History, Politics And Current Affairs

The one squadron with Hornets deployed to the Pacific NW with the ANZAC force.

They got a squadron's worth, with the balance of the order delivered-along with a second order-after the war.

Thanks! I'll have to redo my Iowa fact file...

Has anyone checked the Wayback Machine recently? I had a battleship fact file for the Iowas, but no longer have it.

OOC: Actually, it would be: Nanchukas were considered coastal forces by the Soviets.

Ingredients for a big Ka-BOOM or some smaller ones... That Barmaid is cooking up something and she's up to no good.

There were some surface units, but most of the ships encountered were KGB Maritime Border Guards or Navy coastal forces (Said FAC (M) and FAC (Torpedo).

They did. And the Mexicans were actually smart: since the Armistice terms prohibited heavy armor and artillery up to 25NM south of the border, they got GPS units-commercially available, mind you, and presurveyed battery sites, missile launch positions, and a lot more from the Colorado River all the ...

A Baja War Trophy: a North Korean Koksan 170-mm SP Gun found abandoned in Northern Sonora during the push to Hermosillo by 3rd AD, January, 2010:

At least one Yankee class was converted to a special-ops boat...

Guys, I have had RL be a bear the last couple of weeks, but the next segment is in prep.

The Brits would sell their stuff to India, while Pakistan would get their gear from whoever's willing to make some money.

And a sub-hunter: USS Kidd (DDG-995) underway to join a convoy, late 1986:

They still had enough at the end to keep sinking ships in both the Atlantic and Pacific. Admiral Chernavin (Commander, Soviet Navy and Gorshkov's successor) got what he wanted from Marshal Akhromayev when the latter became Defense Minister: more resources allocated to submarine and surface-ship cons...

To the Gulf States, it matters. Soviet combat forces in Iraq shows (to them) that the Soviets are supporting Saddam, despite his faults. They will shout loudly (in private to General Pace and in any teleconference with CJCS and the President) that 4th AD stay in theater. Wouldn't be the first time t...

Always good to see a new chapter! BZ as usual, my friend, and always glad to help out. And so to business: The demise of OKB Raduga sure means the DA is going to take their lumps when they come in to drop iron. At least, until they get a new line for the AS-4 family up and going....And that gunner's...

Seconded.

Did he also talk PACCOM Actual out of court-martialing the Midway skipper for dumping several Helos overboard so that VNAF O-1 could land? The one with the pilot, his wife, and five kids...

U.S.S. Missouri (BB-63) visits Sydney while on a Postwar WestPac deployment, 1993:

The whole 48th TFW redeployed from Lakenheath to The States once the balloon went up. The base was used for SAC flights into European Russia during the war, and after? The 48th returned to Lakenheath, where it is today.

No. Heliborne assaults, yes. (Look at the 11th Airborne on the first day in Albuquerque as an example, but there were others)