From: Mark Grant (mark@unicorn.com)
Date: Sun Jul 20 1997 - 04:20:21 MDT
On Thu, 17 Jul 1997, Michael Lorrey wrote:
> People say that 25% accuracy is a crappy result. BS. Considering that
> infantry shoots an average of 9000 rounds to kill one enemy soldier,
> artillery tosses an average of 50 rounds to nail one tank, etc....a
> 25-50% success rate is highly surgical by military standards.
Actually it wasn't the absolute success rate they were quoting, but that
laser-guided bombs were no more effective than old unguided bombs and far
more expensive. They weren't impressed with cruise missiles, either,
though the success rate was classified out. I think it was a GAO report.
I guess this didn't make any US newspapers? It merited a quarter-page or
so in all the 'quality' newspapers in the UK. Interesting example of media
bias.
Mark
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