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  1. WI: The US Navy Goes For Nuclear Seaplane Bombers Instead Of Nuclear Submarines?

    Both is out of the question. The Polaris subs shanked the USN’s budget in the kidneys, they’re not giving up surface ships or carriers to buy seaplanes.

  2. A US 'Ju-88'

    Yeah, but not for any doctrinal reasons. They only had one inline and all the available V-1710s were needed for existing fighter projects. Plus, the V-1710 wasn't as powerful as the R-2600 and R-2800 radials that powered American twin-engine bombers.

  3. pivoting-wing Supersonic — first test flights of 1979 come ten years earlier?

    Which military aircraft? The US military's appetite for risk was pretty low post-Vietnam when the Teen Series was being developed. I don't think it'd go on any of those.

  4. What if Japan adopts Kamikaze tactics in 1942?

    Their remaining carriers were used to ferry supplies to Luzon a few times, but otherwise, yeah, by the time the kamikazes were employed their carrier fleet was defunct.

  5. What if Japan adopts Kamikaze tactics in 1942?

    The same way they didn’t concede the field in the run up to Santa Cruz: by dancing around just out of reach, always a threat lurking in the back of the minds of Japanese admirals. By Santa Cruz the USN had better scouting than the Japanese, something that’s going to be all the more acute with...

  6. What if Japan adopts Kamikaze tactics in 1942?

    Okay, I'm going to try and explain this again. If the Japanese use kamikaze tactics at Eastern Solomons, and if, as you claim, they are more effective at knocking out the American carriers - Wasp is still in the combat zone, having been off refueling during Eastern Solomons. Hornet got there...

  7. What if Japan adopts Kamikaze tactics in 1942?

    Oh, please. They're not severing the line to Australia, period. They don't have the ground forces on hand to pull off FS successfully, even without American carriers around causing trouble. And again: if the USN takes more carrier losses early in the campaign they're going to play cautiously...

  8. WI: Proximity Fuse Delayed, Impact On The Battle Of The Philippine Sea And Other Naval Battles?

    Sure: https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1951/february/battle-philippine-sea Newer sources I have put the total Japanese aerial losses at 476 and have somewhat different numbers for aircraft losses, though they're in agreement that the preponderance of losses were from American...

  9. WI: Proximity Fuse Delayed, Impact On The Battle Of The Philippine Sea And Other Naval Battles?

    No. Their electronics industry isn't up to snuff for producing radars that small.

  10. WI: Proximity Fuse Delayed, Impact On The Battle Of The Philippine Sea And Other Naval Battles?

    Yes, of the 402 aircraft the Japanese lost at Philippine Sea 366 were lost to fighters and only 19 by anti-air guns. It’ll make no difference. Now, the Kamikaze threat, on the other hand…

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

    Tried. Buying Amatsukaze shanked their budget in the kidneys. Nobody's going to give them the ships, because nobody's stupid enough to buy that they'll stay non-military.

  12. What if the British Royal Navy was allowed to keep the two power standard and build 3 more battlecruisers and 2 more battleships?

    This is literally impossible? Hood's sisters were cancelled in 1919, they can't be completed after Washington since they don't exist anymore.

  13. What if Japan adopts Kamikaze tactics in 1942?

    The problem, of course, being that the Japanese don’t have 54 extra Kates and their crews available when they were reorganizing their air assets. So while the idea of reserving their torpedo bombers for a follow-up is sound the kamikaze attack will still leave a major hole in the air wing on...

  14. What if Japan adopts Kamikaze tactics in 1942?

    To the first point: it’s a much bigger difference than you’re making it out to be. See again my post about the IJN Air Admiral from earlier. To the second: like Enterprise was at Santa Cruz? Like Yorktown was at Coral Sea? Bomb damage alone was demonstrably not enough to get the US to pull a...

  15. What if Japan adopts Kamikaze tactics in 1942?

    Oh, so they're going to catch the American carriers with their pants down and decks full of fueled and armed aircraft? Oh, wait, they couldn't pull that off at either Santa Cruz or Eastern Solomons. Plus, y'know, the Japanese carriers at Midway were considerably more fragile than the...

  16. What if Japan adopts Kamikaze tactics in 1942?

    How are they supposed to sink a carrier without torpedoes, thereby introducing water?

  17. What if Japan adopts Kamikaze tactics in 1942?

    The problem is that if they go suicide tactics early in the war, then the naval aviation will die at Midway and Coral Sea rather than Eastern Solomons and Santa Cruz. That was not "ordering suicide". That was both Colonel Ichiki and his higher-ups being entirely too optimistic about how many...

  18. What if Japan adopts Kamikaze tactics in 1942?

    Quite honestly I doubt there would be more carrier losses, for the simple reason that every American carrier lost in 1942 was lost to torpedoes. Kamikazes have the grave disadvantage, especially against large ships like carriers, of letting in air rather than water. Further, use of kamikaze...

  19. What if the Soviet Union invaded Iran instead of Afghanistan?

    I do wonder if Carter could have struck a deal with the Iranians exchanging the hostages for open support. It seems to me the obvious avenue, so probably there's some intractible problem with the idea.

  20. Salvage post Soviet Russian naval & airforces

    Except… after 1991 the USAF is selling off F-16s at a discount. So are the European F-16 partners.
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