[Milsurplus] [OT] Bombers

[Hubert Miller]

I think I'd want to double check that statistic on dud rate. Can you imagine the massive bomb disposal effort this would have required, if it was true?
The only conditions I have read of, where there was a high fail rate, was were the soil was mud. Even then I don't think fail rate approached anywhere
near 16%.
-Hue

>>TED: Malcolm Gladwell: The strange tale of the Norden bombsight<https://nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2FHpiZTvlWx2g&data=02%7C01%7C%7C6d8581276bbe47aa679f08d5f75647b9%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636686872294617766&sdata=ZK8Ii9F6NMVbGBoATRWrQ5B%2FPTbBhYhNhiCN2GfJYds%3D&reserved=0> - when attempting to bomb a 757 acre chemical plant in Germany over the course of 22 bombing missions (85,000 bombs) 0nly 10% landed inside the boundary and of those only 16% exploded.

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