Re: Tank vision systems

In a message dated 2/3/00 8:18:26 AM Central Standard Time, 
books@mail.state.fl.us writes:

<< 
 Get out and look?  Why, when your tank is not only feeding you
 the world enhanced but the sattelite imagery is feeding you 
 realtime pictures at .5 meter resolution and you have copies
 of a full scan when the satellite is "unavailable"?
  >>

Yes! Get out and look - but besides that - even if they do look at a 360
scan 
down to the smallest ant on the battlefield: 1)Human beings will still
want 
to observe with their EYES 2) The more eyes looking and brains
processing the 
better 3) Crewed weapopns are more efficient killing machines from the
point 
of view of human psychology and one man doth not a crew make 4) Outside 
sensors are easily foxable or knocked askew or out of operation in the 
artillery barrage that precedes an attack or counter-attack. The Human
Eye 
will still be the primary sensor of any human operated or human
moderated 
system in the forseeable future - even when you turn the battle over to
the 
computer (al a Aegis system) their is human moderation of the event - at

least as soon as the magazines are dry.