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Re: Newspeak 2003
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Tue, 1 Apr 2003 21:08:04 GMT
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Fredrik Glöckner wrote:
> Another interesting term is "precision bombing". The US government has
> officially apologized to the Iranian government for US missiles hitting
> Iranian soil. They were obviously intended for Iraqi targets.
> Apparantly, some have hit Saudi Arabia as well. I think that to apply
> the word "precision" to a weapon system makes little sense, when some
> war heads don't even hit the correct country.
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> Fredrik
Note - the word "hit" needs to be qualified here. Errant missiles have not
made it to their targets, but they basically crash-landed. Tomahawks are
not fully armed until just before reaching their targets, so errant missiles
may cause small amounts of damage (and even civilian deaths) from simple
kinetic energy, but FAR, FAR less damage than Tomahawks that "hit" their
targets within Iraq with warheads that actually detonate.
And to the Turkish citizens throwing things at the people trying to retrieve
errant missiles - SHAME on you. A major reason for retrieval is to help
figure out WHY they were errant (of course naysayers will say they were
retrieved so that other countries could not harvest the technology - while
this is a true concern, stopping it from happening again in the future is
the main concern).
Oh, and BTW, errant missiles count for less than 1% of the ones launched.
In just about ANY technology I can think of, a < 1% failure rate is pretty
good.
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