On: YC: Requests for Startups

[shiroiushi]

Doing anything remotely means using radio signals to control the thing, and that becomes the main weakness: radio signals can be jammed. You could try other means of communication, like lasers, though, but those too have their own weaknesses.

[lagniappe → shiroiushi]

line of sight laser pulses would work.

[consumer451 → lagniappe]

Lasers are not all-weather systems.

In fact, as far as I know, they are a one-weather system: clear.

[golergka → shiroiushi]

Cables.

[hef19898 → golergka]

Wire guided ordonance exists since th 70s, torpedoes, missiles...

[Deverauxi → hef19898]

The Germans had wire guided missiles in WW2.