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2005-12-20 Iraq

U.S. Air Power Strikes Iraq Targets Daily

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Posted by ed 2005-12-20 07:37|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 flown remotely by airmen at flight consoles at an Air Force base in Nevada

Golly -- in Nevada! You'd think they'd suffer jet lag so far away...

/really dumb, pre-coffee moment ;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2005-12-20 07:52|| 2005-12-20 07:52|| Front Page Top

#2 heehee. Maybe if they used prop powered drones, they wouldn't get jet lag.

Posted by SteveS 2005-12-20 07:59|| 2005-12-20 07:59|| Front Page Top

#3 Actually, TW's not far off from MY concern: satellite transmission delays.

Posted by Ptah">Ptah 2005-12-20 08:43|| http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]">[http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2005-12-20 08:43|| Front Page Top

#4 Ptah - 1/3 second for Geosynch round-trip worries you?

Posted by .com 2005-12-20 08:49|| 2005-12-20 08:49|| Front Page Top

#5 I admit that's per bounce - and for global it sometimes takes two, but...

Posted by .com 2005-12-20 08:53|| 2005-12-20 08:53|| Front Page Top

#6 damn, since the assbites know we use em, i wish the DOD would release more vids.

Posted by Red Dog 2005-12-20 09:21|| 2005-12-20 09:21|| Front Page Top

#7 Me too! I'd like more video. Imagine how many of those predators (with Hellfires of course) you could fit on the deck of the USS Reagan!

Posted by BA 2005-12-20 09:50|| 2005-12-20 09:50|| Front Page Top

#8 Ptah I expect the flyers were early adopters of Flight Sim 3.0. They'd be able to adapt to 3 fps.

Posted by Alpha Spemble1220 2005-12-20 10:13|| 2005-12-20 10:13|| Front Page Top

#9 I say release the software as an XBox 360 cd and let the kids pay $19.95 a month to do it for us. We could actually turn a profit on this war. ;)

Posted by BH 2005-12-20 10:17|| 2005-12-20 10:17|| Front Page Top

#10 Lol, BH! Thar be beaucoup truth in them werdz. Sliding credit for, um, high "scores"... Yep. Drones pay the freight and the real aces actually make money. It could work, lol, cuz some of the kids I've seen are waay beyond what most folks mean by being "a natural" - they were born to it. Step aside, Tommy, lol.

Posted by .com 2005-12-20 10:24|| 2005-12-20 10:24|| Front Page Top

#11 The operators suffer from Prop Lag.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2005-12-20 11:21|| 2005-12-20 11:21|| Front Page Top

#12 I suspect we hear and see so little because we don't want to divulge the source of our targeting information nor exactly what happened to any specific target.

In the upside down world of Ameircan War, failure is a topic for unlimited public debate and success to be defended by a bodyguard of lies.

Posted by Thromp Threreling8978 2005-12-20 13:07|| 2005-12-20 13:07|| Front Page Top

#13 I read an interesting article in Stars and Stripes when I was in Germany in the late 1980's. A general officer said that the best training his men got was playing video games, and they PAID to do it! It increases their reflexes, and in many cases the video game controls aren't that different from the find/identify/fire controls of an M-1 tank. I'm sure we're seeing similar effectiveness with gamers also flying Predators and other drone aircraft. BTW, the use of drones for reconnaissance isn't something new - we had drones in Vietnam. I saw quite a few VERY interesting photos from drone aircraft.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2005-12-20 14:35|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2005-12-20 14:35|| Front Page Top

#14 OP, tell you what, the controllers for the M-1, whatever they were then, NOW should be identical to a Nintendo/Xbox/Playstation controller. The game-box makers have done all the R & D, the Army just needs to adopt proven technology ;-)

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2005-12-20 15:25|| 2005-12-20 15:25|| Front Page Top

#15 Steve, you are actually right on target. The controllers for most remotely operated systems have to mimic the basic feel of a game controller. You know you've done a good job when a young Marine picks up your controller and basically gets right to business with about 5 words of basic, and I mean really basic, instruction.

Posted by remoteman 2005-12-20 17:19|| 2005-12-20 17:19|| Front Page Top

#16 All we have to do is combine our expertise with Japan's lead in robotics and we can wage war from the comforts of our own couch.

I'm sure the Military can pay for the Coke, Doritos, and Cigarettes.

Posted by danking_70 2005-12-20 17:27|| 2005-12-20 17:27|| Front Page Top

#17 Just in case anyone missed it: http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2005/12/best_and_worst_.html

Posted by Parabellum 2005-12-20 18:38|| 2005-12-20 18:38|| Front Page Top

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