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  1. How bad could it get?

    The Marines actually having to engage. As was, once they rolled up from Camp Pendelton, and set up everything sort of dialed back to zero. The few real hotheads took a look and decided they wanted nothing to do with getting into a fight with "The Proud", the looters realized the easy times...
  2. AHC: US makes all-big-gun BB first.

    Always nice to have the fastest shipyards. :)
  3. AHC: US makes all-big-gun BB first.

    16K tons. After HMS Dreadnought was launched Congress decided that the tonnage limits, which were a cost savings measure (some things never change), were a failed idea in the new era of warship design. The biggest error made with the South Carolina and her sister USS Michigan was decision to...
  4. AHC: US makes all-big-gun BB first.

    Easy. Get Congress off the dime a year sooner. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_South_Carolina_(BB-26)
  5. AHC: Large scale British relief during Irish Famine

    Why did you find this necessary? Completely reasonable discussion and you toss in a Molotov Cocktail? NEVER do this again.
  6. Civilization survival ship

    I doubt it. Back in the day, the Soviets and the U.S. both intended to hit any target that might assist the enemy in reconstruction. You reach full exchange and it is all in, all the way.
  7. Plausibility check - naval HEAT

    That is probably the one really good use in a naval environment. A one inch hole straight through the hull would be a concern for a sub, although not fatal in every case. Fill a ballast tank however...
  8. AHC: Make A Successful Video Game About 9/11

    What the F### did I just read? Locked, given to a dog and buried in the yard next to that dead bird. Sweet Jesus guys!
  9. AHC / WI: Wallace Places Second in the EC in 1968

    Virtually impossible without B-52 sized butterflies. In New York (43 EV) Wallace received under 5% of the total vote, around 350K of 7 million votes cast In California (40 EV) he did marginally better with 6.7%. At best he might be able to pick up Florida (14 EV) where he captured...
  10. Plausibility check - naval HEAT

    The problem with spinning is that the plasma jet tends to be dissipated by the rotational action, greatly reducing or eliminating the penetration. The Carl Gustav warhead, like most modern HEAT rounds designed to fire from a rifled barrel, has an internal warhead design that imparts a reverse...
  11. The colonization of Japan

    Zombie sighted. Katana wielding clean up team on scene. Zombie filleted.
  12. US invades Venezuela and North Korea instead of Iraq

    What possible excuse could ANY Administration find for this sort of idiocy? The President who ordered it would be removed by his Cabinet as being medically incapable of performance of his duties pending Impeachment.
  13. Earlier or Later WWII: Better or Worse?

    " extracurricular political activities the Germans engaged in Russia such as the mass transfer of enemy populations" Are you kidding me? MASS MURDER =/= political activities Folks who attempt to whitewash genocide are revolting Y'all chose the wrong site for this kind of crap. We...
  14. Sealion Naval Forces

    You have been warned multiple times that this sort of insulting, personal attack style post is not acceptable. Clearly that has not gotten across the policy of the Board. You can attack ideas to your heart's content as long as you do not descend into insult. You can NOT attack the individual...
  15. WWII WI: a Wiking fleet (BV-222)

    The Allies applaud At a stroke the KM has been crippled to the point that Norway will probably fight off the invasion and for every one of these giants that are built the Luftwaffe loses the materials to build 10, maybe 12 fighters or 5-6 Ju-88. If they promise to build 200, the U.S. will...
  16. Alternate warships of nations

    Buckner class CVA 40,000 tons (Standard), 46,500 tons (full load) Length: 850 ft Beam: 106 ft (200 ft at flight deck) Draft: 34 ft Air Wing: up to 45 aircraft mix of fixed wing and helicopters depending specific mission. Catapults limit aircraft carried to 62,000 pounds full launch...
  17. Alternate warships of nations

    USS Montana class CBGN 31,000 tons (standard), 36,500 tons (full load) Length: 750 ft Beam: 74 ft Draft: 34.5 ft Armament CBGN 1-4 Four Mk-26 missile launcher (SM-x, ASROC) total 96 missiles Three Mk-141 Harpoon missile launchers (four missiles per launcher) Two Armored Box ASM/T-LAM...
  18. Effective Germans SAMs by Jan. 1944

    You have to figure about six missiles in the air at any time, after that the frequencies get too crowded for the receivers of the era. The WAllies would get wise fairly quickly to what was up. They had far more advanced electronic capabilities overall, likely the result is a addition of a...
  19. Earlier or Later WWII: Better or Worse?

    The Char G1 was going to have a 75mm gun that would have put a round straight through the front plate of every German tank of the era. The Char B1 bis was already invulnerable to every tank gun the Heer had in the field in 1940 (Rommel used his 88s to stop it because nothing else had a prayer)...
  20. Thought exercise: Axis get loaded dice early 1943 - How long till they lose?

    Besides range, speed, and maintenance? The P-80 had no advantages at all. The point is that the WAllies had the capability, they didn't have the need
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