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New US Missile Debuts with Strike that Hit Iranian School
The strike dispersed tungsten pellets causing extensive civilian casualties and damage, raising questions about target selection and the Pentagon's use of combat evaluations, officials said.
- On February 28, a U.S. Precision Strike Missile struck an elementary school and sports hall in Lamerd, Iran, killing at least 21 people and injuring around 100, according to an investigation.
- The Precision Strike Missile, developed by Lockheed Martin, is designed to "neutralize, suppress or destroy adversary anti-access and area denial capabilities" within a range of roughly 400 miles.
- High-Resolution satellite imagery shows the nearby Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps military building remained largely undamaged, while buildings sustained pockmarks consistent with tungsten pellets from airburst design.
- Responding to reports, U.S. Central Command spokesperson Tim Hawkins stated the military is investigating, stressing that "US forces do not indiscriminately target civilians."
- Earlier that day, a U.S. Tomahawk cruise missile strike on a school in Minab killed around 170 people, including 110 children, broadening the scope of civilian casualties.
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Report: U.S. fired untested ballistic missile at Iranian school, killing 21
According to a New York Times investigation, the U.S. used a long-range Precision Strike Missile, which disperses small lethal pellets across a wide area, in its strike early in the Iran war
The United States tested a new ballistic missile on the first day of strikes against Iran. Citing weapons experts and available footage, the New York Times (NYT) reported that the missile, known as PrSM, which explodes just above the surface and scatters pieces of tungsten, was used in the southern Iranian city of Lamerd, where it struck a sports hall and an elementary school near a Revolutionary Guards base in a deadly strike.
[Yomiuri Shimbun] [Washington = Shinji Abe] The New York Times reported on the 29th that the U.S. military used the new Prism surface-to-surface missile (range approximately 600 kilometers), which had just completed prototype testing last year, in a military operation against Iran, and that an elementary school student was among those caught in the attack.
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