Drone missiles have larger lethal radii than conventional infantry weapons

Evidence

The replacement of troops on the ground by drones equipped with missiles clearly leads to “a significant loss of operational capacities” in view of the fact that by contrast, the lethal radius of a grenade is 3 meters (not to mention the even smaller lethal radius of a classic weapon such as a rifle). One cannot help wondering in what fictitious world killing an individual with an antitank missile that annihilates every living being within a radius of 15 meters and wounds all those within a radius of 20 meters can be reputed to be “more precise.” — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 471

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The drone should be judged against equivalent tactical weapons, not older bombers

Related

• The drone should be judged against equivalent tactical weapons, not older bombers (similarity 0.95)
• Drones multiplied ballistic reach by adding remote-control distance to weapon range (similarity 0.88)
• Drones add the remote control’s range to the weapon’s range. (similarity 0.88)
• Drones are less precise than rifles and grenades at discriminating targets. (similarity 0.83)
• Drone war turns strategic evaluation into disconnected body counts. (similarity 0.83)
• Historical continuity of remote killing does not justify drones (similarity 0.83)
• Drones evolved from surveillance eyes into lethal hunter-killer weapons. (similarity 0.82)
• Present-day drones combine remote control and autonomous piloting. (similarity 0.82)
• Drone strikes amount tactically to the state’s version of insurgent bomb attacks. (similarity 0.82)
• dronization of soldiers was a precondition for the pure drone (similarity 0.82)
• Drones resolve the guerrilla problem by depriving insurgents of any target to attack. (similarity 0.82)
• Drone killing is reduced to clicking on tiny on-screen figures (similarity 0.82)
• Drones transformed from surveillance eyes into weapons almost by chance. (similarity 0.82)
• Armed drones make killing a priori one-directional, converting combat into slaughter. (similarity 0.82)
• The fewer-collateral-victims argument is false because the alternative was no strike at all. (similarity 0.81)