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  1. Would Japan surrender conditionally without an invasion or atomic bombs?

    Japan would have capitulated if the US was willing to spend the time in a blockade/siege without doing an invasion. It would have cost millions more in Japanese lives from starvation and LeMay's forces burning down everything but the smallest hamlet. What was missing was the willingness to...

  2. Worst movies/TV shows that never existed

    good gravy.....THAT currently holds the record for worst thing on this thread... Blaakk....where's the brain-bleach...

  3. Interwar Soviet invasion of the United States

    The mini series is for sale on Amazon. I still have the paperback. The invasion was conducted by paratroopers.

  4. When could the boeing resource carrier one be built

    According to the wikipedia, the 747 took about 4 years from design begin to certification. So something like 3 to 5 years from a order being placed until ready to go.

  5. WI: US gets 90 minutes warning of PH?

    The 2nd strike against Pearl took heavier losess due to the guncrews being ready. In a warned situation....the AA guns are crewed and ready and a stiff defense is immediately offered. To say nothing of the disruption a mass of defensive fighters over Pearl could have caused. The Japanese...

  6. How much longer would USA stay neutral if Japan had no declared war on USA?

    I have wondered at that myself. I know the conventional wisdom is war is inevitable...but I do question that. If Japan showed a degree of restraint and went after only the Dutch Indies and other non-US terroritories...and kept up a drumbeat of "we are fighting Europeans...not Americans" and...

  7. Viability of a "Boghammar Swarm" in WWII?

    rockets were carried on PTs to use against Japanese powered barges from what I remember. Targets with a draft too shallow for torpedos of the era to reliably work against. So you basically are talking a smaller, less well-armed PT and I don't really see a mission such a boat fills better than...

  8. No Schwerer Gustav - white elephant

    I doubt the changes caused by this weapon not being built would be noticeable in terms of invested men and material. it was clearly a waste, but the percentage it represented in terms of what Germany was generating is so small it disappears in the rounding errors.

  9. What if Lance Henriksen played the Terminator?

    If Lance Henriksen played the Terminator, I think the movie would have a different feel. Closer to the horror movie it almost is (Halloween with guns). If Robert Patrick played the role in T2... the film series would have a nice realistic adjustment in that you couldn't immediately identify a...

  10. Why is the idea that the US dropped the Atomic bombs on Japan not to get them to surrender but to intimidate the Soviets so prevalent in our society

    I think a large part of it simply that people do not really know WWII and how horrible it was. Their basic knowledge is Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima. They don't know Pelileu or Iwo Jima or okinowa. They think the single most destructive air-raid of the entire war (pacific and european...

  11. How do we get "land battleships" to viability?

    the only way I see is some technology advances that require a vehicle THAT big but provides a way to protect it. Say laser weaponry good enough to detonate incoming artillery shells and missiles. Running that would require a LOT of power. Nuclear or a pile of gas-turbines and bunkers of...

  12. Research help for small arms usage in 1890s timeframe?

    Hello, I am contemplating a story set in the 1890s. Correct infantry usage of rifles is something I'd like to depict (British and American armies at this time). Can anybody point me to something like a field manual for infantry from that time frame? A document that would be a training...

  13. AHC: Revive the Battleship

    If you want to revive the battleship I think you need a very strong anti-missile/aircraft defense coupled with an offensive capability with more range than the old-style cannons that is cheaper than an airstrike. Either lasers or railguns have the potential to be able to destroy any missile or...

  14. AHC: Revive the Battleship

    Either fins or exhaust gas. A MIRV is steered. Steering a railgun ballistic round is just a question of appropriate engineering.

  15. Unconventional or " off label " use of modern [ post 1945] weapons

    The open battle of the Falkland Islands war, you had the Royal Marines using a Carl Gustov recoil-less rifle as anti-shipping ordnance. Didn't sink the ship they were shooting at...but they did more than scorch the paint. RPGs have been used as anti-helicopter weaponry.

  16. MTB maintain their role in an era of guided antiship missile

    This idea of mine is reaching...BUT... fun. So...what if you steal the idea of a narcosub for a MTB? Build a cheap 80 foot boat with ballast-tanks so it can operate with main-deck awash and only a fiberglass/radar-stealthed conning tower visible. Hang four torpedoes in clamps on the sides...

  17. AHC Make the YB40 successful

    There was a prototype https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolidated_XB-41_Liberator Basically suffered from the same problems as the B-40.

  18. What would Stalin do if Moscow is overrun?

    Stalin would stay in Moscow until the last moment. When he realized the city MUST fall, he would be evacuated to a safe location to continue the war.

  19. PC/WI HARRIER GR-3's flown to Stanley?

    I'm not sure it would have stopped the actual invasion, but what if a cargo plane load of MILAN and recoil-less rifles was airlifted in...with a few experts to rapidly train the soldiers already present? My memory is one Royal Marine with a Carl Gustuv did some unexpected damage to a landing...

  20. WI: Truman Invades Japan Instead of Using the Atomic Bomb

    They would hang Truman by his thumbs and beat him senseless. I've read accounts where Truman said in the end, he approved the atomic bombing because he knew if he didn't....he'd be asked by some grieving mother why he had deliberately not used every weapon at his disposal to end the war...
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