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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.
In his popular history book The Bomber Mafia (2021), Malcolm Gladwell wrote that the idea of precision bombing stayed alive in the US military, with greater accuracy obtained in the 1990s through to the present with guided bombs, such that a modern laser-guided bomb or missile might be expected to destroy not just a single building but a single ...
North American AJ/A-2 Savage nuclear attack bomber: 1948: retired 1964: 143: 5,400: North American B-45 Tornado reconnaissance bomber: 1947: retired 1959: 143: 10,000: North American Rockwell OV-10 Bronco light attack: 1965: operational: 370: 230: North American T-28 Trojan light attack: 1949: retired 1994: 1,948: 540: North American XA2J Super ...
RAF Air Vice-Marshal John Slessor proposed a combined Anglo-American strategic bombing campaign.. In early 1941, American, Canadian and British war planners convened in Washington D.C. for a series of secret planning sessions called the American–British Conference, or ABC-1, to determine a course of action should the United States become a belligerent in the war.
Bomber Command is an organisational military unit, generally subordinate to the air force of a country.The best known were in Britain and the United States.A Bomber Command is generally used for strategic bombing (although at times, e.g. during the Normandy Landings, may be used for tactical bombing), and is composed of bombers (i.e. planes used to bomb targets).
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 ...
Strategic Bombing in World War Two (1976) story of the official American Strategic Bombing Survey; Messenger, Charles. "Bomber" Harris and the Strategic Bombing Offensive, 1939–1945 (1984), defends Harris; Morris, Craig F. The Origins of American Strategic Bombing Theory (US Naval Institute Press, 2017), 272 pp. Neillands, Robin.
The book follows the story of the Bomber Mafia, a group of American military officers, especially Major General Haywood S. Hansell, as they developed a military doctrine of daylight strategic bombing as a means to defeat an enemy with precision high-altitude aerial bombardment. [7]