We've all heard of the us military increasingly deploying high tech battlefield machines to fight their wars, eg Unmanned aerial vehicles and the fighting machine being tested in Iraq.
But hasnt someone pointed out that machines and computers are extremley easy to disable on a large scale, ECM's can divert incoming missles from aircraft, so wouldn't a potential enemy develop somthing similar to disable a hypothetical robo-army?
What do you think?
2006-10-31 05:39:25 · 3 answers · asked by alias2342003 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
"But hasnt someone pointed out that machines and computers are extremley easy to disable on a large scale"
When's the last time the banks couldn't deal with electronic money? When's the last time the stock market closed, except for the day like normal? When's the last time the internet didn't work? Your info is wrong. A well designed computer system is almost immortal.
2006-11-03 08:21:26 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The automated army is just a fad of the moment like when they said nukes would make war impossible or when they said fighters don't need guns when you have missiles only for them to be proven wrong again and again. Once the enemy knows how to jam the control signals and gps signals it's all over for the UAV.
2006-10-31 13:59:49 · answer #2 · answered by brian L 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
High tech weapons have always been vulnerable to some of the most low tech countermeasures... For example the molotov cocktail burning up German armor in WWII. Almost any time you're fighting an enemy that is willing to sacrafice his own life in order to get you, there is not much you can do to stop them.
2006-10-31 14:09:41 · answer #3 · answered by Jason 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