As is often the case, your scenario doesn't understand that the technical quality of the kit available was not the issue at hand. The NVAF still isn't going to have enough planes to contest the US any more frequently than they did, nor do they have the pilot quality to really take advantage of...
Yes, but that's a big assumption given the state of aerial reconnaissance this early in the war.
Yes, but I was operating under the assumption that two air groups will be busy annihilating Shouhou.
I mean, it is a scenario that can't happen. The USN can't get four carriers south, because Saratoga is laid up in drydock, Enterprise and Hornet spent all April on the Doolittle Raid, and there weren't enough oilers on hand to support four carriers that far away from Pearl Harbor anyway. On the...
Economically, the following missteps can be listed:
- In 1926 Mussolini and company deliberately underwent deflation in response to inflationary pressures and weakening of the Lira on currency markets. This was a mistake, resulting in an immediate recession and motivated by the Lira’s decline...
The best way to do this is to have the population pyramid skew male. The problem is you generally don't get a population pyramid that skewed towards men unless a. conditions are just that bad for women or b. You're importing male migrant workers wholesale like most of the Arabian peninsula...
Counterpoint:
Apologies for the alignment of the pic, but a relevant passage for easier reading:
Tl;dr the Italians needed to copy an American arrester hook, because the German one didn't work, and even then both the Italians and Americans agreed that the arrester system itself on the...
The British preferred close range as their decisive range band, with a desire to close to 15,000-16,000 yards. The Brits themselves estimated they would lose a battleship per four enemy battleships firing during the run-in from 34,000 to 20,000 yards.
Ultimately, until after 1937 the Brits...
By Leyte, Japanese gunnery skills had degraded for lack of practice, and more importantly, British battleships are larger and less nimble targets than the DDs, DEs, and even CVEs of Taffy 3.
As far as an Anglo-Japanese war…
Japan has only three battleships worked up and active in 1936: Haruna, Fuso, and Yamashiro. Kongo, Kirishima, Nagato, Mutsu, Ise, and Hyuga are all in various stages of working up. Hiei is still demilitarized and OTL would be modernized the next year.
On the...