Can "Targetings" be a plural form of "Targeting" as a noun?

I understand words like "surrounding" can be "surroundings", or "binding" can be "bindings".

But is it appropriate with "targeting" as a noun?

Here is a recent headline - "UN chief calls for probe of tanker targetings"
by The Associated Press, Friday, June 14th 2019 - https://wlos.com/news/nation-world/un-chief-calls-for-probe-of-tanker-targetings

Yes, it's possible to use targeting as a noun. (Although it's not very commonly done.)

In the following, all bold text is my own.

From Gender Articulated: Language and the Socially Constructed Self:

In our corpus, women displayed the highest proportion of self-targetings and, in in keeping with the findings just discussed, this was also associated with narratives that women themselves raised. Although such targetings account for a relatively small proportion (12 percent) of the targetings of women overall, and they came essentially from only two families, these female self-problematizings are noteworthy in their provoking of a "dumping on" response.

From Governance and Ownership:

The sample identified consists of 356 independent targetings of 146 firms over the seven-year period. These targetings include both proxy proposals and nonproxy targeting.

From International Criminal Law: Cases and Materials:

What is critical under the Convention, that targetings actually be made against the types of human groups listed in Article II or that there be a genocidal intent to destroy such a human group in whole or in part?

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For example, targetings by combatants during war have been and can be used for purposes of elimination or to produce "psychological coercion."

From the Michigan State Journal of International Law, Volume 20:

With respect to U.S. use of armed force in Pakistan to target those who are lawfully targetable under the laws of war and during a de facto war that his migrated into parts of Pakistan, some might claim that the United States would need the consent of Pakistan for each such targeting, that the targetings are violations of Pakistani sovereignty.

Yes, but the application of it is very rare as shown by this ngram

"Targeting" as a noun is the name of something that targets. For example, a military weapon might feature automatic targeting, and this could be abbreviated to simply "targeting".

Example
The targeting on this weapon is off by 2mm.

This would not be plural, as "targeting" sufficiently describes the process. It is not the same as "bindings", for example, as this is what we call the material used in the process of binding, so logically you can count it because it refers to items, not the process. The process of targeting does not produce anything except identifying a target, which of course can be plural in the form targets.

You could use "targeting" as a noun on plural items:

The targeting needs calibrating on all these weapons.

The same goes for the word "binding". When referring to the process, the singular form is used for multiple items:

The binding on these books is terrible.

The only time you would use the plural "targetings" is if you were collectively referring to multiple, unrelated instances of targeting.

For example:

75 percent of all targetings of women fit this description.

This is talking about individual instances where women were targeted by different people. Because they were unrelated, they are countable.

If the multiple instances of targeting were by the same person or device, or were related on some way, perhaps part of some coordinated attack, then the singular suffices:

The targeting of women by advertisers.

Because the implication here is that advertisers target women in the same way, their targeting can be used singularly. This is why the use of the plural is so rare and on the ngram above is almost a flatline.