For many years before the advent of missiles and precision-guided bombs, successfully hitting a target required an immense amount of calculation on behalf of the flight crew, with no computers to aid them. The bomb would initially leave the aircraft traveling forward in the direction of travel until drag stopped the forward motion as they continued falling. Aiming them required complex, complicated formulas and trigonometry, and accuracy remained low.
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