Ping.
They look real nasty and I mean that in a good way.
Impressive. Bombing accuracy gets better and better.
During WWII, bombers were used against warships extensively with little effect. A B-17 at 20,000 feet was unlikely to hit a moving target and seldom did. Ship’s captains could see when the bombs were released and steered away from them.
At the Battle of Midway, US attacks were more like suicide runs, but they tied up the Zero air cap while American SBDs were finally able to get in and paste the carriers.
Vietnam was the first use of laser aiming, where one plane would illuminate the target with a laser light and another plane dropped a laser-homing bomb. The first users of the new system were astonished at the accuracy, as were the VC operators of AA guns, surrounded in gun emplacements by walls of sand bags. The bomb came in dead center, vaporizing the entire crew/gun. One bomb, one target. It sure beat the hell out of dropping tons of bombs hoping for a hit.
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