Nah bombs can still take out destroyers . I was falsely under the impression that bigger bombs could destroy bigger ships though and was very disappointed when 2 1000 kg bombs dropped on a heavy cruiser didn ' t even get me a hit . Torpedos do of course work but are a pain to use . <| sep |> I don ' t even have one yet haha , I ' ll worry about that past this holidays . Just moving bc my gf lives there and hoping for the best . We don ' t have kids so the worst that could happen is the two of us living off of rice and beans for a little while . <| sep |> 2006 GDP growth forecast for 2006 2 . 25 %. Actual growth 1 . 4 2006 GDP growth forecast for 2008 3 %. Actual growth 4 . 4 % 2007 GDP growth forecast for 2008 2 . 75 %. Actual growth 4 . 4 % 2007 GDP growth forecast for 2009 2 . 75 %. Actual growth 1 . 2 % 2008 GDP growth forecast for 2008 2 %. Actual growth 4 . 4 %. This one is particularly relevant , because by the time this forecast was published , billions of subprime mortgages were being written down by the day at this point , and the term ' Credit Crunch ' had entered into widespread press usage . It should also be noted at as late as June 2008 , no more than one country was forecast by any large institute to be in recession by the end of 2008 Italy , with a GDP drop of just 0 . 1 %. 2008 GDP growth forecast for 2009 2 . 5 %. Actual growth 1 . 2 % 2008 GDP growth forecast for 2010 2 . 75 %. Actual growth 1 . 8 % 2009 GDP growth forecast for 2009 3 . 5 %. Actual growth 1 . 2 % 2009 GDP growth forecast for 2011 3 . 5 %. Actual growth 2 % Forecasts of growth for 2012 2 . 8 %, 2 . 5 %, 0 . 8 %, 0 . 2 %, and 0 . 3 %. Actual growth that year 0 . 9 % Forecasts of growth for 2013 2 . 9 %, 2 . 9 %, 2 . 0 %, 0 . 6 %, 1 . 8 %, and 1 . 7 %. Actual growth that year 2 . 8 % For every 1 % of GDP a forecast is off by , that is roughly 34 bn of GDP is was expected and never materialised or vice versa . The legendarily bad 2012 forecasts has misguided the value of economy by as much as 100 Bn over ten years . Source HM Treasury Budget 2006 , 2007 , 2008 , 2009 , 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 . IMF World Economic outlook october 2008 .