Next message: Wally: "Re: lv-ab: Re: Navigation Software & technique"
In a message dated 04/11/2004 20:40:34 GMT Standard Time,
writes:
Regrettably people see some gee wiz technology on TV which is fitted to
military vessels. The hype surrounding the much cheaper and much less
complex
consumer electronics convinces peopel the two are the same or at least
similar. NOT!!!
Over the past ten years I have seen and sometimees played with some of the
most
sophisticated equipment you could imagine. And yes it does sometimes produce
the kind of images you refer to. BUT!!!
Most of this stuff cost $$$$$ sometime a million bucks or more.
The cheapest system I played with was stil $100,000.
You could buy a real nice boat for that amount of change.
yes like all the high tech stuff on the USS Vincennes when it shot down the
Iran Air Flight 655 on July 3, 1988. The Vincennes was allegedly the most
electronically sophisticated warship afloat - an Aegis cruiser designed to
handle hundreds of Soviet bombers attacking at once identify friend or foe and
kill the bad guys - sadly the captain was trigger happy and identified a mode
three transponder (commercial airliner) as a F14 fighter - electronics are
great but when you have an asshole interpretating them :-(
regards
David
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