tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post2994460830506484445..comments2024-03-28T23:57:50.103-05:00Comments on Bayou Renaissance Man: Combat resupply gets easier - and cheaperPeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10595089829300831372noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-81400412842983057892019-09-13T19:27:13.962-05:002019-09-13T19:27:13.962-05:00Speaking of terror uses, you may not even need GPS...Speaking of terror uses, you may not even need GPS - a simple radio homing beacon, homing on a transmitter as cheap as a Baofeng handi-talkie ...John T. Blockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10878974023699762981noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-22377599393353008902019-09-13T16:38:45.183-05:002019-09-13T16:38:45.183-05:00For what it is, it's great.
The key component...For what it is, it's great.<br /><br />The key component is the GPS.<br /><br />Getting back to the perpetual drone-bomb topic, how long before low-tech non-country players use this method to air-deliver 1-ton bomb loads right onto a target?<br /><br />Unless you've pre-degraded GPS (which we almost never do, because of civil aviation), your first clue will be when Mohammed FedEx's you a 2000-pound nitrocellulose enema.<br /><br />This thing is nothing but a cardboard box with wings and a simple brain.<br /><br />Of course, no one will ever do that with something you could drop from a Cessna 15 miles away.<br /><br />Let alone from airliners 40 miles away at 25k'.<br /><br />As if.<br /><br />And if you think one-ton blivets of drugs from the cartels that can be pinpoint-dropped to a waiting van far from the border aren't going to start being a thing, just like semi-submersible coke ships are, I've got a bridge for sale, cheap.<br /><br />This is going to make air defense and interdiction quite a thing, going forward, at every level.<br /><br />What goes around, comes around.<br />technology doesn't have a side, it merely has applications.Aesophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-47941349232102312782019-09-13T08:11:09.837-05:002019-09-13T08:11:09.837-05:00Hey Peter;
Excellent article, they say amateu...Hey Peter;<br /><br /> Excellent article, they say amateurs talk tactics, professional talk logistics....on a different note, I was fully expecting to see the "Amazon Smile" on the side of the glider....Or am I a bad person?, MrGarabaldihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05768774166065615995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-72259232879050464372019-09-13T05:50:15.899-05:002019-09-13T05:50:15.899-05:00That is something actually useful for a change.That is something actually useful for a change.McChuckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10243337792601085456noreply@blogger.com