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  1. WI: major USN refit in the 30s?

    Generally, the pattern is: bomb damage can be patched up fast at Pearl, torpedo damage requires a trip to the West Coast. Lexington if she survives Coral Sea is highly unlikely to make it back to the front in time for Midway. Guadalcanal, on the other hand...

  2. WI: Replace the Mark XIV

    Sticking with the Mark 10 would be less than ideal - it had shorter range, a smaller warhead, and was slower, meaning less accuracy and less ability to get through modern torpedo defenses. It was also slow in depth control, not a good characteristic in a short-range weapon like a submarine...

  3. AHC/WI: Faster Nelson class?

    The juice probably isn't worth the squeeze, IMO. The problems the Nelson-class' turrets experienced showed that there was not enough design resources made available to them; having to design a new twin on top of the triples may not be possible. Politically untenable. The entire point of the...

  4. United States taking the initiative in the Pacific War

    This is dumb on all levels. Putting troops in New Guinea and Guadalcanal is hindsight of the worst kind. The US didn't know prewar that those would be such vital areas, because the US didn't know the Japanese planned to take New Guinea and the Bismarcks. But also in general all this is going...

  5. What if Joe Paterno becomes head coach of the Green Bay Packers in 1971?

    And it would be worse in the NFL's equivalent to Siberia. Players hated playing in Green Bay during their wilderness years, because Green Bay was a podunk town in the middle of nowhere with a lousy climate, the team was bad, and the team also had persistent money problems. And that's if...

  6. WI: major USN refit in the 30s?

    Most of Japan’s comprehensive rebuilds were conducted around the same time as Britain’s, though they paid for more of them. And yes, a lot of material from cancelled ships ended up in the rebuilds. The Americans were the ones who did their rebuilds before the British. The rebuilds were...

  7. AHC: Make Albuquerque Grow Like Other Sun Belt Cities/New Mexico Wank

    The whole virtuous cycle of Phoenix’s population growth start with those vets and didn’t stop in the intervening years, is my point. Intel was tapping Into an existing deep, talented labor pool much larger than what Albuquerque could offer. That’s a fair point. The issue for New Mexico, though...

  8. AHC: Make Albuquerque Grow Like Other Sun Belt Cities/New Mexico Wank

    Oil. All the Texan cities got their base starting population coming out of the 1940s from the early-20th century oil boom. Houston benefited the most, and is naturally the biggest city involved, but DFW, San Antonio, and Austin all benefited tremendously. Unfortunately, the computer firms put...

  9. A uniquely USN Battle Cruiser; What would one look like?

    Probably one of the various 30-knot designs drawn up while working on the North Carolinas. Usually had 9 14” guns.

  10. A uniquely USN Battle Cruiser; What would one look like?

    No, they definitely wanted the Lexingtons, but they wanted battlecruisers in general. The Lexingtons are just the spot where they could actually get them. As for "unique looks", that was never in consideration, and most of the designs considered looked like the Admirals just because they were...

  11. AHC: Make Albuquerque Grow Like Other Sun Belt Cities/New Mexico Wank

    You need it to be the center of something more people-attracting than the atomic programs in WW2. Phoenix, Atlanta, and Los Angeles, to name a few cities, all exploded in population in large part because of WW2 - LA had its aviation industry, Phoenix attracted a whole bunch of veterans who'd...

  12. A uniquely USN Battle Cruiser; What would one look like?

    The primary change would be no Lexington and Saratoga as carriers. Depending on what's still under construction the USN will either convert different ships, or build new as had been desired going in. More so than they actually did? The Lexingtons were repeatedly delayed by both redesign to...

  13. United States taking the initiative in the Pacific War

    The Brits have their hands full in Europe.

  14. United States taking the initiative in the Pacific War

    The Japanese would happily take the USN walking feet-first into their Kantai Kessen plan. As bananapants as I think that plan is, even if the Americans won it would be a costly victory and likely see most of the fleet laid up for repairs, whether they reach their destination or are forced to...

  15. The second biggest one-hit wonder group or individual? (other than Zager & Evans or the Starland Vocal Band)

    In terms of single-song impact, no one-hit wonder has outdone Los del Rio. This was Billboard's #7 biggest song of all time back in 2012, and set a slew of records in terms of chart longevity. The single sold 11 million copies just by itself. And it can't be discounted just how ubiquitous it was...

  16. WI: major USN refit in the 30s?

    Not immediately. This shit takes time to ramp up, which is one of the reasons the USN didn't turn on the ship printer immediately in 1936. And by the time the supply chain bottlenecks are sorted the USN is already cranking out Bensons like sausages.

  17. WI: major USN refit in the 30s?

    AIUI the bottleneck is primarily upstream of the shipyards.

  18. WI: major USN refit in the 30s?

    Well, in that case, I’m not sure the Navy could have added another 70 new destroyers on top of existing output.

  19. WI: major USN refit in the 30s?

    Why Porters? They're pretty specialized destroyer leaders.

  20. Ekhronoplanes effect on operation sea lion

    And then how long would it take to load and unload at each end?
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