War(ship) Driving For 802.11b Controlled Destroyers

Jason Straight writes "There's a story at pcworld, that describes how navy warships will be equipped with 802.11b networking to allow the captain to control the ship from anywhere on the ship. " The point of the article also gets into the issue of cutting manpower for the ships - going from 300 people on each to destroyer to 90, and makes the point that the only way to do is through automation.

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Re:Plenty of repeaters will be needed!

[Black Copter Control]

i hope the military brass knows what they're doing.

Military intelligence -- a contradiction in terms
(from a 1984 usenet/arpanet posting)