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  1. Could the YB-49's Problems Have Been Solved?

    Sure. In about 1985. Until then ALL flying wings were memorials waiting to happen. The design is dynamically unstable in far too many conditions to be real world usable before the advent of computer aided control.
  2. argentine fleet doesnt retreat

    Nucs don't run away, they kill. If their Spearfish miss, which is about as unlikely as things get, wire guided torpedoes with superb on board active sonar don't miss, especially when the target doesn't have torpedo decoys clever enough to spoof them deployed. What happens is simple. The SSN...
  3. argentine fleet doesnt retreat

    Without CATOBAR, you really don't have a true "Attack Carrier" You have a rather serious weak spot when it comes to AEW and even to ASW (although the USN seems to have put itself into the same fix, quite intentionally with the retirement of the S3). The RN ever has to play for keeps against a...
  4. argentine fleet doesnt retreat

    The Argentine fleet stays at sea it dies. No muss, no fuss, not even much bother. A couple sub skippers get to tie a broom to the mast head when they return to port and probably get the UK equivalent of a Navy Cross (Distinguished Service Cross? Distinguished Service Order?). The Argentinians...
  5. Earlier possible date for an six-carrier attack on Pearl HArbor?

    The Japanese sped the construction as much as possible. Arguably hey attacked before the Zuikaku had really had time to properly work up. They attacked Pearl 10 week after she was commissioned (as a comparison Hornet, which was launched a month after Zuikaku, was in the yard correcting minor...
  6. A mushroom on Germany.

    Japs? Really? In 2012? Don't do this again.
  7. DBWI: George W. Bush doesn't reveal his homosexuality

    I would have sworn I locked this. Necro'ing it didn't improve it a bit, BTW.
  8. Dornier 19 instead of FW 200

    Range was about 1,000 miles (a bit less, but close enough) you might be able to get another couple hours in the air with bombbay tanks. Call it 1,400 miles.
  9. WI: Pope converts to Islam

    Closed at OP request.
  10. Dornier 19 instead of FW 200

    Just producing more of the Do-26 would have been a very good idea. Excellent range, speed close to the Do-19. It could have operated out of Norway, well out of range of RAF interdiction, and would have been able to play follow the leader with convoys for literally half a day. The same could be...
  11. Dornier 19 instead of FW 200

    There will likely be a decent improvement in speed with more powerful engines, and depending on the design, there may be the potential for added fuel tanks, both of which would be positive, but the reality is that an engine with double the horsepower uses, at least double the fuel. Each gallon...
  12. Dornier 19 instead of FW 200

    I may have missed this, in scanning the thread, but there is a significant range difference in the two aircraft. The Do-19 had a max range of ~1,000 miles, the Fw-200 had better than 2,100 miles in the tank (in a publicity stunt it once made a non-stop Berlin-NYC flight, albeit in massively...
  13. what if hitler farted after lunch on dday?

    Sadly, for you, I do think it is an obvious troll. NEVER do this again. Thread locked.
  14. CH: Make a Depressing Song Hit #1

    Except it was in German and I doubt one person in 50 who bought it knew what the hell it was about. It also peaked at # 2 in the U.S. Still, there are tons of depressing/sad songs that hit # 1: Billy Don't be a hero The night the lights went out in Georgia Indian Reservation (Cherokee Nation)...
  15. Bin Ladin killed earlier, does Sept 11 happen

    Ooh... Truthers! Truther= Conspiracy theory. Conspiracy theory = Kick or Ban <Decision Gate reached> Kicked for a week.
  16. Bin Ladin killed earlier, does Sept 11 happen

    Ooh... Truthers! Truther= Conspiracy theory. Conspiracy theory = Kick or Ban <Decision Gate reached> Kicked for a week.
  17. If ItWere Possible would Clinton Have got A 3rd Term?

    Gore LOST the election because he distanced himself from Clinton. It was a HUGE error.
  18. If ItWere Possible would Clinton Have got A 3rd Term?

    Difference is that Clinton had already decided that bin Laden was # 1 on the Hit List. GW put Saddam above him. What you wind up with is the same campaign to zap bin Laden, but without the ultimately pointless Iraq debacle.
  19. If ItWere Possible would Clinton Have got A 3rd Term?

    Against GW Bush? In a walk. The tradition was broken by FDR. The only reason it hasn't happened since is the Amendment. Reagan would have been President until he died, or until his illness became so obvious that he couldn't campaign. Clinton mught STILL be President, although the heart issue...
  20. Japanese glide bombs in WW2

    The Japanese HAD glide bombs, the Ohka. They just loaded them with pilots. A G4M could carry one under each wing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohka
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