Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 10:26:58 -0600 (MDT) From: Wes Peters <softweyr@xmission.com> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: F1.17 (was Re: C2 Trusted FreeBSD?) Message-ID: <199710141626.KAA10453@obie.softweyr.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <199710140857.SAA01615@word.smith.net.au> References: <21910.876817975@time.cdrom.com> <199710140857.SAA01615@word.smith.net.au>
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Mike Smith writes:
> The Tomahawk is an excellent example of an overpriced,
> underperforming military design; put it in the hands of a manufacturer
> working in the real world and you'd be looking at a 5x reduction in
> cost. (Apologies to all the MI combine employees out there for the rude
> handwave.)
>
> For a good example, look at the aircraft that the Australian BoM are
> developing for remote-area weather sensing. It's fully autonomous,
> capable of dealing intelligently with almost any weather condition
> (inclding flying in cyclonic weather conditions) and has a "loiter
> time" measured in days.
Did anyone else here see the article last summer about the engineer in
Woods Hole who built a research submarine designed to circle the world
(perhaps twice) with no fuel? It uses a thermal engine producing drive
from the thermal variance in the ocean water to propel it forward and
generate small amounts of electrical energy. It uses the electicity and
a small GPS to fix it's location while sounding, and to make course
corrections. DR piloting is used while diving. Now imagine this scaled
up into a semi-autonomous ballistic missile sub. Scary, huh?
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com
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