...second strike which hits it's mark but also levels the girl's home.
I suppose you missed a few things in the movie.
1. Most obvious is the massive difference in the size of the explosions from the two missile strikes.
Now why do you suppose that was? 2. The target house was a staging ground for two suicide bombers, and during the movie, you even see one bomber being fitted with a vest, and explosives being loaded into it. And that looked like a lot of explosives, but the smaller packages may have been explosives mixed with shrapnel. HEAVY in any case, as far as carrying them around goes.
But, the movie did mention there were two vehicles at the house.
3. The military was constantly debating what the CDE (collateral damage estimate) was. Part of those discussions was how the effect/size of the blast from two suicide vests worth of explosives, (and possibly more stored in the house as well?),
could NOT be accurately estimated. Just how anyone inside the house survived the missile AND two suicide vests worth of explosives seems quite a stretch of reality, but strange things do really happen.
This story probably put in just about every possible moral and command question that is ever encountered.
That was the story. And just to add even more, have a brand new drone operating crew as well.
The military actually has a short retention period for drone crews... this movie may explain why.
All of what happens appears to be seen by the drone crews. Previous wars had aircraft bombers and artillery bombardments, with another unit doing "bomb damage assessment". That meant the bombing aircraft crews did not see the detailed results, and artillery crews would see their results possibly days later...
The drone crew is shown to be confirming the results of each strike in real time.
Individual ground troops got to see the results of their rifle or pistol shots though, so that is nothing new. The difference between the two is a degree of control of the damage done as collateral damage.
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