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"Holy shit, did you hear the Americans got a precision targeting device that can hit a 1 mile radius under ideal conditions???" (infosec.pub)
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[โ€“] PugJesus@piefed.social 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Explanation: Bombing in WW2 was... anything except precise. "Right city" was often considered "good enough for government work" - which is part of the reason strategic bombing campaigns were so thorough.

The other reason being terror bombing, which was subsequently discredited by postwar analysis as an ineffective policy, despite several post-WW2 attempts to revive it.

[โ€“] mysticpickle@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago

I mean at least some of them tried for accuracy. There's the Norden bombsight the Americans used and their choice to do daytime bombing despite the greater risk :o