Have a kind of silly idea for a series of fiction stories centering on the Civil Air Patrol. Ranging from farcical stuff like a couple of CAP Coastal Patrol airmen boarding a German sub and causing all kinds of hilarity, protecting merchantmen from sea monsters or Border Patrol pilots dealing with strange supernatural mysteries in the American southwest.
I like the article pointing out that once the bomb is released any errors or changes made at moment of release translates to less accuracy groundside and takes a swipe at Russia for bombing hospitals. It also points out the actual smart bomb can correct itself post release.
Oh Russia reinventing the wheel for Mother Russia.
Who watches the watchmen?The thing I don't get is this.
The Russians have their own JDAMs and guided munitions just as accurate as ours. Why write an article about a bombing computer?
This really just makes it feel more like some independent news source being stupid than any sort of actual posturing.
edited 14th Mar '16 8:39:57 PM by LeGarcon
Oh really when?Try several. There was one (at least) American division in Normandy that got so fed up with being bombed by the Eighth Airforce on a regular basis that its commanding general promised not only to give orders to shoot any of its bombers on sight, but to get his entire divsion back on landing craft to head back to England and exterminate the said Eighth Airforce once they'd crossed back over.
The whole story's in Max Hasting's book on the Normandy Campaign, "Overlord", which I heartily recommend, even though some of the information in the book's been overtaken by subsequent declassifications.
Something I have been trying to dig up for a little while now because mini-munitions keep coming up
Conversion kit for mortar shells to turn them into guided free fall bombs.

Sounds like an off-brand Old Spice scent.