My goodness, they did almost everything wrong; everything from design and planning to execution. No fins? No small trials to work out what issues there would be – which was the greater cause of inaccuracy, the wind, the swinging, or simple the GPS itself? Without that, you’ve got no hope of estimating a CEP, and knowing how it would scale. Which is probably why they were so wildly out pretty much the whole time. Amusingly, you can rent cherry-pickers that are taller than some of their helicopter-based drops.
They even shipped a champion sandcastle-building team out to the desert and had them build an elaborate sandcastle city *before* they’d worked out whether they’d be able to hit it or not. If that isn’t hubris putting the cart before the horse ... Read even more
