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Some of the US's precision guided missiles have hit Iran and Turkey ! Thats quite a miss if you ask me !
Precision bombs?
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Are you sure it not another early report that is yet to be made official...........the US military are still saying they are checking on it's source..........
In the Kosovo war the accuracy of the "smart " weaponary was 40 % so even if they increased their accuracy to 90% than for every 100 missles, bombs etc 10 go astray.
The 90% accurate ones can be 100 metres away from their target to be classed as successfull.
(all from the BBC website search)
The 90% accurate ones can be 100 metres away from their target to be classed as successfull.
(all from the BBC website search)
TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- Iran believes a missile that landed inside its border last week came from Iraq and not the United States, as first suspected, the country's official IRNA news agency said Sunday.
Interior Minister Abdolvahed Moussavi Lari said examinations indicated that the missile, which landed in the western region of Sardasht, was made by Iraq.
The example was an extreme one but UK and US 'assets' havve been hit by smart bombs.
I think the danger is that this technology is being used to justify war - 'you see, we can remove the bad bits and leave the good bits intact, doesn't that make you feel better ?' Why are you still sceptical ?
It could be used to justify more and more similar attacks in whackier and whackier situations. That seems to be the danger.
Smart Bombs .... Stupid People
I think the danger is that this technology is being used to justify war - 'you see, we can remove the bad bits and leave the good bits intact, doesn't that make you feel better ?' Why are you still sceptical ?
It could be used to justify more and more similar attacks in whackier and whackier situations. That seems to be the danger.
Smart Bombs .... Stupid People
Those stats include intelligence stuff-ups? GPS guided missiles would have miniscule margin of error. Unless they are tampered with, duped mid-flight or the user has NFI with co-ordinates - all possibilities in war.
Note the word 'believes'
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/World/story_46992.asp
21:09 AEST Mon 24 Mar 2003
US missile hits Syrian bus
AP - A US missile hit a Syrian passenger bus near the Iraqi border, killing five people and injuring 10, Syria's official news agency reported.
No US military comment was immediately available.
The agency reported that the air-to-surface missile hit the bus on the Iraqi side of the border.
The bus was carrying Syrians fleeing the war in Iraq, the agency said.
A spokeswoman for the US Central Command said US forces do not target civilians, and that their targeting is done very carefully, using precision-guided missiles, to select military targets.
The Syrian agency said the wounded were taken to a Syrian hospital on the Syrian-Iraqi border, while the dead were sent to a hospital on the outskirts of the Syrian capital Damascus.
Syria, which strongly opposes the US-led war on Iraq, has repeatedly called for a peaceful solution of the Iraq-US dispute over Baghdad's weapons arsenal.
Does China still have an embassy in Baghdad?
21:09 AEST Mon 24 Mar 2003
US missile hits Syrian bus
AP - A US missile hit a Syrian passenger bus near the Iraqi border, killing five people and injuring 10, Syria's official news agency reported.
No US military comment was immediately available.
The agency reported that the air-to-surface missile hit the bus on the Iraqi side of the border.
The bus was carrying Syrians fleeing the war in Iraq, the agency said.
A spokeswoman for the US Central Command said US forces do not target civilians, and that their targeting is done very carefully, using precision-guided missiles, to select military targets.
The Syrian agency said the wounded were taken to a Syrian hospital on the Syrian-Iraqi border, while the dead were sent to a hospital on the outskirts of the Syrian capital Damascus.
Syria, which strongly opposes the US-led war on Iraq, has repeatedly called for a peaceful solution of the Iraq-US dispute over Baghdad's weapons arsenal.
Does China still have an embassy in Baghdad?
Like all computers, these "smart" weapons are only as smart as the people that control and use them.
There was an incident in the Balkans where US pilots bombed a target identified as a military vehicle. The weapon struck and destroyed the target with great accuracy.
The military called it a successful mission until they realised what they thought was a mobile missile launcher was actually a tractor towing a trailer full of refugees.
Human error is the problem. If I make a mistake at work, a customer might be slightly inconvenienced. If these guys stuff up, innocent people die.
There was an incident in the Balkans where US pilots bombed a target identified as a military vehicle. The weapon struck and destroyed the target with great accuracy.
The military called it a successful mission until they realised what they thought was a mobile missile launcher was actually a tractor towing a trailer full of refugees.
Human error is the problem. If I make a mistake at work, a customer might be slightly inconvenienced. If these guys stuff up, innocent people die.
Certainly human error - and the fact they are attempting to send 1000 plus per night will no doubt increase the chances of accidents. Perhaps that policy is flawed.
The US have 3 'enemies' in this campaign.
1. Iraq
2. World Public opinion
3. Their own stupidity.
They need to win all 3 to say they have had a success.
The US have 3 'enemies' in this campaign.
1. Iraq
2. World Public opinion
3. Their own stupidity.
They need to win all 3 to say they have had a success.
