"But there were regrettable incidents as well. In December, after an Air
Force spotter calculated the position of a Taliban target with his
plugger, the device's battery went dead. The spotter changed the battery
and relayed the GPS coordinates to a B-52 approaching the target. What
the spotter didn't realize was that his plugger was programmed to
display the coordinates of its own location upon rebooting. A
2,000-pound JDAM bomb landed with devastating precision, killing three
Special Forces soldiers and five Afghan allies."

 

http://www.popsci.com/popsci/aviation/article/0,12543,334743,00.html


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