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> Directional laser beams are orders of magnitude to jam compared to radio wave. That alone makes it of big interest for military applications, even with 500 ms
by shagie 8mo ago
> Directional laser beams are orders of magnitude to jam compared to radio wave. That alone makes it of big interest for military applications, even with 500 ms latency.
I am reminded of RFC 1217 - Memo from the Consortium for Slow Commotion Research (CSCR) https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1217 https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1217
2. Jam-Resistant Land Mobile Communications
This system uses a highly redundant optical communication technique
to achieve ultra-low, ultra-robust transmission. The basic unit is
the M1A1 tank. Each tank is labelled with the number 0 or 1 painted
four feet high on the tank turret in yellow, day-glo luminescent
paint. Several detection methods are under consideration:
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- Spoom 8mo agoI love that this was ostensibly written by Vint Cerf.
- shagie 8mo agoIt's listed in his computer science bibliography https://dblp.org/pid/c/VintonGCerf.html https://dblp.org/pid/c/VintonGCerf.html and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vint_Cerf#Author https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vint_Cerf#Author Though the edit for that authorship to the RFC came much later. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc1217/history/ https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc1217/history/