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Originally Posted by shakari
Thats why optical fiber that has a lot more bandwidth compared to twisted pair or other metalic wire.
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You've misunderstood. Walk around with a pair of binoculars on your eyes all day. Even if its 1x so that you don't have depth perception problems, what kind of situational awareness have you lost? Your peripheral vision is gone and so is your sense of balance. No amount of signals is going to replace a human being's situational awareness. Thus, even with fibre optics, you still have to decide what to see and what not to see.
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Originally Posted by shakari
Indeed TWO doesn't get power by data link wire. What I meant was that effective real time data transfer by optical fiber data link of VERY thin cable is already implemented. For power to this craft one doesn't need thick wires. 12V DC via very thin wires will be enough IMHO since the ampearage will be relatively low anyway.
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Look at your telephone chord.
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Originally Posted by shakari
Thats the basic problem with this thing. What I thought is that if used say 10 kilometers interior to the line I think the wire can't be seen. I know binoculers can't. For observation of some sesitive points from FAR behind perticulerly effective to be used with a salvo weapon. The unique feature you obtain in this craft is indefinite hovering time and a stationary and stable platform compared to UAVs.
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You've misunderstood again. Once your toy is spotted, we know within 10kms where the FOP is. Not a good idea.
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Originally Posted by shakari
I think at night time this might be very useful for area observation and continual sevellience.
Even in day time how much are the chances of a foot ball sized thing being seen 10 kilometers away? And a cable <= 5mm thick 10 kilometers away.
I'm not saying this can exactly replace the role of UAV or FOP or enhance any of them, may be this might not fit in the current flow of information structure but the thing has some real applications and abilities of it's own IMHO.
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Does your toy have a niche role? Perhaps but in order to successfully market it to the military, you have to be precise in what it can do and what it CANNOT do. Is this a recee tool or a battle surveillance tool?
At the minimum, you need to include IR into it. Radar would be a nice touch but that's adding weight and size.
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Originally Posted by shakari
I didn't get this sir! Cost isn't an issue??? Suppose this equipment costs about the cost of 10 rifels. Than it's certainly cheap. It will be very small and light weight too. But isn't cost one of the factors that limit the number of pieces produced??? What is the defining factor in the production of number of stinger missiles???
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What's its intended role? What kind of training is required? What kind of new tactics (ie, get into place) is required? How much noise can the supporting vehilce make? What kind of protection is needed by the crew? What's the optimum range and how do we get into that range?
The cost of your toy is just one little piece.