Would they still risk >50% collateral damage with a drone strike?
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Definitely not, I'd say. US has their own military on the ground so no need for them. They'd just send in the troops, which they've done on several occasions. Police, anyway.
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Stupid question. If they knew where they were on American or British soil, they would send in armored ground vehicles, helicopters, and soldiers. The drones themselves are meant to be a high danger, no casualty solution to combat, not a one size fits all. There is a big difference between a town full of Jihadi's and a town in a western nation.
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they would send in armored ground vehicles, helicopters, and soldiers. The drones themselves are meant to be a high danger, no casualty solution to combat, not a one size fits all. There is a big difference between a town full of Jihadi's and a town in a western nation.
I don't think targeted drone strikes are allowed within US soil. I could be wrong. So the answer would be no.
Do you even know the reason drones are used? If you did you wouldn't ask such an idiotic question.
What if it was on Mars and we had noocular lazers? What then?!
shareSomething similar has happened in the US but Americans have short memory spans. In 1985 there was an African American separist group called MOVE in Philadelphia. There had been a previous confrontation in 1978 while trying to evict them from a house. A policeman was killed and seven people were given 100 years in prison.
This time the police were determined to root them out of another house which had been boarded up. In 90 minutes over 500 policemen fired 10,000 rounds into the house. Then used high pressure water hoses and tear gas. The Mayor and others asked the police to negotiate due to children in the house but the police commissioner refused.
Instead they used a bomb dropped from a police helicopter with a 45 second timer on the roof. It had C-4 supplied by the FBI and Tovex TR2, a dynamite substitute. The roof caught fire immediately. Firefighters were told to stand down and let it burn. People trying to escape from the inferno were shot at by the police.
The fire jumped from row house to row house and then to nearby streets burning the entire area.
I saw a site with color photos of the houses burning and aerial views showing blocks of burned out houses. No one was ever charged. Five children between 7 and 13 were shot or burned to death.
The Delta Force has taken part in some operations around the country but it is not really talked about. One was against the Branch Davidians in Waco when the DEA couldn't get the job done. They also used tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles from Fort Hood.
I have no special regard for the cult but Timothy McVeigh went there that day and was interviewed as a bystander by a Dallas TV station. He was non committal but then went home and began planning revenge which resulted in the Oklahoma City bombing of the FBI.
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