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From: alfalfa@milton.u.washington.edu (Corey Lawson)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: M1 Tanks
Message-ID: <1991Apr29.051449.5259@amd.com>
Date: 24 Apr 91 19:00:59 GMT
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From: alfalfa@milton.u.washington.edu (Corey Lawson)


Hmm...As far as automatic goes, I think that if the TC sees a target
that he really likes, for one reason or another ("Oh shit...it's
pointing its gun at us, we'd better kill it" milli-second thought) then
he can hit a button which will slew the turret around, thusly
overriding the gunner's control.  But they really didn't go into too
much detail about the actual operation of the system.

But the "avionics" (tankionics?) would become more "nintendo-ized", in
that there would be more computer controls/displays to make the
workload on the crew less, as far as information processing.  It
actually looked kind of neat, from the pictures I remember...still
looked like a tank, tho...

-corey lawson
alfalfa@milton