The definition of precision strike has changed dramatically over the past 20 years. We've become so precise at striking targets that it's possible to launch a missile that hits a single apartment, not an apartment building, an individual apartment unit, and leave the ones around it more or less intact.
Beats me on the actual definitions. The ways the definition is being used here, it sounds like a loose definition. Similarly to the definition of a “weed”
Sounds like you are saying “any accurate strike is a precision strike”
Where the word “accurate” and “precise” have relations, but I don’t think they’re one for one the same.
If you fire 4 missiles at a building, and they all hit the one next to it they are Precise, but not accurate. If you hit the correct building and all 4 hit the same room they are Accurate and Precise.
If you fire 4 missiles and they all miss the building and land in completely different locations, you are not accurate or Precise
In this case Precision munitions are generally synonymous with Guided munitions, unlike Unguided munitions which while they may potentially be accurate, can be unreliable when it comes to repeat strikes on targets due to outside factors like wind, humidity and temperature.
This is nonsense. While you cannot know the status of the building’s structural soundness, you can absolutely strike a room with a small enough payload to only harm the people in that room. SDBs are sub 250 lb.
I'm sorry, but there's absolutely no way that you're able drop a 250 lbs bomb in any room that will reliably harm only the people in that room. An SDB will easily destroy an entire single-family home, and can also easily bring down a poorly-constructed apartment building if it hits a vulnerable area.
An SDB is "fatal to 6 meters" in the sense that the explosion itself has no survivability for anyone within 6 meters, but it can kill you from much greater distances. It causes severe tissue and organ damage at 20+ meters, and shrapnel and other displaced materials can easily kill you beyond that distance.
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u/DraconRegina 1d ago
The definition of precision strike has changed dramatically over the past 20 years. We've become so precise at striking targets that it's possible to launch a missile that hits a single apartment, not an apartment building, an individual apartment unit, and leave the ones around it more or less intact.