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- From: miles@ms.uky.edu (Stephen D. Grant)
- Subject: GPS vs "Friendly Fire"
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- Organization: University of Kentucky, USA. -5 GMT
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 14:47:28 GMT
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- From miles@ms.uky.edu (Stephen D. Grant)
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- I'm curious.
- Did "every" vehicle in DS have a GPS unit? If so, how could GPS be used
- to prevent future "Friendly Fire" accidents?
- With digital encoding of radio signals, and GPS together, why couldn't
- all friendly units be tracked constantly, or at least "checked" before
- fired upon? I know computer technology is there. Am I way behind here?
- Seems to me like a fire-system computer could do a .5 nano-second check
- on a target in aquisition. Of course I realize that in many cases, there
- is no time for anything other than kill or be killed.
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