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  1. Decisive Darkness: What if Japan hadn't surrendered in 1945?

    Don't come into a thread and post babbling nonsense.
  2. Ready, Steady ... GOOOOOOO!!!!!

    Everyone needs to keep in mind that you are free to be critical of statements or argue their merits but not to be critical of the posters. Words to the wise.
  3. Naval Ships and Technologies without the Arms Treaties

    The data on the Nelson is from Navweaps are refer to the 2,038 pound AP shell. Vanguard used the same 15"/42 that was used on the Queen Elizabeth class and the data used, again from Navweaps is for the 1,938 pound shell at 2,400 FPS velocity.
  4. War of the Prime Meridians.

    Zombie negated.
  5. Naval Ships and Technologies without the Arms Treaties

    There are really only three modern guns that can be compared in the cruiser killer role: The German 280mm/54 (11.1") guns used on the Scharnhorst class and the notably inferior 280mm/52 gun used on the Lutzow class (the 280mm/52 used a much smaller AP round, and I have'n't found any...
  6. Naval Ships and Technologies without the Arms Treaties

    There is actually no comparison between even the 13.5" Queen Mary and 14" KGV gun. The 14" gun has 25% more armor penetration at 10,000 yards, and 90% of the 13.5" gun's 10,000 yard penetration at 20K. Interesting, the 15"/42 on the Queen Elizabeth/Hood had only a 5.7% advantage over the later...
  7. Pop culture WI: reservoir dogs bombs.

    Well, from an economic perspective it did bomb. It eventually earned about double what it cost to make, but much of the income was after the magic 4 week mark when the theaters start to get most (80%+) of the gate. The studio/distributor lost its ass. This percentage is also why theaters...
  8. Naval Ships and Technologies without the Arms Treaties

    The difficulty with this is that the IJN was, by 1940, stuck with an environment where the enemy was always going to have radar. It would be equally valid to remove the action off Savo Island since the Decisive Battle was supposed to take place in open water, not in close waters with islands...
  9. Naval Ships and Technologies without the Arms Treaties

    It was a factor. However, the British also looked at the world through a very clear lens. Japan - Similar to the UK in that it's an island country. Dissimilar in that its poorer, has no useful exports that do not directly compete with British industry. Minimal exporter of raw materials, lacks...
  10. Naval Ships and Technologies without the Arms Treaties

    The Japanese were always going to be outnumbered. Always. The U.S. could afford to do exactly what it did IOTL, pretty much whenever it wanted to do so. In a no WT world the USN would have been constantly maintained to out-number/out-gun the RN in the Atlantic and in the Pacific the Japanese...
  11. Naval Ships and Technologies without the Arms Treaties

    You were right without modifier. Japan primarily spent the war picking off German colonies in the Pacific; this makes sense, given the logistical challenges to any sort of meaningful engagement on the Western Front. The IJN did sent a cruiser & a destroyer division to provided added escort...
  12. Non-Parallellism in TL-191

    Zombie terminated.
  13. Naval Ships and Technologies without the Arms Treaties

    There were some debates and design issues but these were resolved prior to 1st steel and did not delay actual construction (there was insufficient space/weight at 35K to build out the 3 quad turret design initially proposed, but this was something that was determined using mathematical...
  14. Naval Ships and Technologies without the Arms Treaties

    During WW II Panamax was 108' beam, which was what the Iowa's measured. They fit through the locks with six inches on each side.
  15. Naval Ships and Technologies without the Arms Treaties

    No it wasn't. Not by 1939-40. The KGV class ships took 46 to 51 months from 1st steel to commission. The South Dakotas ran 30 -34 months & North Carolinas ran 30-35 months. Even the last two completed Iowas, both delayed by the "Steel Crisis" ran under 40 months.
  16. A different take on a "Roosevelt knew about Pearl" scenario.

    State Department ran an Intel shop, but the primary signal gathering operation was in the hands of the War Department and Navy Department. BTW: I always find the term "War Department" to be refreshingly honest.
  17. A different take on a "Roosevelt knew about Pearl" scenario.

    The two U.S. carriers available were no match for the Kido Butai. Lexington was short of dive bombers (only 27 SBD rather than the 32 she should have in two full squadrons, and only 12 TBD) with Fighting -2 still flying F2A Buffaloes rather than Wildcats. Enterprise was actually running...
  18. Naval Ships and Technologies without the Arms Treaties

    I disagee very strongly regarding the Iowa class. While they were never used in the ship v. ship role, they were the best AAA platform of their era, with only the South Dakota class coming anywhere close. Frighteningly stable, even in heavy chop, they could hold station on the carrier in any...
  19. Naval Ships and Technologies without the Arms Treaties

    Providing, once again, that there is enough funding to allow any of this significant construction there would likely be more carriers, not fewer thanks to no tonnage limitation on the type. After the "experimental" early class ships were completed the remarkable utility of the type would be...
  20. Naval Ships and Technologies without the Arms Treaties

    Actually the Japanese used a 26" plate on the turret face of the Yamato class ships. The armor was of uneven quality when examined by the USN post war, mainly due to material limitations, but the Japanese had little trouble fashioning plate exceeding two feet of thickness. This armor was...
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