Originally Posted by
Melchett01
how far have we come in the past 60 years? Given that 60 years ago we used to be able to put 1000 bombers in the air at any one time and fly to Berlin and back in a night, repeatedly, I really would ask just how far we actually have come now that we are struggling to maintain a capability that sees us struggling to get a handful of jets to theatre.
That 1,000 bombers was only a slight overkill but given a CEP of 400 yards most would have been needed to hit just one bridge.
Today any single fast-jet can destroy that bridge with better than 75% probability. To guarantee a kill a 4-ship would be sufficient.
Night after night was also an exageration. True some raids were back to back but the sorties were both weather and moon dependent. Now they can be day after day and night night after night and largely independent of weather although weather can still be significant.
That is how far we have come.