I remember from Gulf war one and two. The 80% precision weapon accuracy rate went to 20% after real numbers came out.

SHOCK REALIZATION: government lies.

https://consortiumnews.com/2018/06/20/the-persistent-myth-of-u-s-precision-bombing/

By Nicolas J S Davies

Opinion polls in the United States and the United Kingdom have found that a majority of the public in both countries has a remarkably consistent belief that only about 10,000 Iraqis were killed as a result of the U.S.-British invasion of Iraq in 2003.

Estimates of deaths in Iraq actually range from 150,000 to 1.2 million. Part of the reason for the seriously misguided public perception may come from a serious belief in guided weapons, according to what the government tells people about “precision” bombing.  But one must ask how so many people can be killed if these weapons are so “precise,” for instance in one of “the most precise air campaigns in military history,” as a Pentagon spokesman characterized the total destruction last year of Raqqa in Syria… Read the rest of this entry »