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  1. A new B-52

    The current B-52 in service (they have retired all the -52D "Big Bellies" can deliver 70,000 pounds of bombs. The B-1B can handle 75,000 in her internal bomb bays (along with another 50,000 pounds that can theoretically be carried on external hard-points). The B-2 can "only handle 50,000 pounds...
  2. The Battle of Midway goes according to plan for the IJN

    IJN doctrine called for carrier to defend themselves. The AAA on the escorts was, in general, barely sufficient to defend themselves. This is covered in some depthin several works, perhaps the best being the superlative Shattered Sword. The IJN's defensive doctrine was very different from that...
  3. The Battle of Midway goes according to plan for the IJN

    Uh, no they didn't. The TBF was the best torpedo plane of the war. The U.S. made the Dive Bomber obsolete with the Hellcat and Corsair, although the SBD was a far better aircraft than the D3A, and the later SB2C was actually an excellent, if unnecessary due to events, aircraft. Japan tried...
  4. The Battle of Midway goes according to plan for the IJN

    Since the U.S. did the Central Pacific strategy with Yorktown, Hornet, and Wasp all sitting on the ocean floor, and since the USN would still have outnumbered the IJN 2-1 in decks and 3-1 in aircraft even if none of the IJN decks were lost at Midway (also more than slightly unlikely) by the time...
  5. The Battle of Midway goes according to plan for the IJN

    Rather than being insulted, which would not be an unreasonable reaction to your ending statement, lets just look at the actual facts. The Navy ALWAYS had a Central Pacific strategy (Gilberts, Marshalls, Marianas, Iwo Jima/Volcano Islands, Ryukyus). This was the direct path to Japan, the...
  6. The Battle of Midway goes according to plan for the IJN

    Virtually no difference in the long run. Somewhere in mid 1944 the massively out gunned IJN dies in a major naval action in the Central Pacific, probably in the Philippine Sea. The U.S. invades the Marianas and establishes a series of air bases there. On or about August 1, 1945, following a...
  7. Edward VIII remains King of Ireland in 1936

    Three YEARS? Really? This isn't just Necromancy, its dragging the corpse through the town square. NEVER do this again. If you think a subject that has been dead for three years is worth discussing start a new thread.
  8. AHC: No "Marianas Turkey Shoot"

    The Japanese didn't suffer crippling air crew losses at either Coral Sea or Midway. In a move that was rather surprisingly sensible given a lot of the IJN's attitude toward pilots and aircrew, the Japanese did exactly the same thing as the USN did when a carrier was in serious danger, they...
  9. Did Philip Zelikow write de 11S History?

    No, that's all we need. The 8:05 Crazy Train to Coventry is at the platform. Don't want you to miss it Banned for conspiracy insanity.
  10. Armoured Cruiser Vs Treaty Cruiser

    Long range gun duels were extremely rare, but the same question can be asked about the AC. Did an AC even make a 25,000 yard hit on a maneuvering 33 knot warship? The 15" on Warspite were, well, 15" guns of 42 calibers, firing a shell that had been redesigned in the interwar years for better...
  11. Armoured Cruiser Vs Treaty Cruiser

    The Treaty cruiser has a two mile range advantage and can put anywhere fron 50-100% more rounds out per minute. It is also at least 10 knots faster and carries ten 533mm torpedoes. Assuming both ships are properly handled, the Country will be able to dodge its opponent, prevent pursuit with...
  12. Greece gaining the following territories

    I was going to issue a general warning to just about everyone who posted in the last five pages of this flame fest. Instead I am simply going to lock this disaster before it becomes necessary for me to kick a minimum of five posters in this thread.
  13. Firearm questions?

    What a "4" among friends? I would have sworn I hit the 4!:o I always thought the "R" stood for "Russian"? oops. Good thing someone's about to keep me honest. :)
  14. Firearm questions?

    Technically an automatic rifle fires a full sized military rifle cartridge and submachine gun fires a pistol caliber, with the assault rifle firing a round somewhere in between the two. In reality there is a lot of overlap, but the reason for the development of the assault rifle was that full...
  15. PC and WI: The Anglo/American - Kaiserreich war?

    The U.S. has show itself to be willing to walk away, after seven or eight years of on-going occupation and failed efforts at nation-building. That was the case in Vietnam and in Iraq. Both of those wars were also greatly impacted by the media, especially television, presenting the wars as a...
  16. PC and WI: The Anglo/American - Kaiserreich war?

    WW I & WW II were very different wars. Technology was farther advanced, the enemies were different and the reasons for fighting were different. In this sort of scenario, Germany would not have set up an Atlantic Wall and repressed all of Europe. The end result would be 1870-71.
  17. WI the Ottomans made it to America?

    It is contrary to Board policy to revive dead threads. This thread was beyond dead with three years since the last substansive post. If you have serious interest in a subject, start a new thread. Please DO NOT bring the dead back as zombies.
  18. The most powerful WW2 Axis possible

    Well, in that case, Hitler and the Nazi Party would never have existed, so the whole war might never have happened. Hitler's entire belief system was centered around two basic things, Germans WERE superior to all other groups, and the Jews and Slavs were deserving of nothing but extermination.
  19. Map Thread IX

    Both of you cut it out or I'll get a 2'fer here and give you both a week off.
  20. South Vietnam pulls a Taiwan

    You know better than this. SIXTEEN months? 16? Really? DO NOT do this again
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