Large Scale Central

Bomb Damage Assessment (BDA)

Prototypes
#1

Wow!

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=285149

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=285148

Frightening in its intensity! And this without smart bombs and bunkerbusters!

I included links rather than photos because of copyright restrictions.

#2
Steve Featherkile said:
Wow! Frightening in its intensity! And this without smart bombs and bunkerbusters!
Wonder how many planes it took to do that amount of damage? The droning in the air as the formation came closer. The screaming sounds of bombs, and then the cacophony of explosions . Must have been quite a few aircraft, looks like a steamer has taken a direct hit seeing as the drivers are half buried and a tender obviously has some flight time.

Now it’s more like the opposite turn of events,
Explosion? what happened?
Sounds of the missile
Sounds of the airplane closing in, only… it’s long gone by the time the sounds reach you.

I am not entirely certain wich scenario freaks me out the most

#3
Steve Featherkile said:
Wow!

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=285149

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=285148

Frightening in its intensity! And this without smart bombs and bunkerbusters!

I included links rather than photos because of copyright restrictions.


It was because there were no smart bombs that it looks like that. If there HAD been smart bombs, they could have simply taken out the king and queen switches at the yard heads and the yard switch control tower to render the whole place useless, as we are taught now with today’s targetting principles.

Fewer folks would have died and fewer planes would have been lost, and more to the point, rebuilding the infrastructure would have been waaaaaay easier and cheaper afterwards.

If you want to see REAL destruction, go look at the Juvissy rail yards, before and after the raid - they were not back up and running until about ten years AFTER the war was over and done.

As for bunker busters, we certainly had them in WW2, but the only aircraft that could carry the 22,000 pound steamlined ‘earthquake’ bomb was the Lancaster, so you Americans may never have heard of it at all, since no American aircraft of the day could get anywhere near to carrying one. They were used to penetrate the U-boat pens at Brest on the French coast - built by the Todt Organisation with fifteen-foot thick reinforced concrete roofs, and successfullky brought them down on the contents, thus enabling convoys to perate in relative safety. They were also used on high-value and strategic targets such as the Bielefeld rail viaduct, and brought that down by blowing a few hundred foot diameter holes underground and undermining the structure. Again, maybe this is all news to you. All done in daylight, too, just like you guys did.

tac
www.ovgrs.org

#4

Actually, Terry, I do know that all y’all had the 22K lb bomb, carried by the “Lanc.” It is just that the Bunkerbuster was not used, here.

Query, if a “Smart Bomb” was to be used on the three targets you suggest, wouldn’t the track crew be able to get the yard up and running in a few days, instead of months?

I think the B-29 could have carried the 22K bomb, but not very far… :smiley:

Truly, folks, this is train related…

#5
Steve Featherkile said:
Query, if a "Smart Bomb" was to be used on the three targets you suggest, wouldn't the track crew be able to get the yard up and running in a few days, instead of months? .
Sound tactic that, once you have troops on the ground, they can fix it so that your side can use it in no time. The importance is to knock it out just long enough so that they can not fix it until your troops are there. And if they do you hit it again.

Once a war starts it all comes down to logistics, getting the supplies to your forces, while not allowing them to get supplies to theirs. And that is where the trains come in :wink:

#6

(http://www.yaox.com/4dfilms/cf/CF-017.jpg)

All ya need is a few hundred of these