"Keith Willshaw" wrote in message
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"Rune Børsjø" wrote in message
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On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 19:04:27 GMT, Chad Irby wrote:

Well, in theory, and for some missions, anyway. But you have a couple
of potential problems with that. If they're completely autonomous,
they're not going to be as "smart" as humans when it comes to targeting

How the hell is gonna tell friendly from enemy? Civilian from
combatant? The only thing it'll be good for is knocking out armor.
Attack helos still present a flexibility and presence that you can't
get out of a glorified model airplane kit.

You havent heard of IFF I take it

Not a reliable, discrete (not desirable to tell *everyone* "here I am!", is
it?), and *operational* one for ground units I haven't. Your nominee to fill
those requirements would be...?

Brooks


Keith