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To: hanamizu

As an aside, here’s an aggravating fact.

B-17 bombers were deployed against the Japanese task force at the Battle of Midway. Out of 322 bombs dropped, not one hit anything.


19 posted on 11/13/2017 5:00:14 AM PST by sparklite2 (-)
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To: sparklite2

The be fair, most of the bombs dropped by high altitude bombers against pinpoint targets missed. To hit a small fixed target like a bridge took something like a thousand bombs to land one. High altitude bombing against an actively evading target was really a long shot.

One aspect of modern warfare that is under-appreciated by civilians is how precision guided weapons have revolutionized combat. Ships and planes used to bristle with guns and bombs. That was necessary because most of what you shot or dropped was going to miss. Today a single B-2 can accomplish what in WWII would have required hundreds of planes.


27 posted on 11/13/2017 5:45:06 AM PST by SargeK
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To: sparklite2

And Torpedo 8 scored no hits either and lost every plane...but they brought Japanese air cover down to the deck which let the dive bombers do their work.


29 posted on 11/13/2017 5:48:29 AM PST by hanamizu
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To: sparklite2

I believe every bomb hit something called the Pacific Ocean


46 posted on 11/13/2017 5:44:33 PM PST by Oztrich Boy (don't forget to mouse your sisterhooks)
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