And even then, they often hit the wrong city
No way. Are you joking or did this really happen?
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.
I’ve done some night flying by dead reckoning. I had the benefit of meteorologists in the territory I was flying over, so I had pretty good winds aloft data. That makes a DIFFERENCE.
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
Or landed in. See giant stone marking spelling out EIRE, i.e., NOT ENGLAND YOU STUPID YANKEE.
To wit: the initial “development” process of the Tu-4
Edit: ok to be fair those were more of a “don’t have enough fuel” situation, but it is funny how they just copied the thing
Russia is just honoring the Great Patriotic War!
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_BezuidenhoutSeveral 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
An easy mistake at any altitude.
The German city of Constanze would deliberately leave all their lights on at night so that allied pilots would think they were part of Switzerland
This actually worked pretty well
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.
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.
They’re abandoning the vehicles, they probably don’t care or comprehend why they should.
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.
If you’re abandoning a tank, there’s a good chance you’re worried about being sniped.
learn that at ft benning huh? home of the armor school?
No you didn’t. because that’s… something you just assumed in your head.
these chucklefucks getting blasted in Ukraine have a lot more to worry from mine and rpg toting quad copters than their TC getting sniped in the turret.
sniping tank commanders would actually be living on hard mode because if the russians have ANYTHING with IR, it’ll be their more advanced BMPs and t72s/t90s. so you take your pot shot, then they slew around, find your hot spot, and start putting autocannon rounds around you. not a smart tactic.
you don’t waste snipers attacking tanks. why do I even bother replying…
We’re over a city.
I’m not sure if its impressive or sad that I instantly recognized the top image as Arma
Impressive, most reporters think it’s legit!
Hasan is a reporter?
Lol, is that shot from project zomboid?
I was thinking the same exact thing
Yeah it’s zomboid lmao
I don’t think there are technicals in Project Zomboid (but maybe there’s a mod for it)
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Sometimes quantity has a quality of its own.
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-mythI 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.
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
It was awesome.
Ok, I guess I underestimated the M. I. C.
I guess you’ve never heard of the SlapChop