----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jimmy Hess" <[email protected]>
> On 3/18/13, Jay Ashworth <[email protected]> wrote: > [snip] > > In the next 3 years, it will become possible to build an > > autonomously > > navigating aircraft that can a) cross the Atlantic and b) carry a > > nuclear weapon. > > Not only is it already possible to build a human manually navigated > aircraft that can do both (a), and (b), they already exist, and computer > autonomy isn't necessary or useful, to hit a single big target; now > computer autonomous aircraft that can do only (a) could be just as > useful as decoys. Sure it is. An autonomous UPV *is small enough to bust the ADIZ without returning a skin paint*. > Nuclear weapons are rare, expensive, and the existing ones are > (hopefully) well-secured, due to their extremely high value. I > would be more concerned about the possibility of a large swarm -- of > half a million solar powered drones of the approximate size of a > large eagle capable of crossing the oceans and releasing a spray of > bio agents over very large distances. Whichever weapon is chosen, the point remains that the battlefield is asymmetric, and it's asymmetric *against us*. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [email protected] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274
