To: Prod Convert
Actually, one thing that will make the battleship obselete the the arrival of high-performance unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV's) that can deliver precision-guided weapons from far away. The Predator armed with the Hellfire missile is only the very beginning; we may see UAV's derived from the X-45 and X-47 research programs that can drop a lot PGM's such as the little bombs from the Joint Stand-Off Weapon (JSOW) system.
To: RayChuang88
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV's)That's true, and the actual ground combat will be increasingly between remotely-controlled or (shudder) autonomous machines.
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06/18/2005 7:00:40 AM PDT by
Prod Convert
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