hi, They are not working very well or US since the iraqi's are using gps jammers and US are already in a row with russians claiming that they sold it to iraq.
Regards Sarath. --- Tim May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday, March 25, 2003, at 03:30 AM, Ken Brown > wrote: > > > Declan McCullagh wrote: > > > >>> Or perhaps we'll see someone take a > GPS-controlled small plane, which > >>> can carry 1,000 lbs, and turn it into a flying > bomb or delivery > >>> system > >>> for something quite noxious. These planes can be > rented by the hour > >>> at > >>> hundreds of small to medium sized airports > around the U.S. Though I > >>> don't know if the autopilot is configurable > enough to let an attacker > >>> program it to head to a certain altitude at a > certain location and > >>> then bail out via parachute. > > > > Another novel that came out with the idea - and > the first one to > > explicitly mention GPS AFAIR - was "The Moon > Goddess and the Son" by > > Donald Kingsbury from 1987 (incorporating parts > from stories in Analog > > back in the 1970s) which has an Afghan refugee > studying aero > > engineering in the US and setting up light planes > to autopilot an > > attack on the Kremlin. (To be honest when I first > heard the news about > > 9/11 that's what I thought might have happened - > until I saw a TV > > screen I didn't realise they were passenger > planes) > > And of course it was in 1987 that the German > teenager Matthias Rust > flew a Cessna over the border into the USSR and > buzzed Red Square, so > it's not clear who had the idea first. > > (I remember the name but not the year, so I used > Google to find it.) > > The general idea of using "asymmetric warfare," via > RC planes, bombs, > etc., is really not very new. Torching an enemy's > village in the middle > of the night is a time-honored form of asymmetric > warfare, though the > War Lawyers have been trying to force armies to wear > Official Uniforms > and march in Official Patterns. > > > --Tim May > "That the said Constitution shall never be construed > to authorize > Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press > or the rights of > conscience; or to prevent the people of the United > States who are > peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms." > --Samuel Adams > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com
