Originally Posted by
FUMR
When you see these videos, I never understand why, with such targets, they don't hit the target a second time say two minutes later. There would be a great deal more enemy casualties.
Apart from a war crime and a shortage of missiles.
Because
you do not want to kill them, a wounded soldier takes on average three people to look after them, so by wounding them you are tying up manpower resources, Unlike in the field they can’t simply leave them to die where they dropped. Plus it ties up medical facilities.