Author Topic: WW2 Outcome (Read 879 times)

Movie · « **on:** June 20, 2007, 04:45:15 PM »

what you guys think would be the outcome of the pacific theater had the U.S. made a zero fighter like this one the Navy was testing...?

Ack-Ack · « **Reply #1 on:** June 20, 2007, 04:47:33 PM »

the outcome? it would be the same, US would win.

ack-ack

Karnak · « **Reply #2 on:** June 20, 2007, 04:48:20 PM »

The US would have lost more pilots in the early part due to having a fighter with no performance advnatages to exploit while having less skilled pilots.

Then we'd have replaced it with something better and won the war.

Movie · « **Reply #3 on:** June 20, 2007, 04:55:49 PM »

I think the war would have raged on for a few more months if not years

Krusty · « **Reply #4 on:** June 20, 2007, 05:17:47 PM »

Zeros wouldn't have sunk the IJN carriers at Midway. Zeros wouldn't have bombed key installations. Zeros wouldn't have fought to a bloody stand-still on certain islands. And Zeros wouldn't have dropped the atomic bombs.

It wouldn't have changed much, IMO.

Iron_Cross · « **Reply #5 on:** June 20, 2007, 05:29:08 PM »

Would not have happened. Tactical Air Intelligence got that plane from the Aleutian islands. TAI used that plane to test its limits so that they could devise tactics to defeat it. They discovered that they didn't like the tradeoffs that the Zero used to get it's range and nimbleness. No self sealing fuel tanks, no armor for the pilot, meant that it was a plane that wouldn't bring you home if it took any kind of damage. Something the Navy really didn't like in their own planes. TAI showed the Navy where the weaknesses in the Zero were, and how best to use the strenths of the Navy planes against those weaknesses.

Hoarach · « **Reply #6 on:** June 20, 2007, 07:05:25 PM »

A Pacific Ocean full of fireballs in the sky.

WMDnow · « **Reply #7 on:** June 20, 2007, 08:07:45 PM »

They all go boom

MstWntd · « **Reply #8 on:** June 20, 2007, 08:53:37 PM »

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Originally posted by Movie
I think the war would have raged on for a few more months if not years

No. We would have still dropped the Atomic bomb and Japan would have surrendered.

Masherbrum · « **Reply #9 on:** June 20, 2007, 09:05:43 PM »

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Originally posted by Spikey
No. We would have still dropped the Atomic bomb and Japan would have surrendered.

Come Awn!!!!!! Why you gonna let everyone off the hook like that??!!!!!:furious

MstWntd · « **Reply #10 on:** June 20, 2007, 09:09:27 PM »

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Originally posted by Masherbrum
Come Awn!!!!!! Why you gonna let everyone off the hook like that??!!!!!:furious

LOL. I'm sowwy.

Noir · « **Reply #11 on:** June 21, 2007, 04:09:33 AM »

theres a hook ? quite a boring thread if you ask me. Childish question, boring answers.

Angus · « **Reply #12 on:** June 21, 2007, 10:25:41 AM »

One thing that could have helped the US had they had a fighter like the a6m would have been armed scouting.
The flight endurance was amazing.

Movie · « **Reply #13 on:** June 21, 2007, 02:02:53 PM »

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Originally posted by Hoarach
A Pacific Ocean full of fireballs in the sky.

ROFL

SAS_KID · « **Reply #14 on:** June 21, 2007, 07:10:25 PM »

So the outcome would of been different if we made a plane like the Zeke of which was obsolete in the Middle of the war and still replaced it?