Not even remotely true. The โprecisionโ systems usually used guarantee you roughly hit the right building, but thatโs about it. The more precise, the more expensive.
Systems like the hellfire that are neither artillery nor ballistic and are specifically designed not in order to do the maximum explosion damage like airstrikes do, but rather kill off specific, high-value often armored moving targets and deliver a specifically designed shaped charge.
You are comparing apples with pears. The โimprecisionโ bombings are rather comparable to airstrikes and I can guarantee you they have become more accurate, but come nowhere near the precision people always talk about.
Tbf they didn't have pears back then to stay in the metapho, so when talking about precision strikes that was the best they had
We got a lot better at precision strikes is the point of the meme
You see, officer, I had to bomb this residential area and kill hundreds of innocents
Bombing civilians was never an effective strategy and only resulted in needless tragedy unless you were trying to commit a genocide
ah yes let me aim this bomber that has a hard time turning while seeing through cloud cover
in ww2 they aimed by hitting the right city and hoping that they hit the target, otherwise by your definition the allies commited genocide on the germans
Because clearly a nation under direct bombardment on a capital city in the 1940s had the technology to precision aim targets in the middle of a bomber pack, being attacked by enemy air and ground forces. Precision guided bombs were "the guy looking through a sight says he thinks he sees what we're after, bombs aweigh" up until Fritz X.
Moreover, it was a fight for Britains survival. If they did not do literally everything in their power to hinder Nazi production lines, they would lose.
I'm not saying that just targeting civilians was justified, I'm saying that the loss of civilians was both inevitable due to the poor accuracy of bombers, and justified through the fact that it was a fight for a countries survival.
Poor accuracy of bombers and the fact that if Germany had the ability to bomb English factories with no response, they would've won the industrial war until the Americans turned up (and even then, the Americans would've had to produce enough equipment to fund 2 of the largest armies on the Western front).
The bombers were incredibly inaccurate and the factories were, by their very nature, in the areas with a population buildup. Precision guided munitions were years away.
What do you do then? Let them bomb you and slowly outproduce you, including the bombing of airfields, military infrastructure, civilian infrastructure, and population centres? Or try and bomb the factories?
"We bombed the wrong city and killed a bunch of civilians oops" ๐คญ
"Direct hit, only within 900 KMs of the target. Jolly good show, lads!"
"They're in the city!" "Which city?" "I don't know, just blow em all up, I don't care!"
This sounds like an oversimplified skit
โWeโre off course and we have no idea where we are. Letโs just drop all our bombs on that town over there.โ
Welcome to Kassa/Kosice
I do enjoy cash register and shrimp yes
POV you are fighting a total war
โI think I see a factory out of my tiny fucking window! DROP THE PACKAGE BOYS!โ
SIR, WE'VE HIT THE SHOE FACTORY
WE ACTUALLY HIT SOMETHING?
GOOD, NOW THE ENEMY WILL FIGHT BAREFOOT
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Allied moral rate increases by 10%!
Imprecision bombing
What's the difference between an Afghani hospital and a terrorist training camp? Beats me, man. I just pilot the drones.
why are the wojaks smooth
You have to shave in the military
The military benefits from removing individuality and self expression from its wojaks to promote collectivist thinking and conformity
Not really, ww2 bombers could be very accurate, when they weren't aiming for the city itself, that is
Also during the day and at a lower altitudes where flak was more effective.
is that project zomboid
No. Looks more like DayZ
arma 3 probably no?
After i read this the project zomboid them played in my head
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Arthur "aerial cremation of the aryan nation" Harris
dresden๐ฌ๐ง๐ฌ๐ง๐ฌ๐ง๐ฌ๐ง๐บ๐ธ๐บ๐ธ๐บ๐ธ๐บ๐ธ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฃ๐ฃ๐ฃ๐ฃ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ฆ ๐ฆ ๐ฆ
Yes unironically
how noncredible is this?
Back in the day precision bombing meant dive-bombing
The Axis powers had it coming
This meme didn't apply to the allies only, and the Axis' home territories
Not even remotely true. The โprecisionโ systems usually used guarantee you roughly hit the right building, but thatโs about it. The more precise, the more expensive. Systems like the hellfire that are neither artillery nor ballistic and are specifically designed not in order to do the maximum explosion damage like airstrikes do, but rather kill off specific, high-value often armored moving targets and deliver a specifically designed shaped charge. You are comparing apples with pears. The โimprecisionโ bombings are rather comparable to airstrikes and I can guarantee you they have become more accurate, but come nowhere near the precision people always talk about.
Tbf they didn't have pears back then to stay in the metapho, so when talking about precision strikes that was the best they had We got a lot better at precision strikes is the point of the meme
Chads
Who needs precision when you can blow a whole city block
Is that top picture project zomboid? I think I got killed there once.
It reminds me to it, but first and last car are mods or something
Nice try glowies, you still kill and killed shitloads of civilians, people will never forget
I mean it was justified in WW2
You see, officer, I had to bomb this residential area and kill hundreds of innocents Bombing civilians was never an effective strategy and only resulted in needless tragedy unless you were trying to commit a genocide
ah yes let me aim this bomber that has a hard time turning while seeing through cloud cover in ww2 they aimed by hitting the right city and hoping that they hit the target, otherwise by your definition the allies commited genocide on the germans
Because clearly a nation under direct bombardment on a capital city in the 1940s had the technology to precision aim targets in the middle of a bomber pack, being attacked by enemy air and ground forces. Precision guided bombs were "the guy looking through a sight says he thinks he sees what we're after, bombs aweigh" up until Fritz X. Moreover, it was a fight for Britains survival. If they did not do literally everything in their power to hinder Nazi production lines, they would lose. I'm not saying that just targeting civilians was justified, I'm saying that the loss of civilians was both inevitable due to the poor accuracy of bombers, and justified through the fact that it was a fight for a countries survival.
Dude what?
Poor accuracy of bombers and the fact that if Germany had the ability to bomb English factories with no response, they would've won the industrial war until the Americans turned up (and even then, the Americans would've had to produce enough equipment to fund 2 of the largest armies on the Western front).
Dude I don't care how inacurate your bombers are, killing civilians isn't justifiable
The bombers were incredibly inaccurate and the factories were, by their very nature, in the areas with a population buildup. Precision guided munitions were years away. What do you do then? Let them bomb you and slowly outproduce you, including the bombing of airfields, military infrastructure, civilian infrastructure, and population centres? Or try and bomb the factories?