Tom's Looks at Two DARPA Grand Challengers

skeeball writes "As a follow-up to this article, Tom's Hardware has a behind the scenes article on two of the teams competing in the DARPA Grand Challenge 2005. "The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) hosted the first Grand Challenge Project last year, offering a reward of $1 million. This year, the prize money has been doubled, making the competition all the more interesting.""

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The developments won't be used for "defence".

[CyricZ]

None of these developments will be used for true "defence". They won't be there to protect the average American citizen. But judging from the past several years, there is a very good chance that they will be used for offensive purposes. Perhaps against Iran or Syria.

These days the defence industry isn't about defense. It is about creating offensive weapons used to instigate conflict in non-American, resource-rich areas.

Re:The developments won't be used for "defence".

[CyricZ]

You have the old saying reversed. It is actually: the best offense is a good defense.

LOL, it looks like you guys are getting your asses handed back to you daily by the citizenry of Iraq.

But my point still stands: these developments are not directly defence-related. They are completely offense-related.

Re:The developments won't be used for "defence".

[mi]

Your military invaded a sovereign nation.

You can shriek all you want about things political, but legally we are squeky clean.

We were at war with Iraq since 1991 (you don't disapprove of our defense of Kuwait, do you?). In 1992 there was a cease-fire. Iraq broke most of the terms of it and we (finally) resumed active hostilities. End of story.