History, Politics And Current Affairs

Bernard Woolley wrote: ↑Sat Dec 28, 2024 1:16 am

jemhouston wrote: ↑Fri Dec 27, 2024 10:22 pm What would Elon Musk be up to in RD+20?

25 to life?

Deceased?

By the way, Matt, what CVW did the Theodore Roosevelt do her shakedown cruise with, ITTL?

Depends on where he was on The Day in 1985, I guess.

Bernard Woolley wrote: ↑Sat Dec 28, 2024 1:30 am Depends on where he was on The Day in 1985, I guess.

Good point, Bernard.

Bernard Woolley wrote: ↑Sat Dec 28, 2024 1:16 am

jemhouston wrote: ↑Fri Dec 27, 2024 10:22 pm What would Elon Musk be up to in RD+20?

25 to life?

Wolfman wrote: ↑Sat Dec 28, 2024 1:32 amGood point, Bernard.

Looks like in @ he was in South Africa until 1989, when he arrived in Canada. So, I guess he would be alive in the RD-verse. OTOH, he was thrown down some stairs and beaten badly when he called a fellow school pupil who had just lost his father to suicide stupid. Perhaps he’s less lucky and ends up with life changing injuries, or worse.

jemhouston wrote: ↑Sat Dec 28, 2024 1:45 am

I would think that maybe the RD-verse US Government might be less tolerant of someone getting money out of them by claiming to already have been money from a car manufacturer. And vice versa.

Did Guantanamo Bay Naval Base fell ore did it endure a siege during the war.

It fell, Lordroel, and the Soviet and Cuban forces also took USS Prairie (AD-15) along with it when she ducked into Guantanamo Bay to avoid a hurricane…

Wolfman wrote: ↑Wed Jan 01, 2025 12:28 pm It fell, Lordroel, and the Soviet and Cuban forces also took USS Prairie (AD-15) along with it when she ducked into Guantanamo Bay to avoid a hurricane…

Did the US retake it during the Cuban blockade ore was it handed back over.

It wasn’t retaken until the Cuban Intervention the year before the Baja War…

Wolfman wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2025 12:43 am It wasn’t retaken until the Cuban Intervention the year before the Baja War…

So that would mean it was Cuban occupied for almost 30 years.

Lordroel wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2025 1:22 am

Wolfman wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2025 12:43 am It wasn’t retaken until the Cuban Intervention the year before the Baja War…

So that would mean it was Cuban occupied for almost 30 years.

24.

It was basically abandoned, what with USS Prairie (AD-15) having been sunk in the channel…

Theodore Roosevelt put to sea with CVW-8 while Nimitz was in Norfolk, getting a full repair for her damage on Day One. The job done in Haifa by the workers flown there was good enough, but a full repair meant time in Norfolk.

ISTR that CVW-8 broke down to the individual squadrons and that they took the long way home…

Question, did B-52s dropped mines in the Baltic Sea from basses in the United Kingdom.

No, but FB-111s did-the Mark-62, 63, and 64 series of Quickstrike mines were based on the Mark-82 and the Mark-84 dumb bombs, which the Vark regularly carried. SAC Varks could and did seed parts of the Baltic Sea with those mines. The B-52s seeded the Kurils and Kamchatka.

Matt Wiser wrote: ↑Sat Jan 25, 2025 4:51 am No, but FB-111s did-the Mark-62, 63, and 64 series of Quickstrike mines were based on the Mark-82 and the Mark-84 dumb bombs, which the Vark regularly carried. SAC Varks could and did seed parts of the Baltic Sea with those mines. The B-52s seeded the Kurils and Kamchatka.

So i assume the mine laying was not that far ahead when the Battle of the Baltic Exits happen in 1987

Correct: too many missions and not enough assets. And Soviet minesweeping, to its credit, did a good job in clearing some paths. But not all, and a few ships did become minesweepers-once.

Matt Wiser wrote: ↑Sat Jan 25, 2025 8:36 am Correct: too many missions and not enough assets. And Soviet minesweeping, to its credit, did a good job in clearing some paths. But not all, and a few ships did become minesweepers-once.

Also East Germany would be busy in sweeping mines, they had a good mine sweeping force as well.

Lukedalton is at it again over on Lordroel’s forum…