Re: GPS BASICS: WAS:Re: BASICS: Property Rights

From: CALYK@aol.com
Date: Thu Dec 10 1998 - 23:57:39 MST


In a message dated 12/10/98 9:28:23 PM Central Standard Time,
retroman@together.net writes:

<< Actually, gps makes existing technologies cheaper. The price of the
Tomahawk
 missile went down from over $1 million to less than $250,000 when the old
 inertial sensor/tv-computer mapping system was replaced with a gps guidance
 system. Now most of the cost of one of those is just the engine. So we get
 smarter battlefield technologies for less money thanks to gps. Also THOR is a
 line of sight system is it not? Well, most preferred weapons can kill over
 the horizon....
 
 Mike Lorrey >>

there's also precision satellite laser technology, i believe these lasers can
destroy things pretty good, its public that it can destroy a missile, who
knows where theyre at now. anyone know?

danny



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