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From the end of the article: > “Giorgio Licciardi, an expert on collecting hyperspectral data from orbit at the Italian Space Agency, in Rome, says the technol
by pcl 4y ago
From the end of the article:
> “Giorgio Licciardi, an expert on collecting hyperspectral data from orbit at the Italian Space Agency, in Rome, says the technology even detects buried anti-tank mines. (Soil on top of them is typically drier.)”
- mrtnmcc 4y agoMaybe in a controlled setting they can detect mines, but there are plenty of other reasons for dry soil, i.e. hard to detect consistently without false positives. For tank camouflage that's all you need, something that blends in with false positives.
- XorNot 4y agoNo you need enough false positives that your adversary won't find it cost-effective to just commit a missile to all of them.
- snovv_crash 4y agoWouldn't a 50cal round be more cost effective?
- ale42 4y agoYes but you can't launch it from far away...
- Tommstein 4y agoNo, that won't even tickle a tank.
- hutzlibu 4y agoIt could destroy some sensors and even the tracks if lucky, but I think parent poster meant the burried mines.
- 1letterunixname 4y agoBefore the M2 Bradley, US APCs generally lacked meaningful armor. 50 BMG would sail right through.
- rbanffy 4y agoIIRC, the Bradley got armour because it looked too much like a tank and that made it a more valuable target. Isn’t targeting APCs considered a faux pas in war, a little less bad than hitting an ambulance, but still not nice?
- nordsieck 4y ago> Isn’t targeting APCs considered a faux pas in war, a little less bad than hitting an ambulance, but still not nice? It is not a faux pas - they are legal targets. Not sure what you mean by "not nice". All of war is "not nice". Unless you're Pyro from TF2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUhOnX8qt3I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUhOnX8qt3I
- ukuina 4y agoThat level of hallucination is certainly going to come in handy when creating military LLMs!
- TeMPOraL 4y agoI'm already imaging the integrated helmet AR HUD, with a (remote-operated) switch that just appends "in the style of Pyro's hallucinations in Team Fortress 2" to the prompt for the transformer sitting between your eyes and the helmet cams...
- Tommstein 4y ago> IIRC, the Bradley got armour because it looked too much like a tank and that made it a more valuable target. They have meaningful armor because they're actually IFVs (Infantry Fighting Vehicles), not plain APCs, they're designed so the soldiers can fight from inside them, which is hard to do from inside Swiss cheese. > Isn’t targeting APCs considered a faux pas in war, a little less bad than hitting an ambulance, but still not nice? No, there's no military on Earth that's going to let the enemy peacefully transport their soldiers around in APCs if they can help it.