Author Topic: The Army is not interested in a device to reduce friendly fire deaths?  (Read 890 times)


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...their powerful guns could shoot beyond the range of their high-tech targeting systems.

Isn't that true for all firearms?
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Doesn't the Army already have IFF devices?

The problem with this new device is that it is a device.  Those things can be faked, copied, lost, stolen, jammed, etc. 
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But everything we use is a device.

You, yourself, operate a device made up of 1000s of other devices any of which can fail for some reason which could lead to catastrophe. Yet you and all the rest of us get a tremendous amount of value out of it.

Therefore we don't let the idea of it failing stop us from using it.

So I find your stance puzzling.
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I really hate stories like that sometimes.  I want a quick idea of what his trying to do.  I have to scroll through pages of backstory and find the details buried here and there between layers of backstory all through a long article. 
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I really hate stories like that sometimes.  I want a quick idea of what his trying to do.  I have to scroll through pages of backstory and find the details buried here and there between layers of backstory all through a long article.

I agree. I only read the first quarter of the article so I have no idea what type of device he created but I know a lot about his personality.
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A provocative strawman clickbait headline with no further information?  No clicks from me.

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I had the same negative reaction.  Did not get very far into it, clicked out, then noted the date.
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I was wondering if this would causes issues by broadcasting the location of troops, or allow enemies to spoof it for their own forces. 

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I was wondering if this would causes issues by broadcasting the location of troops, or allow enemies to spoof it for their own forces.

A lifetime ago I was an 11A, an infantry  officer.  The last thing I would have wanted on my troops was a transmitting device.  Any signal can be intercepted, and tracked.  That's all kinds of bad.
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Re: The Army is not interested in a device to reduce friendly fire deaths?
« Reply #10 on: April 05, 2021, 02:49:14 PM »
A lifetime ago I was an 11A, an infantry  officer.  The last thing I would have wanted on my troops was a transmitting device.  Any signal can be intercepted, and tracked.  That's all kinds of bad.

That was my first thought - even with encryption, etc on the actual signal, it's still a radio signal, so anyone with some DF equipment can triangulate a location.
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Re: The Army is not interested in a device to reduce friendly fire deaths?
« Reply #11 on: April 05, 2021, 03:16:15 PM »
That was my first thought - even with encryption, etc on the actual signal, it's still a radio signal, so anyone with some DF equipment can triangulate a location.
Or set up a homing system that could be mounted on a missile. 
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