One wonders which is more accurate, coalition bombs, or the media.

News : Satellites good, but not omniscient

Why are those market blasts looking increasingly like allied weapon damage?

Where is this new evidence or information leading to this supposed conclusion? In fact we've seen to the contrary analysis which suggests Allied bombs would have been far more destructive.

Anyone have new news on this?

This sounds like sh**. You have to aim to hit a marketplace. The obligatory marketplace hit in the beseiged totalitarian city...

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And I suppose the Silkworm that hit the mall in Kuwait City was just off-course.

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"News : Satellites good, but not omniscient"

And the news _is_ omniscient? HAHAHAHAHA! Thanks, I needed the laugh!

I think the comments by the janes expert where dead on. finally a well written piece using top experts. thanks.

Hewson quoted in that story, seemed to say something different a few days ago:

But "precision is certainly the name of the game now," said Rob Hewson, London-based editor of the publication "Jane's Air-Launched Weapons." "Nobody goes dumb-bombing anymore."...

"The JDAM family of bombs - from 500 to 2,000 pounds, which the Air Force and Navy will rely on for the lion's share of the work - are all guided now by global-positioning satellites," said Hewson.

"They can be launched from bombers and fighters 15 miles from the target in any kind of weather and are accurate to within a few meters."

BTW, here's the description of a JDAM (do you think it hit the market place? hmm....), notice the 20-ft crater remark:

... in interviews with Newhouse News Service, engineers and weapons designers recently described what happens when the 2,000-pound Mark-84 JDAM, for example, strikes.

Dropped from a plane and hurtling toward its target at 300 mph, the 14-foot steel bomb uses small gears in its fins to pinpoint its path based on satellite data received by a small antenna and fed into a computer.

Just before impact, a fusing device triggers a chemical reaction causing the 14-inch-wide weapon to swell to twice its size. The steel casing shatters, shooting forth 1,000 pounds of white-hot fragments traveling at speeds of 6,000 feet per second.

The explosion creates a shock wave exerting thousands of pounds of pressure per square inch. By comparison, a shock wave of 12 psi will knock a person down; and the injury threshold is 15 pounds psi.

The pressure from the explosion of a device such as the Mark-84 JDAM can rupture lungs, burst sinus cavities and tear off limbs hundreds of feet from the blast site, according to trauma physicians.

When it hits, the JDAM generates an 8,500-degree fireball, gouges a 20-foot crater as it displaces 10,000 pounds of dirt and rock and generates enough wind to knock down walls blocks away and hurl metal fragments a mile or more.

"There is a very great concussive effect. Damage to any human beings in the vicinity would be pretty nasty," said Rob Hewson of "Jane's." "A 2,000-pound bomb has an effective damage radius of at least 800 meters (about 2,600 feet).

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I just might the two market hits were by anti-radar ordnance, but a Tomahawk or other missile? Leaving a crater under a meter deep and less than ten meters around? Nope.

"Hewson quoted in that story, seemed to say something different a few days ago:"

Actually his comments are totally consistant. Do you know more than the top expert from Janes Defence (the top military publication in the world). Or di you just not read the article?

A portion of the bombs are faulty, a portion mistargeted. With the sheer numbers that portion certainly leaves open the possiblity.

I doubt you read the article.

I know I read it.