Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!fwi.uva.nl!zoe!schraag From: schraag@fwi.uva.nl (Joost Schraag) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: Shooting pigeons Message-ID: <1991Mar28.152327.5888@fwi.uva.nl> Date: 28 Mar 91 15:23:27 GMT References: <4754@syma.sussex.ac.uk> <1991Mar27.215225.25491@ims.alaska.edu> Sender: news@fwi.uva.nl Reply-To: schraag@fwi.uva.nl (Joost Schraag) Organization: Universiteit van Amsterdam Lines: 38 Nntp-Posting-Host: zoe.fwi.uva.nl In article <1991Mar27.215225.25491@ims.alaska.edu> (of comp.ai) fnwlr1@acad3.alaska.edu wrote: + In article , moskowit@paul.rutgers.edu (Len Moskowitz) writes... + >I'm surprised that no one has pointed out that this problem has been + >addressed and solved very nicely using traditional ( non-AI) + >technologies. No AI is needed to track a ballistic target, determine + >its centroid, and to aim and fire a weapon. + > + + I was also waiting for someone else to point out that we already have + a system to do this and more... they call it Patroit. Good luck getting + the designers to answer technical questions though. :-) + + + --------------------------------------------------------------------- + Walter Rutherford + P.O. Box 83273 \ / Computers are NOT intelligent; + Fairbanks, Alaska 99708 - X - + / \ they just think they are! + fnwlr1@acad3.alaska.edu + --------------------------------------------------------------------- Another system is the GoalKeeper, made by Holland Signaal. It is a high speed Gatling Gun, and is able to intercept Exocet-rockets. Dutch navy- ships use them when the Exocet goes through the first anti-missile-missile defence. The GoalKeeper shoots 4200 grenates a minute in the path of the Exocet, causing it to fly into a wall of steel. They do use a realtime tracking system, however i think the details are secret. Sorry, i don't have the adress of Holland Signaal. Using this gun on clay-pigeons will have a high strike-rate. joost. -- Joost Schraag e-mail: schraag@fwi.uva.nl ICBM: 52.22`N 04.54`E