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Two bombing patterns or strategies when three bombs are dropped on an equilateral triangular target are considered in this paper. In one of the patterns the three bombs are dropped in a stick parallel to one of the median of the equilateral triangular target area and in the other the bombs are aimed at the vertices of an equilateral triangle. Assuming that the bombing and aiming errors are elliptically normally distributed and considering a diffused damage function, the expected area damaged, in both the cases, has been determined.
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Sangal, P.P. Expected damage to a triangular target by two different bombing patterns with three bombs. Trab. Estad. Invest. Oper. 23, 85–107 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03004685
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