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- UnterDenLinden, on 01/12/2008, -4/+84Anytime we have a device that can accomplish the intended task with less and less negative side effects, that is a step forward.
- jester55, on 01/12/2008, -4/+64this guy makes everything sound dramatic... the bomb HIT. THE. TARGET.
- SonicRush, on 01/12/2008, -6/+56Absolutely a positive step. The more precise our weaponry is, the fewer unneeded casualties there are, while getting the same job done. Awesome stuff.
- bigbill780, on 01/12/2008, -3/+35This guy has one of the coolest jobs in the world along with the Mythbusters and Ron Jeremy.
- VPurpmalkV, on 01/12/2008, -3/+33And all French People smell bad and screw a lot.
All Middle Eastern People are Muslim extremists that hate freedom
All Jews want nothing but money.
And the English have bad teeth
I figured I'd give you a few more stereotypes and blanket statements to use next time. - ICSU, on 01/12/2008, -5/+34We need smart politicians, not ***** bombs.
- hmunkey, on 01/12/2008, -4/+33War is a reality. You're going to have to learn to face it. Since the dawn of humanity there has been fighting. There will never be a utopian world. Because of this it's important for our military to be well equipped. I don't care what you feel about Iraq (I don't support it either), but the government's goal isn't to go out and kill people.
- XedLos, on 01/12/2008, -7/+21The Military has probably way better weapons than this but they wont show them to the public and this is all they let the public see and make us think its the latest weapons tehy have
- masterm1nd, on 01/13/2008, -3/+17We need both.
- zezerik, on 01/12/2008, -0/+14I love smartbombs. There.
- inactive, on 01/12/2008, -9/+22This is a new weapons video uploaded to LiveLeak.com on 1/12/08. I wanted to put it on Digg to get comments/views of having another super weapon in the military arsenal. Is it a positive step or is it the same old, same old.
- zezerik, on 01/12/2008, -1/+13carpetcompany.com had a huge gov't contract with the Nixon administration and Nixon agreed to buy up a lot of their unused carpet to drop from planes. It worked out well for both parties.
- hmunkey, on 01/12/2008, -1/+12Obviously, that's done to prevent foreign powers from knowing everything the military has under their command.
- zeal2k7, on 01/12/2008, -2/+13anything that can hit its target without causing unnecessary loss of life is a positive.
also, this weapon is probably considered ancient compared to what we 'really' have. - spoodigity, on 01/13/2008, -1/+12I drop SBD bombs all the time.
- hmunkey, on 01/12/2008, -1/+11In the modern world the insurgents are inside cities, hiding in specific buildings. Rather than just carpet bombing the block to kill high priority targets we can now destroy the single building.
- NightVortez, on 01/12/2008, -0/+10What's funny is that having bombs isn't as much about dropping them as it is about telling your enemies that we have them.
- goblue83, on 01/12/2008, -1/+10War is a continuation of politics by other means...always has been, always will be...doesn't mean this is a bad thing, quite the contrary actually.
- mal1964, on 01/12/2008, -5/+14Why were we bombing "carpet" in Vietnam?
- GorfTron, on 01/13/2008, -3/+12Now we need a new smart president.
- LordBoreal51, on 01/12/2008, -1/+10Buried for misspelling of Beatles
- IlliterateJedi, on 01/12/2008, -0/+8The difference is being able to take out a single car rather than the whole street or just an antenna rather than the entire building.
- Zaneris, on 01/12/2008, -1/+9What does Master Chief have anything to do with it?
- forgottend, on 01/12/2008, -5/+13I have to wonder if the reason smart bombs are developed is to actually reduce civilian casualties. I would bet the idea is too make the general public think that modern war is some how more humane, more ethical then the wars of our fathers fought. If you can suspend the idea in public's mind that you are not attacking a country but a regime in a country ,then it is much easier for the public to put aside its compassion for the peoples lives they are voting to destroy.
- hmunkey, on 01/12/2008, -4/+11Because being better equipped than China and other powerful nations doesn't matter.
- hmunkey, on 01/12/2008, -6/+13War is a reality. You're going to have to learn to face it. Since the dawn of humanity there has been fighting. There will never be a utopian world. Because of this it's important for our military to be well equipped. I don't care what you feel about Iraq (I don't support it either), but the government's goal isn't to go out and kill people.
