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Deck personnel is going to need a change of pants after this.

Considering the number of emergency fixes that had to be done to the Mark 14 and 15 series before it was useful it is not crazy to claim that the early version contributed to early losses of the US Navy, and the later corrected versions were the scourge of the IJN and its merchant fleet.

And those same torpedoes became the IJN cruiser line doom because the launchers were vulnerable to incoming fire, in particular from straffing runs while the reload system made sure that they had a harder time getting rid of them when an air strike came. On the other hand the US ships were at a...

Also he was an outstanding mathematician. In the book Neptune's Inferno is mentioned that he often talked shop with the gunnery officers of the Washington about the firing formulae of the fire director, and quite often the rest of the officer corps of the ship couldn't follow the extremely...

Yeah, the real threat from the Clans is that steep learning curve that the Inner Sphere had to pay in mangled regiments until their strenghts and weaknesses were found. I mean just the Elementals were so misunderstood that the Feds developed a light mech designed to hunt them which was less...

Another thing to consider is how many ammunition a modern tank with much better fire control systems requires to accomplish its tactical objectives. I remember that for example that ammo use for the Bradley during Desert Storm was an ongoing concern for the army, after all auto weapons got a...

In that sense a Merkava hull would be better as a test plataform, the rear door is excellent for evacuation.

And then we got the actual threats that Sigma was keeping at bay, legitimately or not. Telepath rebels (both those who want to escape Psicorps and those who want to burn hummies), political opponents who will see a chance of getting Psicorps under a greater level of control by EA, EF and the...

Sticks and stones, with a dash of rusty SKS rifles dugged out from Stanlin's grave. So really not that different from current russian infantry.

Probable an artifact of the EA doctrine in which accurate and fast firing firepower destroys any feasible threat long before entering point blank range. In that sense the incredible tough armor and structure of the mechs is something the armored corps has yet to internalize in their tactics...

Transport and Comms will not help a lot when only a few dozen people know about the exchange and are ordered to keep everything to a single secure dropship while on transit and to a very secure shoot-on-sight facility afterwards. Telepaths are harder to counter but they are few, every other...

Problem is that the EIA is years away from establishing an intelligence network in any other BT policy, they are starting from zero against agencies with centuries worth of justified institutional paranoia and (in this specific case) the support of Comstar own counterintel to ferret out any spy...

Between The Tuskegee Airmen and Red Tails I actually recommend the former. I felt that in Red Tails they added too many unnecessary elements for drama while the former decided that the struggle of the black pilots could rightfully carry the movie by itself.

Yeah they did. But I mean about the first days of the invasion before the japanese made concerted efforts to reinforce the displaced garrison. It was a practical impossibility, but I bet more than one observer remarked that if the Marines had been able to cut off the japanese retreat during the...

Also as a form of industrial espionage. See something good in the joint project, add something similar (but different enough not to get into a patent dispute) to the Leo2.