GarryB Sat Mar 21, 2020 7:01 am
Well they probably don't have any reason to show us those because you would normally use those against fixed structures and targets like bridges and HQs and comms centres.
In the videos shown it is generally vehicles or buildings people have just driven or run in to... which has the enormous advantage that if someone claims it is evidence they are bombing hospitals then they can show the full footage of the armed group of men running in there just before the munition hit, or point out the HMG on the back of the light truck they are hitting proves it is not an ambulance as orgs of ill repute like bellingcat claims.
I suspect for the vast majority of cases when hunting terrorists within a community you have to pretend are innocent and not just the terrorist support team and families of the head choppers then hitting them with laser guided shells is a good way to go because you have the video often from multiple angles showing what was aimed and and what was hit.
Western audiences would be satisfied with the claim that the evil Russians are purposely targeting innocents, or using views from drones watching attacks but not guiding munitions as evidence of how inaccurate their so called guided weapons are, but when you see these videos you can see this is not hit and miss, this is hitting what they want to hit and not the carpet bombing the west enjoyed not that long ago, but Russia really has to stop caring what the CNN and BBC fed western audience think...
It is of course ironic because if Russia had never stepped in in Syria and Syria had turned in to a lawless shit hole like Libya currently is the migrant crisis would be more than doubled because the majority of the Syrian population would want to leave...
These laser guided shells are actually rather cheap and as you can clearly see are very accurate... they get much better value for money than HATO countries do.
The French were going to buy Russian 155mm artillery shells.... the Krasnopol-M was specifically developed for them... is compatible with French and NATO laser target markers... but from what I can tell the French backed out of the deal as usual...