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Accurately placing heavy, aerodynamic objects onto people when you start out directly above them is not very difficult. The hard parts are either placing the object on top of the person from a few hundred or thousand miles away, or - in this case - placing an object that tends to flutter rather than follow a ballistic trajectory.


> Accurately placing heavy, aerodynamic objects onto people when you start out directly above them is not very difficult.

It's still difficult; to do that, you need to know the wind speed at every point between them and you.

Or you need to be so close that the wind speed doesn't matter, but at that point nobody's going to be impressed that you can hit them.


One way to do it in this case would be to lower it on a rope instead of just dropping it. But maybe guidance fins would work too.


They are way ahead of you: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire-guided_missile


I invite you to try it yourself to see if it is difficult or not.


The trick is knowing which one to place the thing upon.


Well, they might want to expand their markets.




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