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Old 31st Dec 2015, 15:03
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To add to MSOCS, in WW2, pressing on and unloading your bombs in the target area was seen as essential to the aim. If you and your aircraft perished in the event then there were more to follow you.

Today, if your system is degraded to the extent that you might miss the target then the correct thing to do is RTB. If your weapons are needed for effect, hit or miss, then pressing on might still make sense.

Better by far though not to risk your scarce airframe for a miss.

During one cold war mission we experienced a number of lightning strikes; our option was to clear the area and may be RTB or press on. We pressed on.
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