How To Use bombsight In A Sentence
- Toward the end of the war, electronic bombsights, which could aim through clouds, gave American bombers some precision-bombing capability.
- On another night, they cruise in a bomber over Kandahar, one flying the aircraft, the other with his eyes glued to a bombsight.
- The British hoped to find out about an effective bombsight they coveted, but they also aimed simply to "create goodwill"—Mr. Phelps provides an appendix with minutes of the group's first meeting—so that the Americans, who were also working on radar development, would lend a hand. Allied in the Quest for Radar
- He invented an automatic bombsight patented by the USA and in 1936 designed an all-metal trainer and high-speed fighter.
- The armorer-gunner reported the guns appeared serviceable; the bombsight and the automatic pilot also checked out as serviceable.
- During World War II, optical photoreconnaissance was the answer to finding and destroying military targets through optical images and bombsights - changing the way modern wars are fought and, thus, the course of history.
- The Norden bombsight from World War II was supposedly accurate enough to place a bomb in a pickle barrel from 20,000 feet.
- Army Air Forces planners in World War II hoped to achieve unprecedented bombing accuracy with the Norden bombsight.
- Flying at 14,000 feet, their new Mark XIV bombsight gave them an excellent target to aim at.
- Because the Bristol fighters that equipped many of the units flying air control lacked bombsights, only very low-level attacks came close to the target.
