[Xastir] feature request

[Brian D Heaton]

Those unilateral test ban treaties are rough.




On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 14:42, Scott Miller wrote:
> > Why only mortar fire?  The real issue is to communicate the
> > request-for-fire message, with a proper ACK, and transmit the requested
> > target coordinates via APRS message.  Once that has been transmitted,
> > the AFECC (APRS Fires & Effects Coordination Cell) will utilize embedded
> > databases to match the most effective platform with the transmitted
> 
> Heh... I actually started working on an idea for something like this.  We've
> got a pretty active paintball group around here, and I've already gone into
> combat with a helmet-mounted camera and ATV transmitter, so a GPS and
> tracker (probably on FRS) isn't much of a stretch.  A friend and I were
> developing a paintball mortar (commercial models exist for $1000+), but were
> persuaded by our significant others to abandon the effort after a failure
> during back-yard testing resulted in a broken window and a fair amount of
> ABS shrapnel on the roof.  (My partner in this effort was a safety engineer,
> too.)
> 
> Of course, fancy targeting systems aside, the big problem with paintball
> mortars is being able to lob a non-lethal shell a useful distance with some
> degree of accuracy, without it bursting on launch.
> 
> We're thinking that the answer may lie in a paintball trebuchet.  Which also
> has the advantage of not being under a spouse-imposed development ban.  Yet.
> 
> Scott
> N1VG
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