On Fri, 07 Oct 2011 21:28:13 +0200, Le_Forgeron wrote:

> Le 07/10/2011 20:52, Jim Henderson nous fit lire :
>> On Fri, 07 Oct 2011 07:31:44 -0400, gregjohn wrote:
>> 
>>>>>> On Thu, 06 Oct 2011 11:12:21 +0100, Invisible wrote:
>>>> That's not what you said, though, you said it *needs* GPS to exist. 
>>>> It doesn't need it, it's just a very useful tool so they know where
>>>> they are without resorting to other methods.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> You're sending a missile.  You put an AI in the missile to stop and
>>> ask the local villagers where something is?
>> 
>> Laser guided missiles.
>> 
>> 
> Issue: you can fire only one missile per laser lambda... or they might
> hit the same target and forget others.

True.

> At the power needed for the laser, there is not a lot of lambda
> available.
> 
> Not a bomb-carpet... just a single shot every few minutes. Now, that's a
> battlefield!
> 
> And to paint with laser, you usually need some vulnerable proxy
> (airplane or commando)

Given that it's going to be destroyed, you paint whatever it is that you 
want to be blown to smithereens.

Jim

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