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  1. If CVA-01/02 are built, Falklands War happen?

    May 5, 1982: HMS Duke of Edinburgh is struck by Exocet. Officer of the Deck pipes "sweeps, man the brooms" while laughing his ass off. All five Super Entards making the attack are shot down by CAP. An Exocet is a good weapon againt a 4,000 ton Type 42 DDG. Against a 62,000 ton CVA it is a...
  2. If CVA-01/02 are built, Falklands War happen?

    Almost certainly not. The Junta looked at the RN, the logistics involved, and the force correlation and chose to throw the dice. No one realized just how handy a fighter the Sea Harrier could be in the hands of a skilled pilot (we tend to forget that the Harrier was a ground attack aircraft...
  3. What if: Strike back

    It is generally a REALLY bad idea to base operational planning on The A Team. In real life if go into somewhere full rock and roll people get killed. You use blanks YOU get killed. Setting up a SAM trap with thousands of missiles requires, well, thousands of missiles, something the Serbs...
  4. Airpower at Omaha Beach

    The Allies pounded the crap out of all the invasion sites during the early morning of the 6th with heavy bombers. The strikes at Omaha were less effective than hoped (the plan was to have craters on the beach for the infantry to hide in, as well as dust up the fortifications) since the decision...
  5. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Well here's a few things that I rejected: Nerve gas strike against Halifax, Washington and New York. Logistically it just couldn't be brought together, not without compromising the story line too much. It would have been interesting though, maybe next time. U-boats deposited agents spreading...
  6. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Oh, you have no idea how much worse I could have made this. I am really tempering things. :eek::eek::eek: :p
  7. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Well both, obviously. :D Actually it is more the "We have to act correctly in every way every minute, to do otherwise makes us just as bad" slippery slope school of thought.
  8. Anglo-American - Nazi War AU: Nazi Germany nuked at the earliest possible moment?

    The reason I didn't have this in the T/L is that is that: 1. It makes for a pretty lousy storyline. 2. Simply ignores the way that Western Democracies conduct business. Now from the story perspective it would have been an easy out (and truthfully if I had known that it would turn into the...
  9. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Breaking my usual rule about not discussing the ATL future, you have just uncovered one of the cottage publishing industries of ATL 1999.:p
  10. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Aw hell...:o
  11. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    A sunny Saturday update. Comments? 51 There remains some debate regarding the unrest that overcame France in the wake of Paris’ televised obliteration. While it was clearly an uprising against the retreating SS, it was much more than just a reaction against a retreating invader. There was...
  12. Japanese Victory (?)

    Please do not bring the dead back as Zombies. Unless you have something of significant difference from what has already been posted, let old threads rest in peace.
  13. Aircraft that should never have seen service

    They only produced abot two dozen of the heavy cannon armed aircraft. The rest were vastly under gunned and they were still fire hazards.
  14. Aircraft that should never have seen service

    I pretty much said it in the original post: Ki-44, a Japanese contemporary of the P-47 and FW-190, with 2 .50 cal machine guns and a gas leak. The aircraft was a death trap, drastically under armed for a 1942 introduction, no protection to speak of, and can be seen as a poster child for...
  15. Less negative perception of the Nazis?

    So Hitler becomes an entirly different person with ALL of his deeply held beliefs gone? In that case there IS no Nazi Party and Hitler's name is only known to history on a long list of Medal winners in WW I. This is ALWAYS the problem with Nazi WI. You have to take away EVERYTHING that the...
  16. Aircraft that should never have seen service

    It actually was successful as what it was meant to be, a point interceptor, and then, in the "C" and "G" models, as a fighter bomber. Extremely high learning curve. It also wasn't much in ACM, which is what a fighter, as compared to an interceptor, is all about. Johnson went to Michigan? Have...
  17. WI The Doolittle Disaster

    JNAF Betty torpedo bombers could reach out a thousand miles and RTB with a Type 91 torpedo. The point where Doolittle launched was well with in range of both the G4M AND the G3M, not to mention being within escort range of the A6M. All three aircraft had range at least equal to the B-25. There...
  18. Aircraft that should never have seen service

    I heard that too. Never have seen anything confirming it. Can you imagine poking along at 60K and 1,800MPH and having someone DIVE past you?:eek:
  19. Aircraft that should never have seen service

    Again, you are right, but the initial plan never proved out. The Light Fighter Concept was actually a really good idea, but it had less than Zero chances of making it through the process. The idea was to have a more capable F-5, optimised as a pure daytime fighter, instead, by the time the Air...
  20. Aircraft that should never have seen service

    Well, that is the point I was making. If it had been built to be an Air superiority fighter it would have come out of the box with the right radars to handle the Sparrow. It didn't.
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