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March 12, 2006
Military Technology: We've Come A Long Way
I've been in one of my WWII book reading modes lately (currently reading Panzer Leader, the war memoirs of Heinz Guderian, architect of Germany's armored forces and tactics), so I found this post over at Neptunus Lex very interesting:
From an interesting (unclas) brief I recently received:(A) World War II Strategic Bomber had a CEP (ed. - circular error probable, a measure of bombing accuracy) of 1,744 ft., which meant it took 2,794 World War II 500 lb. Bombs to kill a point target. This equates to the full bomb load of 175 B-17 Bombers.If one equates this to a modern fighter bomber (like the FA-18E/F, not so much the Tomcat) and the 4 precision weapons it carries: The modern fighter bomber works out to be worth 700 World War II B-17s in a strategic bombardment roll.
Better bombs, much better accuracy. The slideshow goes on to state that 1 FA-18E with four precision weapons is the equivalent of 163 F6F Hellcat dive bombers, and carries a striking force equivalent (by itself) of two World War II aircraft carriers.
Which I thought was kind of cool.
Me, too.
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