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  1. Into This Abyss: The Eurasian War (1915-1919)

    Moved at OP request.
  2. Challenge: Grossdeutschland

    Don't reply to dead threads. General Zod hasn't been on line here for better than 2 years, he posted in this thread THREE years ago. Since you actually put something of substance in here we'll call this a warning. Don't do it again. CalBear in Mod Mode.
  3. The Soviet Invasion of Europe, 1945...

    They had enough fuel for one strike per plane (one way). Once they moved the planes to Kyushu to oppose the expected U.S. landings they literally didn't have enough fuel to move them back to Honshu if the U.S. decided to attack there. Japan was at the END of its tether.
  4. The Soviet Invasion of Europe, 1945...

    How do you feed 90 million people by the air? How do you supply fuel to the same people from the air? How do you provide munitions to the Home Islands from the air? The answer is that you can't. The Far East Air Force would have been gobbled up and wiped out by the U.S. carrier airwings...
  5. The Soviet Invasion of Europe, 1945...

    Did the USSR suddenly develop a massive ASW capacity and transport it to the Far East? AFAIK the Soviets were not exactly the world leaders in ASW and their Pacific Fleet was not the largest formation (two older light cruisers, 10 Destroyers, some minsweepers, and inshore sub chasers) in the...
  6. The Soviet Invasion of Europe, 1945...

    The YaK-3 was a very solid aircraft, but it was again a bit light on armament (2 .50 and one 20mm in most variants), especially for fighter on fighter work where the more projectiles sent out tends to make more of a difference than the hitting power of the rounds (fighters tend to be dodging...
  7. The Soviet Invasion of Europe, 1945...

    The Yak-9 was a good aircraft, massively under armed in most variants (1 20mm cannon and ONE .50 cal) but a good aircraft, especially, as you not, below 15K. I would give the nod the La-7 for the best Soviet air superiority fighter of the era, but even the -7 was not over gunned (usually two...
  8. The Soviet Invasion of Europe, 1945...

    There is no reason for Stalin to do this IOTL, that is why it didn't happen. There would need to be a POD, maybe the Allies doing something that Stalin saw as a stab in the back. A a good one would be something like Mark Clark accepting the independent surrender of German forces in Italy and...
  9. United States vs. Anglo-Japanese Alliance circa 1920s: Who Wins?

    The Crows (good times!:eek:) The USSR Germany
  10. The Soviet Invasion of Europe, 1945...

    The B-29A lacked the range from Iceland, which is why basing in Iran or northern Iraq would have been likely. The B-29D/B-50, the version the USAF managed to convince Congress was an entirely different aircraft, could make from Iceland with plenty to spare (combat radius was 2,200 miles or...
  11. Brutus and Cassius win in Phillipi: a TL

    Moved per OP request.
  12. The Soviet Invasion of Europe, 1945...

    The place where the Allies would have flown out of is almost certainly Tehran or somewhere slightly closer to Moscow. A second location, at least with the B-50, would be Iceland. Both have very nice areas to build on rock, or at least on very dry heavy clay. As you note, you are near a B-36...
  13. WI: Japan attacks USSR instead of Pearl Harbor

    No one knew about the oil and gas in Siberia at the time. The geological studies that found it didn't happen until the war was long over and it was the 1960s before the technology existed in the drilling industry that could exploit the fields. In 1941 it was snow & ice.
  14. IJNAF/IJAAF '46

    The bad mechanical practices have long been a puzzle. The Japanese in the post war interrogations mainly shrugged when asked about it (which may have been part of the problem in that the combat commanders, even senior ones, simply had no idea). The situation is mentioned in a number of books...
  15. WI: Japan attacks USSR instead of Pearl Harbor

    The Japanese get their behinds kicked. They then run out of oil and the Chinese wipe them out. It matters to the Great Patriotic War not at all. The Japanese COULDN'T do anything but make a dive for the Southern Resource Area. It was that or accept American terms to restore trade. That would...
  16. IJNAF/IJAAF '46

    The real difficulty for the Japanese was that they had enormous trouble with the construction of really high powered engines. This was mainly a function of supply difficulties, and of production pressures and the attendant shortcuts, but Japanese aircraft engines, especially those used in the...
  17. What would happen if the Roman Empire simply was non-existent

    You should both refrain from insulting folks. CalBear in Mod Mode.
  18. The Soviet Invasion of Europe, 1945...

    If you have nothing but this sort of drivel to add to a thread, don't. CalBear in Mod Mode.
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