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  1. Could Soviet Nuclear Weapons Have Been Smuggled Into the USA Via Diplomatic Bags?

    It wasn't so much planning as accepting. Makes you wonder what was in some American diplomatic pouches.
  2. Japanese Air Power in WWII, revised

    When you are looking at porting a land based aircraft to carrier use, you also need to account for the additional weight needed for the aircraft to survive more than one or two landings. Carrier aircraft are brutalized under even the best of conditions, with landings being more of a...
  3. Propeller aircraft carriers today?

    Actually I did mention the AD-1 in my first post in the thread. Utterly remarkable aircraft, maybe the best fixed wing CAS platform ever built, A-10 included. Massive loiter time, heavy weapon load, tough as a $2.00 steak. With a few avionics upgrades it could serve in the CAS role to this day...
  4. Propeller aircraft carriers today?

    Difficulty here is that once you load them with missiles and modern avionics they will cost almost as much as the jets.
  5. Propeller aircraft carriers today?

    Behold the glory that was the ix-64 Wolverine!
  6. Japanese Air Power in WWII, revised

    There are really only two difficulties in making this happen, unfortunately they are both sizable and I really do not have a ready way to circumvent them. 1. Japanese doctrine and experience. The A5M, A6M, Ki-27 and Ki-43 were all exceptionally successful when initially introduced. This being...
  7. Propeller aircraft carriers today?

    No carrier is going to be cheap. The America class LHA, which is the size ship we are discussing, is going to price out at ~$3.75 BILLION. She is about the size of the last generation of CV (Midway Class). She and her sisters are, in fact, so expensive and require so much fuel to operate that...
  8. AH Challenge: have the Douglas B-42 Mixmaster in service by early 1944

    The classic role for it would have been that assumed IOTL by the B-25. Move a few bits around and you can fill the nose with .50 cals and use the weight allocated for bombs partly to ammo. They might also have beeninteresting in a bomber escort role similar to the one envisioned for the YB-40...
  9. THE CLICHE CALLED AMERIWANK

    Don't tell people to calm down for being upset about a clearly racist rant. You should be appalled that someone you know IRL came into your thread and pulled this crap.
  10. THE CLICHE CALLED AMERIWANK

    What the hell are you talking about? Part of me wants to ask exactly who is doing these "calculations" but most of me is just shaking my head at the lunacy here. Be happy that I can't find ANYTHING in your posting history outside of this outburst that isn't related to a single Game (195...
  11. Full blown Mexico-US war after WWII

    The Mexican government also had a history of treating those local group like serfs.
  12. The Portuguese Invasion of Brazil...

    This would be somewhat likely to cause the U.S. to... show concern. Monroe Doctrine & all that.
  13. Britain still a world power?

    Lets start with the elephant in the room: the UK is a MAJOR nuclear power. It is one of five (maybe six) countries on Earth that is quite literally capable of ending civilization. Beyond that rather significant matter, the UK is also wields massive influence in these ares (among many others)...
  14. US-Nazi cold war

    A West/Reich Cold War would be considerably less stable than the NATO/Pact version. Even if you find a way to get the USSR brought to heel (which, BTW takes some doing :D) the Reich is still run by a bunch of flat out lunatics all of whom actually BELIEVE the whole National Socialist line. For...
  15. Strategic objectives of Germany after 1940: What wouyld YOU do

    One thing that some posts seem to ignore is that Gemany NEEDED to control France, the Low Countries were mainly along for the ride. France provided a huge amount of resources to the Reich, especially a huge amount of industrial base and food supply (current day France is th 2nd largest food...
  16. AHC: A Kido Butai Carrier survives WWII

    Why? One carrier (with some rather harsh miles under the keel) that is incapable of operating heavyweight aircraft and a heavy cruiser with delusions of grandeur aren't going to achive anything except being Navy Crosses waiting to happen.
  17. Strategic objectives of Germany after 1940: What wouyld YOU do

    This ignores the basic answer of "If I suddenly found myself being Hitler the first thing I would do is have all the Senior Reich leadership liquidated followed by blowing my brains out" as the only reasonable response. That being said... 1. End the Battle of the Atlantic. All it does is...
  18. 1940: FDR Says no

    Utter disaster for the world. FDR was just about the only politican in the 20th Century who could have gotten the U.S. ready for WW II the way it happened (Reagan might have been able to talk his way through it as well as FDR, but that's about it). Same goes for supporting the Brtish to the...
  19. No P-51 Mustang

    In the P-75's defense it was meant to be built from the parts bins of several other aircraft, including the Mustang (later the P-40), Corsair, SBD, and other planes. It was designed to have 400 miles more range than the P-51 and it carried TEN .50 Cal MG. If you think the result as it came...
  20. No P-51 Mustang

    If had managed to hit designed speeds (and with a 2,300 HP engine and contra-rotating props, it was a good candidate for that speed) they would have found it ugly and scary as all hell. 450MPH is nothing to sneeze at, nor were the 4 20mm cannon it was designed to carry.
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