History, Politics And Current Affairs

jemhouston wrote: ↑Sun Sep 01, 2024 2:13 pm A for a true believer, that might worth it. Anyone smart enough to do so, will have the proper equipment to do so, and put in new explosives.

I suspect it would be less difficult to do than we think.

Perhaps, but I don't think I want another round of nightmare fuel, thanks....

Alma-Alta? How? Correct me if my geography is off, but isn't that deep within the former USSR?

And I see my hometown gets shafted out of the Olympics once again

You left out someone finding the device, and getting the right equipment and people, making a new device with the fissile material. Given some of the nonfiction works I've read, most of the needed stuff is off the shelf. The problem is that the explosives by now have decayed into instability for mo...

Wouldn't Boeing in Everett (isn't gonna be Seattle, the airfield there isn't big enough for a B-52) be a little close to the front lines? Maybe after the Soviet stupidity in Puget Sound got handled, but before then it would be a bit of a risky place to have something like that.

Skyhawk to Harrier transition came to a crashing halt because the United States was exactly the wrong theater for any flavor of Harrier. I dunno if I'd go THAT far. The hot and high regions, Okay you have a point there, but I seem to remember seeing them in East Texas a few times and they did just ...

That place being in their rear causing havoc? With their intel officers wondering how the f*** we got there before anyone actually noticed... One of the legendary moments was when K/3/27 announced their presence in a "secure" part of Dallas when their lead platoon drove through a Motor Ri...

Wolfman wrote: ↑Sat Feb 03, 2024 12:52 am

jemhouston wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2024 9:38 pm You made my point.

Even politicians have standards…

You sure about that? Because some politicians honestly I don't think have depths they won't go....

Wolfman wrote: ↑Tue Dec 13, 2022 2:41 am The Bone… another bird Ivan came to loathe…

Usually right before its ordinance blew him to hell and back....

The way the chain of command was set up certainly didn’t help Ivan, either… As I explained it in a lunch and learn session recently, combat is a highly fluid situation. The only way to impose any order on it is to plan for your contingencies, maintain your initiative, and never share command. That ...

One addition to make to this one: M32 MGL: The South African-designed Milkor MGL, adapted for US service. Six-shot grenade launcher shooting 40x46mm grenades, was license-built in the US after the South Africans who operated stateside brought their Milkor Y2s with them and rather impressed the Ameri...

I'll add a few more: Afrik: A South African. Usually not used as a term of endearment. Chekist: A spy or intelligence operative. This usually isn't a positive term either. Dedovshchina: The semi-formal (they say informal, I call bulls*** on that) hazing of recruits into the armed forces of the Easte...

Which was planned the worse, The Battle of Puget Sound or The Battle of the Baltic Exits? The WW2 IJN staff looks at those two battles and says, "Man, the Soviet Navy's planners rode the short battleship to Tsushima." Battle of the Baltic Exits both sides had a plan, and the UK one worked...

Thanks for the update, Matt. :) I can see the FER and Japan and Korea getting into some trouble with the remnants in Manchuria, or they decide to get try to get the warlords in line with predictable (read: filthy and violent) results. Taipei may go the same route, or the warlords in southern China d...

jemhouston wrote: ↑Tue Jan 30, 2024 11:29 am The Russian motto, "We have reserves." Until they don't.

If the War was any indication their reserves are fucking dogshit half the time in any case.

And then some lunatic invented Dragon's Breath rounds...if there's a better way to get the enemy out of a room than lighting the entire damn place on fire, I don't know what it is. I say Dragon's Breath being used by a resistance guy from a Remington 1100 once during my longer E&E....once was e...

My sentiment from back then still stands. The Soviets suffered from a terminal case of Stupidity and paid the price for it. I'd say that's almost being too kind. They never had a chance at that one, and I'm always amazed their RORSATs didn't tell them that the British were waiting for them to try t...

And then some lunatic invented Dragon's Breath rounds...if there's a better way to get the enemy out of a room than lighting the entire damn place on fire, I don't know what it is. I say Dragon's Breath being used by a resistance guy from a Remington 1100 once during my longer E&E....once was e...

Bernard Woolley wrote: ↑Tue Jan 30, 2024 3:32 am Least the gun on the Hornet doesn’t have a habit of jamming like the Crusader.

Good point, that one. I personally rather liked the Hornet, but then I transferred to one from the F-4 so.....

Has there been any established lore about China in modern times? I seem to recall they took a beating from the Soviets during WWIII....

Wolfman wrote: ↑Mon Jan 29, 2024 6:42 pm

TheMann wrote: ↑Mon Jan 29, 2024 6:19 am Hello guys, I'm TheMann from AH.com as well, glad to be here and see the thread continuing on.

It’s been ages since anyone in this RP has seen you! Welcome back!

Thanks man. It's good to be back.