This illustration was commissioned for an article in FHM on so called ’smart bombs’.
According to New Scientist magazine, the US air force is trying to develop a cluster weapon that would release a swarm of ‘bomblets’ – each identifying and pursuing an individual target.
The question is: how would this weapon distinguish between combatants and civilians? As I tried to show in this illustration a simple red cross can be interpreted as a field target or a field hospital.
You can read the original – and frankly alarming – New Scientist article here.
