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!

[RoundTop-VJAS]

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.