RamscoopRaider
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#1 My thread, USA will be fighting the UK in Canada whenever I get around to making this, it will require a hell of a lot of everything that can go wrong doing so and a pre-1900 divergence point but it will happenThis is a persistent myth. Canada is, & has been, the #1 U.S. trading partner for over 100yr. We have the world's longest undefended border, & we can, because we know damn well the U.S. could take Canada if so inclined--& doesn't want to. There's nothing we've got we aren't selling in all the quantity the U.S. needs.
That being so, chances of a U.S.-UK war over Canada are vanishingly small.
As for BBs with 20" guns, the chances there are also vanishingly small.As soon as somebody realizes a/c can carry heavier payloads, & farther, than even the biggest guns, carriers will become dominant. Probably the enormous costs
of 18" ships will persuade the design bureaux, not to mention the politicians paying for it,
it's a bad idea to go bigger
(or even that big, actually
).
#2 Aircraft could not do this until after 1930, which by this time there will be several decisive battleship clashes to vindicate this idea, and no reason to focus on economy when the next war is coming
#3 Don't Necro something over a month old without a proper contribution to the OP
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