Originally Posted by
Just This Once...
Don't worry, I have plenty of experience when it comes to weapon effects and targeting. Like quite a few on this forum I also got reasonably good at chucking practice bombs at ships by day and by night. So no, no assumptions needed.
Yes, because everything that people practise in peacetime works perfectly in war.....
It is arrogant and naïve to suggest that you have "plenty" of experience when you have never ever bombed a warship for real. You have zero experience until you have actually done it.
What is your plan to deal with goalkeeper knocking the bomb/you out of the air?
Were the practice bombs aimed at ships manoeuvring aggressively?
Were the practice bombs aimed at ships that were actually shooting at you?
I have found that a lot of units in isolation have very inflated opinions of their abilities.
Pilots who say "yes we will kill them before they see us"
Ships who say "we splashed them before they got a chance to release"
The reality is never so simple.
The Falklands is a case in point.
The ship defence systems didn't work as advertised.
Rapier didn't work as advertised.
The bombs didn't go off.
I bet if you had asked the pilots, PWOs and rapier operators pre Falklands conflict, you would have found a few saying things like "I have plenty of experience"