Well, I actually mean exactly what I wrote and I still do.
It is your board and your rules, but if that involves tabooing what I see as one of the most important agendas in the part of the world where I live, I of course can’t contribute to this board any longer – and the 14 years so far...
Well as I see it we're right in the middle of the PoD. In short - if the immigration to Europe that has been going on for the last handful of decades goes on - there will be a Muslim majority in Europe by end of 21st century. If you next include how things are in most countries with a Muslim...
Yes, the original "raison d'etre" of the IJN submarine arm was fleet work - ie. scouting and inflicting as many losses on an enemy fleet crossing the Pacific until said fleet could be met and annihilated by the IJN line of battleships in the final great "decisive battle".
WWII really didn't...
According to this site US had when 1949 started just 50 warheads in the inventory but built 123 more in 1949. 170 warheads in all (three tests?) with a total of 4,19 megaton. Would not appear at all enough to subdue a power like 1949 USSR - but it will for eternity loose USA all credibility and...
Actually I think the battleship was quite well armoured against the SSM. The SSM would typically cause great damage to anything outside the armoured citadel and turrets/barbettes but would have big difficulties in treaching the vitals behind armour. The battleship was very vulnerable to...
If the A-H army stays intact after the armistice there is no Czeckoslovakian, Yugoslav etc independence, maybe not even an Hungarian. US entrance into the war has no influence on that. US entry into WWI anyway didn't influence very much, the war was won by British and French when they (by...
Or just a Tiger rebuilt along the lines of the Kongo class. Would IMHO have served the RN better than a QE rebuild.
Or how about: The KGV programme is late to a degree causing serious concern among admirals and not at least politicians. So in order to have a modern ship afloat, still inside the...
There is a very wide range of plastic battleship models in scale 1/700 and even 1/350 from companies like Tamiya, Hasegawa, ICM or Trumpeter. Most, but not all of much better detail than the ones from our childhood.
If you go into resin models you can get practically any ship in scale 1/700...
What if, during the Gulf War, a number of SSMs strike naval vessels. Those without armour are seriously damaged and with many killed but the SSMs just "bounce off" on the battleships (well a lot of antennas and electronics etc. are out of action, but the public can't see that).
Following Gopher you would first of all need something to reduce the crew - on top of all the gadgets needed to keep her in action in a modern world.
But when that is said I wonder what PoDs in WWII it would take to increase the relevance of heavily armoured and gun armed vessels in the...
This is almost like in political science - you can get any answer - depending on what you count!
If we see the best battleship as the one performing best in some ring fight against other battleships some time in the 1939-42 period we will get one answer. Probably the last built before 1942 -...
Exactly, the supert-heavy is very handy vs the most heavily protected targets like Yamato (and KGV?), but against anything else a lighter 16" shell will be powerful enough to penetrate but also carry a larger paylaod of explosives and thus be more destructive.
Apparently the guy behind the Bazooka (Dr. Robert H. Goddard) had experimented with rockets launched from tubes already during WWI and the wiki link below even states that the development of the Bazooka was delayed to Goddard suffering from tuberculosis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bazooka...
My impression was that the conscripts included a lot of different people, incl. some very intelligent and already reasonably well educated (compared to their age) young men. The volunteers/enlisted men OTOH had a larger portion of those who really didn't have an alternative. But while the...