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Re:Nearly half of Mariupol has suffered grave damage by hef19898 on Friday April 22, 2022 @10:23AM (#31121917)
Modern artillery pieces are incredibly accurate. And if self-propelled and equiped with an auto-loader capable of rapid fire.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panzerhaubitze_2000

Up to 3 roubds in 9 seconds, 10 - 13 roubds per minute continously. Depeding on the shells accuracy can be around 1 m per 48 km. Arguably, that's among the most advanced, and expensive systems. The accuracy comes from the shells, so in theory a lot of manually loaded artillery pieces should be able to achieve the accuracy.

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Re:Nearly half of Mariupol has suffered grave damage by 2OEH8eoCRo0 on Friday April 22, 2022 @11:57AM (#31123285)
What type of shell achieves that level of accuracy?
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Re:Nearly half of Mariupol has suffered grave damage by hef19898 on Friday April 22, 2022 @12:08PM (#31123442)
That would be this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M982_Excalibur

At 70k USD per round not nrcessarily cheap so.

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Re:Nearly half of Mariupol has suffered grave damage by 2OEH8eoCRo0 on Friday April 22, 2022 @12:11PM (#31123489)
That's what I suspected. The impressive accuracy is mostly determined by the round.

That's not terribly expensive either when the accuracy can save civilian lives or the lives of soldiers using it.

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Re:Nearly half of Mariupol has suffered grave damage by hef19898 on Friday April 22, 2022 @12:32PM (#31123886)
Reducing colleteral damage is a stated goal of that round. Personally, I think it's just a nice side effect and nobody really cares.
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Re:Nearly half of Mariupol has suffered grave damage by 2OEH8eoCRo0 on Friday April 22, 2022 @12:47PM (#31124166)
It's a win win. You more reliably kill threats which saves the lives of your own guys but also spares civilians.
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