It is tough to hide from ID technology.Finding targets in heavy foliage, behind waits or battlefield smoke will become much easier, predict Air Force researchers. Target identification technology now in development would create devices that transmit impulse electromagnetic waveforms to illuminate targets. The signals pass through most barriers, such as walls and foliage, experts claim. Then, like sonar, they return to the receiving antenna. The returned signals are sent to a computer that is programmed to recognize certain items of interest, such as shotguns, pistols or assault rifles A
The project is called Target Identification Demonstration System, launched earlier this year by the Air Force Research Laboratory's Directed Energy An umbrella term covering technologies that relate to the production of a beam of concentrated electromagnetic energy or atomic or subatomic particles. Also called DE. See also directed-energy device; directed-energy weapon. Directorate at Kirkland Air Force Base, N.M., and the Albuquerque office of the Advanced Engineering & Science Division of ITT ITT Initial Teacher Training (UK) ITT I Think That ITT Invitation To Tender ITT Individual Time Trial (professional cycling) ITT Intention-To-Treat ITT In This Thread (forums) Industries Inc. Initially conceived as a technology for identifying objects hidden in foliage, the system also has applications in law enforcement, to find and identify suspects biding bide v. bid·ed or bode , bid·ed, bid·ing, bides v.intr. 1. To remain in a condition or state. 2. a. To wait; tarry. b. behind walls and foliage. At safe standoff stand·off n. 1. A tie or draw, as in a contest. 2. A situation in which one force neutralizes or counterbalances the other. 3. A standoff insulator. adj. Standoffish. ranges, the technology also can detect weapons concealed within crowds. |
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