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  1. Is it plausible for the Soviets to be defeated - WW2

    Possible, yes, plausible, not so much. It is really difficult to get the conditions to allow the Reich to win. Taking Moscow is slightly easier to achieve, but is still quite difficult. As a minimum you need the following to allow for Moscow: Earlier start to the offensive, no later than...
  2. God is a Frenchman

    If the OP wants this reopened, he can PM me or another Mod. Let the dead rest folks.
  3. God is a Frenchman

    It was dead six months ago. It is still dead. Let the dead rest.
  4. Look to the West -- Thread II

    Fear not! New thread is here: https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=258681
  5. Quick Carrier Question

    Several of the CVS spent time launching strikes from Yankee Station including the Intrepid CV(S)-11 Ticonderoga CV(S)-14 (which, as a special bonus, on 12/5/1965, lost an A-4 off the deck which had a B43 nuclear weapon attached at the time :eek:) Kearsarge CV(S)-33 Shangri-La CV(S)-38. They were...
  6. Quick Carrier Question

    Active? Fleet/Attack or overall including CVS? Available or just in commission? There really isn't an easy answer, especially once the SLEP concept came into being. But... Probably the biggest number of fleet carriers would be Vietnam era. Ten Essex class saw combat service off Vietnam (not...
  7. No Mustang - Alternate escorts for the 8th?

    Actually the guy who would have had a stroke was Marshall. The odds are that Corsairs would, at least initially have come with USMC pilots, and Marshall was set on "Marines will get into the ETO over my dead body!" due to what he felt was the Corps grabbing all the glory and headlines in WW...
  8. No Mustang - Alternate escorts for the 8th?

    The -47N would be most likely, since it was a fairly straightforward redesign involving adding fuel tanks to the wings, after that the F4U (combat radius from land bases with drop tanks was 700+ miles, which is more than enough to escort to Berlin and back), maybe even the exceptional (although...
  9. SIG 226 beats out the Beretta 92 as the US service pistol?

    The Corps has already grasped the nettle and ordered over 4,000 modernized versions of the M1911 from Colt in .45 for issue to senior officers and others who carry handguns as issue. http://militarytimes.com/blogs/gearscout/2012/07/20/usmc-orders-4036-m45-cqbp-pistols/
  10. SIG 226 beats out the Beretta 92 as the US service pistol?

    The 9mm was, and is, an utter waste of time as a military round, at least in a handgun. As a police round, or maybe even in a SMG it is okay, albeit for different reasons (a law enforcement weapon is not really meant to absolutely kill, but to disable, and the Nine is good at that, while a SMG...
  11. SIG 226 beats out the Beretta 92 as the US service pistol?

    Minimal difference. Pistols are for civilian cops & pilots who have relocated their aircraft behind enemy lines (and even in their case a PDW is better), not soldiers. Of course, maybe we would have been spared the odd fixation with the 9mm that seems to have finally run its course in both...
  12. US Wins World Cup in 2014. NOW what?

    Yes, because that is EXACTLY what happened last time.:rolleyes:
  13. US Wins World Cup in 2014. NOW what?

    Gay Boys? Really? Just in case you missed the memo, Gays are just as tough (or as wimpy) as the rest of the population in virtually identical proportion. Don't be an jackass. Jackasses have a very short half-life hereabouts.
  14. What If Japan Wins WW2?

    The Reich was, as I have said on many occasions, literally an Evil Empire. No question, no argument. Japan may not have had, as an articulated policy the same sort of Genocidal goals, but in the actual case on the ground, the results were virtually identical. The human toll, just in China, of...
  15. Other operators of the B-1

    The Soviets reputedly did this with a few Tu-22M Backfires. The idea was to provide some level of defense against NATO (i.e. USN) carrier borne fighters. Larry Bond actually modeled it in the original Harpoon. Sort of a cool concept, provided the other side doesn't have an AAM with more range...
  16. FAIL SAFE

    Ritalin Rangers? Really? Don't be an ass.
  17. What If Japan Wins WW2?

    In a purely military sense the U.S. DID roll over the NVA whenever it showed its face. The classic example is Khe Sanh. At the time, and even today to the non historian, Khe Sanh was held up as a major U.S. defeat. In actual fact, it was possibly the best conceived and executed American...
  18. Other operators of the B-1

    The Super Bug is slightly less observable, mainly directly from the nose and tail but it also has less than half the combat radius and only about 75% of the war load of the Strike Eagle. While the RAAF doesn't have the OPFOR threat potential that the USAF is designed around (although the...
  19. Other operators of the B-1

    The difference? Night & Day. Even the U.S. military, where money apparently really does grow on trees, could only afford 100 B-1B. The aircraft runs $300 million (adjusted for inflation) per airframe, more once you figure in the on-going need to update the avionics. As a comparison, the...
  20. What If Japan Wins WW2?

    The Japanese didn't have a written policy of brutality, it was a racist way of thinking going back to the end time of the Shogunate, one that extended well beyond the military. Look at Korea and Formosa. Look at the remarkably casual brutality that was displayed across China, or shown toward PoW...
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