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  1. Alaskas

    Actually preserving an Alaska, ideally on Kodiak Island at the Coast Guard Station, would be a fitting finish for the class. Stick the damned thing at the back side of beyond and leave it there.
  2. Alaskas

    Sometimes you don't need hindsight. Two knots lower than an Iowa, less than half as capable, 80% as expensive to construct and requiring around 75% of the crew (the POS needed better than 2,000 men to operate it in combat) of an honest to God battleship (crew of around 2,500). The damned...
  3. NYC in a nuclear exchange

    The SIOP? Daily, possibly hourly. Of course, there IS no SIOP. never has been a SIOP, and never will be a SIOP. There is debate where the letters I, O, P, & S were ever used in a single sentence.
  4. Alaskas

    If there was ever even a ghost of a chance that there would be a need for more big guns, it would have been almost infinitely better to keep the Alabama (the last of the South Dakota class to enter service) in reserve. She or her sisters (or even the earlier North Carolinas) could put more...
  5. Diffferent aircraft 1940

    Either way you wind up with aircraft with less range and less utility/adaptability than the monoplanes that were on the drawing boards in 1940. Early jets were awful fuel hogs and sluggish as hell as low speed, while biplanes were just fuel hogs (all that extra drag played hell with range). The...
  6. Challenge U.S. Navy flies Su-27s!

    Well, some retiree is butt hurt that they retired his Intruders. If he really wanted to bitch it should have been when they first replaced the simply wonderful A-7 with the early model F/A-18 or even when they dumped the Bombcat (although truthfully, as much as it hurts to say, the F-14 was...
  7. NYC in a nuclear exchange

    Figure 10-20 first strike (one, maybe two R-36 or R-39 with MIRV, mainly at the Port and Manhattan (in hopes of either burying or irradiating the major Gold storage in the Federal Reserve vault). Those targets would have a major impact on the U.S. long term war-fighting capacity. After the...
  8. Challenge: battleship world

    Define a "large war". RN & USN carriers did yeoman's work off Korea. Yankee Station off North Vietnam was a vital part of the U.S. air campaign in Vietnam. Without her baby carriers the UK would never have been able to even contest the Falklands. In the early days of Desert Shield the U.S...
  9. Question: Affect of Napalm on WWII Carriers?

    The U.S. used CO2 to flush out their fuel delivery systems if they had enough warning time (the Lexington was lost because the ship's commander failed to order this, at the time experimental, action and Wasp was lost after a surprise torpedo attack ruptured her in-use fuel system). Overall USN...
  10. Goering's Reich

    Clearly you are craving attention since you went into four separate threads and put in totally bogus ASB screeds in a five minute span. Okay. Kicked for a week.
  11. RESISTANCE, starring Michael Sheen

    Duh! Because the Americans (with a wee bit of help from the British, mainly in the area of giving us a place to form up) defeated the Nazis. Everyone knows that. :p
  12. The requirements for an independent post-WWI Poland

    What the HELL? You are back from a kick for eleven and a half seconds and you post this bigoted garbage throught this thread? You are REALLY headed onto thin ice. You get one more shot at being reasonable and dumping this nationalist BS when you come back Kicked for a week.
  13. When the Wind Blew: a P&S Open Thread

    The title of this thread has been changed at the OP's request. CalBear in Mod Mode.
  14. Challenge: battleship world

    As I said, you can buy time. You might be able to hold things off until 1944, but the massive advantage of strike aircraft is so great that it is literally impossible to see how that at least a purely defensive carrier (i.e. an all fighter air wing) doesn't develop to protect ships from getting...
  15. Challenge: battleship world

    A holiday might slow the inevitable, but that would be about the limits. What really made carriers the mass killers that they became was the evolution in aircraft. An airgroup comprised of Martin T4M, Grumman F2B, and Martin BM or of Aichi D1A, Mitsubishi B2M, and Nakajima A2N was not anywhere...
  16. Challenge: battleship world

    The problem is, of course, is that the entire reason for the Treaty was to stop the battleship arms race. It was also meant to prevent the various countries from bankrupting themselves. The only real concern about carriers, as the limitations indicate (8" guns, etc.), was that that would be used...
  17. Challenge: battleship world

    All the air cover in Christendom wouldn't have gotten the Yamato to the Beaches. She was sunk by carrier aircraft because the surface force commander couldn't be bothered to go blow the pogies out of her. As a back-up to the carrier planes Spruance sent SIX battleships (3 Iowas & 3 South...
  18. US enters WW2 earlier.

    Time flies into Post 1900.
  19. Challenge: 10 Nations

    Since it would be ASB in post 1900, let's try it here.
  20. Could the Byzantine Empire have survived?

    Did you bother to look at this before you posted it? I am going to assume you didn't. This is therefore an Official Warning instead of a kick for trolling. READ before you link crap. CalBear in Mod Mode.
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