The Chinese people have been so thoroughly indoctrinated that they will never revolt in any appreciable results.
Watch news interviews with Chinese citizens. Something's wrong? The government should fix it! They literally can't conceive a life without the benevolent government taking care of every facet of life.
If you need the government more than they need you, then you live life on the government's terms. Coincidentally, that is basically the Democrat playbook in a nutshell.
You can find proof of this in ANY elementary school computer lab. 30 kids, told to write a anything, will invariably waste 90 percent of their time screwing with everything but the a-z keys.
The army has always been a large contributor in these fields. Every major installation employs wildlife biologists (and others) and their findings are regularly submitted to journals that only people with a masters degree in treehuggerology would appreciate.
One reason is the usefulness of chem and bio weapons research. The other is that the Army can't do anything without the environmentalists freaking out. Also it takes good management to use training land for years without it becoming unsuitable for training.
When I was in Iraq in the Army, there were several cars searched by my unit where the drivers were basically tourists from American and Canada. This was Ramadi in 2006, which blew our minds. It's like...um, you do know these people will kill you, right? Between the IEDs, insurgents, or accidentally driving too close too fast near US troops....fuck that. But there they were, and on their way they were sent.
There are things that you would have to have been in the culture for a while to understand. Yesterdays story about the predator code showed a lot of smart people don't know shit about laser-guided missiles.
It may be easier to teach tech to warriors than it is to make warriors out of techs. YMMV obviously.
To get grid TRULY accurate to the meter, you'd have to get out surveying-grade gear and stand next to the target for a few minutes.
No one targets "the guy at grid 13S TB 12345 67890" unless there isn't anyone else there to get. You would say "the only guy riding a bicycle in vicinity of 13S TB 1234 6789".
A good predator NOW beats a perfect predator later.
13 meter PE for a predator has nothing to do with where the hellfire lands.
13 meters CPE is good enough for any arty, cas, or casevac I call for.
For assassinating houses, 13 meters will most likely still give the remote operator the same house.
13 meters is pretty dang good considering you are shooting from Nevada!
We should work for 12, then 11, and strive for 0. Meanwhile, we go to war with the fucked up software we have, not the fucked up software some slashdotter thinks they could have given us if only they had gotten an interview.
You misunderstand how the hellfire / predator platform works.
Several systems can fly the predator to the target area. Once in the target area, remote operators designate the target on the video feed, which is to say (in this phone call scenario) the operators designate the person making the phone call on the TV screen. The target designator is a laser device on the predator which sends encoded information in the beam to actually hit the target. Where the laser target beam hits the target, it shines. Electro-optics and servos keep the designator on the designated target. The hellfire is fired and goes to where it sees the correctly-coded shining.
A hellfire, tow, dragon, or javelin doesn't care where it is, where it was, or where the target is. they just go where they are steered. No GPS, no grid.
In any case, 13 meters is nothing. Civilians have been watching too many movies to think war is fought on that scale. A 10-digit MGRS grid is 2 digits too many for calling in anything.
hellfires are laser guided, not GPS. a predator reporting its position as being 13 meters wrong is basically nothing....and a non-issue with regards to missile targeting.
if the predator was dropping JDAMS, i could see the issue. but even then, 13 meters is well within the CPE allowed for the JDAM.
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Too much humor at line 3, near somebody else shits my.
...the robot was not impressed.
Oh, well then. As long as you are attacking our army posts for a good cause... STFU.
From where every non-muslim sits, you aren't standing for anything "right".
On the contrary! You can now help us unload the delivery trucks at Walmart!
The rare intersection of cats, disabilities, abilities, and jokes:
What has 9 arms, and ROCKS?
no bigger than a chihuahua's head.
The Chinese people have been so thoroughly indoctrinated that they will never revolt in any appreciable results.
Watch news interviews with Chinese citizens. Something's wrong? The government should fix it! They literally can't conceive a life without the benevolent government taking care of every facet of life.
