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130151
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2013.
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Airborne Electronic Warfare (EW) encompasses several different tasks: It includes the tactical detection
of Radio Frequency (RF) energy emitted by ground-based, aircraft-mounted and weapons guidance radars, and the activation of active and passive counter - measures to neutralise such threats. Beyond its tactical use, EW includes the collection of information regarding the enemy's electronic order or battle vis-Ã -vis the planning and execution of an air campaign at the strategic level. This article surveys some of the recent occurrences in the world of Airborne EW, examining the products of some of the leading companies in this domain.
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130135
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2013.
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There are several generations of night vision (NV) devices (NVD) in use today. this article sheds s light on technology used and innovation on the market.
During the Cold War, as a young tank officer, I (John Antal) was trained to move and fight my tanks at night. During my first assignment to Germany in 1978, we illuminated targets at the tank firing range at Grafenwoehr, using mortar and artillery flares. We also had powerful whitelight and "pink-light" IR searchlights mounted on each tank to "turn night into day." The passive IR sights integrated into the fire control system of an M60A1 tank displayed fuzzy outlines of targets that were illuminated by the IR searchlights. As new developments in NV devices occurred, we were fielded better tanks with better NV equipment. In my four-year tour in Germany, the NV systems on my tanks evolved from IR searchlights to passive sights that did not require illumination by searchlights. By the time I commanded a tank company at the end of my tour of duty, my "newer" M60A3 tanks were equipped with the latest thermal
imaging systems and we engaged targets rapidly and accurately in total darkness. This was a remarkable transformation in fighting capability and emblematic of the rapid technological progression in the field of NV devices.
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125166
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2013.
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Turning on the logic of the spectacle, U.S.-based campaigns on North Korean human rights, in calling for intervention, have wielded two images aimed at outing North Korea's "hidden truths"? the image of the starving child circa the 1990s and the contemporary satellite image of what appear to be labor camps. Focusing on the use of online virtual geo-imagery programs like Google Earth in the human rights mapping of North Korea, this essay situates post-9/11 "liberation technology" within the framework of the unending Korean War, a war whose failed "liberation" of Korea from the global forces of communism haunts North Korean human rights critique today. By examining mid-century bomber photographs and contemporary human rights satellite images of North Korea, this essay inquires into the homology between technologies of militarized intelligence and war, on the one hand, and technologies of human rights that aim to expose North Korea, on the other. Both modes of apperception, this essay argues, strive to delegitimize and destroy rather than faithfully represent the enemy.
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079052
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105351
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2011.
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The proliferation and development of media during the current war in Iraq and the opening of the Iraqi media landscape, which had heretofore been dampened through authoritarian state control and international isolation due to economic sanctions, has played a role in political articulation and identity formation throughout the occupation in a fashion not seen during previous conflicts. The adoption of media tools, emerging as both technology and its applications - often referred to as Web 2.0 - impacted both combatants and civilians caught within the conflict providing them the opportunity to capture and articulate their own experience in a fashion never before available. This investigation points to the potential impacts on current political action, the resourcefulness of opposition access to media, as well as dangers posed through the emotive content most often produced. We argue that while such media production is disassociated from surrounding events (or decontextualised), its nonetheless trusted and impactful due to its viral distribution and sourcing networks and diverse in its impact on those not intimately involved due to its lack of overarching narrative and production away from sites of power.
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