A Ukrainian official said that Kiev was now appraised of all separatist positions in the city, and would attack them using "special high-precision weapons" if the separatists did not surrender.
But Poroshenko, who expressed cautious optimism about the truce, caught Nato officials off-guard with the disclosure that, while Nato was not arming Ukraine, at least one country, which he did not name, was providing Kiev with high-precision weapons.
In a later statement, the Russian Defense Ministry said that it used high-precision weapons to kill more than 30 rebel forces in the area where the attack on the Russian aircraft was launched.
And many Israelis say the danger is not just from the new Iranian-backed militias, but also from the Iranian efforts to give advanced, high-precision weapons capable of hitting sensitive infrastructure to Hezbollah, Iran's most powerful and experienced external force.
Four hours later came another communiqué from the Ministry saying: "Britain has been asked by coalition partners to join operations in Syria, as the UK can provide high-precision weapons which can minimise the risk of civilian casualties and collateral damage".
Israel does target civilians with its sophisticated high-precision weapons, hence the over 1,000 deaths in Gaza so far, 80percentt of whom are civilians, according to human rights groups.
On Monday, CNN reported that residents of eastern Aleppo received a text message on Sunday warning them that they had 24 hours to leave the city before a "strategically planned assault using high-precision weapons" would begin.
In the past year alone, the remotely controlled Reaper aircraft have flown more than 11,000 hours over southern Afghanistan and attacked targets with 105 high-impact precision weapons.
Although the American military is famous for its high-technology precision weapons, the Pentagon has relied on some of its oldest arms to attack Taliban ground forces and try to shatter their will to fight.
The swiftness and accuracy of that attack illustrated a new kind of American air power, where high-technology precision weapons, guided by aircraft and ground commandos, enabled a ragtag opposition to rout the Taliban army.
B1 Blind Marauders of the Sky AIR POWER -- The swiftness and accuracy of the American air campaign in Afghanistan illustrated a new kind of air power, where high-technology precision weapons, guided by aircraft and ground commandos, enabled a ragtag opposition to rout the once-feared Taliban army.