If you need the government more than they need you, then you live life on the government's terms. Coincidentally, that is basically the Democrat playbook in a nutshell.
You can find proof of this in ANY elementary school computer lab. 30 kids, told to write a anything, will invariably waste 90 percent of their time screwing with everything but the a-z keys.
The army has always been a large contributor in these fields. Every major installation employs wildlife biologists (and others) and their findings are regularly submitted to journals that only people with a masters degree in treehuggerology would appreciate.
One reason is the usefulness of chem and bio weapons research. The other is that the Army can't do anything without the environmentalists freaking out. Also it takes good management to use training land for years without it becoming unsuitable for training.
Maybe not that easy.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE49T8X020081030
The wildlife biologists have been struggling with what to do about the white-nose syndrome fungus that is wiping out bat populations for years.
Not much good news on either front.
We are headed for a very buggy and polen-less world.
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Well, since the data will be in the cloud, perhaps the documents would be available on the web?
When I was in Iraq in the Army, there were several cars searched by my unit where the drivers were basically tourists from American and Canada. This was Ramadi in 2006, which blew our minds. It's like...um, you do know these people will kill you, right? Between the IEDs, insurgents, or accidentally driving too close too fast near US troops....fuck that. But there they were, and on their way they were sent.
Or a techie could run the school to teach warriors all about this stuff.
Not that you would know.
There are things that you would have to have been in the culture for a while to understand. Yesterdays story about the predator code showed a lot of smart people don't know shit about laser-guided missiles.
It may be easier to teach tech to warriors than it is to make warriors out of techs. YMMV obviously.
To get grid TRULY accurate to the meter, you'd have to get out surveying-grade gear and stand next to the target for a few minutes.
No one targets "the guy at grid 13S TB 12345 67890" unless there isn't anyone else there to get. You would say "the only guy riding a bicycle in vicinity of 13S TB 1234 6789".
Here's what I accept:
A good predator NOW beats a perfect predator later.
13 meter PE for a predator has nothing to do with where the hellfire lands.
13 meters CPE is good enough for any arty, cas, or casevac I call for.
For assassinating houses, 13 meters will most likely still give the remote operator the same house.
13 meters is pretty dang good considering you are shooting from Nevada!
We should work for 12, then 11, and strive for 0. Meanwhile, we go to war with the fucked up software we have, not the fucked up software some slashdotter thinks they could have given us if only they had gotten an interview.
How the software came into being is important. If it was ripped off from someone else, they should fix that. If there's errors, they should fix those.
But 13 meters? You must have NEVER served in any armed force, Friend of NYCL, if that is your real name...
You misunderstand how the hellfire / predator platform works.
Several systems can fly the predator to the target area. Once in the target area, remote operators designate the target on the video feed, which is to say (in this phone call scenario) the operators designate the person making the phone call on the TV screen. The target designator is a laser device on the predator which sends encoded information in the beam to actually hit the target. Where the laser target beam hits the target, it shines. Electro-optics and servos keep the designator on the designated target. The hellfire is fired and goes to where it sees the correctly-coded shining.
A hellfire, tow, dragon, or javelin doesn't care where it is, where it was, or where the target is. they just go where they are steered. No GPS, no grid.
In any case, 13 meters is nothing. Civilians have been watching too many movies to think war is fought on that scale. A 10-digit MGRS grid is 2 digits too many for calling in anything.
Hellfires don't use GPS for targeting.
so what?
hellfires are laser guided, not GPS. a predator reporting its position as being 13 meters wrong is basically nothing....and a non-issue with regards to missile targeting.
if the predator was dropping JDAMS, i could see the issue. but even then, 13 meters is well within the CPE allowed for the JDAM.
were you in an Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Company?
If facebook told people who was perusing their info, would fewer people peruse info?
True, but thanks to them, NATO rocked them like a hurricane.