<HTML>Neues Freund-Feind Erkennungs- und Verfolgungs (Tracking) System arbeitet mit Mikrowellen/Radio Frequency Komponenten.
Die New York Times berichtet (15.4.2004):
Friend or Foe? A Digital Dog Tag Beams the Answer
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“Using a combination of radio frequency transponders, laser sensors and microwave-like transmitters, the Defense Department hopes to give every allied soldier, tank and plane a unique identifier to distinguish friend from foe.”
“Instead of the tracking system and other so-called passive approaches, which simply transmit units' whereabouts, Colonel McKean and others are working to develop "cooperative" identification programs like the radio frequency tags. These are systems that allow a shooter to, in effect, ask his target whether he is a friend or not and enable the target to reply instantly. For tanks and armored vehicles, the military wants to use millimeter waves, a shorter cousin of microwaves, to make the queries. The Battlefield Targeting Identification Device system uses a shoebox-size transmitter to send such waves toward a target before the shooting starts. An encrypted reply can return from as far as four miles away in less than a second…”</HTML>
