On 8/21/22, jim bell <jdb10987@yahoo.com> wrote:
I suppose it should be possible to geo-limit these weapons to prevent them from being used outside a pre-defined area.
Sure anything with a seeker in it depends on ASIC electronic packages that could have that embedded. Then what do you do when the enemy jams, kills, or owns your GPS, ask them nicely to go home? Program it to fallback open so the buyer can wrap the GPS chip in tinfoil RF shielding? Tell your allies/proxies/agents on the ground the "secret" override code? Won't stay secret, unentered, uncaptured, or unsold for long. Reset or disable the self-destruct timer... ditto. Or the local black market underground arms trafficker rips out your ASIC and puts their own Heathkit controller in it, think it can still hit a fat airbus 1km past the airport fence? The PAL's on nukes didn't depend on comms, and were literally all zero's for years, and are still left easy enough to launch by agreeing to or otherwise overriding human controls when SHTF, for similar reasons. People don't buy guns with bio readers, wifi chips, batteries, etc... they need them to go bang when they pull the trigger. Analysts are right though, each time one of these sorts of wars happens, it becomes a bit less safer to fly. And you'd need arms control treaties for mutuality. Cheap man portable arms... someone somewhere will still print them out of Raspberry-Pi's and a rocket kit and sell them. Medieval combat, melees ships cavalry biplanes firing lines... at least those were honest, and safer. Humans haven't been able to keep from opening Pandora's Box, or to put any of their Genie's back in the Bottle. Seems updating their minds with the NAP might get them farther than updating their weapons with the latest technology.