Dive bomber is a bomber aircraft that dives directly at its targets in order to provide greater accuracy for the bomb it drops.
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13 Facts About Dive bomber
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Dive bomber bombing was most widely used before and during World War II; its use declined during the war, when its vulnerability to enemy fighters became apparent.
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Horizontal Dive bomber was thus ill-suited for tactical bombing, particularly in close support.
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In contrast, when a horizontal Dive bomber veers offline while approaching the bomb release point, turning to the angle that would correct this changes the speed of the aircraft over the ground and thereby changes the range as well.
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Dive bomber was vulnerable to low-level ground fire as it dived towards its target, since it was often headed in a straight line directly towards the defenders.
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Dive bomber brakes were employed on many designs to create drag which slowed the aircraft in its dive and increased accuracy.
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Dive bomber was awarded the Military Cross for this and other exploits.
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Dive bomber bombing was used during the United States occupation of Nicaragua.
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Imperial Japanese Navy ordered the Heinkel He 50 in 1931 as a floatplane and carrier-based dive bomber and embarked some on new carriers from 1935 in a developed form as the Heinkel He 66, from which the Aichi D1A was further developed in Japan.
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Against small targets, a single-engine dive bomber could achieve four times the accuracy at one tenth of the cost of a four engine heavy bomber, such as the projected Ural bomber, and it could reach the battlefield well ahead of field artillery.
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Soon the Luftwaffe issued a contract for its own dive bomber design, resulting in the Junkers K 47, which, following extensive trials, would in turn result in the Junkers Ju 87 Stuka.
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Dive bomber insisted, against the advice of Ernst Heinkel, that the Heinkel Dive bomber 177 bomber, ordered in November 1937, be able to dive bomb.
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The Fairey Albacore was designed to act as a dive bomber and was used extensively in this role during World War Two.
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