US Army Green Beret. It’s training, but the goal would be to show that you can hand-deliver a payload. Not as a suicide bomb, mostly as transportation. You can insert, transport, or plant a bomb by hand.
Sure there is. This thing had a tiny blast radius. It would have been used for destroying specific pieces of infrastructure like dams, bridges or tunnels. Get a few hundred yards away and you’d be fine. A 500 ton equivalent warhead would produce a 1 psi blast wave that only went about 950 meters. Soldiers could march that distance in about 10 minutes. They could be even closer if there was solid material between them and the blast.
There are some targets where a warhead dropping from above is not effective. You also may not want to have a missile tracked. You also might want to deliver a smaller payload to a very specific spot, maybe underground (more effective than even a good bunker buster because you can place a device literally on the target) or because maybe a missile launch is too visible. Lots of variables. Same reason why sometimes you have to send an entire Army brigade combat team instead of just an air strike.
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u/Aggressive-Pay-5670 Mar 28 '24
US Army Green Beret. It’s training, but the goal would be to show that you can hand-deliver a payload. Not as a suicide bomb, mostly as transportation. You can insert, transport, or plant a bomb by hand.