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  1. The Arab Alliance Wins The Yom Kippour War!

    I wouldn't call 200+KT boosted fission weapons primitive. IIRC that was best estimate for Israel's weapon inventory at the time.
  2. Potential German Carrier conversions WW2

    It might be, depending on who you are training. It would give you a deck to practice on, but the ship would almost certainly lack a proper island and other elements needed to allow both the ship's officers and the flight operation staff their business. The actual operation of the carrier...
  3. Best Intelligence Service of WW2

    And the Abwer was (perhaps by design) hands down the worst Intel service there was.
  4. Potential German Carrier conversions WW2

    The IJN already knew what a carrier needed to be and how to build one. KM didn't have that advantage.
  5. The Whale has Wings

    How does a torpedo avoid a proper netting system? A proper netting system will have nets within 50 yards of the vessels. An air dropped topedo wouldn't even have activated its warhead in that distance.
  6. Worst army in 1940

    The French failed to follow the most basic of rules: If you build a fence don't leave a hole in it.
  7. Worst army in 1940

    I did and that is pretty dumb on my part. The poor China Marines.
  8. Better German AA

    While somewhat useful against troops, the real "bang for the buck" (hey, I rarely use puns, but this one is just too easy) would have been in AAA. The Rheinmetall fuse, if it had worked even 50% as well as designed (sensitivity of four meters instead of two) would have been brutal against bomber...
  9. Worst army in 1940

    Singapore/Malaya was heavily weighted with colonial forces, with the European forces being very much of the colonial variety (poorly armed, poorly led) totaling 35,200 (20K British 15.2K Australian) along with 44K Indian and ~9,000 local militia. These men were also abysmally led, from Percival...
  10. Worst army in 1940

    Well, when you are a major industrialized nation and you have to train troops to deal with tank attacks by hanging a sign on a 2 1/2 ton truck that says "tank" and use wooden mock-up of machine guns since you don't have enough to equip active forces AND have them for training needs, that qualify...
  11. Worst army in 1940

    Froggies? Really? I SO don't think so. Cease and desist. CalBear in Mod Mod
  12. Worst army in 1940

    In 1940? Among "major powers"? The United States in a walk. What the War Department managed in under two years was a large M miracle.
  13. Third Reich politics if the nukes start dropping on Germany

    To be fair the Japanese were as badly impacted by the Soviets DoW as the Bomb. The DoW took away their last faint hope of getting some sort or reasonable deal. BTW: Following a demonstration on a city (poor Dresden, which was mainly untouched to that point, is likely), the Allies might well...
  14. US carriers destroyed at Pearl Harbour what changes?

    Caution was a rare thing in the Japanese High Command. Hell, common sense wasn't exactly in over-supply. What is interesting to consider is that a decisive Coral Sea victory for the U.S. might actually put this ATL basically back into line with OTL. You might see Guadalcanal on more or less...
  15. Hitler's Post-war Plans

    There are a lot of SOVIETS and a good number of Russians in Central Asia. Those in Central Asia would be beyond the goals that Hitler had set out, and most of the people in the 'Stans were not Slavs. Slavs in European Russia would be in a world of hurt. If 50% were alive 20 years after the Reich...
  16. US carriers destroyed at Pearl Harbour what changes?

    Possibly, especially if as was noted earlier the Doolittle Raid is cancelled. Midway was a direct reaction to the Raid, without it the motivation for the attempted ambush is off the table. No Doolittle Raid also might mean the Japanese get crushed in Coral Sea since the U.S. may now have a...
  17. US carriers destroyed at Pearl Harbour what changes?

    There were only two decks in the Pacific at the time, Lexington and Enterprise. Saratoga was between Bremerton and San Diego, Yorktown and Wasp were in the Atlantic, along with the Ranger, and Hornet was off Bermuda working up. Biggest changes: CVN 65 gets a different name, and Star Trek has...
  18. What if USA not broke any Japanese codes during World War 2

    I made a rather significant error when I typed my original message (putting me in the same situation as Heisenberg, albeit with far less reason) which frankly is inexcusable on my part. As such my data is pretty much worthless. One note: The average for all uranium ore is actually 0.25% of...
  19. AHC: Rotary Cannons as main armament for MBT-s

    One significant problemis that the GAU-8, which is, AFAIK, the most effective anti-armor gatling type gun in service, has an effective anti-armor range of 1,200 meters, and, as has been noted is not capable of penetrating front hull or turret facing armor of a modern MBT. The 120mm gun on the...
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