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To: neolib who wrote (195867)	8/7/2006 8:43:30 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I disagree about any one specific technology making tanks useless. using ultra wide band coupled with band hopping based on a random bit pattern. This allowed the transmitter and receiver to operate continously, but be virtually undetectable. I'm no radar expert at all, but it sounds like both a stealth killer AND immune to detection It would be harder to detect, not immune from detection, and it might be something of a counter-measure to stealth technologies but not a final solution. Counter-measure and counter counter measure battles would continue, and the US is likely to continue to have an edge over any of our adversaries for the time being. Which isn't to say that the spread of some technologies might not erode our lead, but its a constant back and forth battle between technologies and also different tactics. It isn't normally the type of thing where one new type of technology comes out which quickly makes major categories of weapons obsolete. Not that such a thing never happens, you don't see a lot of pikes on a modern battlefield, or heavy calvary units, but most changes go back and forth for a long time before a major type of weapon is simply eliminated as useless.