"Jim Doyle" wrote in message
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Is this the same (or similar) as an airfield attack? To crater a runway
must
be as difficult as taking out a bridge by virtue of their shape and size
(although granted, bridges are considerably shorter), plus I guess an
airfield is likely to have the same AA protection as a bridge, if not
substantially more.

I suspect it depends on the airfield/bridge

ISTR that the problem with major bridges like the Bielefeld
Viaducts was that you needed a direct hit with at least a
2000lb bomb and this was hard to achieve


I seem to remember the Black Buck Vulcans used a optimum angle of 30deg to
attack Stanley's runway for the highest probability of a centreline hit.
Is
this the same for a bridge target?

I think so and the difference with the Tallboys was that near miss would
collapse
the piers holding up the bridge which was much more destructive than
knocking down one of the spans.

Keith