iPhone app that Tracks The Taliban !!!

[csv8]

AN iPhone app that tracks down the Taliban has been developed by a US soldier who put $26,000 of his own money into the project.
The idea for a smartphone application to assist soldiers in combat came to Captain Jonathan J. Springer in a dream last July.

The 31-year-old, from Fort Wayne, Indiana, has worked with programmers ever since to make the idea a reality.
Tactical Nav, which is expected to be available through Apple’s App Store next month, assists soldiers in mapping, plotting and photographing waypoints on a battleground and conveying coordinates to supporting units.
Captain Springer used a variety of armoured vehicles, remote observation posts and harsh combat conditions to test the accuracy of his invention, which can also be used to direct artillery fire on enemy positions or call in helicopter support.

“Since day one, I always believed that smartphones could be utilised by the US military for combat purposes,” he said.The soldier, who serves as a battalion fire support officer in eastern Afghanistan, said most soldiers use smartphones and the app has been designed specifically for them.
“Basically, the issue was the fact that these smartphones were being untapped by the army and I was motivated and determined to change that, even if it cost me my own money out of pocket to do so."

[dags41v]

Gotta love it.

I have a mate in the army and he reckons that a lot of the snipers overseas use the iPhone sniper app rather than the military hardware software combinations.

Im not a big fan of the iphone but you cant go past the number of apps people have developed for the most bizarre and obscure uses.

[4Vman]

Lets hope they dont use the Optus network or they'll end up dropping bombs on some location 300 miles away......

[pauljh74]

Just imagine this - Taliban are spotted and the coalition soldier attempts to update via his iPhone. Does anybody believe that out in the remote areas of Afghanistan that they have phone coverage? That they have better coverage than Australia? If you hold the iPhone4 a certain way, you get no reception anyway.

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As its military, it will bounce of military satellites???

[Yellow_Festiva]

I can just see the Taliban using an app to trace the people tracing them from their caves lol.

[bungarra]

Originally Posted by Yellow_Festiva

I can just see the Taliban using an app to trace the people tracing them from their caves lol.

They would be using the Camel that doesn't kick tracker application

[ThaFlash]

who needs and iPhone app for that, they should just speak to our legendary SAS-R soldiers, they have no worries finding them and despatching them....

[XCwillo]

I can see the tracker app taliban position updater short cut bar being mistaken for the Facebook status update bar...

[rodderz]

Wonder if the App will allow posting to facebook, or soldiers will use the check in feature

Aussie soldier has just bombed a few taliban dudes with my new Taliban Tracker App

Aussie soldier has checked in at Roadside bomb disposal, Afghanistan

[MAGPIE]

Originally Posted by 4Vman

Lets hope they dont use the Optus network or they'll end up dropping bombs on some location 300 miles away......

That would be preferable to dropping bombs on their allies, which is what they do now

[fordomatic]

Originally Posted by dags41v

Gotta love it.

I have a mate in the army and he reckons that a lot of the snipers overseas use the iPhone sniper app rather than the military hardware software combinations.

Im not a big fan of the iphone but you cant go past the number of apps people have developed for the most bizarre and obscure uses.

your mate would be full of S%^t if he is in the Australian army, hand your phones in when you get there and cant use them till you get back. our range finders and conditions software is far superior than anything that the iphone could produce. and everything that goes over a phone net over there is recorded. your mate clearly has no idea.

[dags41v]

Thanks Fordomatic, I have been over there and used the app, works well.
We dont record everything that is on the RF spectrum.......wind down the paranoia.

[FTe342]

So the Yanks won't be destroying any phone towers?

We know where the Taliban will be cowering!