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  1. Best WWII Fighter aircraft .

    You might also want to consider adding things like era and mission. What was a world beater in 1940 was a death trap in 1945. The P-51D was a terrific fighter, but lets see how long it lasts on a carrier.
  2. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    I did consider it. It seemed to be one tech jump too many (plus virtually unlimited free power, also reduces any possibility of conflict by a couple order of magnitude, and conflict is sort of what drive the post war world :p) Thanks for the kind words.
  3. AHC: U.S. professional sports league with at least one Mexican team

    Baseball is the logical choice. MLB could add several teams in Mexico (mainly to keep travel reasonable) and prosper quite nicely. With Cuba opening back up, I would personally love to see a MLB division with teams in Cuba, Mexico Puerto Rico, Dominica, and maybe Costa Rica (LOTS of U.S. expats)...
  4. Scharnhorst & Gneisenau Mediterranean 1941

    The deck armor of the Scharnhorst was under TWO INCHES. She had a inner armored deck that was 5.9" that was meant to protect her magazines, but her deck armor was under 2" (50mm). Even her turret roofs were only 3", making her vulnerable to penetration of the turret at 20K or greater. The 12"/50...
  5. Scharnhorst & Gneisenau Mediterranean 1941

    Moored mines are beyond technical capability for the era. Submarines are different story. The RN was quite active in the Med, with its subs sinking almost 300,000 tons of shipping in 1941 (nothing compared the KM efforts in the Atlantic, but the target environment was also very different). Since...
  6. Roosevelt's War

    Dead, buried again, and BTW, this necro was reported by the OP.
  7. Scharnhorst & Gneisenau Mediterranean 1941

    Uh... Not that this is about the despised Alaska class (which I brought up as the closest WAllied example of BIG ship small gun), but the 12"/50 was one hell of a good weapon, better than previous generation 14" guns against armor. There is NO possible engagement range where the American...
  8. Axis Escorts

    The IJN's problem was its remarkable inflexibility. It continued to play the same hand, voluntarily, long after it was demonstrated to be a loser. The Pacifoc is, indeed, vast, it is also immaterial to the escort question. The Japanese needed to provide escorts across very specific sea lanes...
  9. Axis Escorts

    Actually, of the three main Axis players, the Reich was the LEAST impacted by lack of escorts. It was not submarines, or even the loss of major surface combatants, that doomed the Nazis. It wasn't even the RN blockade, although that did damage their war effort. They were a pure land power...
  10. War in the Kurils 1990 Japan vs USSR

    The Soviet Pacific Squadron was prepared to fight the UNITED STATES NAVY (including the Yokosuka homeported CBG) on command. He had no illusions about actually inflicting a decisive defeat on PacFleet, but a bloody nose was going to extracted. The JNSDF, as qualitatively sound as it is/was is...
  11. Scharnhorst & Gneisenau Mediterranean 1941

    Difference, and it is a HUGE one, is that the Twins carried popguns (11"/28cm) for hulls of their size. The much despised Alaska class was a vastly superior platform, with an exception 12" gun and would have chopped the Twins into scrap, and it was a waste of steel. Renown, post rebuild was...
  12. Nazi Gas in WW2

    Gas wasn't used by either side for the simple reason that it adds no serious advantage when employed against a near-peer state. That was true in 1917 and remains true to this day. Gas is incredibly effective if you are attacking populations/formations that have no reasonable way to retaliate...
  13. War in the Kurils 1990 Japan vs USSR

    After this sort of naked aggression Japan would be a pariah state. All mutual defense treaties would be null & void. Japan would get stomped flat. Russia/the USSR, even in reduced condition was a military superpower. Nukes wouldn't be top on the option list, but they would be on the list...
  14. 1000 Rocket Raids?

    No, the difference is at least 9x, with the likely cost closer to 30x. Top cost for bombers would be $179M, Minimal cost for Tomahawks is $1.4B. Bombers exist for a reason. Now if you start factoring in loss replacement the calculations change, especially if you are talking B-2. Of course...
  15. RomaniaWank Plausibility POLL

    Oh for crissake! There is an ignore function. Please use it rather than snipe at each other like this. Thanks.
  16. No JSF - The alternatives

    Today's drones are inferior to manned platforms. That is mainly because they were designed to be pure observation platforms until someone decided to hang a weapon on them (exactly the same thing that happened with manned aircraft at the start of WWI). THere are some serious efforts that need to...
  17. Smarter Hitler vs smarter Stalin

    This scenario = No War. A smarter Hitler is not going to try to invade a country the size of the USSR on his own. A smarter Stalin would have the Red Army cocked and locked, but would not want to start a ruinous war. BTW: I would suggest you replace "smarter" with "saner"
  18. No JSF - The alternatives

    In a perfect world? USAF: Mix of F-22, F-15SE, and upgraded F-16V/"Block 70/72" USN: F-18D++, Rafale (or new construction low observable) USMC/allies who want/need S/VTOL: New S/VTOL (the AV-8B is about out of rope). Take all the extra funing saved by this and dump it into a drone...
  19. 1000 Rocket Raids?

    1,000 of the birds still costs $1.4B+
  20. 1000 Rocket Raids?

    Mechanically it could be done, once, every six-eight months. All four of the OMFG (hey, I didn't come up with the acronym, some Pentagon Admiral did) would load out with 864 cruise missiles, add in two SSN-21 with 30 Tomahawks each and four SSN with VLS (12 missiles each), and you are there...
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