In reply to Pursued by a bear:
> Not so much a stunning picture, as the Huff Post has it, but a tragic one.
It is certainly tragic. I don't think the two things are necessarily mutually exclusive, I think it's both tragic and stunning. It's certainly very affecting, in a way that some very famous photos are. The naked girl in the napalm attack in Vietnam springs to mind.
As for it being ghoulish, I don't think so personally. If we're going to continue with the business of killing each other I think it should be photographed, filmed, reported. It is all too easy to forget, with drone strikes and the like particularly, that the purpose of all that whizz bang exciting technology is to maim and kill human beings.
I'm not entirely convinced by the argument that this is just 'a training accident' either. The tragic deaths on the Brecon Beacons back in 2013 and again last year were training accidents, whilst not a part of an actual battle this live firing exercise was something immediately necessitated by the ongoing conflict and as far as I'm concerned those four soldiers were just as much victims of that conflict as if they'd been killed by 'enemy action'.