brian
Joined: 02 Jan 2006
Posts: 643
Location: Sacramento, California, USA
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 Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 6:42 pm Post subject: UCAVs make the jump to lightspeed (was: Raptors Rule) |
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DaBear wrote:
| Quote: | Yes for the "gamer" latency is life. Take it from someone who has flown
Airwarrior, Warbirds, Ace's High, etc. Trying to fly form off someone
who has dropped packets, it sucks. There are enough birds in geo and
non geo orbit to support the control information for a few squadrons of
UAVs. The big thing will be putting a few more up for the <meter video
that the planes would "see."
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OK, given two aircraft of the same capability and two pilots of the same
capability, how much time does it take to gain an unrecoverable
advantage over your adversary?
A hop to GEO and back is 250ms. For the UCAV driver to see his adversary
do something and then get the proper response back to the UCAV is going
to take 500ms just for the data to go both ways. That doesn't even count
the human reaction time.
So boyz and girlz who fight in the sky, what are you going to do to an
adversary who has a built-in 1/2 second delay? My guess is that it is
going to keep him from being able to press home an attack and make him
meat-on-the-table.
| Quote: | The real time control and video/SA required for ACM will require the
folks to be closer. Maybe in theater, but I bet we get it to geo sat
based control, which means they could be anywhere. As long as they are
not using direct RF, they could be anywhere.
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We don't know of anything that goes faster than light and you are 1/2
second away if you are going through a GEOsat. Nothing in the universe
can fix that with the exception of in-theatre direct LoS control or
local autonomy in the UCAV.
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- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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