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Arraxis posted:APDs sound like a rather interesting vessel. How effective did they end up being in practice, whether for their intended role or for something else? Not very. While they wound up delivering a lot of men to Guadalcanal, the necessity of night time operations meant there was never any time to unload any of their heavy equipment, like any sort of artillery. But really that's not a particular failure of APDs so much as it was forced upon them by American air superiority.
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AtomikKrab posted:Raiding pearl is a terrible idea, it is now repaired and has a buttload of planes. You might do a lot of damage, and then lose the KB and thus not worth it. This. The goal should be to lure the fleet out to some isolated island mid-way across the ocean, and thus avoid the bulk of their ground based aircraft.
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gradenko_2000 posted:Grey's first WITP game as the Allies: score on Dec 29 2941 was 4973 Japan / 11646 Allies I know Grey has his moments, but that's a Japan that managed to hold out for a very long time indeed. 
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Leperflesh posted:Part of the point of doing this day-by-day is to also get a feel for what it must have been like for the people fighting in or experiencing WWII. The news trickled in, via newspaper articles and film reels, as the country mobilized for war, grieved its losses, celebrated its victories, day by day by day. Doing it this way gives us a much more realistic feel for the actual pace of the war. The 1 day per day thing is nice for exactly that reason. There's a similar thing happening over in the Mil-Hist thread, where Trin Tragula is doing daily summaries of the events of the first world war. It really pounds into you just how long the war feels, especially given the high number of casualties and lack of progress.
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Asehujiko posted:Yeah it's almost as if any HE dispenser wagon is going to get shat upon severely by entrenched tank destroyers and anti tank guns(both the ones that hitch behind a truck and the ones moved around on top of a 60 ton vehicle) when going on the offence against an even vaguely similarly equipped foe and German Panzer 4's got absolutely slaughtered every time they tried to counter attack anywhere while the USSR built their T-34's to be easily replaceable for just this problem. Rest is just confirmation bias and greener grass/other side syndrome. This is exactly it. Hell, the most numerous German AFV of the entire war was the StuG III. A vehicle that could move quickly and provide HE fire to support infantry. It was essentially a much shittier Sherman, but only one fifth as plentiful.
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That's just because the regular soldiers wouldn't stick to their guns. There's more than one occurrence in the War of 1812 of state militias marching to the border and then refusing to take one step into British North America.
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Caconym posted:Isn't sending QE to Port Moresby a colossal waste of time, seeing as she's far too big for the port? Port Moresby was and is much smaller than I had always imagined it to be.
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Like all WWII fighters, isn't the reason why they were good was a combination of good maneuverability and a reasonably powerful engine? As for why they dated so quickly, I'd wager it's because the US could afford to churn out new designs that could iteratively improve, while Japan lacked the capacity to do the same. Also the lack of self-sealing fuel tanks or any armor. Those things very directly make the aircraft lighter (and thus more maneuverable), but also tend to kill the poo poo out of your limited pilot pool.
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TildeATH posted:Is there any sense of how things would have played out if Japan had only gone to war with the British, French and Dutch? I know the Philippines are right there and all and the likelihood of not honestly accidentally blowing up a US ship a la Lusitania is bad, but was the American public willing to fight tooth and nail if it hadn't been shown pictures of a burning Arizona and headlines about Japanese perfidy? The US embargoes were a direct response meant to stop the Japanese from continuing their colonial adventures. I can't imagine an open attack against UK/NED (Japan had already invaded French Indochina by this point) wouldn't draw the US into the conflict in short order.
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And yet:quote:Its name comes from Greek πικρος (pik' ros), meaning "bitter", reflecting its bitter taste. I love chemists.
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Grey Hunter posted:We continue to level the Singapore airfield. What is the actual logic in this anyway? Just an attempt to pin the B-17s in place? Do you actually know that's where they're based? Doesn't seem like any of the other aircraft there were accomplishing anything of note.
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dtkozl posted:Is Brit racist? Is Yank racist? It was racist because the people saying it were racist. I hate to tell you but even pc words are used in a negative light, to take something that is mearly the shortened version of a peoples normal name and give it inherent meaning just because some bad people used it is stupid. Maybe you can make a case for nip since no one actually calls them the nipponese anymore. 
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JcDent posted:I was talking to Hong Kong-British girl once and used Paki for shorter... Come again?  Leaving aside the whole racially charged bit, that probably just wouldn't make any sense (unless of course she's from a family of sub-continentals wound up in Hong Kong of course, in which case, disregard).
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Then you can try putting it in your oven and re-flowing it!
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Please link.
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Murgos posted:No, the majority of the F22s systems are ITAR. Probably even the frame and skin since they represent billions in stealth and composite materials research. ITAR has nothing to do with it. Anything manufactured in the US that even resembles a strategic weapon is ITAR controlled, but you can export all that poo poo, you just need to do the paperwork. But in the F-22's case, Congress has specifically passed legislation to block any foreign sales. So the F-22 will remain a US only aircraft for the foreseeable future. Also, the F-22 is technically a Lockheed-Martin product, despite Boeing manufacturing a big chunk of it. PittTheElder fucked around with this message at 06:28 on Apr 24, 2015 |
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