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  1. Ghastly Victories: The United States in the World Wars

    Loan sharks would send leg breakers after someone who defaulted the first time and would not loan them any more money Britain in this case did already default on billions of dollars of WWI war loans. Note the US did not send leg breakers and is now loaning them more money If you or I defaulted...

  2. Ghastly Victories: The United States in the World Wars

    Just the basic wiki page mentioned he was an amateur radio enthusiast

  3. Ghastly Victories: The United States in the World Wars

    He was an amateur radio enthusiast, it was what he spent his personal money on before the war As someone with a ham radio license, (my callsign is kb1lyo), I felt I needed to mention that

  4. Ghastly Victories: The United States in the World Wars
    Threadmarks: Part 6-59 Before the Storm, Naval History

    …While various stopgap measures to support the British had been passed by the end of 1941 it was clear to President McNutt and his advisers that these would not be sufficient to keep Britain in the war long enough to secure a white peace, as was believed to be the best possible outcome at the...

  5. Ghastly Victories: The United States in the World Wars
    Threadmarks: Part 6-58 Airpower, Desert War

    …The British had been aware of the German Lorenz bombing gear since fairly early in the war, when a damaged German bomber on a mining mission made a relatively soft crashlanding in Kent. The Lorenz Gear, typically used for bad weather landing, was far more powerful than needed for that purpose...

  6. Economic consequences of a truck bomb attack against Wall Street and the London Stock Exchange

    Which doesn't exactly make getting past the bollards any easier and requires getting snipers into well occupied buildings, in the financial district, during busy times Well yes but that's not the famous one and AQ was very big on symbolism

  7. Entente Victory in a Central Powers victorious world

    Probably as resulting in a world worse that ours, which is generally a trend regarding more general AH, especially in popular works. Note how many NoHitler works have either someone like him but more competent or an aggressively expansionist Stalin instead, rather than just a boring but nasty...

  8. Economic consequences of a truck bomb attack against Wall Street and the London Stock Exchange

    The question is how exactly do you get the truck bomb to the NYSE building? After 9/11 a security zone was established around the building and several blocks surrounding were made pedestrian only and blocked off with bollards. Wall Street had been bombed before and people realized Al-Qaeda...

  9. How can we make Japan win???

    Those are repair facilities. The King George Graving Dock and Admiralty floating dock #9 can't really build big ships on their own, there are no gun pit or Rolling Mills in Singapore and I'm fairly sure any gear cutting facilities are minimal. Note that despite the lack of yardspace in the UK...

  10. How can we make Japan win???

    The thing is without combat experience you don't know that You actually can't because just having the Indies doesn't give you anymore slipways of the proper size, nor would it give you the armor rolling facilities or gun pits or gear cutting facilities. It does not help with specialized warship...

  11. How can we make Japan win???

    The difference is if you fight the US in 1942, you face 5 fleet carriers and 2 sorrta fleet carriers, and an average of 4 modern battleships. When the IJN has 6 fleet carriers, 4 light carriers and an average of 1 sort of fleet carrier, though admittedly only 1 modern battleship, decent odds in...

  12. AHC: Make Escort Carriers Prevalent Among Developing Nations During The Cold War.

    Some of them. Notably the F6F could not, which is why the older F4F was kept in service. The F8F could not, F7F is straight out, the F4U could but you really would not want to, I'm pretty sure the Fairey Firefly could not. The US stopped building F4F in 1945 and they didn't go on the secondhand...

  13. AHC: Make Escort Carriers Prevalent Among Developing Nations During The Cold War.

    The problem is role. Developing nations don't have convoys to protect, they don't need ASW and they don't do amphibious assaults, so a CVE is not useful for them. They are more concerned about smacking rebels and pissing matches with equally poor neighbors. Meanwhile most developing nations have...

  14. Salvage post Soviet Russian naval & airforces

    Pare down the navy, 14 SSBN, all Delta types (others old, Typhoons while new are very expensive), 20 SSN (Akulas and newest Sierra and Victors), kill the SSGN we aren't planning on fighting outside the near abroad and they aren't meant for that, 16 or 20 Kilos for local defense. Scrap/Sell the...

  15. Use of incendiary and oxygen projectiles and minimal use of shrapnel and explosives prior to offensives in World War I - what would the results be and

    You won't get such a comparison because nobody has empirical data because nobody used artillery shells to try and suffocate. You get suffocation in firestorms because there is a lot of stuff to burn in a city, on a muddy field not so much The best I could give you is that the US did kill some...

  16. Use of incendiary and oxygen projectiles and minimal use of shrapnel and explosives prior to offensives in World War I - what would the results be and

    You won't get enough. The average shell fired at Verdun was 135kg, with about 10% filler, so 13.5kg. The Germans planned on firing about 350,000 shells per day in the most intense phase, or about 4725 tons of filler. However spread out over 24 hours that's less than 200 tons per hour and that...

  17. Ghastly Victories: The United States in the World Wars
    Threadmarks: Part 6-57 Deals with Devils

    …With the end of the French campaign it became difficult for Germany to ignore pressure from the USSR to fulfill their portion of the Moscow agreement, particularly the part about pressuring the Romanians into ceding Bessarabia to the USSR. While Germany was no longer as dependent on the USSR...

  18. Military tactics ( that were never developed or employed )

    This is a yes but why moment The B-52's high intensity combat role is for carrying cruise missiles, ergo it is not supposed to get within range of SAMs, if it's actually dropping bombs then it is not supposed to be fighting anyone with SAMs that can reach its cruise altitude. So the system...

  19. A better Austro-Hungarian Navy for WW1

    With hindsight there are two things that the KuK Marine could do that would actually matter in the big picture, rather than just shifting deck chairs on the Titanic 1) Set up a good naval intelligence Branch. If someone can catch Redl before he sells out the Austrian War plans to Russia, and...

  20. Military tactics ( that were never developed or employed )

    Actually happened by the end of 1970 OTL, just with a Thor IRBM and not an ICBM, Program 437 So nothing should stop an ICBM from being converted, just cost a bit more than an IRBM
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