German Rheinmetall open-sources its Battlesuite connected weapon system protcol
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German Rheinmetall open-sources its Battlesuite connected weapon system protcol
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#2First I was excited, then I saw that it's based on DDS.
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#3I cannot find boomstick anywhere in here
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#4First I was excited, then I saw that it's based on DDS.
why the hate on DDS?
seems like a perfect fit.
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#6Am I just too ignorant of Miltech, or is this that in large parts recreating Standard messaging primitives that other protocols and systems have been providing for decades already (so invented elsewhere?)
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#7Am I just too ignorant of Miltech, or is this that in large parts recreating Standard messaging primitives that other protocols and systems have been providing for decades already (so invented elsewhere?)
Every mil company designs unique bespoke things often with some exceptions, and even the "open systems" mostly aren't open by any stretch of the definition.
Obscurity is part of the allure, not a repulsive factor.
You don't want a hostile nation suddenly and easily understanding your systems.
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#8Am I just too ignorant of Miltech, or is this that in large parts recreating Standard messaging primitives that other protocols and systems have been providing for decades already (so invented elsewhere?)
Every mil company designs unique bespoke things often with some exceptions, and even the "open systems" mostly aren't open by any stretch of the definition. Obscurity is part of the allure, not a repulsive factor. You don't want a hostile nation suddenly and easily understanding your systems.
On the other hand, its good to design systems where it wouldn't even matter if the hostile nation state knows exactly how it works.
This is a principle in cryptography, but carries nicely to other things.
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#9First I was excited, then I saw that it's based on DDS.
why the hate on DDS? seems like a perfect fit.
DDS is the least bad of the stuff that has come out of OMG, but it's not a nice middleware still. There is no underlying algebra of that composes nicely when compared to Zenoh for example, and the "vendor independence" and compatibility is usually a joke. There's a reason ROS is moving away from it again.
Re: German Rheinmetall open-sources its Battlesuite connected weapon system protcol
#10Am I just too ignorant of Miltech, or is this that in large parts recreating Standard messaging primitives that other protocols and systems have been providing for decades already (so invented elsewhere?)
Every mil company designs unique bespoke things often with some exceptions, and even the "open systems" mostly aren't open by any stretch of the definition. Obscurity is part of the allure, not a repulsive factor. You don't want a hostile nation suddenly and easily understanding your systems.
Also you do not want them to benefit from your smart design choices. You want them to suffer from their bad choices and not learn from your success. (Yes, of course you could have bad design choices that you don’t realize someone else has solved more intelligently.)