The Human Machine Pairing in World War Two

In world war two, it took a fleet of one thousand b 17 bombers flown, navigated and manned by a crew of ten thousand men to destroy one axis ground target. In the vianam war, it took 30 f four fighter bombers each, flown and navigated by only two men to destroy a target. That was a 99 point four % reduction in man power. The precision of the attack was also greatly enhanced by the first widespread use of lazer guided munitions. And increasingly, the pilots weren't actually inside their planes any more. Their weapons were guided by global positioning satellites orbiting thousands of miles above the surface of the earth. A single smart bomb could do the work of one