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War(ship) Driving For 802.11b Controlled Destroyers

Posted by Hemos on from the automating-the-people-away dept.

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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  1. Re:Now we know why Microsoft was attached by jsse · · Score: 0, Troll

    I remember I saw this slogon many years ago:

    Office Automation: Microsoft comes to your office!

    Now

    Warship Automation: Micosoft comes to your Warship!

    Luckly my office machine wouldn't get towed back to port after it crashed. :)

    (I'm aware that USS Navy official confirmed that the 'Smart Ship' was crashed due to human error, not Microsoft after thorough investigation. All pro-MS please put down your torches. I really don't want to debate with pro-MS AC anymore. Thanks. :)

  2. Re:Plenty of repeaters will be needed! by RoundTop-VJAS · · Score: 1, Troll

    They have supposedly equiped the army with a more advanced version of this.

    of course they aren't even letting allies have a modified version... which helps allow for mistakes like a hopped up pilot with too much pent-up agression to drop a bomb or two on friendly canadian troops.

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    RoundTop