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I have to disagree with you....AV-8B+ outfitted with APG-65 can use Amraam and can carry up to four.

Quote: Originally Posted by SuperS4 Apocal, you mention the lack of AEW for ESGs. Do you think the Marines would ever fill that void? I know that the British and a few others have compensated their lack of naval AEW with helicopter AEWs. Do you think they'd ever consider it? Or just consider it a waste of deck space? They, overall, mostly consider the Sea Control configuration an utter waste of time, space and money. When they need...

Quote: Originally Posted by Harpoon Depends what you consider full sized. For me, full sized is 90,000 tons or more. The Big CVN's has a mixed airgroup, and 36 of any one type of plane is pretty much max, of course in the last decade they have tried to use F-18's for everything. In short an 36 plane srikegroup as you suggest is pretty much the max you should expect of the F-35B on any carrier at all.

Quote: Originally Posted by Dragoon Buck and ball is usually fired from a smoothbore weapon, greatly limiting accuracy. The needle gun, despite it's flaws, is still a rifle and can put rounds more accurately on target. Barely, the rounds were unstable and went everywhere and the muzzle velocity was very low (270mps). The Prussian Army instructions were to only fire at individuals at 140m and formations at 350m, not that much greater than...

Quote: Originally Posted by CnB I thought the railgun was supposed to be accurate from hundreds of miles away? Against a stationary target? Sure. Against a moving target? Proof required.

Quote: Originally Posted by Galahad Cut off all exits and set up fortified chokepoints around all roads coming out of the city. There is no food or water going into the city. The enemy either dies of hunger and thirst or comes out into my prepared defenses. Starving them into submission should be quite effective when dealing with actual armies using cities as cover as oppposed to insurgents hiding in a city, Armies can prepare and stock pile...

Interesting. There is however a major problem. If Czechoslovakia decides to fight in 1938, then it would be a bloody fight that would be longer then 60 days. The German army of that time was not the blitzkrieg force that rolled over Europe in 1940. It would have had little in the way of modern armament or munitions. Their fledgling tank force would be outgunned and outnumbered by the Czech tanks. The Czech army has the Sedeten fortification...

Which armoured ships are we going to shoot it at again?

Quote: Originally Posted by Tiberius Sran Lol. What happened to Britain's martial glory? Disguising destroyers as patrol ships.... Not only is that not Britain, but Britain has a proud history of flimsily disguising shit. I seem to remember something about water tanks in WW1?

Quote: Originally Posted by Desert Fox In a nutshell, it is a lot more complex than that. Many missile warhead use, from what I understand a "Heat" type warhead with uses a metal jet to penetrate armor. To protect against one of these, a battleship might need a meter thick of armor or so. As such, warships have gone to being thin skinned and the tactic is to kill missiles before they hit. Electronics is the way of today...