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

At 3:37 PM +0300 7/8/08, John Atkinson wrote:
>
>I leave it to other people to discuss the question of whether there
>are alternate techniques available to a force of Hypothetical PSB-Tech
>which can pinpoint one's location without sats.  If you know where the
>artillery piece is and where the observer is to a high degree of
>precision, then with a modern laser rangefinder you can find distance
>and direction from the observer.  Calculating the target's location is
>a matter of a heartbeat for a computer, and then dropping precision
>fire on his head doesn't take long once you have this information.

Presumably, if you're the defender, you can get 
some good ground mapping radar maps of your 
terrain performed forthwith.

You could even survey the old fashioned way and 
build from there, you might have to adjust a few 
times however.

If you're the attacker, then you could likely do 
the exact same thing where it regards ground 
mapping radar on your initial scouting prior to 
landing forces in order to get your good maps 
updated as well as part of your recce of the 
defensive positions. Current technology has 3 
meter resolution off of what the shuttle carries 
for such purposes. I'd expect the future would 
have far greater resolution (up to what's useful 
for the purposes) and far quicker transmittal 
time of the high resolution data to the end 
users. You are of course going to be lacking 
street names.
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