Where does engineering war go in the next five years?
Where does engineering war go in the next five years?
(OP)
Being more chirurgical, more urban, more psychological or more based in economic sanctions?
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS Come Join Us!Are you an
Engineering professional? Join Eng-Tips Forums!
*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail. Posting GuidelinesJobs |
Where does engineering war go in the next five years?
|
RE: Where does engineering war go in the next five years?
RE: Where does engineering war go in the next five years?
----------------------------------
I don't suffer from insanity. I enjoy it...
RE: Where does engineering war go in the next five years?
RE: Where does engineering war go in the next five years?
RE: Where does engineering war go in the next five years?
Ed
www.engineerboards.com
RE: Where does engineering war go in the next five years?
----------------------------------
I don't suffer from insanity. I enjoy it...
RE: Where does engineering war go in the next five years?
Key issues will include the environment (avoiding GW, see another thread) but I guess everyone will be spending more and more money on taking care of their own environmental impact in order to do business.
Doing normal business will be tougher because some governments will regard the environment taxes as just another revenue stream (no hypothecation).
There will be a continuing rise in environmental engineering companies, consultancies etc.
JMW
www.ViscoAnalyser.com
RE: Where does engineering war go in the next five years?
RE: Where does engineering war go in the next five years?
Where's the sense in using a $100,000 + weapon to take out a $10000 truck or $100 tent etc....
There's been a lot of talk about it and some progress but I'm yet to be convinced.
Plus the whole low collateral damage thing is a double edged weapon.
RE: Where does engineering war go in the next five years?
RE: Where does engineering war go in the next five years?
I wonder how many times a day that thought passes through ol' GW's otherwise empty head? I also wonder how often it occurs to our lying scuzzball Prime Minister who is more concerned with securing a place in history than he is in honesty, integrity, the future of our nation, or any of the other trivia which he was elected to uphold.
----------------------------------
I don't suffer from insanity. I enjoy it...
RE: Where does engineering war go in the next five years?
Cheap on the fly weapons of the future will be simple GPS/satellite guided kinetic weapons (bowling balls with fins) fired from positional autonomous satellites in orbit.
"Art without engineering is dreaming; Engineering without art is calculating."
Steven K. Roberts, Technomad
Have you read FAQ731-376 to make the best use of Eng-Tips Forums?
RE: Where does engineering war go in the next five years?
Japan, 1945?
Horrific? Absolutely. Effective at ending the war? Undoubtedly. Justifiable? I'm not sure. It is easy to look back and judge with the benefit of sixty years of collective hindsight, but I'm sure the decision was not taken without huge deliberation at the time. I hope our descendants will not have to sit in a similar discussion sixty years into the future pondering the rights and wrongs of whatever may be unfolding today.
----------------------------------
I don't suffer from insanity. I enjoy it...
RE: Where does engineering war go in the next five years?
Check out FCS (Future Combat Systems). This is where the money is spent.
http://www.army.mil/fcs/index.html
RE: Where does engineering war go in the next five years?
One does not need to be an elected official to really dislike collateral damage.
Steve Braune
Tank Industry Consultants
www.tankindustry.com
RE: Where does engineering war go in the next five years?
Hopefully we start expanding technologies that help us obtain the security we need while avoiding them.
RE: Where does engineering war go in the next five years?
You make my point - that the dislike of collateral damage is politcally driven; i.e. that you would complain to your congressperson if you saw senseless killing, and he (regardless of his own feelings) must consider your (and the consensus of millions like you) views if he wishes to remain in office.
RE: Where does engineering war go in the next five years?