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Modern warfare has a problem: More and more videos, pictures and other data must be linked. A challenge for the technicians. In the worst case scenario in the future, 3-D images of the operational area in real time in a center position are transmitted.
 Already in use: 3-D vision requires different battle scenarios that
Riders, runners, pigeons: information has always been at war will be quick and secure their recipients being conclusive. Who knows where the enemy is, has an advantage. Just as the person who creates it, his opponents on the location and strength of its own forces to deceive: communication can decide wars. Modern information technology, mobile and Internet communication are changing at war in two ways: First, you can use them very quickly a lot of information transported. Secondly guerrilla struggle not only with the Kalashnikov, but also with the Computer: Today, almost everyone - Guerillero as well as civilian - in the situation, such as a blog with information about friend and foe to be published. And this may well be true as false.
"It's about time," said Klaus Dieter Kohl, "previously had been rather
too little information, now there's a lot more, and we need it in the
shortest possible time, so decision-makers for a store that he can make
decisions." Coal must know it: The German Federal Armed Forces will be
reformed, "transformed", and Colonel General Staff in the forwards in
the responsible center for the transformation AbteilungII, which
focuses on the development of concepts and their experimental
verification employed.
But that is quite as difficult, because many tactical questions about the army would be a very different answer than from the Navy, said Klaus Dieter Kohl: "In the Navy must be fast: A missile is approaching, and there are only two possibilities: combat or not. And as the commander to decide: shoot or not. "Quite different was it in the Air Force," there is not just about Befehlsgebung, but rather to facilitate the exchange of information, for example air situation pictures. "In turn, the army there was a" very decentralized warfare, with a multitude of individual fighters, the head company does not every soldier individually, he can not command every shot. "  Robots for the war by the U.S. Army has long used. Here is a pioneer in Baghdad a Talon EOD robot on a bet against ... All this naturally has an impact on the type of communication: If you want all available information into internal database, to which every soldier, then any officer or at least can be accessed at any time? Or should the soldiers are connected to a microphone, ear stick, and only the most necessary information? Who needs what information at all - and who decides anyway? In the summer of last year, the Bundeswehr at the Baltic Sea in an experiment, an exercise organized by the Network Operations to be tested. The experiment was called "Common Shield" (CS, Joint Shield). It is part of a whole series of the Center for Transformation. The Army wanted in Eckernförde especially data networking of education, leadership and defensive systems check. Of interest are especially opponents data. Frigate captain Achim Winkler said: "The Army is building a variety of threat scenarios, a dinghy is a response to a Navy ship, divers try on the water to break into a port, from the country side trying people, fences to be overcome, and aircraft to field camps and port Spying." |
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