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Re: [GZG] Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi! - Artillery



On Jul 8, 2008, at 7:41 AM, germ@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> In a Sci-Fi planet assault scenario your unlikely to have GPS to  
> rely on.
> Does modern day artillery without GPS become no better than it's  
> WWII ancestor?
>

My take is that in a future like that a scan of the planet surface  
would have already been done......allowing ortillery / strikes /  
arty. to range in to within 50 meters.

I mean really now -- if technology has advanced so far that you're  
talking about assaulting another planet why not go all the way?

D.



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