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Time for aircraft history 101
Name this plane, and its mark on history |
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6-08-2006 @ 02:16:18 PM |
| Posted By : 89Rettagt |
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competetor to mescherschmitt
first jet powered air craft.
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6-08-2006 @ 06:04:43 PM |
| Posted By : Subourbon187 |
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The first plane to actually use the principles of a jet engine was the Coanda-1910 (Romania), named after it's inventor Henri Coanda. But, unlike modern jet planes, it use a piston engine as opposed to a turbine. It also crashed and burned on it's test flight. Then the Germans had the Heinkel in 39, two years later the British developed the Gloster Meteor, and in 42 the US came out with the P-59 Airacomet. The first jet fighter was the Messerschmitt Me 262 which, along with the Gloster Meteor, started production near the end of WW2. The Japanese also borrowed designs from the Germans for their Nakajima Kikka in 1945.
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6-08-2006 @ 09:24:20 PM |
| Posted By : Lemming |
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If Hitler hadn't been so energetic in his persecution of the Jews, and his disdain for "Jewish science" (quantum physics), it seems possible that a few European capitals would have been vaporized. As it stands, the Germans were well behind in the development of their own nuclear program
Some of the secret weapons that they did develop (especially aircraft) were hugely impressive.
The Japanese were really scary, though--it's a good thing that we didn't have to actually launch an invasion of their homeland. Many of their major war factories were dug in to cliffsides, caves, and so on. Since they were impervious to bombing, we probably would've needed gigantic infantry landings in order to have any hope of wiping them out.
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6-08-2006 @ 09:42:18 PM |
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#7, Yeah, only AFTER the war was completely over did we find out that we had SEVERELY underestimated the Japanese weapons construction ability, since more than half of their warmachine was secluded deep in caves, yet, despite BEING in caves, they were relatively high-tech production facilities...
If we hadn't dropped the big ones on Japan, it is very well plausible that they would have fought to the last man... we would have lost well over a million soldiers alone...
I have to say that the war ended possibly the best way it could have... it IS a travesty that so many Japanese people had to die in those explosions, and two of Japan's most beautiful cities were entirely obliterated... but the rest of their country, their culture, their people, were spared... I can't imagine a world with no Japan. They have contributed so much to the world in the postwar.
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6-08-2006 @ 09:48:33 PM |
| Posted By : Lemming |
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I think, based on the information that we knew at the time, and even in light of some of the things we learned afterward, that the decision to nuke Hiroshima and Nagasaki was the best one we could make.
For both sides.
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6-08-2006 @ 10:15:52 PM |
| Posted By : Lemming |
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Exactly. It was the best of two bad options.
[Edited by Lemming on 6-08-2006 @ 10:16:16 PM]
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6-08-2006 @ 10:25:38 PM |
| Posted By : solid_snake |
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Since I was beaten to the other points I'll go ahead and say that the demonstration of destructive force was important in preventing future use.
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6-09-2006 @ 03:16:55 AM |
| Posted By : Altima35se2003 |
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Japan would have fought to then last man if many under the emperor would had their way
negative factors:
Japan's main army rifle was shit by the end of the war. many exploded during firing..bad construction by '45
Japan had no decent tanks...look that up
Japan had no decent sub-machine gun in real numbers, later quality was shit
Japan had no real pistols
Japan's jet fight was prettty much a 262
Japan was throwing decent pilots, medocre pilots and good pilots into Kamikaze program (and good planes too)
Japan's next wave was poorly though out suicide rocket fighters.
And that would have taken more than a Million Allied Soldiers.
There was a Canadian Docudrama that took all that into account plus the bombs, the decision to drop the bomb saved more than a million more like 2.5 mill. Despite what I said, Japan was ready to take as many as possible. And that was more than anyone then was willing to admit then.
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