Navigation and Bombing System
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Navigation and Bombing System
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The Navigation and Bombing System, or NBS, was a navigation system used in the Royal Air Force's V-bomber fleet. Primary among its parts was the Navigation and Bombing Computer (NBC), a complex electromechanical computer that combined the functions of dead reckoning navigation calculation with a bombsight calculator to provide outputs that guided the aircraft and automatically dropped the bombs with accuracy on the order of a few hundred metres on missions over thousands of kilometres. Inputs to
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Navigation system used in the Royal Air Force's V-bomber fleet
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navigation_and_Bombing_System
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2023-09-19T11:19:43Z
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