Precision bombing now vs then
Precision bombing now vs then
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I thought the first one was gonna be "precision bombing then," and the second was gonna be "precision bombing now" with a consumer drone being flown by Vasylyi dropping a hand grenade through the hatchway of a tank from 150 feet up.
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been seeing lots of footage of them flying right into hatches of bmps and t90s. really makes me wonder why the orks aren't buttoned up / closing their hatches on exit more.
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They're abandoning the vehicles, they probably don't care or comprehend why they should.
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If you're abandoning a tank, there's a good chance you're worried about being sniped. Taking the time to close the hatch leaves you as a sitting duck, while doing it. They are likely jumping out and running to cover.
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We're over a city.
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I'm not sure if its impressive or sad that I instantly recognized the top image as Arma
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Impressive, most reporters think it's legit!
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Hasan is a reporter?
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Lol, is that shot from project zomboid?
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I was thinking the same exact thing
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Yeah it's zomboid lmao
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I don't think there are technicals in Project Zomboid (but maybe there's a mod for it)
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Mosquito has entered the chat.
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B-52 enters the chat
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Sometimes quantity has a quality of its own.
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Yeah, no such thing as precision bombing.
https://consortiumnews.com/2018/06/20/the-persistent-myth-of-u-s-precision-bombing/
https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1996/november/strategic-bombing-always-myth-
I noticed your sources are only as recent as 2018. Technology is finally reaching a stage where precision "bombing" is a thing. In 2022, the US killed an Al-Qaeda leader at his home with a modified hellfire missile that launched blades instead of blowing up (the "flying knife missile"). There was very little collateral damage and nobody else was killed.
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The knife missile, a.k.a The Flying Ginsu, is one of those weapon systems that sounds like something from a Looney Tunes cartoon. Like dropping an ACME anvil on a baddie. Whenever I tell people about it, they tend to think I’m joking.
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Even this is outdated by now. Precision bombing has become so precise that we can just bomb the part of an enemies brain that allows them to be mean and destroy it as sort of a non-leathal long-range lobotomy.
Source: I am a War Thunder player
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It was awesome.
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Ok, I guess I underestimated the M. I. C.
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I guess you've never heard of the SlapChop
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And even then, they often hit the wrong city
No way. Are you joking or did this really happen?
God yes, all the time. Navigation was more of an art than a science back then. And you have to imagine you’re flying quite high to avoid flak, while looking out for targets that might be obscured by cloud cover and where the lights were turned off so as not to present a clear target for said bombers.
Basically, the crew dropping the bombs might be ‘reasonably certain’ they’re hitting the right target, but a few miles here or there can make a lot of difference. You think you’re looking at A, while you’re really flying over B.
I live in the Netherlands, right on the German border. A local village here was bombed by accident on february 15th 1945, because the bomber crew mistook it for a German industrial complex just over the border. They dropped 35 bombs. They luckily ‘only’ killed 2 and injured 7. There’s a yearly memorial.
It’s terrible that it happened, but honestly… you really can’t blame the crew for it.
Navigating at night using nothing but maps, compass, altitude and speed indicator is pretty difficult. Especially when the hostile territory you are flying over is forcing everyone to keep their curtains closed and minimize light leaks.
Some cities would go dark and then a mile away have lanterns set up in the night over a large distance so planes would drop their bombs in a field instead of over the actual city, if I recall correctly.
In ww2, sometimes the wrong COUNTRY was hit
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65344370
Several Swiss cities were bombed during World War II because they were mistaken for Germany. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_incidents_in_Switzerland_in_World_War_II?wprov=sfti1#Bombing_incidents
Bezuidenhout comes to mind. The Allies bombed The Hague instead of a rocket installation outside of town because somebody got their target coordinates mixed up.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_the_Bezuidenhout