Re:The Myth of Consumer-Grade Security
by jascii on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @01:45PM
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Do you have any examples of that? In my experience the military tends to be extremely conservative and prefers well-proven designs. For example: The RCA1802, a processor launched in 1972 is still being manufactured mostly because of its use in military applications (guidance system of the Tomahawk Cruise missile among others)
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Re:The Myth of Consumer-Grade Security
by SiempreViernes on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @01:53PM
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The military is always at the bleeding edge of military applications and form factors, I think that is what gets people confused.
I mean the small cassegrain telescopes in missiles are probably bleeding edge for that size and weight for instance. However, I think this fact falls into "weird flex, but ok" category.
Re:The Myth of Consumer-Grade Security
by wcunning on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @03:17PM
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Gorgon Stare springs immediately to mind. I certainly can't afford a multi-day in the air drone carrying a 30 lbs mutli-million megapixel wide camera [0].
It’s not a single multi million mega pixel camera.
“ARGUS is essentially 368 five-megapixel smartphone cameras clustered together” That’s a 1,840 megapixel (1.85 gigapixel) camera which is not that extreme and in line with several of these images: https://petapixel.com/tag/gigapixel/
A lot of confusion comes because it’s a combination of multiple different cameras than capture wide angles, infrared, and a separate camera that can focus on areas of interest within the field of view. So, if the entire image was at maximum resolution you would get into insane territory, but that’s not how it works.
Obviously the military has "toys" I cant afford, however, do you see any fundamental technologies in that imaging system that are not available to consumers? Even the quoted development cost of $15 Milion are not out of range for a well funded tech startup..