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From: daveh@vax.oxford.ac.uk
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Guns on bombers
Message-ID: <1991Jun27.013421.27489@cbnews.cb.att.com>
Date: 27 Jun 91 01:34:21 GMT
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From: daveh@vax.oxford.ac.uk
In article <1991Jun19.010258.10443@cbnews.cb.att.com>, jtchew@csa2.lbl.gov (JOSEPH T CHEW) writes:
> 
> The physicist Freeman Dyson, who spent WWII as an analytical nobody in 
> the service of RAF Bomber Command, has some interesting thoughts on the 
> armament of Lancasters and presumably other bombers.  In his book
> "Disturbing the Universe," he alleges that they might have done
> better to abandon "the myth of the valiant gunner defending his mates"
> and strip off the gun turrets to save weight and drag.  
> 

Well, Dyson was probably right. It is interesting to note that none of the
RAF's V-bombers (Valiant, Vulcan and Victor) had any defensive armament.

Dave

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