When this `sporting exploit` is replayed back at base there clearly could be nothing more orgasmic in a IAF pilot’s life than the euphoria of over and over replay of these `training` DVDs, which just might give him a little more trill and frissance in his intimate life.

Maybe that’s why he does it, to infuse into his intimate life the contrasting images of the wholesome innocence of the little girl in the millisecond before her instantaneous disintegration and in the next.

His partner might dreamily wonder from where his new found tenderness has come from.

He could have killed the child with a very short burst from his machine gun, but that would take the ambiguity away accorded him when he uses a missile, which then only suggests poor aim if a innocent civilian is killed.