Discussion on the invasion of mother Russia (hypothetical)

[TLAM Strike]

Originally Posted by SUBMAN1

Russia, with its new SAM's, will knock everything else out of the sky that even approaches.

Including most of their own airforce as show by their recent operations in Georgia.


Hmmm on the subjet of WWII+ did the Soviets have a Chem-Bio warfare program at the time? I think they got most of their stuff from the Germans and Japanese after the war. While the US and UK were working on it during the war incase the Germans and Japanse decided to use it against them.

Nasty thought but the could Allies have just gassed the Red Army in eastern Europe WWI style then march on to claim the radioactive ruins of Moscow?

[Raptor1]

Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

Hmmm on the subjet of WWII+ did the Soviets have a Chem-Bio warfare program at the time? I think they got most of their stuff from the Germans and Japanese after the war. While the US and UK were working on it during the war incase the Germans and Japanse decided to use it against them.

Nasty thought but the could Allies have just gassed the Red Army in eastern Europe WWI style then march on to claim the radioactive ruins of Moscow?

Highly doubt it. Chemical weapons in World War I caused very (very, very) few casualties, they mostly got their infamy by how dreaded they were by the troops on the front. I would suppose gas weapons got more advanced by the time of World War II, but I think their usage is quite far from the instant-win weapon you're suggesting (Besides the fact that the Soviets most likely had them too, inherited the ability to produce them from the Russian Empire in the Great War).

Biological weapons were developed by the Japanese, but I can't see them being used by anybody in this situation.

Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

Don't forget the possablity of operating off carrier decks in the Barents Sea. And before you say carrier aircraft have a tiny range the P-2V could be fitted with JATOs for carrier launch and delivery of nuclear bombs.

Used, but for a very limited amount of time, and again, could be countered by Soviet air defenses. Carrier-launched aircraft have a very limited ability to hurt strategic targets too.

The P-2V could carry nuclear bombs? The completely stripped Silverplate could hardly carry those things, besides the fact the the P-2V entered service in 1947.