Been watching Catch-22 on Hulu, and I’m seeing all kinds of AA fire going off all over the place. I know the show is based on the book and somewhat of a satire, but even in Band of Brothers, the AA seemed to have a somewhat low success rate. I know these are television/movies, but was there any accuracy to the amount of AA fire shown in the films? I’m not sure how exactly how they worked. I guess the true question is, “How did these work? Why didn’t they try to fly above it? Was flying above an option? What kind of success rate did they provide? How have they improved over the years?
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Well, it worked fairly well in some naval operations when you see AA shooting down many of the Kamikaze attacks, but the amount of shells fired per hit was big. Defending cities and using the flak guns as a battery centrally controlled could make bombing runs dangerous and less than ideal for good bomb aiming. So it was mass area fire and not all that effective.
Just like the number of infantry bullets it takes to cause a single wound among the enemy is in the thousands, the same was for AA defenses..
Until radar directed and servo controlled guns firing thousands of rounds per minute can now shoot down a very fast moving small target almost all the time at close range.
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