Comment Re:Classic misunderstanding of statistics (Score 1) 188
Look at it a different way, without flat statistics. Convoys which posess fuel are attractive targets for two reasons:
1) Fuel is valuable to the military because they need it to realistically operate.
2) Fuel makes a nice explosion and fireball, causing collateral damage.
So, they've shown that by using this tech, they need less fuel supplies to properly operate a base of operations. That means convoys can be sent out without fuel trucks, or with less fuel trucks. This decreases the value of each individual convoy, and also will lower the amount of collateral damage. Ergo, lives are saved.
1) Fuel is valuable to the military because they need it to realistically operate.
2) Fuel makes a nice explosion and fireball, causing collateral damage.
So, they've shown that by using this tech, they need less fuel supplies to properly operate a base of operations. That means convoys can be sent out without fuel trucks, or with less fuel trucks. This decreases the value of each individual convoy, and also will lower the amount of collateral damage. Ergo, lives are saved.