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  1. Boeing decides not to (over-)invest in 747, sticks with smaller planes.

    Someone else develops the first true Jumbo, the airline industry was already pushing for a jumbo size aircraft. All Boeing did was respond to customer demand. Boeing loses sales, then goes ape trying to catch up. All this would accomplish is major damage to Boeing without any alteration in air...
  2. PC: Douglas MacArthur Dictatorship

    Zero possibility event. MacArthur was many things, traitor was not part of the set.
  3. Royal Navy takes heavier losses at Jutland

    Really top notch advice. Might want to follow it and cut the insults.
  4. Ocean liner converted to aircraft carrier?

    Japanese did this, although the ships were designed with conversion in mind (IJN paid better than half the construction cost), as noted with the Hiyo class. They were far more robust than the normal civilian liner (double hull, provisions for additional bulkheads and bracing, more fuel capacity...
  5. [No Nuclear Weapons] WI: US attack China in 1989

    Not really ASB, at least not now. There are, however, a huge number of practical obstacles to the scenario, starting with the cause belli. As reprehensible as Tiananmen Square was, it didn't even approach the sort of situation that could, under even computer game logic, much less IRL, a...
  6. To whom did Alsace-Lorraine rightfully belong in 1870?

    Y'all need to take this down a bit.
  7. Why was the Italian Military so ineffective in WW2?

    The Italians had a few terrific units, including the aforementioned "frogman" unit that managed to give the RN fits. The problem over all was poor motivation/leadership/training for the conscript force as well as pretty much God-awful equipment (save some of their naval vessels which were...
  8. Peter Pocklington killed in 1982

    Be tough on his family.
  9. Cancelled post WW2 weapons that had potential?

    This ^. The only way any sort of space based system works is if you manage to keep it secret until it is fully in place. Otherwise you have more or less told your opponent to "use 'em or lose 'em" and/or out build the system (this, BTW is the same reason that at one point the U.S. & USSR had...
  10. Best German Pre-WW2 strategy against Britain?

    Kill Hitler. Repudiate the Nazi Party. Export goods, get shit loads of money.
  11. Title for the US military

    Big 'ol Can of Whupass.
  12. Operation Overlord/Operation Bagration Force Comparison

    Oh Downfall would have been a bloodbath of Eastern Front proportions. My favorite bit of the actual planning is that the planners expected the entire 5th Marine Division to be rendered combat ineffective (meaning better than 50% losses) in the first 96 hours. They actually PLANNED to use up...
  13. Operation Overlord/Operation Bagration Force Comparison

    Using what criteria? Nothing (except the very late war P-47N) can touch the Mustang's range. The six .50 was also a much heavier armament than the Soviets and the P-51 had at least double the bomb load in fighter-bomber configuration The Yak-9 was a good aircraft, probably the best Soviet...
  14. To pull a Bruce Willis: Other comedic actors become action heroes

    Is Tiger Beat still a thing?:confused: :p
  15. Operation Overlord/Operation Bagration Force Comparison

    It was also conducted across a much wider bit of ocean, but the fact that the command was unified (even though the Army/Navy relationship was perhaps even worse than the U.S./UK at SHAEF you only had one egomaniac involved). The mechanized/armored component was also considerably smaller, which...
  16. To pull a Bruce Willis: Other comedic actors become action heroes

    Eddie Murphy was pretty solid in Beverley Hills Cop I & II, 48 Hours & The Golden Child. Made some really bad script choices after that.
  17. Operation Overlord/Operation Bagration Force Comparison

    Well, lets look at the size and boldness aspect. Size: 6939 vessels, including 1,100 warships ~7 infantry/armored divisions and 3 airborne divisions in the first 12 hours. 1,130,000 troops across the beach in the first 30 days 1,900 tow aircraft, gliders and paratroop drop aircraft in...
  18. Operation Overlord/Operation Bagration Force Comparison

    ...and at couple points in the war the distance from the factory gate to the front was measured in footsteps.:eek:
  19. Operation Overlord/Operation Bagration Force Comparison

    Two completely different forces, conducting a different sort of operation, under different conditions. May as well simply ask who was the better military across the entire war. Even then it more comes down to if you believe a rapier is a better weapon than a battle axe. They will both make...
  20. Kriegsmarine Disrupt Normandy Landings at Sea

    The best tactic the KM could have used, assuming their command staff was willing to toss brave men into a grinder for little reason, would have been a mix of E-boat and smaller MBT (the KM had captured at least one example of a RN 55 footer, and the Italians has their MAS series of MBT) that...
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