Timeline for In what war would one modern military vehicle make a difference?
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| Jul 13, 2016 at 5:04 | comment | added | o.m. | @Mark, that could mean the battleships draw attacks away from the carriers. One or two are sunk, meanwhile the US carriers are free to hunt and sink the Japanese carriers. The Japanese carrier force is crippled even earlier than historically true and cannot be replaced by the Japanese industry. Or not. Alternative history gives a lot fo freedom to the writer. | |
| Jul 12, 2016 at 21:00 | comment | added | Mark | Mobile radar over Pearl Harbor: the Japanese attack is blunted, and most of the battleships survive. The Arizona, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, and Nevada are present at the subsequent Battle of the Coral Sea, and as priority targets for the Japanese aircraft, are quickly sunk. Facing such losses, the Americans retreat without inflicting much damage, and the Japanese Operation MO and its followup Operation RY are complete successes. | |
| Mar 21, 2015 at 2:23 | comment | added | Dronz | @o.m. That's one thing I was getting at in my answer: What would or could happen are different things, and depend a lot more on who believes you, the knowledge you bring along, and details of what happens, than it is a matter of "this tech is so great it would win the war". If you can just get the information that Pearl Harbour is about to be attacked to be believed and acted on, you don't need a radar. Also though for Pearl Harbour, the damage wasn't all that strategically significant. The US was lucky no carriers were there - maybe a clever time agent arranged that... | |
| Mar 20, 2015 at 20:26 | comment | added | o.m. | @Oldcat, not well enough to tell 89 Japanese carrier planes from 6 B-17 bombers. | |
| Mar 20, 2015 at 19:17 | comment | added | Oldcat | We had radar on a hill over Pearl Harbor in 1941, and it detected the Japanese coming. | |
| Mar 19, 2015 at 8:29 | history | answered | o.m. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |