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  1. F-14 Tomcat not retired- likewise for F117, B2

    The Bush hasn't completed acceptance trials, much less shakedown yet, so she is not deployable. The Vinson currently is finishing the SLEP/RCOH process and will not be available until the process is completed in roughly a year. When she comes out of the yard, the TR will start her RCOH. By then...
  2. To Sealion and Beyond...

    Do you realize that you are arguing with a BANNED member who can neither reply or even read your comments?
  3. F-14 Tomcat not retired- likewise for F117, B2

    Correct. Until they get around to sinking them or turning them into tourist attractions, the U.S. has five CV in inactive status that could be brought back on line in four years or so.
  4. F-14 Tomcat not retired- likewise for F117, B2

    Actually the "two war" requirement I'm discussion has nothing to do with the USSR. It is a two "Regional Wars" scenario (frex: Middle East intervention and Korea), one that is much more likely than a replay of WW II. If that scenario was to occur today, the USN simply couldn't meet up to its...
  5. Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    Depends on what you mean by viable target. There was no pure military site, meaning a position with no civilians within the target zone, anywhere in Japan or even in the Mandates. Even Truk, which was a bypassed waste of a base, had significant civilian population, mainly Islanders, but also...
  6. What would it take for a MAGNOX meltdown/radiation release?

    That it HASN'T happened, given the DPRK's quality control record is just about a miracle.
  7. Nimitz

    I would disagree, if for no other reason (not that there not many) than the minutes of the meeting when Hirohito decided that the war MUST end. When I was a LOT younger, I worked with several men who had survived the Bataan Death March (talk about a tough bunch of old birds). All of them were...
  8. F-14 Tomcat not retired- likewise for F117, B2

    Excellent example. With about 200 (between 1937 and January of 1942 the Germans built roughly 270 U-Boats, with 68 being confirmed by post war records as being lost in the same time frame) fairly primitive boats the Reich came to within a reasonable distance of defeating the Royal Navy on the...
  9. What was the deadliest war before WWI?

    Oh, no doubt. The wars that took place in China in the pre industrialized age put anything that took place elsewhere in the shade. As you note, even if the death toll was 1/10 of the 36 million figure (which is likely) that is still 3,600,000 deaths or just under 2% of the TOTAL human...
  10. What was the deadliest war before WWI?

    I would be somewhat cautious using the figures from that particular Wiki. The TOTAL population of the PLANET in 700 AD was 210 million, with a 10% increase by 800 AD. The Wiki indicates that the two ARMIES engaged in the An Shi rebellion numbered 60 MILLION each. That would indicate that 57% of...
  11. Pearl Harbor WI

    There were none of the older S-boats (with the torpedoes that actually worked as they were design to) at Pearl. They were out in the Islands with Hart. The P-36's biggest flaw was the weakness in firepower (as we have discussed in other threads) with only one .50 and one .30 cal. It was...
  12. Challenge: Cavalry Survives

    There will always be some use of horses, generally in low tech enviroments, at least until somebody actually comes up with a real world version of a Star Wars hover bike. U.S. (and I would presume other NATO) SPECOP units are using horses as I type this.
  13. F-14 Tomcat not retired- likewise for F117, B2

    Just a quick point about the Indians: The fact that they have previously purchased everything off the shelf is changing fairly quickly. The number of Indian engineers graduating from not just Indian universities, but all the big name Western top shelf schools is truly staggering. Some of those...
  14. F-14 Tomcat not retired- likewise for F117, B2

    Soviet/Russian Aircraft that lived up to the hype? Post WW-2? Hmmm... MiG-15 MiG-21 MiG-25 MiG-31 Su-27 Tu-22M Tu-160 Every one of these aircraft presented a significant tactical problem to the West. The MiG-15 was, in many aspects, BETTER than the F-86 as well as being a total shock to...
  15. F-14 Tomcat not retired- likewise for F117, B2

    Maybe. Ya'll buying the beer?
  16. F-14 Tomcat not retired- likewise for F117, B2

    Well, I guess they're going to cross most of Siberia and build a bridge to Alaska. Then they are going to march across 1800 hundred miles of nothing to get to the lower 48.:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek: The People's Liberation Army, fear it if you live in Seattle!!:eek::eek::eek::eek:
  17. F-14 Tomcat not retired- likewise for F117, B2

    Sure I have. Isn't that were Sarah goes every morning to check up on the Russkies?
  18. F-14 Tomcat not retired- likewise for F117, B2

    The Tomcat was a great aircraft that had run out of mission, was extremely expensive to maintain, and had less costly, equally effective alternatives for the mission at hand. Why keep it under those circumstances? The Tom was made specifically to defend a CBG against a mass cruise missile...
  19. The Avro Arrow...

    The Arrow is well loved here on the Board. You may want to do a search for some of the MANY other threads on the aircraft that look at different aspects of the aircraft and its potential impact.
  20. Different Pearl Harbor

    Yea, I'll PM you.
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