StingrayOZ
August 20th, 2008, 03:54 AM
With technology progressing at a fantastic rate and many previously military only technologies now common place, could civilians build or civilian companies produce military systems.
For example. A Radar is now just a few thousand $ for a pretty nifty setup with conciderable range and computing power. Raymarine offer several that can be networked over a "seatalk" (sort of ethernet) network using cat 5.
It can talk to PC's and other sensors such as sonar, air speed, etc.
Could out of these one produce a civilian missile system for say a private vessel or a commercial vessel?
Missiles could be Hellfire sized, solid propellant, with GPS and inertial guidance with a data link (say 433mhz type) with position data initally provided by the radar. I would imagine the radar could even provide updates of missile and target positions to ensure accuracy. Controlled by a PIC, working with a trajectory of the target and a timeframe (for slow water borne threats, such a system would not be suitable to protect against air threats).
The sort of thing that would be able to disable small boats frequently used by pirates and the like. Disabling past rifle range.
For example. A Radar is now just a few thousand $ for a pretty nifty setup with conciderable range and computing power. Raymarine offer several that can be networked over a "seatalk" (sort of ethernet) network using cat 5.
It can talk to PC's and other sensors such as sonar, air speed, etc.
Could out of these one produce a civilian missile system for say a private vessel or a commercial vessel?
Missiles could be Hellfire sized, solid propellant, with GPS and inertial guidance with a data link (say 433mhz type) with position data initally provided by the radar. I would imagine the radar could even provide updates of missile and target positions to ensure accuracy. Controlled by a PIC, working with a trajectory of the target and a timeframe (for slow water borne threats, such a system would not be suitable to protect against air threats).
The sort of thing that would be able to disable small boats frequently used by pirates and the like. Disabling past rifle range.