• SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world
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    14 hours ago

    I’ve always heard modern missile guidance systems are so accurate they could fly one up the enemy’s asshole and I wonder why not mine?

    • Bytemeister@lemmy.world
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      23 minutes ago

      Mines are mostly banned. Unless you’re in the US. We didn’t sign those treaties for some reason…

    • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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      13 hours ago

      No no no missiles are dumb and sometimes they accidentally hit schools and hospitals and really all you can just do is shrug 🤷‍♂️ and say “oopsie doopsie”, because war is hell.

      We can send people to the moon but our multi-million dollar jets can’t figure out where to drop a bomb without it striking a school. The tech just isn’t there. The math is just too complex, because I failed high school physics and math is very hard, especially for computers with GPS.

      /s if not blatantly obvious. Even with a dumb missle, maybe don’t drop them in close vicinity to these types of buildings? Like, I don’t care who the target is or how solid the intel is, it’s just not worth the chance of collateral damage. If they start camping out near schools or hospitals then either a more hands on approach is warranted, or they aren’t worth the trouble.

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        10 hours ago

        I rather believe that missle went exactly where it was programmed to go to. Either that was sloppy and incompetent target selection without enough diligence or someone just vibe bombed Iran with coordinates a LLM regurgitated. I’m quite positive the Tomahawk itself worked fine with precision.

        • Pommes_für_dein_Balg@feddit.org
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          6 hours ago

          The school building used to be part of a Revolutionary Guard complex — 13 years ago. US didn’t manage to update their intelligence in all that time.