Secret U.S. Missile Aims to Kill Only Terrorists, Not Nearby Civilians

[Unclejimmema]

It's a lot easier to be accountable for 1 thing as opposed to thousands of little things. While you can get a relatively close idea as to how a canister projectile will disperse we don't live in a perfect world. Projectiles aren't perfectly round, materials all don't share the same characteristics, fuse time timing is never exactly precise. There's always a chance a random ball (s) will deflect off into some random direction potentially causing causalities other than intended.

[Mingebox]

I am a leaf on the wind; watch how I soar.

[ignhelper]

This guys should be used to do the job

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MVonyVSQoM

[Death-trooper]

Nobody had the idea of calling it a "Shredder Missile"

Lame.

[SHOH]

They should make the blades spin around the centre

[Crimor]

They're pretty much bigger, less effective flechettes.

[TheSyntaX]

Neato

[TheTalon]

The whole thing probably spins like a football

[TheSyntaX]

And add label on it: "Brought to you by meatspin.com"

Damn that song/image is still stuck in my head to this day.

[RayvenQ]

Only problem with that is if you name it that, then turtles become viable countermeasures against it.

[ASparkle]

Back in Vietnam we deployed kinetic "bombs" that were cluster bomb housings (or in the Australian case, Centurion tank shells) filled with steel darts. Surveilling the aftermath of a strike described the ground appearing to have been liquified and noted at least one body that had been pierced clean through from top to bottom.