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Title: WW2 Outcome
Post by: 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...?

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fc/A6M5_TAIC.jpg)
Title: WW2 Outcome
Post by: Ack-Ack on June 20, 2007, 04:47:33 PM
the outcome?  it would be the same, US would win.


ack-ack
Title: WW2 Outcome
Post by: Karnak 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.
Title: WW2 Outcome
Post by: Movie on June 20, 2007, 04:55:49 PM
I think the war would have raged on for a few more months if not years
Title: WW2 Outcome
Post by: Krusty 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.
Title: WW2 Outcome
Post by: Iron_Cross 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.
Title: WW2 Outcome
Post by: Hoarach on June 20, 2007, 07:05:25 PM
A Pacific Ocean full of fireballs in the sky.
Title: WW2 Outcome
Post by: WMDnow on June 20, 2007, 08:07:45 PM
They all go boom
Title: WW2 Outcome
Post by: MstWntd 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.
Title: WW2 Outcome
Post by: Masherbrum 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
Title: WW2 Outcome
Post by: MstWntd 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.
Title: WW2 Outcome
Post by: Noir on June 21, 2007, 04:09:33 AM
theres a hook ? quite a boring thread if you ask me. Childish question, boring answers.
Title: WW2 Outcome
Post by: Angus 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.
Title: WW2 Outcome
Post by: Movie 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
Title: WW2 Outcome
Post by: SAS_KID 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?
Title: WW2 Outcome
Post by: Jonny boy 8 on June 22, 2007, 08:24:22 AM
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Originally posted by SAS_KID
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?


no the outcome would'nt be diffrent. and yes the we did make a plane kinda like the zero, its is F8F Bearcat, its was well armed, and manuvrable, and had a good armorer. its may have been too late for the war, but some of them are now racers like the "Rare Bear".

p51srule:aok
Title: Re: WW2 Outcome
Post by: MotleyCH on June 22, 2007, 08:41:18 AM
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Originally posted by Movie
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...?

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fc/A6M5_TAIC.jpg)


I think the picture of that Zero was taken in 1945..after the war.