At the beginning of The Guns of Navarone, we see the debrief of the survivors of a failed mission to bomb an artillery position in a cave dug into the side of a cliff.Since their bombs don't drop on the first pass, they have to do the whole thing over again. Flight of the Intruder features a scene where two characters infiltrate Hanoi under heavy antiaircraft fire in an attempt to destroy a missile depot.

The most direct example comes at the climax when Dodge and crew steer the sub right between the twin propellers of a cargo ship to sneak through the Admiral's blockade. Interestingly, the crew that Admiral Graham handpicks for Dodge (because he considers them unworthy of his navy) ends up being exactly what Dodge needs to win (except, maybe, Lake, as Dodge is actually just as good a diver as her but felt sorry for her). If that weren't hard enough, an admiral is determined to see him fail through any means necessary. Down Periscope, A newly appointed submarine commander must take a renovated Korean War-era diesel submarine and evade the American Navy's detection to shoot mock targets in Charleston and Norfolk during a war game exercise.It gets worse: since the crewmen are unaware of British radar innovations, they are detected and bombed outside the strait, before they can even submerge and properly begin their approach. Das Boot: A Nazi German submarine is told to redeploy to the Mediterranean, which means sneaking through the narrow Gibraltar sound, which at the time was swarming with warships and planes.The solution was to design a bomb that could be skipped across the surface of the reservoir before sinking to the bottom, causing a 'water hammer' effect when they detonated, and so a legend was born. Dive bombers couldn't carry a big enough payload or sufficient fuel to reach the target dams in Germany, and modifying a light bomber to drop torpedoes was out because the Nazis had thought of that and strung netting across the width of the reservoirs. To collapse a concrete dam requires a very large amount of explosive force to be delivered within a very concentrated area at the base, and that would require more precision than the RAF could achieve by simply having a Lancaster or Halifax fly overhead and dropping a 'stick' of conventional bombs. The Dam Busters, based on a Real Life example.Mosquito Squadron, spiritual successor to 633 Squadron above, has as its climax the attack on a Nazi V-1 plant, in which the attacking aircraft must 'skip' their bombs into a tunnel entrance.633 Squadron, which climaxes with a fictional assault by RAF Mosquito aircraft on a Nazi rocket fuel plant, sited at the end of a long, narrow fjord.Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny: One episode features Shinn flying through a cave in the separated parts of his Impulse Gundam in order to avoid Earth Alliance defenses protecting a Wave-Motion Gun built into a mountain, and then reassemble it once he reaches the gun itself.In order for Isamu to arrive, he has to survive a gauntlet of Kill Sat fire by disguising his fighter as unpowered debris falling to Earth. In Macross Plus, for the climax of the personal conflict between Isamu and Guld, they take their grievances to each other to the streets of Macross City.Macross Frontier has a homage to the above-mentioned sequence at the climax where Alto must destroy the Vajra Queen's head and Grace along with it, but first he has to blast his way across the surface of an orbital ring structure and survive the onslaught of the Vajra and the Galaxy Fleet's assault carriers.He must weave through Laser Hallways, twisting corridors, and impossibly thick laser barrages - all set to the movie's titular song - until reaching Boddol Zer himself.

In Macross: Do You Remember Love?, after the allied Zentradi forces and the Macross itself have punched into Boddol Zer's moon-sized fortress, Hikaru Ichijo flies his VF-1 Valkyrie, alone and armed to the teeth, into the very heart of the installation.

A few of them don't make it through the canyon even more pilots fall to the obstacle the enemy had waiting at the end, and the protagonist only survives because of an obscure fact about the jet he was piloting: the F-8 Crusader can fly while its wings are folded for carrier transport. During the mission briefing, the base commander overlays cross-sections of the three narrowest sections of the canyon to prove that there's barely enough space for a fighter to fly through. Area 88: All adaptations except the video game include the early mission where the base pilots have to fly through a narrow, winding canyon to evade radar and SAMs en route to an enemy base.

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