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  • your link is broken but the howstuffworks page is quoting from the Wikipedia, which sources the GPS guidance to an anonymous post on globalsecurity.org - itsself not a bad source - however the method of delivery is they open the back of the aircraft, push the bomb on a wooden pallet out the door, wait a few seconds, activate a parachute, wait a few seconds for the gps to kick in, whereby “fins” guide it to its location.

    You’ll forgive me for being skeptical about 8m precision on a remote-controlled parachute from 35,000 feet at 400mph using rudders


  • I mean that’s what I’m saying - most bombs miss by more than is effective. Close counts for a hand grenade if you don’t throw it in totally the wrong direction.

    Edit: …and so far the only counter argument is “once we dropped a single bomb that was too big to miss - a decade ago.”

    you dont have to convince me, of course, I just remain unconvinced





  • And which conflict was resolved successfully by bombing?

    Certainly Afghanistan was famously not resolved by aerial attacks, and the best result we have here so far is “its OK to miss with a $170,000 single bomb if it allegedly, unconfirmedly, kills between 0 and 90 people”

    Not to mention this is a single data point and one debatably “accurate” hit does not suddenly make all air ordinance accurate.




  • Per your link: The MOAB was used once, has a 1 mile blast radius, and based on reports killed, depending on who you ask, “only terrorists - 90 of them” “a bunch of people including teachers and students” and “no one”

    Hardly definitive. Also, a 1 mile bomb killing fewer than 100 people? Greenland has 52k people at a population density of 0.1/mile²