Vietnam footage seems to always have these huge shockwaves. Is that because of the ordnance the US was using back then, or maybe because of the humidity?
Unprecision bombing
Journalist: What do you consider the most difficult target you’ve struck in North Vietnam?
F-4C pilot: The friggin’ bridges. I must have dropped forty tons of bombs on those swaying, bamboo mothers and I ain’t hit one of the bastards yet.
Press officer: What the captain means is that interdicting bridges along enemy supply routes is very important, and a quite difficult target. The best way to accomplish this task is to crater the approaches to the bridges.
It’s crazy to think that in modern times a bridge can be gone with just one or two bombs. We’ve come a long way
Warfare has its own morbid aesthetic.
I honestly don’t understand why they’re hitting the bridge on the shortest Target possible why not Target the bridge long ways go along the length of the bridge dropping bombs instead of going across it. It seems like you have a much better chance to hit because you have a bigger Target for a longer period of time going down the length of it. If anybody has any info I’d really like to know why it was done like this.
Let me give a reaction you see in all the other posts around here
“The viet cong aren’t using army uniforms so that bridge was fair target”
“The NVA must have been hiding munitions under that bridge look at all the secondary explosions”
“The viet cong uses human shields so blowing this bridge up is super important”
“Kill those viet cong terrorists!”
The North Vietnamese bridge that took seven years to destroy.
A-7 Corsair II’s were absolutely lethal when deployed correctly.
said fuck that general area
The bridge had been bombed consistently since 1965. In 1972 a larger Walleye II, nicknamed Fat Albert, entered service. Its 1,900-pound high-explosive warhead was hefty enough to take down the Dragon’s Jaw bridge once and for all. Commander James Stockdale was shot down on a mission to bomb the bridge.
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Did they hit it?
Vietnam footage seems to always have these huge shockwaves. Is that because of the ordnance the US was using back then, or maybe because of the humidity?
Unprecision bombing
Journalist: What do you consider the most difficult target you’ve struck in North Vietnam?
F-4C pilot: The friggin’ bridges. I must have dropped forty tons of bombs on those swaying, bamboo mothers and I ain’t hit one of the bastards yet.
Press officer: What the captain means is that interdicting bridges along enemy supply routes is very important, and a quite difficult target. The best way to accomplish this task is to crater the approaches to the bridges.
It’s crazy to think that in modern times a bridge can be gone with just one or two bombs. We’ve come a long way
Warfare has its own morbid aesthetic.
I honestly don’t understand why they’re hitting the bridge on the shortest Target possible why not Target the bridge long ways go along the length of the bridge dropping bombs instead of going across it. It seems like you have a much better chance to hit because you have a bigger Target for a longer period of time going down the length of it. If anybody has any info I’d really like to know why it was done like this.
Let me give a reaction you see in all the other posts around here
“The viet cong aren’t using army uniforms so that bridge was fair target”
“The NVA must have been hiding munitions under that bridge look at all the secondary explosions”
“The viet cong uses human shields so blowing this bridge up is super important”
“Kill those viet cong terrorists!”
The North Vietnamese bridge that took seven years to destroy.
https://www.historynet.com/the-north-vietnamese-bridge-that-took-seven-years-to-destroy/
A-7 Corsair II’s were absolutely lethal when deployed correctly.
said fuck that general area
The bridge had been bombed consistently since 1965. In 1972 a larger Walleye II, nicknamed Fat Albert, entered service. Its 1,900-pound high-explosive warhead was hefty enough to take down the Dragon’s Jaw bridge once and for all. Commander James Stockdale was shot down on a mission to bomb the bridge.