Posted on 02/28/2010 3:47:02 PM PST by trapman
Welcome to the new world order. This is modern warfare.
'Missiles fired from Nevada controlled drone aircraft can kill a Taliban leader in Afghanistan'.
Watch how it's done!
(Excerpt) Read more at bovinescatologist.com ...
What a sweet thing to see! I love a happy ending!
My relative who does this said it’s nothing like a video game. It may look like it, but they never lose sight of the real world application.
from Reno with prejudice
I could understand that because it is real time targeting. Most certainly not a video simulation.
Our mission here is to make sure that idiot from Searchlight is thrown out of office this Fall.
But wouldn't the latency in the control system make it rather difficult. Each time the signals get bounced off a satellite, it ads more time between sending a command to the drone and its execution.
They take their missions seriously. It’s not a game.
Not shown: pilot and sensor officers whooping, high-fiving each other, and saving kill footage to thumb drives for later posting on their Facebook pages.
This is a simulation, not the real thing. (I would hope those in command would have more sense than to make the real thing public). But it could well be the actual hardware.
What you have is a bunch of fast computers that generate the displays in response to actual flight commands in real time. It’s as close to the real thing as you or I will ever come, and I say that having been privileged to watch a very similar one in person.
That is what I was wondering too. Nevada to Afghanistan has to be a several seconds lag.
I have an uneasy feeling that some of us will live to see this technology used against US citizens by our very own federal government.
Its already being used in some places for ‘law enforcement’.
Looks like a training simulator...
Each satellite link will add 200-300 msecs to the connection. Terrestrial links generally have less lag.
It would make a lot of military sense to have a command outpost somewhere over in Afghanistan. Maybe there is and we dont know about it.
It’s all great, as long as we’re doing the hunting of enemy terrorists 8,000 miles away.
It’ll really suck if these weapons are ever in the hands of a dictator intent on extinguishing liberty at home.
Predators vs. patriots at home is a major part of my third novel.
Yeah...no sense in letting them know its in the next village. But perhaps the military should not say its in Nevada either just in case. Tell them its in San Francisco.
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