Originally Posted by
pattern_is_full
Look up "fire and forget" technology for air-to-surface missiles (a.k.a "smart weapons"). Missiles that can steer themselves with fins, and track in on specific targets (e.g. a single tank or building - and on occasion, a specific balcony!) by various means including sensors/cameras in the nose (radar and IR emissions from the targets themselves, but also video images kept in the missile's cross hairs, or even, these days, GPS guidance).
See: AGM-130A, Hellfire (AGM-114), HARM (AGM-88, etc.) missiles.
Thanks to massive developments in computing speed and size, and GPS technology, over the past decades. And a desire to avoid blowing up entire villages/cities to get one terrorist leader (see death of Al-Qa'ida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri (Kabul, July 2022)).
Why introduce nonsensical, irrelevant comparisons ? Look up fire-and-forget and see what is wrong with your post. The missiles you quote are large - the HARM is 13 ft long, 10" diameter and weighs 800 lb - and are fired singly from under-wing hard-points.. The missiles in the video under comment were fired in salvos of six or ten from a pod and are probably 50mm -60 mm*: the only guidance they get comes from the motor and winglets. The pilot will only have a vague notion - maybe to 500m +/- where they will land.
* This may be the rocket in question.
" The
S-5 (first designated
ARS-57) is a
rocket weapon developed by the
Soviet Air Force and used by
military aircraft against ground area targets. It is in service with the
Russian Air Force and various export customers. It is based on a German design from
World War 2.
[1]It is produced in a variety of sub-types with different
warheads, including
HEAT anti-armour (S-5K), high-explosive
fragmentation (S-5M/MO), smoke, and incendiary rounds. Each rocket is about 1.4 meters (4 feet 7 inches) long and
weighs about 5 kg (11 lb), depending on warhead and fuze. Range is 3 to 4 kilometres (1.9 to 2.5 mi)"