Re: Railgun Research: Barrrel Design or Power Supply

From: Dirk Bruere at Neopax (dirk_at_neopax.com)
Date: 03/14/05 

Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 01:52:24 +0000

Roger Moore wrote:

> Dirk Bruere at Neopax <dirk@neopax.com> writes:
>
>
>>An IFF that will disable the warheads of an incoming friendly missile
>>does not seem impossible.
>
>
> Not impossible, but not necessarily a good idea, either. It seems to me
> that the risk of having all your missiles rendered ineffective if the
> enemy can mimic your IFF signal isn't worth the benefit of eliminating
> friendly fire incidents.
>
> IFF only works well if you can change your codes faster than the enemy can
> capture them and use them to fool you. That works OK with airplanes
> because there aren't that many of them and they routinely have to return
> to base where the codes can be changed. It won't be nearly as easy to
> update all of tanks and all of your missiles with new codes, and I'd
> expect that a clever enemy could discover and take advantage of your IFF
> codes very quickly once he had captured a few transponders to let him know
> how the system works.

There are ways around that problem. 

-- 
Dirk
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