How sad. Unfortunatally, mistakes are made, and there are consequences (as shown).
After looking at this, I'm beginning to wonder if the bomb dropped was laser guided.
A somewhat recent bug had been discovered with the man-portable laser guidance units (the thing that the soldier points/"paints" at the target to have a bomb dropped on it). Apparently, when the batteries in the unit run out and are replaced, the laser somehow defaults to the emitter's location, rather than what the emitter is pointing at.
It's already happened in Afghanastan to one of our own. Poor guy quickly changed the batteries while the bomb was in flight, didn't realize the bug, and the bomb dropped on his location.
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With soldiers on the ground carrying GPS devices there should be much less of this happening.
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Again, it depends on the weapon used. A GPS reading would be next to worthless if the weapon used was laser guided or unguided.
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07.04 - 02:00 - Podgorica
French Mirage 2000. Missile missed but pilot ejected anyway.
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Yet another display of the USAF's poor acuracy in battle.
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Poor accuracy my ass.
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The RAF is infact the preferred choice of UK and US forces in both theatres, for close air support. Doing it with older and more antquainted airframes as well.
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Do you have any proof of that? Or are you talking out of your butt?
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Does this yet again say something about US pilot training? Or is it a case of a cultural attitude that leans towards "Triggerhappy"?
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Or does this say something about the reliablility of current equipment issued to our sides? Or suggest that the brits could have been at fault? Of course, someone is probably going to unload on me for saying the latter, but it's a damn fine possibility right up there with "poor accuracy."
I think that Brad said it correct early in this thread. We will most likely not know until they release more information.
Why did my text go bold?