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Tactical NAV iPhone app used to help destroy Taliban fighting position
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| Apr 2, 2011 at 2:02 am
Posted on 04/02/2011 11:25:34 AM PDT by Pan_Yan
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posted on
04/02/2011 11:25:38 AM PDT
by
Pan_Yan
To: Pan_Yan
Yeah, there's an app for that...
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posted on
04/02/2011 11:32:11 AM PDT
by
dirtboy
To: dirtboy
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posted on
04/02/2011 11:36:56 AM PDT
by
andyk
(Wealth != Income)
To: Pan_Yan
That is the only TO DO BUSINESS!
Our poor grunts are loaded down with equipment that weighs too much and can not use common batteries. Plus, the support structure that is “required” to support this boxes burns up dollars and manpower slots for little operational gain.
Besides, with today's advanced cellular phones/minicomputers it is now possible for almost every Officer and NCO to have this capability instead of only one or two. Think about the step level improvement that will make.
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posted on
04/02/2011 11:46:29 AM PDT
by
Nip
(TANSTAAFL)
To: dirtboy
War app - a lighter brighter way to fight...
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posted on
04/02/2011 11:58:36 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php - It's only uncivil when someone on the right does it.- Laz)
To: Swordmaker
You’re the Apple guy, right? This might interest you.
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posted on
04/02/2011 12:57:34 PM PDT
by
Pan_Yan
To: Pan_Yan
“Reach out...reach out and touch someone...”
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posted on
04/02/2011 1:00:43 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Swordmaker; martin_fierro
Thanks Pan_Yan.
In before the “these have been available since 1901 on non-Apple products” crowd arrives. At least I hope so, I didn’t have the heart to check.
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posted on
04/02/2011 1:06:19 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; neverdem; ShadowAce; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; ...
After the mortar rounds were observed impacting safely onto the Taliban's position...
LOLOLOLOL!!!
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posted on
04/02/2011 1:10:19 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
To: SunkenCiv
I’ve played with this app a bit. It could be darned effective in the right hands.
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posted on
04/02/2011 1:16:37 PM PDT
by
Lurker
(The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
To: Lurker
I’ve played with this app a bit. It could be darned effective in the right hands. How does it work?
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posted on
04/02/2011 1:19:30 PM PDT
by
Publius6961
(There has Never been a "Tax On The Rich" that has not reached the middle class)
To: Lurker
Will this work for Gazorching?
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posted on
04/02/2011 1:23:38 PM PDT
by
PA Engineer
(Time to beat the swords of government tyranny into the plowshares of freedom.)
To: SunkenCiv
I’ll say that the app will be available for android in 6 months and the android device will cost half as much as the apple, and will do everything the apple will do, and more, and will work almost as often as the apple, almost as well.
To: Publius6961
I haven’t gone all the way into yet but it’s a GPS, standard map, satellite overhead view, compass, and some of the capabilities of a transit all rolled into one app.
It converts Lat/Lon into the MGRS with just a tap on the screen. To get the accurate location of an enemy position just center it on the screen, drop a pin on it, and you get the MGRS location. Mighty handy if you want to drop some dam-dam on some bad guys.
It has built in Earth and Space weather apps, too.
It’s pretty slick, actually.
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posted on
04/02/2011 1:32:44 PM PDT
by
Lurker
(The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
To: truthfreedom
I’ll say that the app will be available for android in 6 months and the android device will cost half as much as the apple, and will do everything the apple will do, and more, and will work almost as often as the apple, almost as well.
Not only that, it will be used for PsychOps to distribute Taliban Porn! HaHaHa. Take that Jobs you puritan!
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posted on
04/02/2011 1:38:24 PM PDT
by
PA Engineer
(Time to beat the swords of government tyranny into the plowshares of freedom.)
To: Pan_Yan; ~Kim4VRWC's~; 1234; 50mm; Abundy; Action-America; acoulterfan; AFreeBird; Airwinger; ...
iPhone military use—PING!
Please, No Flame Wars, Discuss technical issues, software, and hardware.
Don't attack people!
Don't respond to the Anti-Apple Thread Trolls!
PLEASE IGNORE THEM!!!
Apple and iPhone military use Ping!
If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.
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posted on
04/02/2011 3:52:24 PM PDT
by
Swordmaker
(This tag line is a Microsoft product "insult" free zone.)
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To: Pan_Yan
Thanks for the heads up. . . List pinged! I reported in December about a pilot program to issue iPhones to soldiers for app use in the field and communication both there and at base for recalls.
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posted on
04/02/2011 4:06:55 PM PDT
by
Swordmaker
(This tag line is a Microsoft product "insult" free zone.)
To: SunkenCiv
The definition of “impacting safely” varies radically depending on where you’re sitting at the time.
To: Pan_Yan
Curious,
Cell towers? Network?
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posted on
04/03/2011 5:10:39 AM PDT
by
Vinnie
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