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Israel: White Phosphorus Used in Gaza, Lebanon
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There's maybe one way you can perfectly calculate a ballistic trajectory that will pinpoint land an artillery shell on a position: if you're in a vacuum
When you start adding environmental factors like wind and temperature differences you start getting into needing in-flight course correcting shells, which do indeed exist (they guide themselves via GPS), but even America with its $1.8 trillion military budget doesn't exclusively use them because they're so expensive (in the realm of $70,000 per shell vs $800 for an unguided one)
I know nothing of spotting round best practices, but surely there are other appropriate smoke screen chemicals that are less incendiary? Do all countries typically use WP for this purpose?
After a cursory glance, it seems like your options for smoke generation are primarily either WP, or various ways of making literal clouds of hydrochloric acid
Oh OK, my cursory search turned up Hexachloroethane which is only classed as an irritant, but I thought maybe you knew of a reason that wasn't appropriate to use.
I saw that as an alternative but at least according to wikipedia:
Leave it to the cops to use something the army is phasing out as too dangerous domestically on protestors