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bithead9:
--- Quote from: U.S. Air Marshall on June 16, 2010, 09:10:58 PM ---in WW2 even now its drop and pray
pretty much
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Not modern days.
yuki:
--- Quote from: bithead9 on June 17, 2010, 02:29:03 PM ---Not modern days.
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Technically yes, but we don't carpet bomb anymore so that's irrelevant;
--- Quote ---Considerable discussion about the relative merits of carpet vs. precision bombing has resulted among military historians ever since. It must be remembered that, until precision guidance systems became available during the 1980s, targeted individual bombs dropped from high altitude might fall hundreds of meters from their target. Low level attacks were more likely to be accurate, but the attacker was less likely to survive. Consequently, carpet bombing was a strategy forced by circumstance.
Nowadays, a large bomber or missile can be used to create the same effect on a small area (an airfield, for example) by releasing a relatively large number of smaller bombs. Some artillery systems, such as the US Army's MLRS, can also be used to bomb regions in a similar manner.
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We have different methods to achieve the same goal, however.