If Armed forces tell the news media that 'the missile test was 100% succesful'...
That does not necessarily means that the missile has hit 'the bulls eye',and it cannot be deemed lying.It simply means that whtever they wanted to acheive from that test has been found working as it should.
There are two important factors we dont consider while reading a news in the news papers about missile tests..
First ..trying to explain the exact technicalities of a missile test to a layman reporter is too difficult,and even if they do manage to explain them what exactly they echeivec from that particular missile test..the reporter may still make errors while reporting on news or writing in paper..and even that will be too difficult for an average joe to understand..
Thats why the public relations officer says a generalized term....' The missile test was success and it has hit the bull's eye'.
Its another thing that not every missile test is carried out to hit a target...there are too many other perimeters which also need to be checked..
For example the only video of Babur cruisw missile in which it is shown in terminal phase 'has no target' .. The missile randomly falls in a ditch behind some bushes..
But ISPR calls it '100% success'...because the perimeters for which the missile was test fire,have been valuated and missile worked as expected...and in that particular test it wasnt about hitting a target,may be about communication with missile,new engine,new fuel,new sensors,or something else..
But explaining that to 'jantaa' is difficult,thats why a blanket term used.
Source:
http://www.defence.pk/forums/indian...hed-laser-guided-missile-6.html#ixzz2JTmxOFec
