Comments on: The Illusion of Validity https://www.isegoria.net/2012/01/the-illusion-of-validity/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Thu, 21 May 2026 16:19:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: M.L. Wilson https://www.isegoria.net/2012/01/the-illusion-of-validity/comment-page-1/#comment-415278 M.L. Wilson Wed, 11 Jan 2012 03:00:50 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=27792#comment-415278 Also worth noting, the British bomber with the lowest loss rates (by an extremely wide margin, too) over occupied Europe and Germany was the Mosquito, which had no defensive armament and was was made of wood!

Cochrane was almost certainly correct.

I recall a similar study by the Americans which found that evasive maneuvers were counterproductive for bombers caught in flak. The flak was essentially random enough that trying to dodge it just meant that the bomber would spend a longer time getting shot at and thereby increase the chances of getting hit.

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