battleship in the Soviet Navy?

    Wait... I could not possibly have read that correctly. looks it up Oh FFS! Did anyone point out that a ship of this size get around 20 FEET per gallon of fuel (around 200 gallon to the mile) or ~$125 per mile, just for bunker fuel. Just starting it and getting the boilers on line and...
  9. Korea 1953: Syngman Rhee continues war

    Well, the new record. And DO NOT try to break it!:mad::p This isn't a zombie. This is an actual dancing skeleton. Best/worst part is it only had one response and it was from one of original Coventry colonists.
  10. The role of a Sovetsky Soyuz-class battleship in the Soviet Navy?

    Of all the major powers (or even mid sized powers) there is not one that needed a 63,000 ton Supper BB less than the USSR. They had initially planned to build SIXTEEN of these things, God alone knows why. Maneuvering this beast in the Baltic would have been... interesting. Massively oversized...
  11. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Thanks for the kind words.
  12. The worse enemy the US fought in the 20th century

    Not a bad choice actually. He did have the advantage, however, of his opponent chasing eternal glory then the enemy.
  13. The worse enemy the US fought in the 20th century

    The Viet Cong ceased to exist in any meaningful sense after Tet. Both politically and militarily they were shattered. This was probably at least as much due to the North's political decision to use up a group that didn't quite see the same vision as Hanoi as the insane decision to come out into...
  14. The worse enemy the US fought in the 20th century

    Least competent: Iraq 1991 (sort of an obvious choice) Most overrated: Ho Chi Minh - Got a lot of the credit that belonged to: Most underrated: Vo Nguyen Giap - Understood, long before the Americans even began to consider it, that all he had to do was NOT LOSE. Almost blew it once or twice...
  15. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Not my design. As a guess it just looked better.
  16. Planet Spakmarinea

    This is totally frivolous and ASB to boot. Locked.
  17. When could the US $1 coin 'stick'?

    Best would be the 1920's or earlier. Every decade you wait the more difficult it becomes. The $2 is so rarely seen that there was a recent news story about some merchant calling the cops on a "counterfeiter" who was was trying buy something with one. Bill was legit, no one in the store (want...
  18. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Absolutely. If I had done it it would look like a brown paper lunch bag with the title in crayon. :D
  19. Best weapon, in its class, in WW2

    This has always been my issue with the Alaskas, they weren't really useful for anything by the time they were laid down, and even when conceptualized were less useful than the Iowas (which, while rightly considered to be the best BB even built in many respects, was more of battle cruiser in the...
  20. Best weapon, in its class, in WW2

    As noted the train rate on the 12.7cm/50 was simply dreadful (4-6 degrees a second, as a comparison USN twin mounts ran at 25 degree/sec on single mounts as high as 34 degree/sec). Probably the best indicator on the usefulness of the 12.7/50 as an AAA mount is that that the IJN removed one of...
Top