Back to the articleSkynet? #
Posted Wednesday 7th November 2007 17:03 GMT
Skynet is already out there- Terminator fans beware......
Its the new UK PPP/military system for broadband for military forces overseas. Its also the name of a large Belgian ISP......
Russians to get broadband by spy plane
Those crazy Russians #
Posted Wednesday 7th November 2007 17:03 GMT
Flight endurance: 6 hours 30 minutes...
Well that's better than you get from some of the budget ISPs I guess!
Not quite sure how much fuel that would be, but somehow I imagine it making a satellite data link seem cheap!
@Shane McCarrick #
Posted Wednesday 7th November 2007 17:43 GMT
British MOD's Skynet system has been around since the late 1960s. It can hardly be termed "the new UK PPP/military system for broadband for military forces overseas"
Isn't this similar to the crazy DARPA thing? #
Posted Wednesday 7th November 2007 17:43 GMT
You know, their plan to turn F-22s into flying wifi hotspots? Seems to me the US and Russians need to get together so their respective armies' WoW sessions remain trouble free. Now which side wants to play horde?
lofty 'gateway' platform #
Posted Wednesday 7th November 2007 23:46 GMT
Dude -- Alliance all the way -- but I'm a canuck and we're used to kicking the 'murricans butts in wargames ... *grin*
What was the name of the robot network in the Terminator series again???????
Oh -- by the way -- wheres the PH angle here?
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