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  1. WW2 Question - Hitler with jet fighter

    Rocket aircraft are one of those "gee that should be great" ideas that are not worth a damn in the real world. If everyone has jets the real difference is quite small. It will be slightly more difficult for the USAF to go onto the offensive and hunt down Luftwaffe fighter assets using bomber...
  2. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    There is probably a T/L in there, but not from me. :) I expected this T/L to be about a dozen posts over a couple weeks. It is now 120 or so Word pages.:eek:
  3. Aircraft that should never have seen service

    Ever get the impression that you could put a couple Merlins on a dairy barn and come out with a pretty decent aircraft? Hell of a good engine design.
  4. Aircraft that should never have seen service

    The P-36 was somewhat underpowered and woefully underarmed with only one .30 cal and one .50 cal mg. They largely corrected the power when the created the P-40 with the Allison and gradually brought the P-40's armament up to the U.S. WW II standard of six .50 cals. The P-36s biggest failure was...
  5. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Thanks for the kind words. All of the occupied countries in Europe, to one degree or another, had to come to some sort of accommodation with the Nazis once the Soviets were defeated and when it became clear that the Americans and British were not coming. You can resist for a while, passively...
  6. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Why, thank you! :)
  7. Most wasteful weapons project after 1900

    How about the fact that it was no more powerful than the U.S. BB-61 class and barely better than the BB-57 class, was vulnerable to both the 16"/45 & 16"/50 AP shell, making it an extremely unbalanced design, and was seven knots slower than an Iowa? Or the fact that the IJN had to build a new...
  8. AH: "Nixon's War"-A Longer Vietnam War/Authoritarian United States

    Advice? Throw it away, learn something about the U.S. Constitution so you can see why this could literally never happen, and try again.
  9. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    The ABM discussion is largely not part of this T/L, but I have to note that having a system isn't close to having an effective system. Nike had some modest success, as did the Soviet Gorgon, but as far as being an actual effective defense... As far as the T/L, the Allies have no system, in...
  10. Most wasteful weapons project after 1900

    B-1A/B The B1A was a questionable design, given the threat environment, but the B1B is actually a terrific weapon system. It gets short shrift because the current threat environment over Iraq and Afghanistan is negligible, allowing the obsolete B-52 to continue as the primary bomb truck of the...
  11. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Austria has been absorbed, although there is still an "Austria" as a state of the Reich, and Austria is still a identifiable region, especially in the minds of the Austrians (a reasonable comparison would be South Carolina in 1900). The new conscripts, who have not received the same level of...
  12. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    The Meteor F.8 was actually a very nice fighter bomber and much easier to build than later designs. I used the F.8 because it is a "first waffle" project for the new factory and new workers in a brand new industry for India. The Luftwaffe is scraping the bottom of its barrel, many of its...
  13. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Here is the next update. Comments? 32 The day of October 24th dawned clear, if cold at 34 degrees Fahrenheit , conditions that provided the Allied air forces increasingly rare unlimited visibility for operations (the only exception was a ground mist that covered part of the Cotenin...
  14. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    The problem with ABM systems, even if they have a nuclear warhead, is guidance and reaction time. An ICBM warhead, assuming it is at ~8,000 KM range is traveling at around 4 KPS, this makes the engagement window very small and you need long range radars at a considerable distance from the ABM...
  15. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Absolutely not. Tech is a couple years ahead in some areas, but it isn't 60 years ahead.
  16. Alternate ww2 hybrid weapons projects

    A few arnot yet mentioned (or not quite mentioned): P-38 With Packard/Merlins P-39/63 With Packard/Merlins P-40 With Packard/Merlins Japan with Enigma coding machines. Germany with the Japanese Type 95/96 21" (533mm) submarine torpedo (not the Type 93 "Long Lance"" which was a 24"...
  17. WI Nazi Germany made an attempt to reconquer former German colonies

    11 MONTHS after this fully insane thread died, having been mostly driven by a Banned ex-member, and you decide to post this? Let the justly dead lie.
  18. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    From the T/L perspective I would refer you to page 2, post # 39 for an answer to this question. The USSR ITTL does not fall until mid-1943. The U.S. had added better than 1,000 fighters to the UK's defenses )this is in addtion to the huge number of British built Spitfires and other fighters and...
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