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  1. The Whale has Wings

    Actually all we stole for the Mustang was the engine. :D
  2. Pearl Harbor Detected

    Deter is easy. Send a couple patrol flights over the fleet. The orders were to abort if found while still well out to sea
  3. what if us troops were sent to rwanda

    As was noted in the thread given above, the intervention would not have been as simple as it may appear. Any intervention would have been at the end of a rather tenuous supply line (there was exactly one good runway in Rwanda that could handle even C-130s). Flights would have required oveflight...
  4. WI: 1990s, after 1980s Atomic War?

    Because, in the end, EVERYONE was on one side or the other. Voluntarily or otherwise. You leave Mexico untouched and the U.S. has a decent comm network just sitting across the border. You leave Rio and USN has a port. Helsinki? I can see it getting smacked by both sides, by the Soviets out of...
  5. World War Three Estimated Death Tolls?

    Once nukes are used against NATO/Soviet civilian targets it is all over. Hackett wrote his scenario from the NATO war-fighting perspective. He was very wrong due to the Soviet strategic system. You would get a full launch on warning. Game over.
  6. WI: 1990s, after 1980s Atomic War?

    Full exchange? Total human population about 60 million (I am going optimistic) mostly in sub Saharan Africa. Whenever you talk full exchange you need to remember that the gloves come all the way off. The Soviets had a series of engineered biological weapons that were specifically designed to...
  7. Ignore

    Yet another example of why we have to keep the old sofa instead of being able to have nice things. :mad: Thread locked.
  8. Pearl Harbor: At Night

    Anything they hit at night with a bomb would be luck. The American ships were mostly double moored so only the outboard were vulnerable to torpedo strikes. This almost certainly leave the U.S. with four more or less fully functional BB, most of the cruisers, and probably 100 or so undamaged...
  9. Happy and Glorious.

    BTW: As far as the battle being a killer for FDR, the U.S. did hold the Island against overwhelming enemy numbers or so the headlines and RKO movies would indicate. Just something to mull over.
  10. Happy and Glorious.

    As far as class name, I would suggest that you follow the U.S. practice from OTL and start with some of the ships lost already (Enterprise, Lexington, Hornet) followed by the Kitty Hawk class names (Constellation, America) and any other decks they may lose.
  11. Happy and Glorious.

    There is however the matter of the remarkable luck the Japanese did have IOTL remaining unchanged. The same can be said for the ETO
  12. Pro-Life Democrats and Pro-Choice Republicans

    You know, we have a thread for these dumb things in NP Chat. Use it.
  13. Pro-Life Democrats and Pro-Choice Republicans

    You know, we have a thread for these dumb things in NP Chat. Use it.
  14. UK after defeat in Falklands War?

    Directly? Only if it meant the keeping the UK from getting curbstomped. More likely that the U.S. would have put a couple CBG into the region to "show its concern", and just by coincidence have been able to provide AWACS support and raid warning for the British TG (along with some not so...
  15. UK after defeat in Falklands War?

    The U.S. public opinion was pretty strongly pro-UK at the time, and would have become even more so with the proper "assist" from a hugely popular POTUS. If it came down to supporting the British or the Argentinians, with the Argentinians being the unprovoked aggressor, it would not have even...
  16. UK after defeat in Falklands War?

    The U.S. didn't get overtly involved because the UK never requested it, was never in the slightest danger of losing, and as a consequence Washington could play the role of honest broker in public. As you well know the U.S. provided enormous support to the UK behind the scenes, especially in the...
  17. UK after defeat in Falklands War?

    I'm not talking "special relationship" I'm talking Us vs. Them and utter requirement to not let the Soviets think NATO is weak. If the second strongest power in NATO can get stomped by some minor player with a couple dozen obsolescent USN cast off fighters and not much else, what does that...
  18. UK after defeat in Falklands War?

    This proceeds from the assumption that the UK COULD lose. Not going to happen. The U.S was publicly pushing for a peaceful solution, behind the scenes the U.S. provided a huge amount of support. There is no way that the U.S. lets the second most powerful NATO state lose to a 3rd World country...
  19. If the Cold War Had Not Ended, What Would The U.S. Military Look Like in 2009?

    That was because Reagan, as part of his campaign promised to cut taxes, pushed through a reduction in his 2nd term. He dropped the top rate from around 70% to 51% and then to 39.6%. That would have climbed back up, probably through some sort of "temporary" increase on everyone pulling in $100K...
  20. Best world war two machine gun

    The BAR was AWFUL. As good as the Garand was, the BAR was bad. The weapon was a WW I hold over that was a revalation if it had been available in early 1918, but was too heavy, with too low a magazine capacity to be a good machine gun. The MG 42 was spectacular, as demonstrated by its survival...
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