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Offline Tails

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« Reply #15 on: September 17, 2004, 07:41:35 PM »
Ariel bomb sounds to me like a regular air-dropped iron bomb. But someone, I guess, could use the term to describe a 'glide bomb', which has fins on it to allow it to 'fly' farther from the drop point to hit it's target.

I'd rather have retarded bombs, parafrags, and anti-tank submunitions (IL-2 toy) myself.
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Offline Delirium

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« Reply #16 on: September 17, 2004, 09:02:47 PM »
Aerial bombs were the ones used by the Luftwaffe to break up B17 formations, they were fused explode so many seconds after they are pickled.

Not real successful historically, but it would still be a neat toy, same with drag bombs.

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does the aerial bomb differ from the dumb bombs we use?
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