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This Missile Killed 120 Children. The U.S. Is Buying More.

Sources behind the video on the February 28 Minab school attack, reported casualties, and the U.S. Navy’s subsequent $22.9 billion Tomahawk contract announcement.

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Sourcing note

The statements below reproduce the claims in the published video. Their supporting references and limitations are set out alongside them. The launch footage illustrates the missile type; it does not show the missile that struck the school.

Connecting the dots

Statements & evidence

The statements in the video, with the sources behind them.

Statement 02

On February 28, one of these struck an elementary school compound in Minab, Iran.

Amnesty’s March 16 investigation identifies a direct strike on Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School on February 28, 2026; its audiovisual and remnant analysis indicates that a Tomahawk was likely used. Amnesty USA’s March 23 summary describes the weapon as a Tomahawk. These are investigative findings, not a published final U.S. military determination. Bellingcat identified a Tomahawk striking the adjacent IRGC facility; that visible missile does not establish the exact impact on the school. Its later analysis places the school’s destruction in the first wave of strikes and notes that the school was walled off from the military facility.

Statement 03

About 120 children were killed. Around 156 people in total.

Amnesty’s March 16 investigation, as available at the September 12 source review, reports 156 deaths, including 120 children. It attributes the count to Iranian authorities and states that access restrictions prevented independent corroboration. Amnesty USA repeated these figures on April 28. Earlier accounts differ: its March 23 summary says 168 deaths. The children are included in the total, not additional to it. The total concerns the school attack; it is not an independently established count attributable to one individually tracked missile.

Statement 05

the United States awarded Raytheon a $22.9 billion contract to build a whole lot more of them.

The Department of the Navy announced on August 17, 2026 that it had awarded Raytheon, an RTX business, a contract valued at $22.9 billion to accelerate Tomahawk production. The figure is the announced contract value—not Raytheon’s profit, an amount already paid in full, or the cost of the Minab strike.

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Attribution

Visual & media credits

Visual asset

USS Spruance (DDG 111) Fires a Tomahawk Land Attack Missile (external link)

By U.S. Navy video / U.S. Central Command Public Affairs, via DVIDS

License / rights: Marked PUBLIC DOMAIN by DVIDS, subject to its posted restrictions, including avoiding implied government endorsement.

License details (external link)

Video 997804; VIRIN 260301-D-D0477-1002; DOD_111551055; 22 seconds. The record lists March 1, 2026 as the date taken and March 2 as the posting date, but its description dates the operation March 2. This discrepancy is unresolved. Location: undisclosed within the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility. Illustrative footage, not footage of the February 28 launch.

Visual asset

Minab strike sequence (external link)

By Tasnim News Agency (publisher); original camera operator not established

License / rights: Unconfirmed for this particular clip. No clip-specific permission or verified license covering the original recording was available in the reviewed material.

Telegram @Tasnimnews, post 400160. February 28, 2026 is the event date, not a verified upload date. Bellingcat’s March 27 analysis provides geolocation and sequence analysis. Publication and verification establish provenance, not permission to reuse.

Visual asset

Funeral procession for victims of the Minab school attack, image 43 (external link)

By Morteza Akhondi / Tasnim News Agency

License / rights: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

License details (external link)

Published March 3, 2026, via Wikimedia Commons. License documented on the Commons file page. Commons history records cropping and watermark removal by Commons contributors; the photographer and agency remain credited. The image does not independently establish the death count.

Music / audio

Tension (external link)

By Ashot Danielyan (Ashot_Danielyan), via Pixabay

License / rights: Pixabay Content License

License details (external link)

Track ID 113661; published June 21, 2022. Original track: 2 minutes 1 second, MP3. Music accompanying the Tomahawk Short, as identified by the video creator. The track page identifies it as free for use under this license; attribution is optional and provided here for transparency.

The three photograph licenses permit sharing and adaptation, including commercial use, with appropriate attribution, a license link, and an indication of changes. These credits do not imply endorsement of the video.

Transparency

Methodology / notes

The supplied source record was last reviewed on September 12, 2026. Source labels and dates here follow that record; source publication dates are distinguished from event, capture, and posting dates where necessary.

The video compares the attack date with the later contract announcement. RTX’s February 4 production framework is included as context because production expansion preceded the school attack; the chronology does not establish a causal connection.

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