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zmgsabsttoday at 4:42 PM2 repliesview on HN

I don’t think it was intended.

I think that when you’re bombing thousands of targets, a 0.1-1% targeting error rate leads to dozens of unintended collateral hits (and thousands of civilians dead) — and is among the many reasons wars are horrific.


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inigyoutoday at 4:49 PM

What if someone tells you it's an elementary school and you ignore them?

ModernMechtoday at 4:57 PM

They hit the correct target. It's that although they could have, they didn’t check to see if it was a school first.