What about intended collateral damage?

I don’t think it was intended.

I think that when you’re bombing thousands of targets, a 0.1-1% targeting error rate leads to dozens of unintended collateral hits (and thousands of civilians dead) — and is among the many reasons wars are horrific.

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inigyou 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

What if someone tells you it's an elementary school and you ignore them?

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ModernMech 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

They hit the correct target. It's that although they could have, they didn’t check to see if it was a school first.

	▲	zmgsabst a day ago \| parent [-]
		They did — in the targeting database which wasn’t correctly updated with the new analysis. That’s exactly the sort of bureaucratic mistake which gets exposed via wartime mishaps.