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To: bentway who wrote (196050)	8/8/2006 10:22:10 AM
From: neolib	Respond to of 281500

It seems to me that it should be fairly technically easy to design a "fail-safe" targeting system for shoulder fired missiles that would just home on on the nearest largest mass of ferrous metal if nothing were hit. Then, they might not kill the tank, but they'd hardly EVER miss the tank. Vision sensors, DSPs and algorithms are at the point were quite sophiticated targeting can be done. I really think you will see "toy" rockets (12" type size) with a few grams of plastic explosives used as anti-personal weapons in the next few years to a decade. They would be dirt cheap (<$20 in quantity) and could be fired from hidden positions, so you don't need to stick your head out. When that happens, it is goodbye to foot patrols as well. I think in the future, the asymmetry in warfare will be entrenched defenders have the upperhand for holding territory.