Re: daft weapon #1803 was RE: [GZG] [HIST] Military Hackers

Good idea, but 2 counter ideas:

1.    Can you say "shoot and scoot"?  With today's counter-battery
capabilities, the shoot and scoot would seem to make this method
inpractical.

2.    Is the enemy going to find these and send scouts/LRRP out to
take-out
the artillery/command/etc.?

Just beign the devil's advocate here ;-)

Jeff Hancock
mailto:  jhancock@pilot.infi.net

>ok, here's the deal: a cargo shell fired from a regular 205mm or
whatever
>howitzer, which bursts in the air and unspools millions of optical
>fibres (thinner and much, much tougher than current ones) over the area
>between your local FLOT and your artillery. grunts on the front lines
just
>pick up a handful of fibres, and shine a signal beam down them. the
>signals guy with the battery looks out for glowing fibre tips (ie ones
>with grunts on the other end) and jacks them into his transceiver. this
>sends a signal light back; the grunts see this and jack into their
>transceiver. thus, a circuit is established. if it breaks, find another
>fibre and repeat. with practice, and with all the battery ends
collected
>in one place, this should be quite quick.