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Subject: C&C problems
Tomanbeg    7/27/2002 9:04:21 AM
The Parasite Idea is fine Sci Fi but has some holes when exposed to the real world. The Parasites have to be controlled , which means someone is emmitting. On the modern battlefield Emmitting is followed shortly thereafter by the destruction of the emmitter. So when your ''Mother'' ship goes off line because it is now an expanding Debris cloud, all your parasites become useless. Gee, I hope that mission wasn''t important. The Solution from the guys in La-La land is intelligent robots, the problam that La-La land refuses to recognise is that A robot intelligent enough to be effective is going to be intelligent enough to ask, "Why am I dying for these La-La mo fo''s?" The techno weenies better hope they have a good enough answer. Fragging is an old and time honored way of changing command. It''s simple and foolproof. Sorry, but Pilots are an unfortunate fact of life. T.
 
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fred79    RE:C&C problems   3/12/2003 12:47:08 AM
with the use of direct line of sight comunication and redundant transmission systems. we can use unmanned vehicles that canot be jammed and whose transmitters are either out of the theater or there are enough of them that they are redundant. you could have one main communication aircraft out of theater air space or in outer space. that sends its messages to retransmitter aircraft, or missle dropped retranmitters that would have no data modifying technology just retranmit info from the main source. in this way all the ucav would be securly controlled with redundant systems that communicate with the main system using line of sight communication like infared, laser, or microwave. in this manner you could field a aircraft carrier based on a blimp that could hold the ucav and crew out of theater and launch them into a theater so instead of the pilots needing to control a air craft for 8- 12 hours with most of that being in flying to a destination. the pilots would just handle difficult manuveres like landing, taking off and battle, and as the ucav are sent out the pilots would take control fly a craft in for the run, drop munitions then vector the craft back to the air based carrier to refuel and reload. the pilot would then just take control of the next ucav arriving on the scene. this would be a real force multiplier since a pilot could be flying 2-3 air craft providing constant human decision providing ground and air support and focusing pilot attention on what they are really needed for not just fairying aircraft.
 
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