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mogami -> Solutions (11/16/2003 1:50:49 AM)
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[QUOTE=Mike Scholl]That figure is PRE-WAR. It was needed to keep the PEACETIME (but already heavily rationed) Japanese functioning. Do you think that War-time needs
for iron, steel, power and the like are going to shrink? The Japanese had
begun national rationing of almost everything up to several years before the
war began---even FOOD was being rationed at not much above starvation
levels by the Spring of 1941. Months before the outbreak of the WITP.
I enjoy your posts and willingness to share information a great deal. But in this
instance your "solution" is a total pipedream that ignores the realities of trans-
porting material in bulk. This is a very simplistic table, but will give some idea
of the relative relationships:
Transport by water is the most effecient method for moving large quantities of
anything. It is ten times as effecient as moving it by rail; which is ten times as
effecient as moving it by road; which is ten times as effecient as moving it by
air. Water is 1000 times more effecient that air for shipping.
I mean, why did the Allies spend all that treasure and manpower building the
"Ledo Connection" to the Burma Road when they were already "flying the Hump"?
Why build the Panama or Suez Canal instead of a much cheaper and faster task
of building a RR? Why build the "Big Inch" Pipeline when RR's and Roads were
already there? You've really "missed the boat" in this instance.[/QUOTE]
Hi, This is not Japan at war on all fronts but Japan versus the all submarine war.
I'm saying that Japan can survive in a war where the only enemy employed is submarines. I'm not claiming I can increase production or conduct operations other then ASW (both air and surface) Anti mine and mine laying (I clear my routes and block Sub routes) And transport. In the shallow waters between Shanghai/Korea and Japan. There is enough resource/oil/food that can be brought to ports via rail and then transported by sea. My air transports do not have to carry the whole load.
The U-boat had the Atlantic gap to lay in wait for enemy convoys. Before the CVE arrived there was no air cover. Japan does not have this problem. There is no part of the SRA or China Sea that can not be patroled by air. Without the need to supply advanced bases and combat ops Japan will not have many of the historic problems. I bet Japan could sink more subs then subs sink Japanese transports. (Esp if we keep the historic torpedo problems)
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