From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Tue Jan 28 2003 - 05:46:56 MST
Maxcorp said:
<<Saddam is busy creating ABC weapons when he really should develop
inexpensive unmanned drones that could automatically fight incomming jet
fighters. Relying on distributed intelligence.>>
There was a program in the 1980s which involved robotized MIG's, which would
have dropped the element technetium, as a general poison. The Iraqi research
indicated this would prove ineffective. It was determined, by Iraqi
researchers, that bio-warfare; dropped from such drones would be lethal.
<<I Imagine a swarm of those inexpensive drones (10-100) cirkling 10 km
over any "hot spot", armed with camera or radar guided machineguns.
I bet that any jet would have a difficult time getting passed those.
But perhaps a dictator like him, by nature have difficulties in
imagening distributed systems being efficient.>>
The Germans, during WW2 had radar-controlled flak cannon and searchlights,
and it was still overwhelmed by shear force of allied bombardments,
especially when those sites were targeted. The Russians and Chinese have
adapted such a system, with limited effect and success.
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