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  1. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Here is the new update. Comments always gladly accepted! 20 The ten days after the “liberation” of Dunkirk were generally productive ones for the Allied landing forces. In a remarkable feat of engineering the Allies managed to get both “Mulberry” harbors in place, cleared enough of the...
  2. Worst outcome for Germany

    Pretty much correct, although the amount of transfer could make Anthrax more common, especially in farm animals across Europe.
  3. Worst outcome for Germany

    I do know the way it will end. The details continue to develop, but yea, the ending is fairly clear. Not going to be pretty all the way around. Winner is a relative concept.
  4. WI Japan attacks the Soviet Union in Dec 41 and not the western allies and US

    The Japanese military runs out of fuel in around a year, maybe a a couple months on either side, and freezes and starves in Siberia while being chopped into small furless bits across all of the Asian mainland. Japan HAD to move south if she was going to move at all. The IJA had well under a...
  5. Aircraft that should never have seen service

    The V variant might not have been built in such large numbers, but the Spitfire itself was probably the best airframe produced in the entire war. As you have pointed out in this thread the bF-109 ran out of gas after the "Emil" version, being clearly surpassed by the Fw-190 and by later Allied...
  6. Worst outcome for Germany

    Check my T/L when its done.:eek:
  7. Aircraft that should never have seen service

    THAT is really saying something! Marine F-18 driver I went to school claimed that back during the Cold War the idea was to just fly down low and make tight turns until the MiG chasing you broke something and crashed.
  8. a different kind of wank, ships that should have never seen service

    No, the Worcesters were utter failures because they were saddled with a main battery of questionable reliability and an overall design that is an outstanding example of what happens when you give the Navy one blank ckeck too many. You then get a ship with a main battery, which, as noted, was...
  9. Aircraft that should never have seen service

    Cool.:cool: I have minions!!! Next... Orion Slave Girls!!!!!!!!! :D
  10. a different kind of wank, ships that should have never seen service

    Absolutely. The Hippers could have been a major pain in the ass if the KM had built enough.
  11. a different kind of wank, ships that should have never seen service

    Niether do I. You brought up the Wolverine as something that should never have seen service. She was actually a rather nice use of a obsolete hull as a training platform in a situation where combat was a literal impossibility. The Japanese had the Katoris in combat throughout the war, not...
  12. a different kind of wank, ships that should have never seen service

    I will repeat the statement that, if the best you can say for a BATTLESHIP class is that one of the ships made the OPFOR devote assets to watching it and cost about 35 aircraft to sink, then it is a waste of effort. The KM would have been far better off with six or eight more Hipper class CA.
  13. a different kind of wank, ships that should have never seen service

    If they were used as a fast transport, it was a mistake. 18 knots TOP SPEED with a clean bottom does not a fast transport make. The Japanese obviously put them into harm's way. Katori was lost after engaging the Iowa :eek:. Kashii was lost in an air attack.
  14. a different kind of wank, ships that should have never seen service

    Only if you hadn't used the fact that the Worcester was going to be useful as an AA platform. If we are talking AAA then the Atlantas are a reasonable comparision. The Atlanta's issue was the CL designation. If it had been a DDL or a DDAA then it would not have been put into some of the...
  15. a different kind of wank, ships that should have never seen service

    Problem is that 18 knots is WAY too slow for anything but a converted cargo ship/surface raider. An 18 knot cruiser is literally worthless for anything but convoy escort, and even then only against surface raiders or armed trawlers. Even the Flower class convoy escorts could make 20 knots. All...
  16. Aircraft that should never have seen service

    The F-4 was never meant to be a fighter. It was a Fleet Interceptor; it was supposed to kill the Bears, not knife fight with MiG-21s. The U.S. didn't build a true fighter between the F-8 and F-15, except maybe for the export F-5. Considering its original mission the Phantom did a hell of good...
  17. Aircraft that should never have seen service

    Salvaged from similar threads in the recent past: WW II fighters Single: Ki-44, a Japanese contemporary of the P-47 and FW-190, with 2 .50 cal machine guns and a gas leak, Carrier: A5M. JNAF had the Zero still used this POS into mid-1942 Double: Ki-45. Made the Me-210 look like an F-15...
  18. Aircraft that should never have seen service

    You dare to disrespect the last real fighter the U.S. Navy ever owned? For that matter, maybe the best fighter the U.S. the U.S produced between the Sabre and the Eagle? The same basic design that was also used on the excellent A-7 Corsair II? You... You... Pistols at Dawn!
  19. Aircraft that should never have seen service

    And for the irony entry into this thread... What date did Grumman choose to hold the ribbon cutting for the brand new factory built to produce the TBF? Why December 7th, 1941 of course.:eek: (You can't make this sort of thing up).
  20. a different kind of wank, ships that should have never seen service

    The Worcesters were POS. The advantage in performance of the 6"/47DP AAA mount(48K @ 12 RPM) vs. the 5"/38 (37K @ 22 RPM) was negligible (especially considering the mechanical issues of the design, which had a rather nasty tendency of jamming when used in rapid fire) and was actually inferior...
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