(Now, the B-36... that was different. Likely as a result of the Tu-4 fiasco, my granddad was under strict orders to destroy any secret equipment- bomb sights, radios, etc.- in case of a crash. Just in case. His expert opinion was that they should have gifted a Peacemaker to the Russians so they'd have to suffer through using the god-awful things too.)
I was under the impression that those polices were in place pretty much from jump street. Gen. Hap Arnold ordered that Nordens had to be covered with a bag when the were being moved from the storage room to the plane before a mission. Neville Chamberlain personally wrote to Roosevelt asking for Nordens to be installed on British bombers but was denied for security reasons. Chaimberlain left office in 1940, before the Pacific War started.
Well the Sino-US conflict took place during the Korean War....
::faceplam:: Sino=Chinese. My bad.
Well, the other side of it is that if any DID survive... that could get awkward. Don't you hate when you run a false flag using leftover Blakist gear, pretending to be Manei Domini raiders, and then the real MD show up to kick your ass in the middle of the raid?
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...actually, wait, why the hell am I not writing a campaign around this idea?
Won't that be "interesting?" Most of that MD gear is usable by frails but it's tuned for Domini. Celestials tend to be favor armor over big
guns because MD pilots don't miss often. That would put these faux-Blakists in a bit of a pickle... 'Cause genocidal, self-maiming, religious fanatics will totally be flattered that someone was impersonating them.
