Bit long winded....
Current tech...
We have weapons at the moment that go at mach 6+ (the Russian SN-6 missile for
example). Control is quite difference from the slower missile. It all automated,
but but does require a user to keep the radar pointing in the right direction.
The same sort of human/computer is seem with 90% of all missile. The
computer can handle the fine detail, but not sudden (i.e. 90 degree)
turns. The human can handle sudden turns, but not the fine details.
It is only in the last 4 years or so, fire and forget missile are being
devoloped; but these have been slow and big. One problem is the speed, to go
at mach 150 requires very little efford (a tessa weapon has already fired a
missile at mach 20+), all a computer can do at this speed is adjust for human
error. To track a target is still mostly done by humans
(blowpipe/Javelin/stringer/gumble/sea skewer etc).
It is qutie easy to see in the future you will still have the same
turn of interaction - unless you start replacing the human with
some that can also process the same data the same way.
Is mach 150 going to be that different from todays mach 6+.
At mach 150, with lasers etc, targeting is easy, the computer has only to
deal with straight lines, once it has some sort of tracking on the
target...
Daniel
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Harlow Business Park, TEL : (01279) 405316
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Current tech...
We have weapons at the moment that go at mach 6+ (the Russian SN-6 missile for
example). Control is quite difference from the slower missile. It all automated,
but but does require a user to keep the radar pointing in the right direction.
The same sort of human/computer is seem with 90% of all missile. The
computer can handle the fine detail, but not sudden (i.e. 90 degree)
turns. The human can handle sudden turns, but not the fine details.
It is only in the last 4 years or so, fire and forget missile are being
devoloped; but these have been slow and big. One problem is the speed, to go
at mach 150 requires very little efford (a tessa weapon has already fired a
missile at mach 20+), all a computer can do at this speed is adjust for human
error. To track a target is still mostly done by humans
(blowpipe/Javelin/stringer/gumble/sea skewer etc).
It is qutie easy to see in the future you will still have the same
turn of interaction - unless you start replacing the human with
some that can also process the same data the same way.
Is mach 150 going to be that different from todays mach 6+.
At mach 150, with lasers etc, targeting is easy, the computer has only to
deal with straight lines, once it has some sort of tracking on the
target...
Daniel
=====================================================================
Nortel Ltd, E-Mail : celano@
140 greenway,
Harlow Business Park, TEL : (01279) 405316
Harlow,
Essex.
CM19 5QD FAX : (01279) 405070
=====================================================================