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  1. Pacific War Redux

    The British were very solid at night fighting, as the results of the battle showed. HMS Resolution (and all the Royal Sovereign class ships) 15" battery had a MAX range of 23,700 yards with the 1,920 pound 4 crh AP shell. Their guns could only elevate to 20 degrees wich greatly limited their...
  2. Hitler eventually makes it to the US

    That is rather like assuming that the Moon is made of Green Cheese. Disappointment is a near certainty. Barbarossa is very unlikely and Sealion is, in practical terms short of divine intervention, impossible. If both happened... Early on May 17, 1946 the Kreigsmarine invasion flotilla (4...
  3. Greatest General in History?

    There is really no way to come up with a single "Best". The conditions vary so much that it is impossible to make it compare them. I would say the first named on the list would be Alexander the Great with Hannibal, William the Conqueror, Saladin, Wolfe, Napolean, Wellington, Lee, etc. coming...
  4. Pacific War Redux

    Thanks for the feedback & the proofreading! Error corrected.
  5. Pacific War Redux

    Keep in mind the high level bombers were attacking targets moving at 12 knots that maneuvered like, well, freighters rated at 12.5 knots. That tends to make the work a bit easier. If you look at OTL's effectiveness the Betty was a very good bombing platform, at least when it wasn't being set...
  6. Pacific War Redux

    Chikuma also carried 8 127mm (5"/40) DP guns. While not as effective as the 5"/38 carried by virtually everything in the USN inventory they were the ships primary AAA. Kashii also carried two 127mm DP. Both destroyers also carried 6 127mm (5"/50) DP guns. The 5"/50 was generally not a good AAA...
  7. Pacific War Redux

    Here is March 13, 1942 Comment encouraged Enjoy March 13, 1942 03:30 hrs local (Java Sea) – HMS Resolution picks up surface contacts, range, 32,000 yards on her Type 273 surface search radar. Contact is coming from the northwest at 21 knots. Both the course and speed mark the unknowns as...
  8. american coup d'etat

    The Last Centurion event, as the main character notes, isn't a coup. There was, according to the story, one ready to go the day AFTER the election if the election was blocked, but, as Ghost has already pointed out, any person who subverted the Constitution in that manner would be a traitor and...
  9. War Bears

    I have this poster next to my computer at work. I did have to make a small modification to the wording.:D The difficulty with actually domesticating bears is what you wind up with isn't really a bear, it winds up more like a dog. They did this, as an experiment, with foxes a few years back...
  10. The US Navy Keeps its Big Guns - the Battleships stay active

    A big gun ship has to be fairly substantial just to be a decent gunnery platform. If it is expected to be a warship (27 knots or better), opposed to a mobile battery like a monitor (which a hugely one dimensional vessel) you are talking at least 30,000, more likely 50,000 tons with a crew of...
  11. WI the 9/11 planes were int'l flights.

    In the aftermath of 9/11 this was one of the big stories. According to the reports, box cutters, screwdrivers, hammers, saws, baseball bats, ice skates etc. were all routinely passed onto aircraft. I never tried to do it personally, I had no need for anything like that on either end of a...
  12. Second Korean War 1994

    Wow. That's quite an opening post! Well thought out and informative. Welcome!:D
  13. WI the 9/11 planes were int'l flights.

    This is actually one of the real interesting things about 9/11. The box cutters weren't "smuggled" onto the aircraft. They were carried in plain sight since there was NO rule keeping them off the aircraft. Prior to 9/11 you could bring a stunning array of items onto aircraft including...
  14. The US Navy Keeps its Big Guns - the Battleships stay active

    Did I mention anything about the 16" accuracy in this thread?:confused:
  15. Second Korean War 1994

    Well, let's do a tale of the tape Iraq Tanks: 1,000 T-72, 1,500 T-62, 1,500 T-54/55, around 1,400 Chinese knock-offs of the T-55 & T-62 and a smattering of other, mostly 1960s Western designs for a total of 1,000 really front line platforms and a couple thousand T-62/Type 69 (category B) and...
  16. WI the 9/11 planes were int'l flights.

    Well, if the planes at the end of their flights both towers will almost certainly survive. The aircraft themselves will be 33-45% lighter than those which hit the towers and the fires will be far less intense thanks to much less jet fuel being available to feed the flames. If the flights take...
  17. Pacific War Redux

    No. It looks interesting. I'll have to put it on my list. Thanks.
  18. The US Navy Keeps its Big Guns - the Battleships stay active

    No, the belief is sound. What you need to do is come up with a scenario that allows for the construction of several NEW ships in the 1960s. There are any number of tactical situations where a big gun ship of modern design is very useful. An example of changes that a modern design could utilize...
  19. Pacific War Redux

    Sort of like our TL huh?:D The early war years were more than a bit rough on the carrier forces of all sides. The learning curve was almost impossibly steep when it came to things like fighter direction and fighter tactics. IOTL there was a lull in naval engagements outside of the Guadacanal...
  20. The US Navy Keeps its Big Guns - the Battleships stay active

    Hmmm... The Alaskas were junk, a total waste of steel. Too big to be a good gun cruiser, too small to be a true capital ship. The USN would have been far better off using the steel to complete the last two Iowas. There is no reason that ANY blue water navy, anywhere on Earth, would want the...
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