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It really is. I can't imagine the havoc that an actually-trained strike team with some real equipment could cause. I was reading Band of Brothers recently, an
by douche 10y ago
It really is. I can't imagine the havoc that an actually-trained strike team with some real equipment could cause.
I was reading Band of Brothers recently, and the description of how accurate and deadly their mortar-men were in a number of engagements was impressive. A light mortar is not the most high-tech weapon, is mass-produced by every army in the world, and does not take a huge amount of training to handle effectively. Not to mention that it can strike from up to a mile away, from a position without direct line-of-sight to the target; with an accomplice acting as an FO to send adjustments by text. Or skip the accomplice, and use a drone (Is the army doing this? Seems like a natural application). I don't want to imagine the indiscriminate horror that could be inflicted at any kind of open-air event.
- pjc50 10y agoSee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downing_Street_mortar_attack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downing_Street_mortar_attack - although in that case the bomb-proof windows worked. The second time the IRA nearly managed to assasinate the head of government. The US army already has small portable tube-launched drones that function as a sort of guided mortar, although I can't remember the name at the moment.