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  1. World War II Fought With Present Day Technology

    Not likely. The NATO members had access to the weapons. The codes were still in U.S. hands. W/O the codes nukes are REALLY expensive paperweights. If we are going to actually kick this around (again) it need to go into ASB.
  2. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    I LOVE the Madsen. Classic weapon. :) Sadly, the entire Arab-Israeli question is a moot point ITTL. While there are some Jews in Palestine, as was always the case, the total number of Jews alive in Nazi occupied Europe would fit into a basketball stadium with plenty of space left over for...
  3. World War II Fought With Present Day Technology

    This has actually been discussed in ASB. If nukes are involved it is a two day war which goes very badly indeed for Nazi Germany and Japan. If the "no nukes" rule is invoked by Irving the ASB the war is still almost unbelievably violent and short thanks to the greatly increased lethality of...
  4. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    I will touch on this briefly in the final chapter. Postwar Europe is a far different place that IOTL.
  5. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Interesting. I kept the Bren in service because the UK did well into the 1960s. I would have to disagree that the Model 9 would total replace the 9mm subgun. The pistol caliber submachine gun has its uses, even vs. a bullpup battle rifle with its substantially shorter overall length. There is...
  6. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Thanks for the comments. You can blame that whole "French Sector" thing on the British BTW. :eek: Yea, somehow the class seems to have bad karma. ;) The British carrier fleet is roughly the same as IOTL. The FAA is flying the Sea Venom, which is itelf being relaced by the Sea Vixen as...
  7. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    The whole reason I created this T/L was to look at the Nazi leadership and what the effect their utterly insane plans would have had on Europe if, God forbid, they had somehow managed to put them into effect. The whole Nazi movement was, top to bottom, insane and the top tier were as...
  8. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Here is the most recent update. Comments, as always, are most welcome.:) 8. The Allies had, through a series of increasingly bloody invasions across the Pacific Theater, developed a playbook for invasions. The playbook had stood the Allies in good stead through the Invasion of Sicily, but...
  9. Challenge; naval war post WW2.

    The reason there are so few major naval engagements is that the number of Major navies is so small. There have been frigate level action in the Middle East and in SW Asia but nothing larger simply because no one HAS anything larger. Crewing and maintaining even a gun cruiser (which is...
  10. REVERSE PH 41

    I'm sorry. I was sober. Won't happen again. :D:p:D
  11. WI: Trinity test canceled for fear of igniting atmosphere

    As was discussed in another thread quite recently, the U.S. was full speed ahead on the Olympic Operation. The Navy was trying to get traction for the Block and Bomb strategy, but the Army, and more importantly, the President, wasn't going for it. I am a big fan of Block & Bomb, with hindsight...
  12. REVERSE PH 41

    Well, as was always the case pre-war the American carriers were NOT at full strength. Nominal full strength would have been 24 fighters, 36 dive bombers and 20 TBD. CV2 had 16 F2-A Buffaloes, 31 SBD Dauntless, 12 TBD Devastators CV6 had 16 F4F-3 Wildcats, 35 Dauntless, 18 TBD. The two...
  13. WI: Trinity test canceled for fear of igniting atmosphere

    Short term this means an extra 10-20 million dead before the Pacific War ends, mostly Japanese civilians and "milita volunteers", but also at least three, perhaps as many as four, million dead on the Asian mainland in the regions under Japanese occupation. Allied, primarily American, deaths...
  14. REVERSE PH 41

    No, the Americans couldn't do it. For one thing the U.S. didn't have enough decks available with only Enterprise & Lexington in the Pacific. Saratoga was in Bremerton undergoing refit, Yorktown and Wasp were needed in the Atlantic in case the balloon went up there and Ranger was deemed to be...
  15. AH Naval Challenge: Sink the Iowas

    Probably as good a place as any to stop then. :) Interesting conversation.
  16. AH Naval Challenge: Sink the Iowas

    On a target with a rapidly changing aspect? Especially one that has any sort of countermeasures deployed? Where, exactly, IS the center of mass for a target that is bow on to the approach path of an ADCAP? Especially when that target is a 100,000 ton carrier or 50,000 ton BB. Here is a...
  17. AH Naval Challenge: Sink the Iowas

    Which would be the entire sonar target. Not the middle of the target (again, with the provision that you do not have non Open Source information regarding a method to ensure an amidships hit), especially if the target is moving and doing its damnedest to avoid getting blown to Mars. Which is...
  18. AH Naval Challenge: Sink the Iowas

    See my previous post.
  19. AH Naval Challenge: Sink the Iowas

    Yes I do. They are guided, initially at least, via a wire extending from the launching sub, something that has been in use for around 40 years, and then once the wires are either cut or broken the weapon self guides using onboard sensors assuming it has reached acquision range of the weapons...
  20. AH Naval Challenge: Sink the Iowas

    The results of that will be interesting. I would note that even if you do break the keel, it may not be fatal. The assumption seems to be that the hit will always be amidships. That isn't how it works in real life.
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