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  1. Anglo American Nazi War: How long would it take for Germany to get nukes?

    If you are talking OTL... The Allies would still have defeated the Reich before the Gadget was even available in August of 1945. The Reich could not fight on for years, they were definitely in End Game status by late March. The real issue is when the country would surrender, and how many more...
  2. Anglo American Nazi War: How long would it take for Germany to get nukes?

    Assuming the political Nazi Party leadership had remained in control, especially if it was Hitler himself, the Allies would have been forced to destroy every major formation in the Heer, at least to the point that the senior Heer officers believed that they had upheld their oaths. There were...
  3. Anglo American Nazi War: How long would it take for Germany to get nukes?

    Without getting into the technical aspects too far, there were no deployable Two stage weapons IOTL 1954 (the Castle Bravo device (T-14/Mark-14) was the first practical weapon, and it was a test devise, not a ready production item, with only a total of five packages produced). The Soviet RDS6-s...
  4. Anglo American Nazi War: How long would it take for Germany to get nukes?

    Without rewriting the entire T/L (and acknowledging the nice summary from Alex), the reasons to not go nuclear are numerous. 1. Moral. ATL the Allies literally starved the Japanese Home Islands to Death. 2. Technical. By the time the War restarts in March of 1954 pretty much all of Europe is...
  5. Anglo American Nazi War: How long would it take for Germany to get nukes?

    Not exactly toned down. It is, I hope, a more nuanced effort than a straight up "nuke 'em right from the get".
  6. WI Hitler dies in 1941-1942?

    Hmmm... 2015-2007 =... EIGHT YEARS Let's just slip this bad boy back into the grave shall we?
  7. WI: Extra Japanese Carrier (or two) at Midway

    Carriers rearm and refuel constantly. In the case of the Kido Butai at Midway they simply ran out of luck. They had been lucky all day, none of the penny packet strikes from Midway had done a lick of damage, the VT squadrons had done their death rides with zip to show for it (contrary to the...
  8. WI: Extra Japanese Carrier (or two) at Midway

    Correct. The IJN had simply dreadful defensive tactics, down to screening ships firing main battery toward attacking formations, not in hopes of knocking the attackers down (as is sometimes stated), but to draw the attention of the CAP. The escorting ships had almost no role in defense...
  9. WI: Extra Japanese Carrier (or two) at Midway

    The issue with this is that it completely violates IJN doctrine and tactical practice. The Kido Butai fleet carriers would not be broken out to serve as support for the Main Body, that was the task of the light carriers. The same goes for CAP. No doctrine existed to keep any of the aircraft at...
  10. Ships a Superpower type navy must have?

    Well, the politician will suffer at the ballot box if some jackass manages to punch a hole in that $10B asset and the "experts" on BBC or CNN point out that it wouldn't have happened if the carrier had been able to operate AWACS/AEW aircraft like the Americans and French do. To use an extreme...
  11. Ships a Superpower type navy must have?

    The reason the USN went to all nuclear design is that conventionally powered carrier were seriously compromised during air operations (the JFK would lose as much as 10 knots during high intensity operation) and the chances of a cold cat shot are much higher in a CV rather than a CVN. the next...
  12. WI: The Mikoyan-Gurevich Ye-8 Entered Service

    Since it wasn't produced due to "unsolvable problems" (and this is in a country that thought quality control and crew safety were capitalist plots) I'd say that the West will rule the skies as these things drill holes in the ground across Eurasia.
  13. Ships a Superpower type navy must have?

    Today? Absolute requirement: SSN SSBN These make you a serious player Required options if the desire is to project force or at least be able to do so SSGN CVN CATOBAR design (CV can be substituted, but the conventional carrier has serious limitations) CG/DDG with phased...
  14. 东方红 (The East is Red)

    So a warning and multiple PMs isn't sufficient to get you to stop thread crapping? Asked you to stop. Told you to stop. In three different PM you said you would stop. Still didn't stop. Okay. Kicked for a week.
  15. The Faerie Queene: «A shoot shall sprout from the Tudor's stump»

    There is no question that at least portions of this T/L have been plagiarized, specifically from the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB) and/or the Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) . You are kicked for a week. Plagiarism at this scale is a one strike offense. Next time you...
  16. 东方红 (The East is Red)

    I know I had to come into this thread before to tell you to back off and leave if you didn't like it. Now you are thread-crapping here. Same message as before, but official this time. STOP! Just walk away. Don't like the thread, don't read it. If you do read it, be polite and civil. If...
  17. 东方红 (The East is Red)

    I came in here based on a report. That is how Mods generally arrive in T/L that they have no other participation in except Modding. Don't really care about the T/L one way or the other.
  18. 东方红 (The East is Red)

    Thank you. Still vasnishingly unlikely, but compared to her poisoning children...
  19. 东方红 (The East is Red)

    I can't deny his free speech as I am not the Government of the UNITED STATES. What his most recent posts was, and is, is flat out trolling. That was what the action was for, trolling. Could have been for flame baiting, but I went with trolling. This Board does have standards, they may not be...
  20. 东方红 (The East is Red)

    Preposterous. Utterly preposterous.
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