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Comment Re:Really? (Score 2, Interesting) 319

Not Quite, the Development of longer ranged CIWS like Laser CIWS, RAM block 2, ect are making the chance of killing systems like BrahMos harder to wield effectively.

The Range of the Missile Defense systems varies from things like GBI which cover whole continents down to Irondome which cover villages. To say that this makes missile defense obsolete is disingenuous at best.

Comment Re:Huh? (Score 1) 319

A low flying supersonic object will not be stealthy at all.

There is nothing inherently unstealthy about supersonic. The F-22 is supersonic [cruise] and stealthy.

Heat. Supersonic at low levels means lots of heat. Moving fast at low speeds makes it easier to find you in the radar clutter as we can filter out everything moving bellow say, 500 miles and hour.

Comment Re:Huh? (Score 1) 319

I believe what the GP meant (and how I interpreted what he wrote) is that there's no apparent benefit of a supersonic cruise missile over a supersonic ballistic missile. If you are going for speed, it can be detected, so you might as well make the missile ballistic and go for maximum speed.

Except, I can shoot down your ballistic missiles a whole lot easier than I can your Cruise missiles because your ballistic missiles are over the horizon for a lot longer. Literally shooting down ICBMs is easy - think skeet shooting with computers, and you have a good idea. Systems integration is a bitch, but it always will be.

Comment Re:Really? - NO (Score 2, Insightful) 319

The first?

This is incorrect. In the late 1950's the US developed the 'Hound Dog' AGM-28 (GAM-77/GAM-77A under the designation system at the time). In Service in 1960, the Hound Dog was unique in that the turbojet that it carried could be run off of the carrying B-52's fuel, practically allowing the use of the engines on Both Hound Dogs during takeoff. While not as fast as BrahMos, the Hound Dog could fly Three and a half times further, and could carry a nuclear weapon (no doubt in my mind that the Indias have a nuclear BrahMos in the works).

Source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-28_Hound_Dog

Comment Nothing sacred (Score 1) 115

Someone above me mentioned Metadata - the Closed caption data is already included in a search-able form, this we don't need to regenerate the metadata.

Also now I can direct link to Obama saying "It helps in Ohio that we got Democrats in charge of the machines" (relating to the election infrastructure).

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/280876-1 (34:31)

Games

Revisiting the "Holy Trinity" of MMORPG Classes 362

A feature at Gamasutra examines one of the foundations of many MMORPGs — the idea that class roles within such a game fall into three basic categories: tank, healer, and damage dealer. The article evaluates the pros and cons of such an arrangement and takes a look at some alternatives. "Eliminating specialized roles means that we do away with boxing a class into a single role. Without Tanks, each class would have features that would help them participate in and survive many different encounters like heavy armor, strong avoidance, or some class or magical abilities that allow them to disengage from direct combat. Without specialized DPS, all classes should be able to do damage in order to defeat enemies. Some classes might specialize in damage type, like area of effect (AoE) damage; others might be able to exploit enemy weaknesses, and some might just be good at swinging a sharpened bit of metal in the right direction at a rapid rate. This design isn't just about having each class able to fill any trinity role. MMO combat would feel more dynamic in this system. Every player would have to react to combat events and defend against attacks."

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