Of course, this type of system already exists. Remember Cruise missiles doing their thing in downtown Baghdad? This leads me to conclude that the US military has something else in mind for their new unmanned aircraft, such as on-station patrolling for mobile forces, or something along those lines that can't be handled by a stationary target finder...
I find it difficult to believe this level of automated identification. One of the major pitfalls to date of current ICBM interception systems is that they can't tell the difference between real and decoy warheads (or in the test case between a warhead and a balloon!). So how can automated identification systems hope to cope in a much less than benign EM environment?
Re:What's with the spelling? (My xenophobic rant)
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As an Aussie that has never taken offence at the fact that speech and/or hearing impaired Americans insist on pronouncing 'Aussie' as 'Os-ie', not 'Oz-ie', I think I am obliged to point out that NO dictionary lists veggies as a word (and yes, this does include Websters, or at least my copy). On the otherhand, my copy of the Macquarie Dictionary does infact recognise vegies.... admittedly with a 'col.' tag attached
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Of course, this type of system already exists. Remember Cruise missiles doing their thing in downtown Baghdad? This leads me to conclude that the US military has something else in mind for their new unmanned aircraft, such as on-station patrolling for mobile forces, or something along those lines that can't be handled by a stationary target finder...
I find it difficult to believe this level of automated identification. One of the major pitfalls to date of current ICBM interception systems is that they can't tell the difference between real and decoy warheads (or in the test case between a warhead and a balloon!). So how can automated identification systems hope to cope in a much less than benign EM environment?
As an Aussie that has never taken offence at the fact that speech and/or hearing impaired Americans insist on pronouncing 'Aussie' as 'Os-ie', not 'Oz-ie', I think I am obliged to point out that NO dictionary lists veggies as a word (and yes, this does include Websters, or at least my copy). On the otherhand, my copy of the Macquarie Dictionary does infact recognise vegies.... admittedly with a 'col.' tag attached