Defensie part X. Jubileum!

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Op woensdag 30 juni 2004 00:38 schreef Merkava_IV het volgende:


@ Wuder. Klinkt leuk, dat camperen. _{Dat spioneren en foto's maken van nederlandse bases minder}

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Op woensdag 30 juni 2004 00:43 schreef Wuder het volgende:

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Ja.. ik ben nu denk ik niet fit genoeg voor militaire dienst kijkend naar de hoeveelheid alcohol dat genuttigd werd

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Op woensdag 30 juni 2004 00:46 schreef Merkava_IV het volgende:

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Alcohol... geef mij maar wiet. Maar daarmee is het ook afgelopen gezien mijn toekomstplannen bij de landmacht...

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Op woensdag 30 juni 2004 00:49 schreef Piro het volgende:

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Wat vind je van mijn hoed?
_{Ik ben overigens iets meer Slavisch en Latijns dan Germaans.}

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Op dinsdag 29 juni 2004 19:27 schreef SHERMAN het volgende:

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Op woensdag 30 juni 2004 13:59 schreef icecreamfarmer_NL het volgende:
ben ik weer

zo`n railgun blaast dat niet door een tank heen

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Op woensdag 30 juni 2004 14:33 schreef Piro het volgende:

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Ik moet opdrachten afmaken, anders mag ik niet over, ik ben net gebeld, dus als je het niet erg vindt ga ik even prioriteiten stellen.

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Op woensdag 30 juni 2004 00:46 schreef Merkava_IV het volgende:


geef mij maar wiet. Maar daarmee is het ook afgelopen gezien mijn toekomstplannen bij de landmacht...

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Op woensdag 30 juni 2004 15:20 schreef HarigeKerel het volgende:

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Je moest eens weten hoeveel weed er doorheen gaat bij de landmacht in een weekend volgens de geruchten

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The U.S. Army is sending more than three hundred Commander’s Digital Assistant (CDA) hand held computers to Iraq with platoon leaders and company commanders later this year. This CDA is a new design, based on experience with CDAs sent to Iraq last year. The CDA is basically a militarized PDA (Personal Digital Assistant, like the Palm). PDA technology is changing so fast, especially by traditional military procurement standards, that the army expects to have a new version of the CDA every year or so. The 2005 model (shipping out later this year) will have satellite phone capability and be able to download maps, along with instructions overlayed on the maps. The army is taking advantage of cheaper, and more compact, memory available to provide this vital map download feature. It’s now possible to equip a PDA with a gigabyte, or more, of flash (like used in digital cameras) memory. Most users are unaware of the fact that their cell phones, PDAs and iPods have all become, basically, hand held computers. All of these use the StrongArm or XScale CPU, a processor chip designed years ago for small devices, and continually updated (and now owned by Intel, which supplies over 80 percent of the CPUs for laptops and desktop computers.) Some PDAs, like the iPaqs, have long been considered handheld computers, using a PDA version of the Windows operating system and PDA versions of WORD and Excel. Even the iPod MP3 player has an operating system, display manager, database manager, hard drive hardware and software and digital sound hardware and software.

In the last year, PDAs and cell phones have been merging, which is where the new CDA came from. The army needs a combat PDA that can communicate, preferably via satellite, and can display visual information (like maps). The new CDA will do both, and their use in Iraq will provide a lot of feedback from officers about what software, hardware and graphics improvements are needed. The army is already concerned with battery usage, and getting the graphics to work just right, and be easy to use. The basic idea is to keep platoon leaders (and platoon sergeants, who will probably end up with CDAs as well) constantly informed about what their commanders want, and what new information is available about the enemy. With the satellite communications link, new information about the enemy situation can be constantly sent. Of course, the new CDAs will have the “Blue Force Tracker” technology that will constantly show the location of all nearby friendly platoons, tanks and combat aircraft on the PDA screen. Instead of, as in the past, the company commander trying to explain to his lieutenants, over the radio, what the new plan is, he just sketches out a new plan on his CDA, and transmits it to his platoon leaders (and the battalion commander, so his boss knows what’s going on as well.) The young officers have taken to the new technology enthusiastically, as many have been taking their own personal PDAs into combat and training exercises for years. This is the Nintendo generation at war.

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Op woensdag 30 juni 2004 16:43 schreef icecreamfarmer_NL het volgende:
saddam heeft trouwens geprobeert een kanon te bouwen wat dingen in de ruimte kon schieten maar wat ook het vasteland van de vs kon raken.
de ingenieur die het bedacht had is waarschijnlijk door 1 van de geheime diensten vermoord