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  1. Your region in Dies the Fire?

    I am fairly sure I was killed in a Battle Royale with a dozen other over the last can of Van de Camp's in the S.F. Bay Area. Quite tragic, really. :p
  2. ATL tank 1940

    I would suggest an upgun to a 85-90mm/25 pounder. The guns were available, normally in an AAA carriage, however no one had thought to put one onto a tank
  3. Jetfighters which could've been big hits...

    IIRC The IAF have killed at least two Foxbats using the F-15/Sparrow combination (the Foxbat was one of the aircraft that the F-15 design team built the Eagle to kill). The USAF Eagles also killed two during Gulf War I (I have no infomation on the missile used).The AMRAAM has a range of 40 miles...
  4. American Falklands War

    Successive U.S. administrations have prayed for Cuba to do something that asinine for pushing 50 years. Barring the USSR deciding that the World was going to end that day, Castro would quite quickly stopped being a thorn in Washington's side. The Cuban vote is the swing vote in a swing state...
  5. Jetfighters which could've been big hits...

    One of the reasons that the quest for ever faster atmospheric fighters & bombers ended was the simple fact that, no matter how fast the aircraft, some S.O.B. always came up with a missile that was a MACH number or two faster. That was, along with the huge costs involved, that the YF -12 AND...
  6. American Falklands War

    Sans' ASB intervention this is a non starter. Guam?:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: You mean Anderson AFB (you know, the one with all the B-52s, P-3C and Phantoms (1970's) now F-15 C & E models), the Naval Magazine, Pacific & the base of NUMEROUS SSN's? That Guam? Be easier to invade...
  7. Jetfighters which could've been big hits...

    Not a chance. One reason that the Corps has F-18's is the requirement to match equipment with the USN so they can work off of the big carriers. Back when the F-14 was first coming out, the Marines wanted nothing to do with them but the Navy, which actually controls the Corps procurement...
  8. Battle of Blair Mountain: As Bad as It Gets

    No. Let me rephrase that. Hell no.
  9. Military applications for the Boeing 747

    Back during the Cold War all American Flagged Airlines had to pledge a certain percentage of their fleets for National mobilization in time of crisis. These aircraft had reinforced cargo floors and other, fairly minor, modifications so they could be used as military transport. None of them were...
  10. Challenge: A Modern Invasion of Britain!

    What are the parameters? I can give you at least five workable, with varying degree of OTL connection, scenarios, maybe more.
  11. BoB: How to achieve a 'turkey shoot'!?

    You would need more than just a new cannon or a bit more horsepower. The Turkey shoot was the result of better trained pilots in better aircraft (which had been designed specifically to outperform the enemy's aircraft) with better tactics AND better firepower. You need to put the RAF in...
  12. Saddam takes Teheran

    If he had been able to put a force that strong together, He'd rule the region. Of course the ASB's might limit him since they had somehow given him that large and compentent of a army.
  13. Operation Sealion

    rips shirt Blasphemer :p :p :p :p :p :p
  14. WWII: Where did Japan go wrong?

    No it didn't, at least not the way outlined. This is another one of these History Channel pieces of crap. A WI, with a few real truths, passed off as fact. The Germans sent LOTS of plans & so on to the Japanese, but not something that could have allowed them to build a bomb. The WORST thing...
  15. Vietnam - US loses big set-piece ground battle

    Yep. but they were PT-76 light tanks. In 1975 the NVA hit the ARVN's with a TON of tanks, but they never were willing to expose their heavy forces to the U.S. The NVA had no match for the M-60. Not that the terrain in 'Nam was the best of tank country. The simple fact is that the NVA never...
  16. A different RN warship programme before the Falklands

    Not a bad idea. Better yet, keep a full deck carrier on active duty. If the RN had been operating a Full sized CBG, even if it was a WW II holdover (better yet, keep two), instead of the three baby carriers IOTL the war would never had happened in the 1st place
  17. WWII: Where did Japan go wrong?

    We did. It was going to be several months before we had more. Not that really mattered. The 20th Air Force was destroying a Japanese city every other day. American Carrier Task Forces were cruising up and down the Japanese coast blowing anything they could find into matchwood. Japan was...
  18. WWII: Where did Japan go wrong?

    It would have been a better strategy to go on the defensive, but Japan, regardless of strategy would, by January 1944 at the latest, have been incapable of responding with overwhelming force. The U.S building program would, by that time, have put them into an inferior position, one that would...
  19. WWII: Where did Japan go wrong?

    Specifically, the U.S. launched 1 Yorktown (CV 8 Hornet), 1 modified Yorktown (Wasp) 18 Essex/improved Essex, 8 Independences and approx 124 CVE ships of various classes or 152 vessels. This does not include the Midwat or Coral Sea (both in commission by October of 1945) or the six improved...
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