Comments by "bighand69" (@bighands69) on "Asianometry" channel.

  1.  @michaeltotten7508  Jobs and Gates developed products and were not cutting edge computer engineers. IBM, HP and several other counties played a more important part in early computing.
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  2. Even tanks could launch them as an eye in the sky that could then mark their targets for the main gun with absolute precision. It could also be used to create either smoke or strobing targets for all manner of attack points.
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  3. I am afraid that is just nonsense.
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  4.  @michaeltotten7508  I meant counties in the context of places such as silicon valley and Boston but it was not a very well made statement as it was difficult to read. I do think that Jobs and Gates were engineers but they used existing market products and did not invent anything really. What they were good at was taking existing platforms and then developing them into products.
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  5. A Switchblade 300 is something around $6000 per launch and an anti tank RPG such as a AT4 is about $1500 a launch. A Switchblade 300 could take out a APC or truck that costs hundreds of thousands.
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  6. They were an invaluable tool for special operations in afghanistan. Forward patron USMC teams also used them. They have been sent into Ukraine as well. The thing about these types of systems is that they will be on everything from tanks to helicopters as an extra attack and recon tool.
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  7. If anybody believes that the USSR was third in the world in computing in the 1950s they they are naive. The USSR never had a high tech industrial base. It had a heavy engineering industrial base due to them having lots of energy and iron reserves.
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  8. Detection will be the key challenge and that will require lots of research especially for mobile counter units that can figure out what is up there. Then to counter that it will be stealth mini drones with low thermal profiles and so on.
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  9.  @iain3713  I think the A10 has better battlefield presence and control than a SU-25 has not because it was better designed just due to its natural characteristics.
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  10. Sometimes precision is not needed they just need to hit a building or a defensive position or pepper a vehicle. It only takes one or two of those rounds to take out a vehicle. Next gen A-10 will have more accurate fire systems.
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  11. Flak systems are going to be coming back and they will be automated. Something like C-RAM only much smaller and with counter airburst capabilities. These types of drones will also be used to pinpoint troop positions so that everything can then target the troops. We right now are at a point similar to aircraft being introduced in WW1.
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  12.  Armament Armed Arm  It shows they do not have the ability industrially to create such large scale systems.
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  13. Spent rounds are so easy to detect and they are not a kinetic risk like an landmine so if there is a major war it would not be that difficult to find them and also recycle them if need be.
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  14. What about tanks that have air defence systems and their own switchblade defence systems.
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  15. Nonsense. Troops love them as they can be very effective.
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  16.  @RedLancerMoto  That makes no sense.
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  17. Until you have been in battle and require support from something like an A-10 you can take that mathematically draw report and ...... Troops love the A-10 as it offers a fixed wing support that nothing out there even comes close to.
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  18. ASML is no strictly a dutch company. Its backbone is build on US industry.
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  19. Pigs will someday fly and there really are fairy godmothers.
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  20. A spoon could be used to kill somebody as could a vehicle. The reality of the world is that evil people are finding more ingenious ways to attack the world. And to counter that the Switchblade is the answer. Look at Ukraine right now and how it is being invaded.
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  21. Only the best technical economies will be able to create defensive systems and by the time other nations catch onto it and develop counter measure this will have been a forty year old technology.
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  22.  @tyrantfox7801  US systems are all about accuracy and rapid movement. They are designed to integrate with existing systems.
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  23. Still not as close to the action as an A-10.
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  24. Hard work? Where down a mine as a child called semiconductor industry.
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  25. Working for Intel is nothing like working as a slave. Hell it is not even comparable to sweeping the street or gardening.
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  26. There is probably 60 years remaining of Moore's law.
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