War on error

摘要

A LOW-COST, lightweight radar tagging system designed to protect troops from friendly fire incidents is to be tested by the US Army later this year. The radar tag sensor, developed at Sandia National Laboratories, can be mounted on military vehicles and tracked via aircraft radar, to identify friendly forces during combat. Friendly fire has accounted for up to 15 per cent of recent wartime casualties, and in the first seven days of the Iraq war six of the 45 allied fatalities were the result of 'blue-on-blue' accidents.