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Precision bombing is the attempted aerial bombing of a target with some degree of accuracy, with the aim of maximising target damage or limiting collateral damage. [1] Its strategic counterpart is carpet bombing. An example would be destroying a single building in a built up area causing minimal damage to the surroundings.
[134] [135] [nb 42] On Guam, with knowledge of the approaching atomic bomb decision, he negotiated with Nimitz over the Navy's objections to basing the headquarters of the strategic air forces on the island. [132] Arnold's first heart attack occurred 28 February 1943, just after his return from the Casablanca Conference and China.
The city was attacked 21 times between December 13, 1944 and July 24, 1945. The aim of the attacks was stated as "(1) mainly by precision attacks, to wipe out Nagoya's aircraft production and, later on, its ordnance production, and (2) mainly by area attacks, to knock out the city's remaining industries and to destroy the people's will to resist."
Bomb load could be up to 4,000 lb (1,800 kg), allowing the Mosquito to carry a single "Cookie" blockbuster bomb, or a number of smaller ones. [68] The most-produced variant, designated the FB Mk. VI (Fighter-bomber Mark 6), was powered by two Merlin Mk.23 or Mk.25 engines driving three-bladed de Havilland hydromatic propellers.
The first major use of Oboe was in March 1943 when the system was used to mark the Krupp Works in an attack against Essen. Over the course of the month the system was used with great success to mark targets for the Main Force against the German industrial center of the Ruhr and for attacks against Cologne. Through November 1943 Oboe was used ...
The United States flew a long-range B-1B bomber over the Korean Peninsula on Wednesday for its first precision-guided bombing drill with South Korea in seven years, the South's military said. The ...
The new weapons are Russia's response to setbacks in Ukraine—and a potentially troubling sign of things to come.
The final product was LS-500J laser-guided bomb, later renamed LT-2 laser-guided bomb for export. [4] LS-500J (LT-2) was one of the most widely used guided bombs in China's arsenal. [4] [6] Eventually, the original LS-500J branched out to the other series of guided bombs, [4] which were manufactured by different defense factories and ...