Originally Posted by
Bevo
we were assured that all our compatriots were going to make their time-on-target within the established 3 minutes to assure de-confliction along the route.
So were we.
Except when I became targetting officer I discovered 5 aircraft on the same target and the time spread betweenn TOT was no more than 10 minutes not including the +/-3
One would have been 4 miles out as another was going bang, given the +/-3 is could have been the other way around and they would never know.
At least it was a pretty good way of dividing the defences even if it was planned murder of our own crews. I tackled the planner and he said it was what he found when he took over and he was planning deconfliction.
Later I did find two identical routes/targets with 10 between then or a minumum of 4 minutes between bangs which was fair.