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  1. French "Falklands War"?

    Well, that would be a good deal different from the Falklands. The Argies only chance of winning was if the British sat at home and pouted. Creating it with France is damned near impossible. The French DO have a full deck (yes, it only 2/3 the size of a U.S. CVN, but it flies a very nice...
  2. wi:reagans plan for the navy was actualy put into practice

    Actually it is 3rd (EastPac) and 7th (WestPac) Fleets. Minor detail, but being a USN geek... :D
  3. wi:reagans plan for the navy was actualy put into practice

    Not in our timeline. The Soviet Pacific squadron was arrayed to defend the appoaches to the Sea of Okhotsk, where the Soviets had one of the "Bastions" that was supposed to allow their SSBN to operate unmolested (a remarkably stupid idea actually). 7th Fleet was the strongest naval force on...
  4. Horten Ho 229

    The issue with the flying wing designs (all of them) isn't stall. The problem is yaw, especially in turbulent air or at high speeds. The Horton Brother Gliders did not experience either of these since only a suicide case takes a glider up in a thunderstorm and gliders are very limited in max...
  5. Horten Ho 229

    They have good stability in clear air and either no wind or wind coming from either directly ahead or directly behind. They are also okay as low speed gliders, which was what Horton used them for. As a high performance combat aircraft they are death on a stick. They lack stability in cross...
  6. Horten Ho 229

    No flying wing is dynamically stable. It is a contradiction in terms. They can fly, under limited conditions and for limited periods of time before reality catches up to them. Just ask the Captain they named Edwards AFB after. Of course you will need to cross the River Styx because a...
  7. Horten Ho 229

    So the Luftwaffe gets a bunch of 500 MPH fighters with severe stability problems and 4 run hour engines? Hell, if this happened, Germany would lose the war! Sending a pilot up in in something that can't handle a crosswind or trublance is tantamount to murder. Good thing that common sense...
  8. "Mini-War" in Berlin 1945, USA vs. USSR

    Like I said, all he needs is Brad Pitt or Matt Damon. Wouldn't hurt if he is also Tarantino.
  9. "Mini-War" in Berlin 1945, USA vs. USSR

    Well, that takes things to another whole level of unbelievable.
  10. "Mini-War" in Berlin 1945, USA vs. USSR

    Field officers do not have the power to declare war. A Soviet Marshall who even thought about defying Stalin would have a 7.62x25 Tokarev headache inside of an hour. Full stop. Soviet officers were always in a position to be countermanded or, if needed, eliminated, by NKVD officers. The NKVD...
  11. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Much, not all, of the Reich's air defenses are designed to defeat the B-36 & B-29 along with the Lincoln and late model Lancasters. These are what the Reich faced during the bomber offensive, with the B-36 making its appearance only at the very end of the regular attacks before the bombing...
  12. What If the Philippines Held Out Longer?

    Bataan was irrelevant. As cold as it sounds the defenders of the Peninsula had been written off from Day One. Nobody in the U.S. chain of command had the slightest delusion of what going back to the Islands was going to require, and no one had thought that the Islands were defensible for...
  13. Peace in the Pacific War July 1945

    Selling that Japan hadn't been defeated by mid-1945 would have required one hell of a sell job to the Japanese people. The German "stabbed in the back" myth worked because for the most part, Geman troops HADN'T been defeated, not yet. They had been forced back, but every inch of ground that...
  14. Peace in the Pacific War July 1945

    Right on both counts. The JNAF suffered terrible losses almost from the onset of the war. While the losses in shot down aircraft at Pearl was low, with only 27 aircraft failing to return, the Kido Butai also had to write off ~50 other aircraft due to battle damage (the exact number differ...
  15. Peace in the Pacific War July 1945

    Actually, I don't thing that 12,00 0 miles was far enough for MacArthur. When you are talking about a man who actually called the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES (Ike) "the best Aide I ever had" without a touch of irony has an ego that circles the globe, possibly the Earth/Moon orbitals.
  16. Peace in the Pacific War July 1945

    What MacArthur deserved was a General Court Marshall for his horrible, borderline criminal, handling of the Philippines. Wasn't going to happen, not with the war and the need to paint the best face on things. What he should, however, have gotten was a command of a Military District, maybe...
  17. Pacific War withour Japan/US conflict

    The Japanese already had taken effective control of French Indochina. That move was the last straw which resulted in the total U.S. embargo. It is really hard to create a circumstance where the Japanese are willing to leave the U.S. Philippine bases sitting across IJN supply lines from the...
  18. Effects of a wanked Ardennes Offensive

    Problem is that there is no way for the Ardennes Offensive to stop the Allies that cold. Even if the Allied offensive from Northwest France was stopped cold, even pushed back, all that would do is make the advance from Southern France the Allied primary axis of attack. If however, you go...
  19. Peace in the Pacific War July 1945

    All too true. You had the Navy, Marines, and General Marshall all saying "Gee, it looks like the enemy has got us figured out on this whole Kyushu thing, maybe we need to try something different" & Dugout Doug saying ""It won't be that bad. Acceptable losses."
  20. Plans for the aftermath of a successful Sealion?

    The Plan was was for something similar to France, with a bit of Denmark mixed in. Some version of the Royal Family, puppet PM and Parliment, deport the Jews, Communists, and other troublemakers to the Camps, etc. It would have worked about as well as it did in France or Norway. If the UK had...
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