New US missile left wide path of death and destruction in Iranian neighborhoods

ck2 11 points 8 comments August 31, 2026
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ck2

not that there is anything ethical firing missiles into a civilian population but is this even "legal" in war? it's like an industrial level pipebomb filled with sharpened BBs? > The PrSM is designed to explode midair and propel tens of thousands of dense metal pellets at high speed in all directions > The blasts killed at least 21 civilians, including seven children

metalman

the blast patern fits the type of mass casualty weapons that only the US posseses in this conflict. The US anounced the first time use of such a munition on the day of these strikes but didnt reveal a target, and later dissowned there own self reporting. The projectiles are tunsten, and the origin will be identifiable through metalurgical analysis. Given that this is just one incident in the unprovoked illegal American war of choice we can be sure that it will be decades before there is even token acountability. Though as it turns out the unequivical rejection of the US by the entire Irainian population due to relentless US attacks on Irainian civilians is a price that US did not expect.

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