
Drones: A History
Warfare
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The Nordon Bomb Site
Nordon bomb site was an early analogue computer that you can put in planes, and that the bombardier can use. In pre war tests, it worked er. But then when you got to kind of the actual heat of battle with smoke. And sometimes when you're flying a plane, there's clouds. The trouble was was that the northern bombsite couldn't see through any of these. So what happens was you were pretty much just bombing blind er. Actually it ends at being abandoned. By around 19 forty four, the americans are pushing time and time again to try and learn from their mistakes of precision bombing. That kind of bomba harris ethos a is not very good for
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