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Losing the Romanian oil fields was the end for them in anycase.
I digress and don't wish to derail etc.
My apologise, a conmverwsation for another thread
Losing the Romanian oil fields was the end for them in anycase.
I digress and don't wish to derail etc.
How would we have delivered a nuke, and would we really have been prepared to pepper Europe with nukes to end the Nazi regime?Actually yes, we would have won. We had a nuclear program that was going to work; the Nazis did not. At that time we had an empire - mainly Canada, India, and Australia. Winning, however, would have taken much longer.
The latest reports are the first F-16 pilots will be ready in May. So far about 50 F-16's have been pledged to Ukraine.What is going on with the F16s?
America, screwing over its allies since 1946The UK nuclear programme was named ` Tube Alloys` and was run by Wallace Akers developed from the Frisch–Peierls memorandum of 1940. It was subsumed by the Manhattan Project in 1943, then the UK was shut of of the bomb research in 1946 forcing the UK to restart its own work.
IIRC the first shoot down of an aircraft by a patriot battery was in the golf war, it was a UK aircraft.
It was something like the IFF on the aircraft wasn't working properly, and the US standards for operating the battery was basically fire at anything that didn't positively ID as friendly, I think it may also have been running on some sort of auto fire mode so little/no confirmation needed by the crew manning the battery before it fired.
America, screwing over its allies since 1946
Ah poor pilot did he survive? Thats quite unlucky as from what I read the missiles the patriots used back then were so ineffective that they were a meme
How would we have delivered a nuke,
and would we really have been prepared to pepper Europe with nukes to end the Nazi regime?
How would we have delivered a nuke, and would we really have been prepared to pepper Europe with nukes to end the Nazi regime?
Anyway, as far as I remember the Russians received a lot of aid from the US in terms of equipment and finance, without/before sending US troops.
A bit pointless trying to figure out what would have happened tho in a hypothetical alternate reality, over a period of many years.. given such a tremendous deviation from what actually happened.
Is this the beginning of the end for Ukraine?
It doesn't seem to be being reported much but even at huge cost Russia has slowly been eeking out terrain gains across the front over the last few days, largely due to Russia seeming to have a bit more artillery ammo coming in (possibly NK supply) at a time where Ukraine is having to conserve what they have:
Russian Artillery Gunners Are Getting Cocky. As Ukraine Runs Out Of Ammo, Russian Guns Gather For Devastating Salvos.
Unworried by the risk of Ukrainian gunners firing back, the Russians are concentrating their biggest guns for salvos targeting Ukrainian positions in front-line cities.www.forbes.com
If the artillery situation isn't rectified soon potentially we could see a precipitated collapse along the frontline.
Problem is, their nukes were given to Russia not the westGive Ukraine their nukes back so they can tell the squatters to get out or else.
Flying almost entirely on donated American aviation fuel.RAF won that war.
Case in point the Avro Lancaster was fully capable of doing anything the B-29 (which bombed Nagasaki/Hiroshima) could. This is often forgotten as it's from the same era as the B-17 so many assume that was it's contemporary but in reality the Lancaster was notably superior.We had a bunch of aircraft and in development aircraft in the second half of the war which could have done the job
The latest reports are the first F-16 pilots will be ready in May. So far about 50 F-16's have been pledged to Ukraine.
First Ukrainian F-16 pilots will complete training as soon as May
Air National Guard director says the effort is taking a bit longer because pilots need to learn a “full range of missions.”www.defenseone.com
Wrong. The Battle of Britain was only a distraction for the Soviets along with letting the army at Dunkirk escape and it worked so well that the Soviets were caught almost completely off-guard.The barges were full of German troops ready to invade.
With air support this could have happened.
RAF won that war.
And then Hitler's attention went to their "pals" in Russia.
But presumably shooting down those bombers wouldn't have been a problem, either. Since the US isn't providing any support in this hypothetical, at best the Nazis are still fighting the Russians and at worst they've achieved total victory already by the time the UK has a nuke.Case in point the Avro Lancaster was fully capable of doing anything the B-29 (which bombed Nagasaki/Hiroshima) could. This is often forgotten as it's from the same era as the B-17 so many assume that was it's contemporary but in reality the Lancaster was notably superior.
Wrong. The Battle of Britain was only a distraction for the Soviets along with letting the army at Dunkirk escape and it worked so well that the Soviets were caught almost completely off-guard.
He never intended to invade Britain, in fact he never wanted a war with Britain or France. The plan was always to go East.
Why nuke when you can Dresden....But presumably shooting down those bombers wouldn't have been a problem, either. Since the US isn't providing any support in this hypothetical, at best the Nazis are still fighting the Russians and at worst they've achieved total victory already by the time the UK has a nuke.
I mean, the Germans had the first operational jet interceptors didn't they. And the most advanced rocketry.
So I still wonder how the UK would have delivered a nuke. And in such a hypothetical situation, the answer I'm most likely to get is, "We'd have thought of something!"