The Final Countdown Todays US Navy Carrier In WWII Question Vanity

02-12-2020 | Setter

[setter]

I watched the 1980's movie, The Final Countdown the other day about the USS Nimitz after going through a strange storm ended up back in Dec 6, 1941.

I have some questions.

How handicapped would a modern carrier such as the Reagan or Ford be without GPS and military satellites? Isn't everything pretty much now digital versus analog? I presume there is analog backup in case satellite feeds are lost. Without GPS how could say an F-18 plug in their coordinates? Would radar still work?

Couple of other questions: Why did they take the Senator and Laurel to the island instead of Pearl? The Nimitz was going to attack the Japanese fighters anyway why did it matter?

Instead of going to Pearl to meet the Japanese why not attack the Japanese fleet?

One of my favorite movies, I would love to see a high dollar Jerry Bruckheimer style remake done of it.

[Bryan24]

Hitler lost the war when he invaded the USSR. He did not have the resources to fight a 2 front war.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

If he had not brought the US in and they then supplied the USSR with food and ammo then he would not have had such a time in the USSR. They had little food, little ammo and Stalin had shot his best generals.

The commies had treated everyone so badly that they were ready for a change in government. Of course Hitler began to treat them every bit as badly and so that advantage vanished.

He really was stupid.

[StoneRainbow68]

-—I think that you are referring to “1632” series by Eric Flint - which was very entertaining. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1632_series-—

This is a late comment on this thread, but I wanted to thank you for mentioning it. I had never heard of this series, despite the genre being right in my wheelhouse.

I’ve been consuming it and enjoying it, and there’s a ton of books to deal with. Glorious! The authors really do a good job of dealing with all the technological and political problems that would crop up if this event really happened. Very few cheap shortcuts in storytelling. It’s really good.