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>From: m23364@mwunix (James Meritt)
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Subject: Re: 21st Century Soldier
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Date: 14 Sep 92 17:48:47 GMT
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In article <11SEP199211584293@dstl86.gsfc.nasa.gov> olson@dstl86.gsfc.nasa.gov (Paul Olson) writes:
}In article <1992Sep11.041641.9944@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu>, rwmurphr@crusader.ecn.uoknor.edu (Robert W Murphree) writes...
}>according to an article in the last month or so of new scientist.
}>The soldier of tomorrow will carry a laser to blind other soldiers.
}>and wear goggles to save his own eyes.  Expect battlefield opthalmalic
}>surgery to be a big part of 21rst century MASH units.
}
}Yes, and cheap chemical smoke can block multimillion dollar lasers.

Point:  Remember who's gunsights worked in the northern battle where the oil
smoke was REAL think:  the iraqi tanks or the higher tec US tanks.  The first
clue (according to reports) that the iraqis had was when their forces started
exploding.  The smoke was so think that they couldn't detect, but the US
systems could not only detect but could target.

But along the same lines, a water mist (water is cheap) can take a lot of the
non-shock effects away from a nuc strike at sea.


