From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">


>> Dreadnought & the aircraft carrier. If yu had lots of pre-dreadnoughts
>> then...so? If you had lots of battleships when a/c carriers came along
>> then...so?
>
>
> Could be. The difference this time is that software plays an important
> role. Take a state of the art UAV with crappy software and put it up
> against an old clunker with a few clever programming tricks ... and just
> wait until the 'A' begins to stand for 'Autonomous'.
>

Oh indeed & s/w is cheap. What is the bets that linux will be a v.
important piece of UCAV foundation?

It's be really fun if comps/countries steadily chuck out "autonomous
flight control software" on sourceforge.

>> This is one of those moments & India, the PRC, Russia et al will be able
>> to keep some sort of parity with the US fairly easily.
>
>
> Especially if they can keep pace by upgrading the software. Gainful
> employment for all those people who program Quake-bots.
>

Yup.

>> I wonder when we are going to get a Washington Treaty for stealth
>> UCAV'es & then who will play the part of Japan & indeed
who will get to
>> play the part of the US then (i.e. achieve parity with the former front
>> runner).
>
>
> You mean this treaty?
>
>  http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/pre-war/1922/nav_lim.html
>
> I doubt it would translate well into present-day military hardware and
> software.
>

Yup. Not the exact same but a similar thing. Coz w/o it....there's some
happy days ahead for the mil-industrial complex in a global economy


Adam,

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