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  1. Calling the gun nuts: is this plausible?

    It would work, but what would be point be? The reason that the percussion cap/primer cap has been in use for 150 years is that it is simple, cheap, and, in the cartridge form, effectively idiot-proof. The tech needed to get to the cap was very simple, the surprising thing is that it took as...
  2. Survival of the First Philippine Republic

    How about doing a PoD of your own? Then we can either build on it, throw rocks at it or come up with an alternative? Sort of how the board works. BTW: Define your date for the "First Philippine Republic".
  3. Earlier Soviet Collapse

    How about doing a PoD of your own? Then we can either build on it, throw rocks at it or come up with an alternative? Sort of how the board works.
  4. What if Japan had the Industry of the UK in 1939

    Rather large leap of faith to assume that. If you put that into the mix, then half of the WI's on this board as ASB.
  5. Kuwait, ignored completely

    This would require an entire cohort of ASBs. Given that: President Bush says a magic word and the entire mess resets to Status Quo Ante. Unexpectedly the word causes his son George W Bush to turn into a Rhodes scholar and ultra-liberal democrat.
  6. What if Japan had the Industry of the UK in 1939

    No. The merchant bottoms would allow a slightly improved logistical lift situation, unfortunately, there isn't enough logistics to lift to make a significant difference. Unlike the UK, which, even at its low ebb, had the cornucopia of the Empire (especially the Raj) to draw from, as well as...
  7. Realistic Japanese Victory in World War II

    The biggest problem that you have with ANY attacks against the U.S. mainland by Japan is logistics. They simply are too far away from any source of suppy, and their actual supply availabilty is too low to sustain a force, even if they somehow find the bottoms to move the supply to forward...
  8. Realistic Japanese Victory in World War II

    Actually the U.S. inflicted crushing military defeats on North Vietnam in every battle above Company size. Khe Sahn destroyed a significant portion of the NVA, while Tet more or less wiped out the Viet Cong. What the U.S suffered was a POLITICAL defeat, a loss of will and vision. The U.S. had no...
  9. Britain Remains a Great Power

    Where did you learn your world history? I hate to tell you this, but Rocky & Bullwinkle's Whatsamatta U isn't an accepted institution of higher learning. BTW: Try using the spacebar.
  10. Patton Guesses Right: Japan attacks Mainland US through Mexico

    Japan couldn't muster sufficient forces to invade Oahu, much less Baja California. They simply lacked the logistical capacity, not to mention the available troops. Look at the forces that the IJN were able to scrape together for ALL the phases of the Midway operation. I doubt that the Japanese...
  11. Realistic Japanese Victory in World War II

    Realistic? Don't go to war with the U.S. Once that step is taken, it's over. You may be able to find a way that can stretch out the war six months, but Japan had not a prayer. There are lots of ways to describe it but I'll start with this one: Japan was an excellent Flyweight fighter in the...
  12. Heinlein's Third World War

    If you buy into the story, the KGB tried to pull this one off with the K-129. There are a couple of recent books on the theory on the shelves.
  13. A much worse 9-11

    I coompletely MISSED the "Dirty" part of the scenario. I thought we were talking Five actual Nuclear DETONATIONS. Never mind.:o
  14. A much worse 9-11

    Is that a banning speed record?:eek: As to the original scenario, the $%*# will hit the fan, as well as a number of nukes against part of Pakistan & Afghanistan, launched by, well, everybody. Then you would see a real cave by cave hunt for anyone who even had HEARD of bin Laden or his crew...
  15. The holocost never happens

    It is possible that there could have been some degree of reduction to the Shoah, but certainly not complete avoidance. The vast majority of the victims were not citizens of Germany or Austria or Czechoslovakia, they were Polish or Ukranian or Russian. They did not fall under the Nazi boot until...
  16. What if Iran captured US Marines instead of British Naval personnel

    Very true. Submarine operations are a lot more difficult than buying some off the shelf tech. Recent open source data is that the Iranian Navy is struggling to keep one boat active for a number of reasons, the most severe being battery problems related to the operationing temperatures found...
  17. What if Iran captured US Marines instead of British Naval personnel

    Actually I was referring to the old Soviet 650mm wake follower. The new "super torpedo' that almost everyone with a submarine is working on is a whole different critter. That will be a HUGE pain in the butt. The think I find the most interesting about the super-torp is that the two navies...
  18. What if Iran captured US Marines instead of British Naval personnel

    Sadly, the USN (pushed by the DoD) HAS allowed our ASW to drop off from our cutting edge 1989-1992 peak. The carrier based fixed wing ASW, the S-3 Viking is headed for retirement, probably within a year, mostly due to overwork & the lack of funding to bring in new airframes (money for the F-35...
  19. What if Iran captured US Marines instead of British Naval personnel

    Second?????:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: Actually, I think I have fallen out of the top three, maybe even the top five. I do, after all, acknowlege that some of our opponents have the capacity to be a pain in the butt.:p
  20. Casting a "Dies the Fire" Movie

    Well there is this thread https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=21904&highlight=dies+fire Mike Havel - Dominic Purcell Signe - Jessica Biel Eric - Jake Gyllanhaal Astrid - Mika Boorem Sam Alyward -Clive Owen Will Hutton - Don Cheadle Lady Juniper - Scarett...
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