David Cenciotti also notes the crafty way in which the missile lofts itself high above a battlefield before hurtling down toward an unlucky person, place, or thing:
It initially climbs to an altitude that give its camera a good point of view of the presumed target area; then it moves (slowly) towards the target area (it seems to hover) and, as soon as a positive identification is obtained, it is guided to hit the target.Although it's naive to assume a weapon's accuracy based on a military test footage - essentially an IDF press release - it raises some questions about remote killing. If you can literally look at the face of the man you're about to kill from above, is the alienation many have ascribed to the UAV era of warfare mitigated? Are the APC operators less detached from their targets than, say, CIA operators killing Taliban from Virginia? [Jerusalem Post via David Cenciotti]
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