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It is also possible to bomb from a much shallower dive angle, which is sometimes described as dive bombing, but more generally known as glide bombing.

Shallower diving angles reduces the benefits in terms of accuracy, but still serves as an aid in keeping the target visible during the bomb run and helping avoiding anti-aircraft fire.

The Junkers Ju 88 was widely employed in glide bombing and was equipped with special bombsights operated by the pilot for this task.

Likewise, the Heinkel He 177 is often mentioned as having its development upset by the demand for it to dive bomb, although this too was an example of glide bombing.

Contrast glide bombing with the glide bomb, where the aircraft remains level and the bomb glides towards its target.

Attachments for this sort of bombing were fitted to examples of the famous Norden bombsight, but in practice this concept proved unworkable.