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  1. WI: Atomic Bombing on German cities?

    Not necessarily. If the WALLIES are stuck in the low countries and France and Market Garden failed but the Russians are screaming through Poland and Czechoslovakia I could see them using the Bomb if they think it can cause a collapse in the West.

  2. WI: Atomic Bombing on German cities?

    The Japanese didn't have many aircraft capable of reaching B29's at altitude partly due to the poor quality of aviation fuel available to the IJA and UJN at the end. You seem to forget, if the allies were on the ground in Holland and France they would be able to escort the bombers all the way...

  3. WI: Atomic Bombing on German cities?

    The Lancaster was actually considered as a bomb carrier for use against Japan.

  4. WI: Atomic Bombing on German cities?

    If the bomb had been available in 1944 then Germany would have been on the receiving end of the multiple nuclear weapons or if the invasion had taken longer to break into Northern Europe and they were outside the borders of Germany in 1945 then yes they would have used the bomb. If it got...

  5. Military tactics ( that were never developed or employed )

    It's something the British Army has trained for continuously since WW2. The issue is that urban areas differ from Northern to Southern Europe and different again in Africa or South America etc with different construction methods, housing layouts etc. Israel I suspect has a more limited range...

  6. Military tactics ( that were never developed or employed )

    They tended to consider existing IRBM/SRBM in the 1960-70's

  7. Military tactics ( that were never developed or employed )

    The RAF Nimrod 2 fleet regularly flew with a pair of Sidewinder AIM 9L on the outboard pylon during the cold war from 1982 onwards.

  8. 1950s "Limited" Nuclear War

    You also don't know the impact SAC EW will have on Russian C3 , plus SAC and TAC will be going after Russian command nodes and bases around the periphery of the Soviet Union further degrading intercept efforts.

  9. 1950s "Limited" Nuclear War

    SAC had a lot of tankers so they could fly bombers deep into the Soviet Union. The US also had a lot of bases around the periphery of the USSR including access to bases in Iran, Turkey, Libya the UK, Iceland, Pakistan and bases in WESTPAC to attack targets in the Eastern Soviet Union, SAC had...

  10. WI: The General Dynamics F-111 is still born?

    The spec was too nuts. They wanted M2.0 from 40,000ft to 0 ft, a better compromise would have been M1.3 on the deck.

  11. WI: The General Dynamics F-111 is still born?

    The project was massively over budget and if the Olympus engines had continued to suffer from resonance issues it would never have achieved squadron service. Though politics were an issue.

  12. WI: The General Dynamics F-111 is still born?

    Much as I loved the TSR2, it had issues. They had problems with the rapid throttling causing vibration, they had to delay flight tests as the undercarriage was showing some issues when landing and a lot of the electronics were either not working correctly, the other issue was maintenance issues...

  13. A Better Rifle at Halloween

    Plus the UK wanted to charge an eye watering amount for the SMLE tooling. It's why Australia bought all their tooling from Westinghouse at a significant cost benefit even after paying the tariffs for imports into the Empire.

  14. A Better Rifle at Halloween

    9mm Parabellum is the best choice though, like all cartridges it's a compromise though historically it seems the best choice, it's powerful enough to be effective but not so powerful it's users need wrists of steel to use it in a pistol.

  15. European NATO Army alternatives: 1950 - 1990

    They did make a some EM2's in 7.62 x 51mm , in one of the earliest Forgotten Weapons Ian got to shoot one that made it to the US. The UK MOD concluded that the action would require a redesign to handle the extra-power so they abandoned the design and picked the FAL instead...

  16. European NATO Army alternatives: 1950 - 1990

    The reason the UK ditched 195mm engineering HESH gun on AVRE's was they found a MBT with 120mm HESH was more flexible and had much better combat persistence. For bunkers, AFV's, IFV's will definitely get wrecked by 120mm HESH

  17. European NATO Army alternatives: 1950 - 1990

    The Venezuelans actually did adopt the FAL in .280 (7mm) but converted them to 7.62mm. https://www.forgottenweapons.com/arms-of-the-venezuelan-coup/

  18. EE Lightining what-if thread

    I read a couple of old Friteninig hands on PPRUNE who had flown and serviced them. Engine fires were the main source of emergencies and hull loss. This is the Wiki page for losses only, it won't include any that made it down in one piece or had an emergency on the ground not resulting in a...

  19. EE Lightining what-if thread

    Not with how often Lightning's engines spontaneously combusted in flight.

  20. What If These Two Warships Met In Combat

    A more realistic one would be USS Texas and Bismark. Apparently Texas was on a neutrality patrol in the Denmark strait about 12 hours before Hood and Prince of Wales had their fateful encounter. I could see a spooked Bismark opening fire on a "RN Battleship", how long would Texas last?
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