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How the Super Bowl Will Reach US Submarines
Velcroman1 writes "Ever wonder how troops serving abroad in remote locations and even underwater might get to watch the Super Bowl? The very same highly advanced technology used to pass classified drone video feeds will be deployed this Sunday to ensure U.S. troops can see the Super Bowl — - no matter how far away from home they are. The broadcast is the result of a unique media, government and technology partnership with the American Forces Radio and Television Service, Raytheon and the U.S. Air Force. The Global Broadcast Service (GBS) may be normally used to disseminate video, images and other data, but major sporting events have been broadcast over it as well. The system will be 'as small as a laptop, and [equipment] the size of a shoebox and umbrella' yet 'in other places will be projected onto large screens in hangers' like aircraft carriers out at sea, explained Raytheon Intelligence and Information Systems' chief innovation officer Mark Bigham."
Ought to rename it Forces of America Radio and Televsion Service.
All the military guys and resources are busy with the game. Time for the surprise attack.
Let's just broadcast hundreds of gigs of known cleartext through our encryption stream - and announce in advance that we're going to do it.
Would you rather the sailors and soldiers be out plying their trade?
I am very small, utmostly microscopic.
First, it's a sunk cost. The network was already needed for their mission. It would be wasteful not to put it's idle time to some good use.
Next, morale improvement is very much a legitimate contributor to military readiness.
The equipment was already necessary for legitimate military objectives. Why not put it's idle time to good use?
Meanwhile, I am guessing that you either don't understand the role of morale in military readiness or you want to pay for defense but not actually be defended.
How the Super Bowl Will Reach US Submarines
The actual answer is that the submarines have an antenna that reaches into the air. The title implies that the video signals are sent through sea water to submerged submarines. That is still impossible to do in real-time. The bandwidth (either acoustic or electro-magnetic) is just not available. The acoustic bandwidth is greater than the electro-magnetic but it is still many orders of magnitude lower than what is required for real-time video.
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Soldiers should be perfect automata, wanting nothing but to serve their country, needing no entertainment, no respite, willing to work with complete focus as much as is required.
Oh please cut the fucking shit.
Soldiers are human, and they need recreation just like everyone else. Now maybe watching football isn't your choice for that, it's not mine either, but you are in no position to judge others for what they like.
What's more, it helps give them a sense of connection to their country. Serving on a ship, and a sub in particular, is lonely. You are gone for months at a time, in the case of a sub often totally cut off. This is a way to get a "taste of home" as it were, to get to participate in something that a large part of the nation is also doing.
Ever wonder how troops serving abroad in remote locations and even underwater might get to watch the Super Bowl?
No, I'm more concerned at the already over-inflated military budget being spent on watching a fucking football game.
Ever wonder how much it costs to get a contractor to the services to do a network wide test of high data rate services?
Watch a ball game, and get a system wide test for free.
Do you expect the military to never have time off or to do anything to boost morale? Glad I don't work for you...
Do they dangle the aircraft from the roof? No. The word is "hangars".
Hangers are what you put shirts and coats on, you wrist-tapping gibbons.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
That's a ridiculous assumption based on no evidence at all.
The soldier was his boyfriend until he ran off with a football player.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
FTFY. The combination of the words "The," "Super," and "Bowl" is copyrighted by the NFL
Nonsense. It may be trademarked by the NFL, but it certainly is not copyrighted. If you want to complain about IP law, you might want to take a few minutes to learn the basics. Also, using a trademarked term to refer the the trademarked item is fine. It is only a violation to use it to refer to a confusingly similar item, or in a way that implies endorsement. So it is okay to use the term "The Super Bowl" to refer to ... The Super Bowl.
Fifty-minus-oners (see the Samsung Super B,, I mean Big Game commercial. )
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I don't think the Navy likes sunk costs...
This is an impressively ill formed and ill researched article, even if you consider the reputation of the site that is distributing it.
The misinformation spread about the Navy, and submarines specifically, is awe inspiring. Whereas most of the government spends its efforts to protect secrecy fruitlessly, the Navy seems to have grasped the idea of quantity. If you spew enough bullshit out, it doesn't matter if someone says the truth because it will be lost in a wave misinformation.
First, it's a sunk cost. The network was already needed for their mission. It would be wasteful not to put it's idle time to some good use.
Next, morale improvement is very much a legitimate contributor to military readiness.
Indeed - if you have people fighting for you, it helps to remind them once in a while of what they're fighting for.
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