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RTLS - who needs it?

Posted July 21, 2008 11:48 AM by mavella

Apparently the US Army does. How on earth do you lose 4 helicopter engines worth $13M?

Real-time location systems only work if you're actually on a network, and most I've seen work with Wi-Fi which suits them for campus-type environments but not the expanse of the great outdoors. But an RTLS working on a military comm network shouldn't be that hard, right? Blue Sky Network does it on Iridium with GPS.

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07/21/2008 4:16 PM

WHO CARES ABOUT THE $13,000,000.00 ENGINE,

I want to know where my $500.00 hammer is I order a month ago.

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07/22/2008 12:47 PM

"...How on earth do you lose 4 helicopter engines..."

By having several hundred in your inventory, some of which are located in hostile territory, I expect. They're not really all that pilferable, since the aftermarket is real slow on Cobra gunships right now. My guess is they sit in a warehouse in Galveston or suchlike awaiting shipment to Kabul or wherever. Still, the Army definitely could use a good lo-jack system.

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