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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Lurker Emeritus: [QB] NASA has a tighter budget than the US Airforce, and NASA doesn't need or want to read your drivers licence from low orbit. NASA just wants to look at weather patterns, geological features, ocean currents and wave formations on the sea surface etc. For many such applications, NASA and similar agencies will use millimeter wave radar. So they're not that bothered about achieving that kind of resolution in the visual spectrum as this would only come at the expense of other equipment on the satellite, and would drain the budget from other projects. I'm afraid that example doesn't stack up. Makes a nice soundbite for a documentary though. Among other examples of lag time resulting in market obsolescence of military hardware are the Type 45 AAW destroyers, will use an operating system based on Windows 95. The Eurofighter uses components that were state of the art in the 80's, which is when the design freeze occured. Even Tranche 3 won't improve too much on this situation, as you can't change out too many of these components without building a new plane. The F-35 will come into service post 2010, but when it does so numerous essential components will already be obsolete in market terms. Granted, most of this covers only computer components and software, but by the same token, this is the area in which the advantage lies. Both sides can be similarly equipped, but if one side has a combat management system that is ten times better, the odds are immediately stacked in their favour. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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