The “collaborative warfare” that allowed the military and intelligence agencies to “locate, target and kill key individuals in groups such as al-Qaeda in Iraq, the Sunni insurgency and renegade Shia militias,” isn’t a secret and it certainly isn’t new.
Despite claims by the Washington Post that these techniques “have not been reported publicly,” many – if not more than Woodward realizes – been written about in technology stories by publications like Aviation Week & Space Technology dating back to 1991’s Operation Desert Storm and even before as they were designed, tested, blended and fielded.
Some of these innovative programs covered in AW&ST include:
1. L-3 Communications Network Centric Collaborative Targeting (NCCT) system that instantaneously links the intelligence take from several aircraft, ships or UAVs at once to locate, identify and target electronic emissions, including communications, and associate them with air, ground and sea radar targets. The system has been widely tested during exercises in the U.S. and has been deployed in Iraq for at least two years.
This is a very interesting article. To read the rest, go to Aviation Week.
This is a response to Bob Woodward’s book announcement.
I’m struck by how we continue to mismatch capabilities with the actual challenges faced.
Hi Tech is fun but we need more gay arab speaking intelligence operatives.
Why is Bin-laden still around with all this junk?
#1 How insightful you are that on the ground translators are useless. Those silly guys in the pentagon.
Speaking of translation, do you go by “Bobo” in real life?
http://www.spanishdict.com/translate/bobo
bobo, -a
adjective
1. stupid, daft (tonto)
2. naive, simple (ingenuo)
masculine or feminine noun
3. fool, idiot (tonto)
4. simpleton (ingenuo)
Let’s go with all the above in your case.
The last guerrilla insurgency faced by US forces were men in pajamas in holes in the ground with AK47s, bags of rice and RPG7s. That was forty years ago and the only thing that has changed is they’re now eating falafels?
What happened to that post attacking John McCain for not using the Internet? Funny, it seems to have vanished.
#5 – Illuminati
Is McCain a liar? [Repeated here, since you’re crossposting your nonsense]
I don’t want to read the book, was the technique hookers and blow? Inquiring minds…
So… why was the post removed?
Is that thing in the picture a weapon, or is it a high-powered low light camera to sneak a crotch shot of Britney on the one day she forgot to wear panties?
OK. They THINK they know what it is… from a list of 6 different things. Take you pick? Cover you bases? C’mon… pick one@!
[He said ALL of them were used. Did you RTFA? It’s “collaborative warfare.” – ed.]
The scopes on the rifle are infarid for seeing through walls. The secret technology that Woodward was trying to talk about is the microwave guns. Sure the tech is super sexy, but it is going to end up in the civilian world. All the items a person needs is at Walmart to build such type of weapons. It’s going to be a hoot when neighbors boil each other with out leaving their lazy boyz. Don’t for get not to point it at your plasma.
#11. Might it be terahertz imaging technology? That’s a $20,000 gun.
#5 & 8, Loser Minatti,
What happened to that post attacking John McCain for not using the Internet? Funny, it seems to have vanished.
Are you having a McCain moment? It is right where the administrator left it. If you need help, the polite method is to ask. Accusing doesn’t make you look very intelligent.
BTW, it only took me a couple of minutes to find it because I used a broad search. A narrower search would more likely have taken less than a minute.
“Why is Bin-laden still around with all this junk?”
Because if they caught him then there would be too many people saying that the “war” on “terror” is over. Do you seriously believe that the government would risk giving up that kind of power? Like the “war” on drugs, there are too many jobs depending on it. They NEED that jack-rabbit to pop up with a new video every few months.
The gun is for house to house: sort barrel.
The other high tech toys making shooting some one in the right eye without looking through the scope which can see in low light a smoke a snap even when you aren’t looking through the scope.
The camera shows what’s in the cross hairs on the eye piece or should.
You did watch the first Alian movie where the Alian had the gun on a pivot on his shoulder and he had and infrared viewer,right?
They can do that now only you do have to manually point the gun. That may change.
>>Why is Bin-laden still around with all this junk?
There’s a reason they call Dumbya Dumbya.
OTOH, if they took bin Laden down and we won the War On Terror(R), where would all the money for Halliburton, Blackwater, and the rest of the mercenaries come from?
Lets see..
They want to be secret about it…WHY.
I would SELL them the weapons, but ALSO an intermittent/relay triggered, GPS in each of the guns/devices.
LET them spread around for awhile…THEN TARGET THEM.
It called “SALE of the century”. BOOM, BOOM, BOOM…
It would also be a great trick to TAG equipment, and locate it IF’ its being smuggled..
What really happened was that the US got the cooperation of Iran (shiits) againsts Al-Qaeda (sunnis). That all. And the price paid was letting Iran have the nukes. Was that worth it ?
Bio…
Nuke materials is NOT a worry. Nuke weapons arent either.
I worry about Missile testing and development of ICBM.. They cant be made/tested very easily. Ask Korea..
Nuke material isnt hard to detect…Watch for someone:
DIEING and GLOWING
Carrying a 100lb+ of LEAD suitcase.
Biohazard,
Iran is not doing anything about Al Qaeda. You are confused. A Shiite can be either Iraqi (Arab) or Iranian (Persian.)
If you ever meet an actual Iranian, the first thing they will say is “We are not Arabs.”
Furthermore, even Iraqi Shiites don’t want an Iranian bomb any more than we do. Nationalism trumps religion despite what the left-wing media says.
#20
Quite right. Ironically, the general population of Iran is more pro-American than any other group in the middle east.
holy crap that dude looks like me
All that technology and we still can’t beat an iraqi wearing a caftan, sandals who is holding an RPG7.