Ill take that a step further; ill try and spoof your IFF signal. I had to
sit through two miserable courses in university on signals and systems; i
might as well make use of them :P

In all seriousness, while I and many other people are no doubt trying for
the prize, there is a reason its been unclaimed for ten years...
On 2013-12-10 9:01 AM, "TyngTech" <steve...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Add in an IR camera, an IR flashing beacon on friendlies, and don’t shoot
>> within X feet of a friendly.
>>
>> IFF, that's the crux of the whole issue isn't it?  It's been proven time
> and again that anybody with some brains and Google can build an
> autotracking paintball gun that shots anything moving.  Throw in the wee
> little problem of not shooting friendlies and the Pitelli prize turns into
> a far off thing like a Mars colony or Frank obeying the five foot rule ;-).
>  I'm all for innovation but I won't be putting any devices on my tank that
> tells another it's ok to shoot it.  If you want to field your own little
> personal Bolo <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolo_(tank)>, then it's going
> to have to determine friend or foe by the same method currently in use, by
> visual recognition.  If you can crack that nut, the Pittelli prize will be
> nothing to what BAE or any other beltway bandit will be willing to pay you.
>
> Steve
>
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