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Keeping your target lased in war can get
you killed. What you need is a way to
mark your target and get out of there.
GPS trackers have become small enough
that they can be incorporated into
ballistics rounds, providing they can take
the shock.
It is simply a bullet round for: a larger
calliber weapon, grenade launcher, or can
be modified to be thrown or flown into
combat situations via remote control.
There are many methods of delivery for
this idea, but once it is activated, it can be
tracked by satellites and then GPS guided
bombs take their aim.
Ensuring the use of precision munitions
saves lives (in the sense that i am
comparing it to blind bombing) and
reduces collatoral damage.
Situations where this would be very good
are: when a stationary laser can't keep up
with a moving car getting away, when
soldiers are at risk of discovery if they
persist in one place, when you want to
track someone or something to discover
their trails and hideouts and many other
situations.
Google 'gps launcher police'
http://www.popsci.c...004eecbccdrcrd.html
first link [GutPunchLullabies, Aug 09 2007]
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I just bunned my own idea. Yeah, that's
right. Some people just love being jerks
by boning without stating justification. |
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Or is your idea of a good weapon one that
shoots flowers and plays melodies of
peace and love... Pshhhh. Grow up. |
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GPS-guided munitions are baked.
Your idea requires a power source, GPS receiver and some kind of GPRS or satellite transmitter to pass on the received location - hardly compact.
Or perhaps you're counting on the tagged target not noticing a 155mm shell? [-] |
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My justification is at left, under "links". Also, if you just want a bomb to ride the signal down, why not just have it follow the radio signal directly? Or use IR, visible strobe, or anything. |
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Ultimately, routing communications between a beacon and a bomb that are only half a mile apart through outer space seems extremely pointless. |
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//Ensuring the use of precision munitions saves lives// |
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Precision munitions do not save lives, they simply have a greater probability of actually hitting the selected target. Accuracy of target selection and saving lives are entirely separate matters. [-] |
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[mfd] redundant to the linked idea |
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Dang, this idea is confusing! But I think I figured it out. |
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It's a small GPS device that is delivered to or attached to a target, say a vehicle, by foot soldiers. It then sends its location to a damn big bomb which homes in to blow everything up. |
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The big bombs may be GPS-guided, but that's not the claimed novelty of the idea. This is a suicidal dart/target. |
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GPS tracking darts are fairly new, but they are being done. They also have limits and expense. |
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I don't see needing a GPS unit on a target dart. Just send out any radio signal at all, and have the bomb home in on it like a beacon. You can have it wait until the bomb sends out a query signal, so it's not wasting batteries or giving away its position. |
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Getting constantly-changing GPS positions for a moving vehicle is going to take a lot of computing power in the bomb. Sending a plain beacon signal from a moving vehicle is a lot easier, and can be homed-in on by the very dumbest of smart bombs. |
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I suppose you're right,.. send a plain
beacon signal... |
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The point is the capability of marking a
target and leaving immediately. Maybe
one day these "markers" will become so
small that you can shoot a tiny bibi
sized pellet that sticks to a person, to
be killed maybe 10 minutes later when
the tagger has left. |
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Another way to safely kill somebody. |
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//Another way to safely kill somebody.// You need the Oxymoron Bomb. |
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This sounds like Spiderman's Spidertracers. Also like LoJack. |
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//shoot a tiny bibi sized pellet that sticks to a person, to be killed maybe 10 minutes later when the tagger has left// |
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Why not just have the tag explode/inject poison? Why the middleman? It's this kind of thinking that brought GPS and microprocessors into the equation in the first place. |
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Not sure why this is being boned... I like it. Good idea, the miniturization of the components would just force engineering and research yeilding new technology. |
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