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Originally Posted by TLAM Strike
Well then you should focus on WWI, or that German fight they named that Battleship after. Because if you disregard Aircraft when discussing WWII you might as well discount Submarines or Radar as well.
Assuming the Recon Sats have not been taking out by ASAT birds or Hunter Killer Sats or blinded by ground based lasers. The US, and the USSR spent a lot of time and money on finding ways to do it, the threat go so real that they had to make a treaty to outlaw such weapons less one side use them and then launch a nuclear attack while the other side was blinded. (BTW the 1st successful satellite intercept was way back in the early '70s, by an manned armed spacecraft no less).
ICBMs can be taken out too. The SM-3 has proven that capability.
Incorrect while Celestial Navigation was important (its still used, read above to guess why) they did have radio navigation like the British GEE system..
Look up The Battle of Surigao Strait. Just about the only time such a thing happened in WWII. However the US Battleships utilized Radar for detection and fire control, the Japanese did not- take a wild guess how it turned out... |
well, i love the Air aspect of WWII, but it was the last major war where major head-to-head gun battles.
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