In 1940, an investigation conducted by the British military found that only one in five of their bombers were actually landing bombs within five miles of their intended targets.

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Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. When firearms are first invented, they were woefully inaccurate.

Early smooth-bore muzzle-loaded cannons would be pointed in the general direction of what you wanted to hit,

and then you'd just hope for the best.

Artillery was more a matter of art than science.

Over time, however, this got much better, especially with the development of cannons with

rifling in the barrel and the breech-loaded cannon where you load it with a shell from the rear.

It became possible to replicate the conditions of firing more precisely and artillery became more of a science than an art.

By World War I in particular

artillery became accurate enough that you could land shells in front of

advancing infantry and still not fire on your own troops. This however wasn't a case of special munitions, so much as it was just that artillery

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