Comment by liotier
13 years ago
The funny part is that they transmit fire missions through IRC instead of using a proper artillery data network. Of course you do that through plain old-fashioned radio when no data connection is available, but it you can transmit through IRC then you certainly have enough bandwidth for communicating through a better integrated system such as ATLAS (http://articles.janes.com/articles/Janes-C4I-Systems/ATLAS-a...)
Yet again we see that simple text is a preferable messaging layer for any purpose. I imagine that this gets the job done "well-enough", and anything more fancy would just be contractor life-support.