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What is a bombsight?

What is a bombsight? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A device which allows bombs to be accurately dropped from moving aircraft so as to hit a desired target.
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We had a very intense crosswind on this particular heading, and by the time I had fully engaged the bombsight we had drifted considerably south of my chosen position.
On another night, they cruise in a bomber over Kandahar, one flying the aircraft, the other with his eyes glued to a bombsight.
The Norden bombsight from World War II was supposedly accurate enough to place a bomb in a pickle barrel from 20,000 feet.
This test was followed by the dropping of a real bomb and the devising of the first bombsight.
After we decided the thing was not going to burn, the bombardier got in the nose to take out the bombsight and I got in the cockpit to get the classified papers.
Professor James Moriarty, Sherlock Holmes's mortal enemy, wants to get his hands on a revolutionary new bombsight.

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