The bomber stream was a saturation attack tactic developed by the Royal Air Force (RAF) Bomber Command to overwhelm the nighttime German aerial defences... 5 KB (554 words) - 15:55, 21 February 2024 |
Saturation attack (section Bomber stream) bomber and stop the bombers gaining their objective. During the Cold War British and American air defences aimed to stop massed Soviet bomber streams... 5 KB (668 words) - 15:46, 15 April 2024 |
000 plane raid against Cologne, Bomber Command introduced the use of the bomber stream. The concentration of bombers through a few of the boxes resulted... 10 KB (1,403 words) - 20:23, 15 March 2024 |
use of the "bomber stream" to overwhelm enemy radar and defences by flying in a narrow dense formation. Bomber Command recorded 868 bombers attacking the... 3 KB (388 words) - 00:27, 10 February 2024 |
aluminium foil strips dropped by Pathfinders as well as the initial bomber stream – in order to completely cloud German radar. The raids inflicted severe... 78 KB (6,001 words) - 21:06, 6 April 2024 |
first time that the "bomber stream" tactic was used and most of the tactics used in this raid remained the basis for standard Bomber Command operations... 37 KB (1,971 words) - 06:52, 27 March 2024 |
rituals are respected as the combatants ready themselves. The British bomber stream forms up and avoids known flak concentrations and searchlight batteries... 9 KB (1,143 words) - 18:03, 29 January 2024 |
our bombers were 5, 10 miles away. There was no bomber stream. We were largely on our own, perhaps 10 or 14 aircraft at intervals. —John Gee, Bomber Command... 5 KB (763 words) - 02:01, 6 March 2024 |
The aircrews of RAF Bomber Command during World War II operated a fleet of bomber aircraft carried strategic bombing operations from September 1939 to... 94 KB (12,351 words) - 05:37, 14 March 2023 |
packed American bomber formations dropped their bombs together when the formation leader's aircraft bombed. In the British bomber stream tactic, by contrast... 2 KB (371 words) - 22:03, 18 September 2021 |