@tac_air_power @ReassessHistory Umm... the issue when the Baldwin made the comments was the use of bomber delivered mustard gas on civilian populations.
And for that to be militarily useful, you needed something a lot better than a 5-mile/8km CEP Bomber Command was getting before Gee was used.
And for that to be militarily useful, you needed something a lot better than a 5-mile/8km CEP Bomber Command was getting before Gee was used.
@tac_air_power @ReassessHistory The USAAF 8th AF flying during the day with the aid of Bomber Command Gee, LORAN and H2X radar could not drop a bomb within 1,000 feet of a target 1/2 the time before March 1945.
This chart does not include "systemic error" that saw 8th AF bomber streams hitting Swiss cities.
This chart does not include "systemic error" that saw 8th AF bomber streams hitting Swiss cities.
@tac_air_power @ReassessHistory These are the average "instrument errors" from the various WW2 radars and radio navigation systems on heavy bombers versus the Norden bomb site on a sunny, 0/10ths cloud day.
Flak shooting at these planes with these instruments made the CEP increase to several miles.
Flak shooting at these planes with these instruments made the CEP increase to several miles.
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