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...command-listening to the language of men and machine that he knows so well. After 19 years of undersea duty, he can automatically feel and gauge a ship's rhythm...
...Atlanta plunges and rises hundreds of feet, tilts and corners, its sonar banks collecting the undersea sounds and translating them into pictures on dozens of oscilloscopes in darkened crevices of the hull. The torpedoes lie silent in their racks, waiting to be loaded and fired...
...silo--an impossible job; and the deep underground basing, because a system which can be dug out after a couple of weeks is both unsatisfactory to many and vulnerable to missile-delivered nuclear mines. If the MX is built, it can be satisfactorily and economically deployed in the Smallsub Undersea Mobile (SUM) system, two or four MX missiles to a small non-nuclear powered submarine. Studies (most recently by the Townes Commission) show that the communication reliability to such a fleet, and the accuracy of these missiles deployed on it, would be comparable to that of an MX deployed...
...robot that will be able to take off from the space shuttle, reach an ailing satellite in orbit and repair it. The Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., similarly, is building a robot that can be sent out aboard an unmanned submarine to find and repair crippled vessels undersea. Robots are already at work in the manufacture of tanks, aircraft, guns and ammunition...
There are some experts, though, who believe that sight is much less important than touch, either undersea or on the assembly line. "I can't afford to let the robot arm wait while the camera does all the things it needs to do," says GE's Mirabal, who says he has looked at 20 vision systems and found none that is economical. "Touch is going to be very important, because all the robot needs is to know that something is happening or not happening. Just one piece of information that can be analyzed quickly." While most...