Eila’s magical ability, Mirai Yochi, or Foresight, gives her a limited ability to predict the future. She can sense and dodge enemy fire with relative ease and anticipate their movements.
However, the ability seems to be focused on the near future and her projections on more complicated issues have been imprecise.
This ability is a reference to Eino Ilmari Juutilainen having never been hit by enemy fire.
The Pola was a Zara class heavy cruiser of the Italian Regia Marina.
She was built in the OTO shipyard at Livorno and entered service in 1932. She was sunk in the battle of Cape Matapan (29 March 1941) during World War Two.
After intensive peacetime activity, at the start of the Second World War the Pola was made the flagship of Admiral Riccardo Paladini, commander of 2nd Squadron, and took part in 12 actions between then and her sinking, including the battles of Calabria and Cape Spartivento.
She also participated in the cruise across the western Mediterranean which culminated in the battle of Cape Matapan.
The Avro Lancaster is a British four-engined Second World War heavy bomber made initially by Avro for the Royal Air Force (RAF).
It first saw active service in 1942, and together with the Handley Page Halifax it was one of the main heavy bombers of the RAF, the RCAF, and squadrons from other Commonwealth and European countries serving within RAF Bomber Command.
The "Lanc", as it was affectionately known, became the most famous and most successful of the Second World War night bombers, "delivering 608,612 tons of bombs in 156,000 sorties."
Although the Lancaster was primarily a night bomber, it excelled in many other roles including daylight precision bombing, and gained worldwide renown as the "Dam Buster" used in the 1943 Operation Chastise raids on Germany's Ruhr Valley dams.
The particular Lancaster in the episode is the B III (Special). Known at the time of modification as the "Type 464 Provisioning" Lancaster, this variant was built to carry the "Upkeep" bouncing bomb for the dam busting raids.
The bomb-bay doors were removed and Vickers-built struts to carry the bomb were fitted in their place. A hydraulic motor, driven by the pump previously used for the mid upper turret was fitted to spin the bomb.
Lamps were fitted in the bomb bay and nose for the simple height measurement system which enabled the accurate control of low-flying altitude at night.
The mid-upper turret was removed to save weight, and the gunner moved to the front turret to relieve the bomb aimer from having to man the front guns so that he could assist with map reading.
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@Kenichi_Kaneko 当然、乗員もブリタニア人でしょう。あんなもん機体だけいきなり渡されても扱えませんからね。そもそもダムバスターの使い方じゃないし。ぶっつけ本番ですよ （2010/8/25 5:51） |
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A bouncing bomb is a bomb designed specifically to bounce to a target across water to avoid torpedo nets.
Unlike skip bombing, which uses conventional bombs as during the March 1943 Battle of the Bismarck Sea, the British, Germans, and Soviets developed World War II bombs specifically for bouncing to targets and then exploding.
The inventor of this technique was the British engineer Barnes Wallis. His Upkeep bouncing bomb was used in the May 1943 British Operation Chastise to bounce into dams and explode underwater with similar effect to the underground detonation of the earthquake bomb (e.g. Grand Slam bomb and Tallboy bomb), which he also invented.
The operational British bouncing bomb was officially code named Upkeep and was known by the manufacturers as Vickers Type 464.
The cylindrical bomb used Torpex ("torpedo explosive") to provide a longer explosive pulse for greater effect against underwater targets. Testing of the bouncing bomb was done at Reculver, Kent.
In May 1943, Operation Chastise attacked dams in Germany's Ruhr Valley; two were breached causing damage variously described as "significant" or "with limited effect".
The British losses during the operation were heavy (8 of the 19 attacking aircraft did not return), and although plans were made to use the weapon to attack other dams, it was not used again operationally.
In one of Fumikane's tweets, he mentions that Lynette is wearing a British Commando Sweater. Toasty.
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (Russian: Ю́рий Алексе́евич Гага́рин, Russian pronunciation: [ˈjurʲɪj ɐlʲɪˈksʲeɪvʲɪtɕ ɡɐˈɡarʲɪn]; 9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968), Hero of the Soviet Union, was a Soviet cosmonaut.
On 12 April 1961, he became the first human in outer space and the first to orbit the Earth. He received medals from around the world for his pioneering tour in space.
While the witches never reached space, the multi stage rocket ascent could very well be a reference to Gagarin’s historic flight.
*1 アニメ１期第六話：サーニャ・宮藤とベッドの上で、エイラの台詞「わたしは未来予知の魔法が使えるんだ。ま、ほんのちょっとの先だけどな」
*2 OTOは、ODERO TERNI ORLANDO社から改称後の社名。現在のオート・メラーラ Oto Melara社に至る。
*3 次項を参照のこと。
*4 現在のヴィッカース・アームストロング
*5 背部動力銃座のこと。「中部」というが翼を除いた機首と機尾の間の胴体をいい、本機の上部銃座は実際のところ やや後ろのほうである。
*6 ドイツでの開発は必ずしも成功したとはいえず、ソビエトについては詳細が明らかになっていない。
*7 upkeep：維持・保持 の意。
*8 石を投げる遊び「水切り stone skipping」のようになる。
*9 いずれも堅固建造物や地下施設を破壊するための大型爆弾。
*10 かつてのソ連で 最高の名誉称号
*11 ただし高度が上がると温度は上昇する。
