Military confirms an ongoing rocket attack on Al-Asad airbase where US troops are based

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54. Everyone within a few hundred feet of the explosion dies

...give or take, depending on the exact warhead power (thinking 500 kg bomb here). Out to a few hundred meters people are seriously wounded but survive if lucky or protected and die if they are unlucky catching shrapnel. They also don't aim well, so if you're trying to wipe out a large area of more than a few hundred meters across a lot of your bombs get wasted bombing stuff that's already been bombed. Depending on how far you're ranging from a lot of them might not even hit your target. Rocket targeting is notoriously hard and is one of the our war machine's better skills.