I noticed your sources are only as recent as 2018. Technology is finally reaching a stage where precision “bombing” is a thing. In 2022, the US killed an Al-Qaeda leader at his home with a modified hellfire missile that launched blades instead of blowing up (the “flying knife missile”). There was very little collateral damage and nobody else was killed.
The knife missile, a.k.a The Flying Ginsu, is one of those weapon systems that sounds like something from a Looney Tunes cartoon. Like dropping an ACME anvil on a baddie. Whenever I tell people about it, they tend to think I’m joking.
Even this is outdated by now. Precision bombing has become so precise that we can just bomb the part of an enemies brain that allows them to be mean and destroy it as sort of a non-leathal long-range lobotomy.
I noticed your sources are only as recent as 2018. Technology is finally reaching a stage where precision “bombing” is a thing. In 2022, the US killed an Al-Qaeda leader at his home with a modified hellfire missile that launched blades instead of blowing up (the “flying knife missile”). There was very little collateral damage and nobody else was killed.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/hellfire-missiles-al-qaeda-leader-al-zawahiri-minimal/story?id=87885003
The knife missile, a.k.a The Flying Ginsu, is one of those weapon systems that sounds like something from a Looney Tunes cartoon. Like dropping an ACME anvil on a baddie. Whenever I tell people about it, they tend to think I’m joking.
Even this is outdated by now. Precision bombing has become so precise that we can just bomb the part of an enemies brain that allows them to be mean and destroy it as sort of a non-leathal long-range lobotomy.
Source: I am a War Thunder player
It was awesome.
Ok, I guess I underestimated the M. I. C.