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  1. Kriegsmarine Disrupt Normandy Landings at Sea

    Usually I would agree, but it is pretty much a meme in the specific phrasing.
  2. New mission profile for German Battleship designs

    This isn't how the KM battleships were designed. The Deutschland class large cruisers had the design goal of being able to defeat cruisers and outrun battleships (and failed on both ends) but the heavies were designed to fight other heavies in a conventional fight. The KM designers took the...
  3. Kriegsmarine Disrupt Normandy Landings at Sea

    Here is what the Allies had in the way of warships (not including transports/'phibs) on D-day 7 BB 5 CA 17 CL 135 DD/DDE 2 monitors (15") In addition there were 3 minesweeper flotillas, a distant ASW screen of six destroyers patrolling the northern access to the Channel, and multiple...
  4. US Air Force in this hypothetical war

    The issue is that the number of aircraft is secondary to the ability to perform the mission. There is, literally, no way to perform the mission of maintaining air superiority into the interior of Russia or China without establishing actual air bases (and a number of them) well inside the OPFOR...
  5. German carrier aircraft

    The arguments against the KM operating carriers are numerous and completely valid, starting with the KM didn't have a clue about them, and radiating outward from there. Aircraft wise, the best potential base aircraft is the Fw-190. Air cooled engines were extremely successful on carriers and...
  6. Is there a ratio of occupying troops to population?

    The math can be made to work to support whatever you want to use as a ratio. Arguably the Japanese situation in 1945 was unique in that the actual titular head of government was left in power, and that the Emperor was also considered to be semi-divine by large segments of the population...
  7. Is there a ratio of occupying troops to population?

    Yes and no. The Einsatzgruppen method doesn't make the occupation easier when the occupied are able to get support, as was the case within the USSR, at least in parts of the USSR. It allowed a relatively low troop concentration to handle Poland and Czechoslovakia, along with large regions of...
  8. What would the US Navy be like?

    If the U.S. is engaged full on with Russia or the PRC, much less both? There'll be a lot of fat trimmed off the ROE on ALL sides.
  9. Is there a ratio of occupying troops to population?

    Also depends on exactly what the ROE are. Takes a lot more troops to control a population using the methods that a modern Western force would be willing/able to employ than the 3rd Reich's methods.
  10. US Air Force in this hypothetical war

    Simple. Can't be done. Not enough aircraft to control the airspace over Russia. SIXTEEN time zones across. No way to get that sort of range, so you would have to establish air bases every 3-400 miles ON RUSSIAN TERRITORY. Major nuclear powers don't get occupied. Same goes for the...
  11. how accurate is the sherman Jumbo?

    Can it? Sure. Will it? Maybe. Large caliber guns in the WW II era were not sniper rifles
  12. What would the US Navy be like?

    Well, it isn't just the surface force. It is also virtually the entire Russian SSN force, at least one SSGN, a substantial number of SSK, and a substantial number of Tu-22M in addition to the single Russian carrier battle group (including the Pyotr Velikiy). The Russians put almost their...
  13. AHC: Worst possible Yugoslav Wars?

    Did you get tossed here once already for pushing mass death scenarios? If you want some time off, just ask to go fishing. If you don't want some time, enough with this.
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