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Another can of sunshine for the German gentleman, please! (media.piefed.social)
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[–] makyo@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Enola Gay dropped it’s nuke from 30,000 feet which as fas as I understand was well out of the practical range of AA guns at the time.

I would guess that altitude makes targeting an issue but obviously precision with that type of destructive weapon isn’t really a concern.