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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 ...
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).
United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) Fifth Air Force: See: Raid on Taipei. Aomori: Japan: 29 July 1945 1,767 [26] United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) Twentieth Air Force: Firestorm. [26] See: Bombing of Aomori in World War II: Hiroshima: Japan: 6 August 1945 70,000 – 126,000 United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) 393rd Bomb Squadron
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 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 ...
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.
During the training, the B-1B dropped Joint Direct Attack Munitions while being escorted by South Korean jets, the first such bombing drill for a U.S. bomber since 2017, a ministry statement said. It said South Korean fighter jets also conducted live-firing exercises to demonstrate the country's readiness to punish North Korea if provoked, it said.