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Toss Bombing (wikipedia.org)
50 points by privong on Sept 15, 2019 | hide | past | favorite | 6 comments



What's interesting is modern fighters actually have programs to calculate all the needed stuff to do this. Recently watched a video of an F-18 performing the maneuver.


It seems like a fuel-inefficient maneuver. It could also expose the aircraft to anti-aircraft systems for longer than a high speed pass would.



This means something different in the UK.


What does it mean?


Ok.




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