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  1. B-1A vs. B-1B

    The Soviets, however, DID build an interceptor to counter the XB-70. Built almost 2,000 of them. That is what the MiG-25 was designed to deal with (MiG 31 added a rather impressive set of capabilities, but it is still a Mach 3 interceptor)
  2. WWIII '46-How Long Would Southern Korea Last?

    Die Zombie! I commanded thee to return to the grave and rise no more by the Power of Iron, Salt and Blood!
  3. WI: Hitler waits for Soviet invasion

    And that is rather the key. They have to WIN the Battle of Britain. They can't. The remarkable short sightedness of the Luftwaffe assured that. The worst that can happen is they can drive Fighter Command farther to the west, outside of the maximum arc of the Luftwaffe fighters, leaving the...
  4. WI: Hitler waits for Soviet invasion

    1. Britain had no reason to sue for peace, BEF captured or not. The Reich would have to force Britain to the table. The only two ways to do that are by invasion, which would require some massive POD to make possible, or by starving the British out. Starving them out being the only possible...
  5. WI: Hitler waits for Soviet invasion

    They might, but Hitler will be dead of old age before it happens. The problem with this sort of scenario is it requires Hitler (and here it comes again) to NOT be Hitler. It is possible to figure out a way to get him to wait a year, or to not go running off half cocked to save Mussolini...
  6. Hong Kong's New Territories Ceded in Perpetuity

    Did you run out of your meds? This post is, well, nuts. Your previous posting history seems to indicate that this may be aberration, so I'll leave the Banhammer in the safe for now. Kicked for a week. Leave the crazy stuff in your other jacket when you return.
  7. V3 weapons used on England

    17,000 meters is 56,000 feet. The ALL TIME record for piston engine/propeller driven aircraft is a hair over 60K. It was achieved by a purpose built very high tech aircraft in 1995 Somehow it seems unlikely that any WW aircraft would be tooling around at that altitude.
  8. V3 weapons used on England

    Fairly easy solution Good - Since the WAllies had air supremacy over the Channel by Autumn 1943 set up a gun line using older BB (looking at the site it is within gun range of anything from an 8" gun on up as soon as the ship is far enough out to sea to avoid cracked the plaster of all the...
  9. B-1A vs. B-1B

    B-1A was the wrong aircraft. Not sure if the B-1B was the right aircraft, but the B-1A was definitely the wrong one. High speed high altitude penetration was an outdated concept, one pretty much certain to result in aircraft loss in its strategic mission. Mach 2.3 is great until you realize...
  10. Edward VIII reigns during WWII - What is the worst he could do?

    Would it have had any effect on how the Royal Family was viewed post war? In the U.S. we hear a lot about how the late Queen Mother was much loved because the she stayed with the King in London during the Blitz.
  11. World after US-USSR War in 1945

    No one was going to overthrow Stalin, especially not the military. Beria's NKVD would have made sure of that. When you KNOW, for a fact, that every single member of your family, out to 2nd cousin will, if they are lucky, be sent to the Gulag if you are even suspected of thinking about a coup, it...
  12. AHC: a "modern" multipolar war

    Yugoslavia was a civil war (and a religious one at that). Very different animal than a war between separate nation states.
  13. AHC: a "modern" multipolar war

    True multi-polar wars don't exist. Not sure that they ever did. What you will always get is two sides choking down the bile and going after the third (WW II be a good example of this) and then either glowering at their recent "ally" or getting into a separate war over the scraps. I honestly...
  14. World after US-USSR War in 1945

    There simply are not enough weapons. The Soviets were damned near immune to their use in any case since most of the USSR reachable by Allied heavy bombers, with the exception of Moscow, was already mostly rubble. Moscow would be a good target, but even then, the Soviets had plenty of shelters...
  15. World after US-USSR War in 1945

    The U.S. uses multiple nuclear weapons against troops that a couple days earlier were allies and you wonder why folks might have a bit of an issue? Really? The United States could have, by the end of 1945, produced ~8-10 total weapons (6-8 plutonium, two, maybe three Uranium). That is not a...
  16. The Best Alternate Terminology for "Tanks" and "United Nations"

    Tanks - Armored Tractor (morphs nicely to amtrak or just 'track) United Nations - Godawful waste of time and energy.
  17. Worst decisions of WW2

    I would say that Greece was pointless. The Greeks wanted very much to simply stay the hell out of the war. Mussolini attacked Greece as much because he thought he was losing influence in "his" sphere as any practical reason. Until the Italians attacked there were no noteworthy British forces in...
  18. Germany reaches Armistice with Britain and France, full concentration in East

    Lend Lease was instrumental to the Soviet war machine. Let's take a quick glance at a few items - Shoes - 14,604,766 pairs Buttons - 257,723,498 Leather (includes finished items) 103,690,173 pounds Webbing - 23,688,282 yards (13,560 MILES) Textiles - 166,499,912 sq yards (34,400 acres of...
  19. WW2 Japan attacks Siberia , and why did Japan fear the USSR and not the US in WW2?

    The thing is the Japanese knew what the Panay incident was and what it was not. Intercepts decoded well after the fact indicate that the attacks were quite intentional, both on Panay and an earlier shore battery attack on HMS Ladybird. Even if the incident was an actual accident, the Japanese...
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