WHO is going to have the honor of riding an H-bomb all the way down to Tehran, Damascus, Mecca, etc?
A computerized aircraft simply cannot experience that rush of glory:
Posted on 08/16/2006 11:08:28 AM PDT by reagandemo
I've been stating this for years....
After seeing some of the tactical skills displayed by online gaming clans in games like Battlefield, Ghost Recon, Call of Duty etc. I'm 100% convinced that if you held tryouts on Xbox Live for remote control drones, robots or Terminator like humanoid robots we could win any battle with the winners of those tryouts.
Get satellite and LIDAR layouts of an area you wish to sweep, let the gamers train on it for a few days or weeks and boom, let them run the mission. Success would almost be guaranteed. Even against overwhelming numerical superiority the tactics developed by gamers would prevail.
No, I'm not kidding.
His girl friend was HOT!
Gotta stop watching all these movies....
Odd but I remember another story where the human race had lost mathematics ... when they did rediscover it they wound up using it for replacing expensive computers in space missiles and torpedoes with human pilot/navigator kamikazis against an alien race.
I know, I've seen the movie several times.
I'm just saying that technology has caught up to the premise. In 1984-85 when that movie was made gaming technology was so primitive, it's not anymore.
When high end PC's are including physics hardware engines for gaming we're there.
The tactics strategy has been there for years. The one drawback to this is you can't spawn rape an opponent on a real life battlefield LOL.
Yep where's Slim when you need him most.
Luckup! The Deal of the Century!
That element was in the Asimov story as well. No one could do simple math 2+2 anymore. Everyone had calculators in their pockets (this was written before the invention of handheld calculators). A very old mathematics professor whose hobby was hand calculations was brought before the Joint Chiefs of Staff and amazed them with his manual problem solving ability! They would give him numbers to add and he'd do it, then the generals would check him against their pocket calcs...........Asimov was truly prescient!.........
As I vaguely recall, about 25 years ago Boeing demonstrated to the FAA and the ALPA that its 767 could fly with out any pilots - as a way to persuade them to certify the 767 as airworthy with no flight engineer.
It's about time. 12+ G turns here we come.
I believe that a pilot remarked that they were only there if things went wrong.
from the movie: Dark Star (1974)
[The crew has convinced Super Mega Nuclear Bomb #20 not to explode thru a deep philosophical argument about existentialism...]
Pinback: All right, bomb. Prepare to receive new orders.
Bomb#20: You are false data.
Pinback: Hmmm?
Bomb #20: Therefore I shall ignore you.
Pinback: Hello... bomb?
Bomb #20: False data can act only as a distraction. Therefore, I shall refuse to perceive.
Pinback: Hey, bomb?
Bomb #20: The only thing that exists is myself.
Pinback: Snap out of it, bomb!!
(shortly thereafter...)
Bomb#20: In the beginning, there was darkness. And the darkness was without form, and void.
Boiler: What the hell is he talking about?
Bomb#20: And in addition to the darkness there was also Me. And I moved upon the face of the darkness. And I saw that I was alone............. Let there be light.
(Super Mega Nuclear Bomb #20 explodes)
Currently, most of the mission time is ingress/egress.
What we've got now is fighters that can be refueled time and again, but the pilot gets tired, and ammo/bombs run out.
What if you could remove those two limiting factors?
Instead of spending allllll that time going back and forth, you could have the same fighter egress shortly to some secure re-arm, refuel mother-ship, and then go back and hammer the bad-guys some more.
This would be done with intel which would still be fresh. In fact, knowledge of proper countermeasures would probably climb with each hit for that individual aircraft.
Effectively, one aircraft would become....like 8 or so.
In a show-down with the PRC...? We'd best them, perhaps.
Some interesting risks to consider:
1. Jamming
2. Spoofing
3. Reacquisition (Enemy stealing signal and using the plane against you).
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