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  1. US B-2 stealth bomber crashes in non-US territory.

    Would you happen to have an open source reference regarding the B-2 & long wave radar detection? It seems that retuning AEW and SAM radars to include long wawe freqs would be quite simple, especially if it would negate a $45 Billion program. BTW: One of the primary weapons of the B-2 is...
  2. US B-2 stealth bomber crashes in non-US territory.

    That did happen as the plane came through the clouds. There was brief tempest in a teapot in the American media about "fair weather only" bombers. :rolleyes: Someone then pointed out that the missions of a Spirit take place above the rain clouds and ruined all the fun.
  3. US B-2 stealth bomber crashes in non-US territory.

    True enough. The F-117 is utterly obsolete, has been for a decade. The proof of that is that the U.S. DIDN'T send in an Alpha Strike to pound the wreck into splinters (or more likely send in a MEU to retrieve it). The B-2 is not obsolete yet, probably won't be for 8-10 years, but there is...
  4. US B-2 stealth bomber crashes in non-US territory.

    If a B-2 is flying over Russia or China, recovering the crashed bomber is the least of our worriers.
  5. Whatif France had nukes in Sedan, may 1940 ?

    Actually it WAS an unlimited budget. It is doubtful that anything short of WW II would have gotten Manhattan funded. Manhattan cost $2 BILLION dollars ($27 BILLION in 2007 dollars) that is 2/3 of the TOTAL amount spent by the U.S. on conventional munitions during the entire war.
  6. Whatif France had nukes in Sedan, may 1940 ?

    The tech didn't exist. Manhattan CREATED the tech, that is the wonder of it. The theory existed, but the actual hardware, from the first atomic pile, to the enriching processes, to the determination of what critical mass was, to the concept of implosion as a means of reahing crital mass, to the...
  7. Soviet/Chinese War: Maximum Damage for the Bystanders

    Yep. Ivan was quite dedicated to the system. There are more than a few folks who are less than convinced that Russia is completely out of the game even today.
  8. Soviet/Chinese War: Maximum Damage for the Bystanders

    Well, the short version is that once someone crosses the nuclear threshold, everything goes on hair trigger and even a minor error in judgement by a junior officer (e.g. a clash along the inter-German border between a couple of random patrols, an airliner mistaken for a bomber entering the...
  9. Soviet/Chinese War: Maximum Damage for the Bystanders

    Well, maximum damage is total, ie. everyone, or close to it, dies. Start with a full Sino/Soviet nuclear exchange, with the U.S. getting involved (how is less important than it happening, which, based on most open source info is likely). That drags Europe in, with the disaster of tactical...
  10. What if the Germans had used the V1+2 against Stalin factories??

    That wasn't the really clever part of the design. The Japanese made the whole thing air deployable meaning it was substantially harder to defend against than any land based system. Unfortunately for the IJN, they had to use Betty bombers as transport, meaning most of the Kamakazi rockets never...
  11. The Fatherland POD

    ASB intervention? Time travel? Naziwank?
  12. What if the Germans had used the V1+2 against Stalin factories??

    Manned version of the V-1 perhaps? V-2 is like a theater ballistic missile but without the warhead separation.
  13. What if the Germans had used the V1+2 against Stalin factories??

    More like never happen once. You would have to be the unluckiest skipper ever born. Better chance of getting struck by a meteor twice.
  14. AH Challenge: Axis victory post 1945

    And the Axis STILL loses.
  15. WW3 in 1948

    We recently kicked this idea around, malthough it was in 1945. The result is the same here. The USSR has the advantage in ground forces, the West has utter dominance in the air and at sea. In 1949 the Western advantage in air power is, unlike in 1945, not fully deployed, but the Soviet...
  16. Swiss invaded WW2

    Germany finds out why other fish leave the blowfish alone.
  17. Michael Dukakis wins in 1988

    Amen! Growing about eight inches wouldn't hurt either.
  18. Prince of Wales and the Repulse

    Was the Sea Hurricane deployed to fleet carriers in November of 1941 (when the carrier would have put to sea)? Information on the 'Net seems to indicate that the IIB/C was not even put into production until early 1942. The Hurricanes delivered to Singapore were crated and assembled on site...
  19. "Outcome in Doubt": Invasion of Tarawa fails, 1943

    Hadn't hear about that one. Interesting tidbit.
  20. Prince of Wales and the Repulse

    The presence of a carrier might have allowed the PoW & Repulse to have scored a major victory in the war's first days. This assumes that the IJN did not shift even more forces to the AO in response to the carrier. The attack that resulted in the loss of Force Z's two capital ships was...
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