Artillery shell shot down by laser!

[Ex-RoNiN 0]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2407807.stm

This is incredible

Now american forces will be able to advance without having to fear counter artillery fire

Is this scary or what

[bn880 5]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Ex-RoNiN @ Nov. 05 2002,18:15)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2407807.stm

This is incredible

Now american forces will be able to advance without having to fear counter artillery fire

Is this scary or what <span id='postcolor'>

Yes.

And every day makes that Einstein quote in OFP more real and scary.

[FSPilot 0]

It should only be scary if you're shooting the artillery shell.

LOL

VERY amazing. This should also mean we can take out ICBMs.

[edc 0]

Whoa! To hit something as small as an artillery shell, from a fair distance, with the shell going at thousands of miles per hour. The problem is that whatever sytem was being tested probably cost some $$ and you'd have to have a lot of them to really make much of a difference on the battlefield.

[hovmand 0]

This is not even fun, what happened to the good ol´e days of just clashing together on the battlefield cutting eachothers heads off?

[Tovarish 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (FSPilot @ Nov. 06 2002,00:27)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">VERY amazing.  This should also mean we can take out ICBMs.<span id='postcolor'>

Been able to do that for a while. Both the US and the Soviets

[kegetys 2]

Now all we need is an automated artillery and we can have fully automated wars

[Tovarish 0]

Just download the old Scorched Earth or the older tank Wars and set all the tanks to AI

[edc 0]

lol

This'd be funny-Causualties:23 Robots

[Col. Kurtz 0]

Soon wars will not rest on the skill of the grunt, but on hwo good your computer nerds are!

Soon wars will be fought by thousands of gamers sitting in massive bunkers controlling Romote Control Tanks, operating laser beams with 'aim bot' mode activated, and instead of the leaders of the two countries at war slgging each other off in massive speaches, it will be a simple 'i OwnZ jOO' between the gamers.

[USMC Sniper 0]

But it would be better than if it was 23 human casualties.

This does bring up one problem: if you gave a robot a mind of it's own, it may turn on it's lcontrollers (humans), as seen in Terminator. Al though that is just a movie, it shows what may happen if we don't do anything for ourselves. A work-around would be to make the robots controlled by people say in the US, and radio waves transmitting orders to the robots. But then you wuold have to wait a little time for the robot to execute it's order.

[Tovarish 0]

All this technology is going to do is dramatically increase the military importance of hackers and computer viruses.

[Maraudeur 0]

Saturating fire

[Tovarish 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Maraudeur @ Nov. 06 2002,01:50)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Saturating fire <span id='postcolor'>

lol that would be one funky lazer show

[Mister Frag 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (USMC Sniper @ Nov. 05 2002,16:30)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">But it would be better than if it was 23 human casualties.

This does bring up one problem: if you gave a robot a mind of it's own, it may turn on it's lcontrollers (humans), as seen in Terminator. Al though that is just a movie, it shows what may happen if we don't do anything for ourselves. A work-around would be to make the robots controlled by people say in the US, and radio waves transmitting orders to the robots. But then you wuold have to wait a little time for the robot to execute it's order.<span id='postcolor'>

Assimov's Laws of Robotics to the rescue!

[Othin 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Mister Frag @ Nov. 05 2002,17:17)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (USMC Sniper @ Nov. 05 2002,16:30)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">But it would be better than if it was 23 human casualties.

This does bring up one problem: if you gave a robot a mind of it's own, it may turn on it's lcontrollers (humans), as seen in Terminator. Al though that is just a movie, it shows what may happen if we don't do anything for ourselves. A work-around would be to make the robots controlled by people say in the US, and radio waves transmitting orders to the robots. But then you wuold have to wait a little time for the robot to execute it's order.<span id='postcolor'>

Assimov's Laws of Robotics to the rescue!<span id='postcolor'>

And Murphy's laws of combat to screw that all up!

[Frizbee 0]

I don't think having Robots turn on their creators would be the biggest worry, after all, the AI still has to have its views shaped by its learning process.

What would be more likely (and much funnier) would be having AI computers commiting "suicide" because they got depressed "Oh no, not that game again.... *Blink*"

Just like the robot in Fallout...

[theavonlady 2]

I'm dreaming of a home version to zap pigeons before they land to roost on window sills.

[habdoel 0]

vacature: commander

for fighting wars with computer and robot technoligies

-ofp expirience is a large surplus

[ran 0]

hmm .. frightening .... i mean ... it's frightening , an army with that kind of technology is almost invincible ....

if it can shoot down an artillery shell , it can do the same with icbms , tactical missiles , mlrs rockets , cruise missiles , anti tank and antiu air missiles and so on ...

that's frightening

[theavonlady 2]

Why so glum? Once they've proliferated (cheap Chinese knockoffs), we'll have ourselves one swell sound and light show.

[FallenPaladin 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Ex-RoNiN @ Nov. 06 2002,00:15)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2407807.stm

This is incredible

Now american forces will be able to advance without having to fear counter artillery fire

Is this scary or what <span id='postcolor'>

Well, as long as the US troops are still in a leading position on the friendly-fire-rating-list

[Frisbee 0]

Full battlefield automatisation would be bad.

A war is pointless if there are no soldiers fighting putting their asses on the line for a cause they believe in(or in most cases command)

Fully automated war would just mean huge wasted resources.War'd be started quicker by stronger states since they don't risk any lives.

But yeah well,this is a good defense system,would be interesting on a tank

(I think I've been watching too much gundam wing)

[advocatexxx 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Frisbee @ Nov. 06 2002,07:31)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Full battlefield automatisation would be bad.

A war is pointless if there are no soldiers fighting putting their asses on the line for a cause they believe in(or in most cases command)

Fully automated war would just mean huge wasted resources.War'd be started quicker by stronger states since they don't risk any lives.

But yeah well,this is a good defense system,would be interesting on a tank  

(I think I've been watching too much gundam wing)<span id='postcolor'>

Lol. Resources are always wasted in mass quantities in any war. That plus many, many, many human casualties. If one can be avoided of the two then I'm for it.

Wars are fought with military hardware. Once a country's military has been defeated the country is considered defenseless. If we can make robots, have them fight then why not. Although this technique would decrease the human population control doctrine. An all out nuclear war with India and China would definitely free up some oxygen and tons of recources.

[Ex-RoNiN 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (advocatexxx @ Nov. 06 2002,14:51)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"> An all out nuclear war with India and China would definitely free up some oxygen and tons of recources.<span id='postcolor'>

You have GOT to be joking