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Mike Scholl -> YOU ARE TOTALLY WRONG. (11/15/2003 4:39:37 PM)
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[QUOTE=Mogami]Hi, Nope. With just submarine production you don't shut down the Japanese. With no demand on the economy the Japanese could simply build air transports.
Use the rail net and move everything to ports (Shanghai amd Pusan) and then fly it to Japan. Convoys could be supported by massive ASW TF's and the Japanese Airforce could spend all it's time hunting subs.
I think all you'd do is doom thousands of bubble heads. The Japanese war machine needs to be stretched, over worked and destroyed not forced into specialized measures.[/QUOTE]
By no stretch of anyone's imagination should the "solution" you suggest be
workable. Thae capacity and rolling stock of the railways you suggest using
are in no way capable of replacing seaborne transport. These aren't the
Norfolk & Western, the Baltimore and Ohio, or the Union Pacific. The roadbeds
aren't that good, the rail weight too light, the engines not that powerfull, the
bridges too light-weight, and the infrastructure too weak. If you figure a
really generous 500 tons per train load, it takes 20 trains to replace one Ten
Thousand ton freighter. And the demand a lot more fuel and time and effort
to cover a much longer distance (railroads have to go up, over, around, and/or through terrain much rougher than an ocean). The Railroads you propose using
just didn't have the capability to replace that much shipping.
And as to "flying" it in transport planes from Asia to Japan, what have you been
smoking? Do you have any idea how much avgas per ton this would require?
For the distance you suggest, it's about 1 ton for every ton moved. Even the
United States couldn't afford what you suggest. Even if Japan could build the
aircraft needed (and the pilots), they couldn't fuel them. Please tell me you
were just being tongue-in-cheek when you made this suggestion.
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