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The article's assertion that a man-guided weapon would somehow be more accurate and consistent than a computer-guided weapon following a target-designating lase
by seriesf 7y ago
The article's assertion that a man-guided weapon would somehow be more accurate and consistent than a computer-guided weapon following a target-designating laser strikes me as needing some supporting arguments.
- torstenvl 7y agoIt isn't that a manually guided weapon is inherently more accurate, it's that manual guidance requires real-time video, which allows more eyeballs. When the spotter identifies a building, and someone else tries to correlate that description to a set of coordinates, and then a GBU is dropped to those coordinates... human error can lead to target mismatch, resulting in terrible tragedies like the Kunduz hospital incident.