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Tech hobbyist makes shoulder-mounted guided missile prototype with $96 in parts and a 3D printer — DIY MANPADS includes Wi-Fi guidance, ballistics calculations, optional camera for tracking (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 5 points 8 months ago (8 children)

The United States has a variant of the AGM-114 Hellfire missile that replaces the explosive warhead with six scimitar blades. Because fuck That Guy, the whole That Guy and nothing but the That Guy.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    Which would come as a surprise to hundreds of dead Iranian schoolgirls.

    Turns out the military under Trump is more a "fuck that town in particular" affair.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    You know, I'm still struggling to believe the story I've been told about that. "The US bombed an elementary school."

    For my entire life, the US has demonstrated precision munitions. The AGM-114 Ginsu is an air-to-ground laser-guided rocket that can kill an individual passenger in a car. We can fly a Tomahawk cruise missile into a specific window of a building. I've seen a bridge in Iraq bombed seconds after the last car crossed. Not saying GI Joe is a paragon of virtue, I've seen the pictures from Abu Ghraib, but...That shit sounds a lot more like Israel than us.

    Even in the "no kill like overkill" "We don't target coordinates, we target grid squares" "enemy fire is coming from that way, destroy that way" United States, that shit sounds a lot more like Israel than us.

    We're certainly attacking Iran because Israel wanted us to.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Based on some reports, they used a decade old intel when that facility was used as a military compound.

    It would take seconds to verify, with satelite imagery, that this was a school.

    Trump admin also fired the department which was responsible for minimizing civilian casualties in an event like this. Cuz it was too "woke".

    Even if none of that was true, saying "it was israel" still feels like shifting the blame.

    Even if it was israel, US military is mega complicit for not saying out loud it was israel.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    One of the stills from one of the videos that the BBC showed identifying it as a Tomahawk showed it at a very un-cruise-missile way up, so it could just have malfunctioned during terminal guidance or been clipped but not destroyed by air defence, and then hit the wrong target. It could also just have been a governmenty-looking building close enough to an intended target that whoever was checking it didn't notice it wasn't the target. It's a lot easier to get everything right when the whole mission is to hit one person with one missile when everyone's got enough time to do their job perfectly and everything's been rehearsed than when there are thousands of targets and people are doing things in a rush, especially if orders are coming from people who don't care about international law.

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