Every clip they show of this amazing laser-guided precision weapon disperses randomly and misses 90% of the vehicles in the target zone.

Seems to me the lasers, rockets, computer chips, etc. are a bit wasted.

Typical American military. Spend $50 billion on a weapon system which is barely better than the simple low-tech solution and poverty-level wages for the people who will deploy it.

Hmmm. I had a different thought; you have to overfly the target.
That's no fun---run the gauntlet of AAA and missiles.

I assume there is a stand-off version now?

I'm sure none of those bomblets will fail to detonate properly and cover the battlefield with unexploded munitions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_on_Cluster_Munitions

They did take steps to prevent that, but given the number of these things deployed and their tiny size it would need to be foolproof to be ethical to use them.


When a Skeet finds a target it fires an explosively-formed penetrator to destroy it. If a Skeet fails to find a target, it self-destructs 50 feet (15 m) above the ground; if this fails, a back-up timer disables the Skeet. These features are intended to avoid later civilian casualties from unexploded munitions, and result in an unexploded-ordnance rate of less than 1%.

I'm not sure any other weapon can destroy up to 40 armored vehicles (and everything between them) in one flyby.

I think this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sz0T2hY9N4 shows a better view of how an entire area is enveloped by the shrapnel.

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