Raytheon ready for air-to-ground ID
Blue-on-blue incidents have always been an unfortunate factor in warfare, but a series of tragic events in recent times has brought the subject into sharp

Blue-on-blue incidents have always been an unfortunate factor in warfare, but a series of tragic events in recent times has brought the subject into sharp focus, in turn driving a need to devise and improve the means by which friendly forces can be identified as such on the battlefield. The introduction of longer-ranged precision weapons has heightened the challenge in recent years. Raytheon’s Netcentric Systems division believes it has the answer with a system that it has been developing for some time that is ready for production.

Numerous combat identification technologies have been mooted. Thermal panels have been proposed, but they also provide the enemy with ID information, marking the vehicle out as a target. Laser-based systems have been studied, but the laser quickly breaks up when encountering vegetation or other cover.

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