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

On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Jeff Hancock wrote:
> 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.

DOH! ok, so it's no use for contacting your local battery, but it might
still work for more static things like cp's. otoh, maybe it wouldn't. or
maybe you'd just need really, really long fibres,

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

yes. the answer to this, and to some extent to your first point, is
basically to blanket your active area with fibres, so no matter where
you
are, no matter where the other guy is, you have a fibre you can use.
plus,
there are so many fibres that the enemy doesn't know which to follow.

> Just beign the devil's advocate here ;-)

many thanks.

ok, i consider this idea pretty much dropped. it obviously won't work so
let's not bother arguing about why not.

Tom

ps that last paragraph was reverse psychology - soon, i'll have everyone
arguing *for* my idea! bwahahaha!