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1.5 billion dollars?!

"The U.S. Government spent 1.5 billion dollars developing this bombsight for military work." I find that very hard to believe given that the total federal spending in 1927 was less than 4 billion dollars. (Source: http://www.usgovernmentdebt.us/spending_chart_1900_1930USm_13s1li011lcn_F0f_US_Federal_Spending). If you mean to say 1.5 billion dollars in today's money or so, please write that. -Sensemaker

Yeah, that's a false claim. The source for that claim also says Norden was Swiss and has some other inaccuracies. The page http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Norden_bombsight states 72000 of one model were sold t a cost of 8800 or around 633 million in 1940. That's for production though, not development. The development was basically providing a gyroscopically stabilized improvement over existing bombsights, and would have been a fraction of the production cost. Anyhow, I'm editing to remove that baseless claim. The wikipedia page on the Norden bombsight has plenty of additional info that probably doesn't belong here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2607:B400:800:30:951A:6D1D:88B5:DD86 (talk) 22:20, 12 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Arresting Gear

In Article USS Lexington: "Lexington was initially fitted with electrically operated arresting gear designed by Carl Norden "...not mentioned here! 80.151.9.187 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 15:28, 12 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]