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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You could fly above the flak curtains, but that made aiming your bombs less accurate (they had further to fall and get knocked off course by winds). That’s why dive bombing techniques were developed. You could fly in above the flak, dive in and bomb your target, but then you had to pray you could get out of the way of the low level fire before someone hit you.
The flak curtains of WWII were pretty much “Lets throw a shit load of stuff into the air and hope it hits something”.
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