The drone should be judged against equivalent tactical weapons, not older bombers

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 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Drone precision claims rest on a misleading comparison across weapon types.; Drone missiles have larger lethal radii than conventional infantry weapons — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 471

Related

• Drone missiles have larger lethal radii than conventional infantry weapons (similarity 0.95)
• Drones multiplied ballistic reach by adding remote-control distance to weapon range (similarity 0.85)
• Drones are less precise than rifles and grenades at discriminating targets. (similarity 0.85)
• Drones add the remote control’s range to the weapon’s range. (similarity 0.84)
• Weapon precision cannot improve the adequacy of target identification. (similarity 0.83)
• Drone precision claims will fail in actual battle conditions (similarity 0.82)
• Proponents conflate firing accuracy with impact extent and target identification (similarity 0.81)
• Drone strikes amount tactically to the state’s version of insurgent bomb attacks. (similarity 0.81)
• Drone war turns strategic evaluation into disconnected body counts. (similarity 0.81)
• Drones abolish the condition of combat that makes combatants identifiable. (similarity 0.81)
• Technical weapons characteristics no longer distinguish nuclear from conventional arms (similarity 0.81)
• Drones are nondiscriminatory because excluding combat erases the combatant-noncombatant distinction. (similarity 0.81)
• Historical continuity of remote killing does not justify drones (similarity 0.80)
• Drone surveillance cannot reliably distinguish combatants from civilians (similarity 0.80)
• Drone technology severs visual discrimination from physical proximity to targets. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Drone missiles have larger lethal radii than conventional infantry weapons #corroborates (0.60) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 471