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Originally Posted by wathomas777
Yes it's crazy. But you always work on your closest contacts. And once you nail the solution for a contact, then you don't have to pay him much mind anymore, until he changes course or speed.
But yes, it is organized chaos. I'm pretty sure that it's a bit different now. Computers can probably do all the manual stuff pretty easily now.
But back in the 80's that's how it was done.
The shocking thing was I expected 688's to be marvels of modern technology, only to find out our laptop computers were more powerful than the ones running our fire control stations.
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Hehe. There is a reason the military is using more and more COTS in their platforms (F-15, Virginia class submarines, M1 tanks). Especially in this day and age of cyber resilience it is super important.
For instance, a smartphone will have more computing power than the F-22 computers. Sure they are super specialised but if you want to DDOS a military craft it doesn't take too much.
It is a combination of open technology (as in there are international conferences and It is discussed publicaly) in the civilian sector and the vast amounts of money spent on said technology. Last year alone, more money was spent in the gaming computer market (gaming peripherals like, certain CPUs, GPUs and soundcard for some reason) than tge entire UK defense budget. If you look at computing market and smartphone market combined you get almost as much as the global defense budget. New times... And these big ticket military purchases take time to build and be deployed. For instance, the new dreadnoughts form the Royal Navy are 2006 tech. By the time they are deployed it will be the 2030s and they are to remain in service until 2070 or so. Can you imagine using a computer from 2006 nowadays? I have a work laptop from 2009 (ThinkPad W510) and CW is one of the few games I can play in it. If I need to process satellite images in it it takes ages and it is generally not the fastest at doing anything (still runs though).
Anyway, found your remark interesting and kind of turned into a rant...