The Improved US Military:

[NotLKH]

from So when and how did the U.S. military get this good?
The war in Afghanistan, however, saw three innovations that would alter the way America fights wars. First, high-tech smart bombs were combined with high-tech command, control, communications, and intelligence. A new generation of unmanned Predator drones flew over the battlefield, scanning the terrain with digital cameras and instantly transmitting the imagery back to command headquarters. Commanders would view the imagery, look for targets, and order pilots in the area to attack the targets. The pilots would punch the target's coordinates into the smart bomb's GPS receiver. The bomb would home in on the target. Total time elapsed: about 20 minutes. By comparison, in Desert Storm, the process of spotting a new target, assigning a weapon to hit it, then hitting it, took three days.

Impressive.

[kleinma]

Originally posted by NotLKH
Impressive.

20 minutes is way too long... we need to work on that

[MerrionComputin]

Now that Sony have trademarked the phrase "Shock and awe" it can be only a matter of time before this is all available on a PS2...

[siyan]

Originally posted by kleinma
20 minutes is way too long... we need to work on that

meh...america's military is already way too powerful. propping it up more would just make others feel intensly threatened (and could start an arms race or something)

if everyone could just chill...

[KayJay]

Keep up this accelerated pace of precision and range. In no time the only places left to bomb would be Texas, Pennsylvania and California. Then we would have surely succeeded in establishing democracy and "the good" in the "whole world".

[OrdinaryGuy]

Originally posted by KayJay
Keep up this accelerated pace of precision and range. In no time the only places left to bomb would be Texas, Pennsylvania and California. Then we would have surely succeeded in establishing democracy and "the good" in the "whole world".

your comments are short on wisdom

[KayJay]

Ever heard of the Pot calling...?

[honeybee]

Originally posted by OrdinaryGuy
your comments are short on wisdom

Tell that to your pres and his puppets

"Cadet Franks, step out!"
"Yessir!"
"Cadet Franks, can you see the soldiers standing over there?"
"Yessir!"
"Cadet Franks, can you identify the Iraqi, the American and the British soldiers in them?"
"No Sir!"
"Cadet Franks, can you see the fighter planes flying above your head?"
"Yessir!"
"Cadet Franks, can you identify the Iraqi, the American and the British planes from the lot?"
"No Sir!"
"Cadet Franks, Welcome To The US Army!"

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[honeybee]

Originally posted by NotLKH
Impressive.

As long as you got ill-trained personnel, or simply idiots, using them weapons, all the accuracy in the world won't be no good.

You can even eliminate the soldiers operating those consoles which can fire the missiles, and make everything automatic, but you still can't beat your president when he decides to choose a wrong target for war

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