As far as night bombing along a beam would be just a technical exercise to say "I did it".
The same thing can be emulated without all the extra work by using a map icon with a bomb drop on it.
I don't think it will be used that much probably as much as carrier navigation is used, the learning process usually out weighs the impatience of the user to shoot something down and go land back on deck.
http://www.fisthistory.org/Ships.htm
I just would like to think improvement and bug fixes are being implemented rather than a feature that's being done for the sake of it and not ever used (tipping V1's) as an example.
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