smart bombs have steadily improved since 1944. This generation was birthed in 1967 the 250 lb Walleye quickly supplanted by and replaced with the more familiar GBUs with ever tightening cEPs, circle of error probabilities. Reducing collateral damage as well as ensuring accurate strikes on the target
Something that I've been thinking about a lot lately is the effect that drones could have on the democratization of war. Hearing stories out of Ukraine about drone attacks being extremely effective against extremely expensive military hardware makes me think a lot about the difference between the bronze age and the iron age, or the dawn of the firearms age against armored cavalry. Suddenly you can have some people with some extremely inexpensive weapons with extremely high effectiveness against modern arms.
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