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In 1937 the total warmaking capability of the United States made up 41.7% of the world's capability to produce things for war...1945, US accounted for 50% of world GDP. Difference in WC is that Confed, unlike the US didn't have a decided economic advantage. Remember production of US carrier...

Psych's pretty much right that they do seem a bit interchangable, though at least in End Run, besides the Kilrathi side, Confed seemed to consistently refer to Tarawa and the other jeep carriers as escorts or CVE's, while Banbridge describes a "a new light carrier coming online" when offering...

For CVE's: Why use a transport hull if they were meant to do direct ship engagements? The role they're described as having seems to be more along the role of an easy replenishment carrier(historic inteded role) and in many respects an amphibious assault support platform(while not intended for...

Strange thread title, but going through how they classified ships, it seemed like an interesting point of discussion. Namely, the difference between an "escort" carrier and a "light" carrier. While they make it clear that the new line of CVE's circa End Run were transport conversions(much...

The more logical thing to do, is cycle back pilots with x amount of experience back to the rear and put them in as instructors. Certainly you deprive some frontline fighting for a short while, but it should balance out with a lower attrition rate amongst the newer pilots.(WW2 policy of flight...

I don't think it's quite accurate to compare Kilrathi with Imperial Japan. Particularly since the Kilrathi seem to regard industry and general agriculture with disdain, while warlords particularly had quite a bit of a healthy desire for more land for the sake of rice production.(The whole...

Nice design. :) Just a small question though, could you post a schematic view with the turrets highlighted in red? The layout I see from the pictures seem to have a lot of blind spots for turret coverage.(Unless the things can elevate downward, which I've never seen done with a WC capship)

Military still uses "knots" to denote speed and feet to denote altitude. Go figure.

Since everyone else seems to have gotten to this point before me, just chiming in additionally. Derelict had some missions like this, which did the whole nav-point thing pretty well.(You shouldn't have to muck with the table files to actually use a nav-buoy as a nav-point marker that's not...

Star Trek isn't disturbing? Have you actually watched it and studied it's society? Trivialisation of personal property. military rule over civillian courts, military elitism(Starfleet), "equal" oppurtunity and a bunch of other really really sick things that the writers probably aren't...

Commodore is originally a position in the Naval forces. While unoficial it signified the a Post Captain in charge of a fleet division or a squadron. The USN in it's early stages adopted Commodore as a rank to signify a post above captain(Most likely since they just didn't have a fleet big...

I haven't seen an X-31 in operational eval, much less active duty. Out of current fighters, the Hornet IS the defacto number one close duty fighter.(The Raptor should beat it to a pulp, and the Su-27 varient fixed with thrust vectoring might too.)

Mostly comes from procurement prices over the F/A-18E/F programme which is over $50million a unit as opposed to the JSF which is supposed(not bloodly likely IMO but supposed) to run in the $30million figure. With procurement of the JSF coming as early as 2005, I don't really see a point for...

One of the more "modern" aircraft that'll be phased out a mere 4 years after the F-14D Tomcat. Wow, what an impressive airframe. But seriously. The only reason the original VFAX project was issued was due to the "excessive" cost of the F-14 Tomcat in it's development phase.(Originally the...

Close, actually the great and wise now Vice President Cheney killed said projects partly because the Navy pissed him off and partly of budgetary run offs. It was also proposed that they cancel the F-14D delivery in favour of the Swing-Wing Naval ATF.(It's basically a hybrid F-22/F-14.)...

I know this is a late reply. But here goes. For the ATF program, Northrop had also acquired Grumman(Northrop Grumman now) or at least had advanced flight data and experience gained by the F-14 design team. And a financial reason seems rather unlikely. The government reportedly chose...

Well I never considered the TBD Devestator to have any similarity to it's WC counterpart(simply because we don't see the Dev's in WCP get torn to shreds against the Nephs.) Though I admit I was kind of hasty in dropping the Avenger and Vindicator(they completely slipped my mind.) The...

Is the "Hellcat V" called the "V" as counted from the F6F or from generations of previous Confed Starfighters?(I'd always assumed it was the former. Much like the Thunderbolt VII, which could be counted from the P-47 origin, to the A-10 Thunderbolt II) If that were the case, why doesn't the...

Nice lookin' Bengal. :) Anyway, if you must take historical usage of naval warship designators into account for usage in example WC registries, then look no further than current day Navy's. The "X" in for example "CVNX-78"(next generation CVN for the USN), does mean experimental, but so...

The XWA TC is still going(albiet very slowly. I've got a few other commitments to take care of first.) Hopefully I can doodle together a decent storyline sooner(rather than later) and revise what I wanted for it.