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Regarding EMP and the like, the sapphire substrate
chips used to stop the effect are, I hear, the most
beautiful things on God's earth. This was from
an engineer, so I suspect it is still some way behind
Anna Kournikova! But the UK and US mil. bods have spent
billions on hardened equipment improvement, after they
realised just why the Russians were still using
vacuum tubes and plate steel.
With good hardening, the electronics can, apparently,
now be made tough enough to survive where most people
would not. Unless they are in use, in which case they
fail someway short of the operators.
However, it is very unlikely that anyone would
actually use an EMP weapon in a small war, as the only
decent EMP pulse known comes from a nuclear weapons
detonation. This means it isn't a small war anymore.
The modern radio systems used by LandWarrior mean that
it is very, very hard to detect the signals, even if
you known exactly when and where to look, as they are
radio-noise level limited, and change frequency
hundreds of times a second, through quite a wide band.
This means you need very powerful, very sensitive
detectors and radio systems, powerful computers to
carry out the Fourier Transforms on it (remember that
SETI is using thousands of parallel systems to try to
locate ET life), and then a fire control system to send
a shell to the right place. 1 shell per man is a high
price to pay, and remember, the systems do not radiate
continuously, only when they are sending, so you have
to guess they haven't moved while the shell (or
whatever) is in the air.
Even if the war went nuclear, at least 6 sats would
have to be taken out to make a hole in coverage, and
thats assumeing the spare sats were not brought online
by the US. Plus destroying GPS would bring the US down
on you like a ton of bricks from a great height. Then
there is the fallback of using Glonas, the Russian
system, which modern GPS systems can. Then, finally,
there is the fact that the system has the local net
systems that Steve mentioned.
Even if all that was destroyed, odds are the little boxes
still have a digital compass and map, or even a micro
silicon gyroscope, which will still be better than the
old way of looking at a map and using a compass.
So, we have thought of all these ideas when we thought
of doing these systems in the first place. It is
similar to the old thing about gunfights:"If you use
full auto, you will be the first one shot." That is,
unless everyone is firing fullauto, then it goes back
to the original odds.
The same if everyone if radiating very slightly. After
all, a man can be seen from better than 2000 yards by
a thermal imager unit in a tank, but it doesn't mean
tanks are going to replace infantry.
The increase in "productivity" of a man who can talk
to everyone and is fully telemetered, can see further,
can shoot more accurately, can be found instantly by
his own side, can send back pictures of enemy
structures, request evac, food, etc. and knows that his
friends are off to the left just in front, is going to
be far better than an equally trained man who doesn't
have one of these boxes. He won't hide in foxholes,
knowing he can't be seen, he won't desert, if he dies or
is captured, or wounded, he can be located, he won't shoot
at his side as often, he won't think he is the only
guy on his side left alive, and he won't have to yell
"Cover me!" as he runs forward.
These systems will make our side better and more able
than the best in the world... If the batteries don't go flat.
And I have a solution for that.
Nigel
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Still, what happens if one of these headsets is captured?
Then the enemy knows where the whole unit is in great
detail. Even if the rest of the unit disengages the
captured headset as soon as they find out, even a brief
glimpse will tell the enemy where the whole unit is located.
In their training exercise with it they still lost three
men to a sniper. That's three units lying out in the
open. And in reality snipers are trained to engage far
beyond the 300m they described. If they were engaged
at 800m the headsets would be virtually useless, unless
it is a very sloppy sniper. Once he's killed them all
or pinned them down their headsets would be easy to
capture.
EMP hardening has obviously come a long way since I
last had anything to do with it.
Steve.
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