In the discussion of the flight night operation on 01MAR16 a point was raised by Tex and I would like to get a discussion going to iron out the details for future flights.
During the flight Tex altered the wedge bomb attack pattern to get a better final attack heading on the target. Ideally this would have put more bombs on target as he would have been parallel and not perpendicular to the targets.
While I agree with this on one level I also disagree as well. Taking into account the targets we have on NTTR are non reactive and live target are; the live targets usually disperse during a "Non Training" evolution which will open the area of impact for the weapons being deployed.
Couple of questions to start off the discussion:
1. Can we or should we adjust the attack pattern of the wedge bomb attack to ensure maximum effect on target?
2. Are there any specific contracts or regulations that prevent a flight lead to change the briefed attack pattern during the ingress to the target?