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minus-square@locke@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilink4•edit-23 months agoThey can be used as warheads for precision-guided bombs, though. No idea if Israel is gonna do that.
minus-squareBombOmOmlinkfedilinkEnglish2•3 months agoYeah, I would expect Israel to add a guidance kit to these. The kits are cheap and it makes the bombs significantly more effective. A US guidance kit for a MK-84 is the GBU-10:
minus-square@Land_Strider@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink3•3 months agoWith the guidance maybe you can pinpoint a car or a person, but it won’t matter as long as the payload is still destructive enough the level city blocks.
minus-square@Maggoty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink1•3 months agoIt doesn’t matter how much guidance you put on a 2,000lb bomb. It’s still going to level several apartment towers when it hits a city.
minus-square@locke@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilink-1•edit-23 months agoThat might be, but at least it hits what it’s aimed at instead of just lobbing them out there blindly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yvm2z6XMXMw
minus-square@Maggoty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink3•3 months agoIt’s okay guys, we got one Hamas guy. Who cares that we killed a hundred civilians and destroyed several hundred homes?
They can be used as warheads for precision-guided bombs, though. No idea if Israel is gonna do that.
Yeah, I would expect Israel to add a guidance kit to these. The kits are cheap and it makes the bombs significantly more effective.
A US guidance kit for a MK-84 is the GBU-10:
With the guidance maybe you can pinpoint a car or a person, but it won’t matter as long as the payload is still destructive enough the level city blocks.
It doesn’t matter how much guidance you put on a 2,000lb bomb. It’s still going to level several apartment towers when it hits a city.
That might be, but at least it hits what it’s aimed at instead of just lobbing them out there blindly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yvm2z6XMXMw
It’s okay guys, we got one Hamas guy. Who cares that we killed a hundred civilians and destroyed several hundred homes?