- inactive, on 01/13/2008, -0/+7Dropping flowers and puppies out of a plane just doesnt have the same effect on the enemy.
- TheClassic, on 01/12/2008, -0/+7It has everything to do with the bomb. A 200 lb warhead is going to do far less collateral damage then a 2000 lb warhead. It is true that a certain level of intelligence and an appropriate guidance system is necessary to allow the use of a smaller warhead, but these have both existed for some time.
(Just because you can form a sentence doesn't make you smarter than a room full of monkeys.) - aramova, on 01/12/2008, -1/+7Like "Intelligent commenter"?
- zephyr42, on 01/13/2008, -0/+6sometimes he's just too much, it's just like "man I know you were a navy seal but calm the ***** down"
- TwiStEr55, on 01/13/2008, -0/+5I hope you guys realize that most of the bombing ist still as it always was mas bomb droping! No precise targeting!!! These bombs are way more expensive and they are used not nearly as much as they want you to believe ....
Also ... its interesting, that the USA can bomb a door of a house but cant count a couple of ballots .... - noahhoward, on 01/13/2008, -2/+7"I would bet the idea is too make the general public think that modern war is some how more humane, more ethical then the wars of our fathers fought."
If you don't think that is the case there is something wrong with you. Wars happen, unfortunately, would you rather have to use the tactics of WWII, leveling an entire area to get one factory or would you prefer a more surgical approach. War is hell, that will never change, the purpose of smart bombs is to contain hell as much as possible - diggerine, on 01/13/2008, -1/+6Right, because if the US military no longer has any bombs, the US will no longer have any enemies. Hey, why even have a military?
/sarcasm, if it's not obvious - spiralspirit, on 01/13/2008, -0/+5indeed, i like the show, but I wish he wasn't on it. he certainly doesn't lend any credibility to it.
- chrisinsocalif, on 01/12/2008, -6/+11Less work on a smart bomb, more work on a smart government.
- markdall, on 01/12/2008, -1/+6Yes, those suicide bombers sure could use some love towards all the crowds of people they kill.
- Jude007, on 01/12/2008, -2/+7Government's goal is to power.
- CthulhuDawn, on 01/13/2008, -0/+4@nomadxx7
Right.. so you want our technology to be crude and less accurate so that we'll have to kill more innocent people and thus, think twice about going to war. Most naïve thing I've seen on digg today. - TokenWhiteGuy, on 01/13/2008, -0/+4What if you take the tin-foil hat off?
- pnmoore, on 01/13/2008, -0/+4No weapon is bad or good, it is the person pulling the trigger (or choosing not to) that makes it so. Unfortunately, in the world we live in they are a necessity in order to either provide protection when needed or deterrence to those that would do harm. Every country is armed to some degree, so pointing fingers at the US is pretty naive on your part.
Since they are going to exist, isn't it a good thing that they are at least trying to design weapons that only kill the intended target? War isn't going to be in our past anytime soon, so the fewer innocent bystanders involved in the kill stats the better in my mind! - Skelly11, on 01/13/2008, -1/+5Give me an AC-130 Gunship anyday
- timbo458, on 01/13/2008, -0/+4The young men and women serving in the military today are on average the smartest military in the history of the US.It's those old ***** in the Pentagon!
- cplusplus, on 01/12/2008, -5/+9I would like our tax money spent on something other than killing.
Also you gotta love how they call it SDB (Small Diameter Bomb) when they could simply call it a "small bomb". - aadnk, on 01/13/2008, -1/+5Self defense =! imperialism.
- inactive, on 01/13/2008, -0/+3We can already do that.
The bombs shown in this video can take out one room in the hotel. - benroy, on 01/12/2008, -3/+6The Host of this show is an immeasurable douche bag. As far as I'm concerned, even MORE of a douche than Nick Cage.
- SiNN4R, on 01/12/2008, -13/+16It could be argued the bomb itself is a negative side effect of a ***** up planet.
- Jude007, on 01/12/2008, -0/+3And it was obviously made public because of the positive slant given towards smart bombs, ie, less collateral damage. Even though I gotta admire the engineering of that thing.
- twinklyJesus, on 01/12/2008, -1/+4Um, that was "The Beatles."
- Godlike, on 01/13/2008, -1/+4You're not being fair; the middle eastern people smell too.
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