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Excerpt - The U.S. Army's European Command deployed an early-warning radar system in Israel last week along with a 120-member support team, the weekly Defense News reported. The move marks the first permanent presence in Israel of American military personnel. The high-powered radar system is meant to augment Israel's defenses against Iranian ground-to-ground missiles. According to Defense News, more than a dozen transport aircraft delivered the radar, its ancillary systems, equipment and technicians, as well as maintenance and security specialists to the Nevatim Air Force Base in the Negev. It has not yet been made operational. ~ snip ~

A publicly funded, world-class research institute that would develop answers to the threat posed by climate-changing greenhouse gases is being crafted in the Legislature, and is among the last-minute proposals expected to come before the Legislature in the closing days of this year's legislative session. The plan differs sharply from the original blueprint proposed by California's top utilities regulator, state Public Utilities Commission President Michael Peevey. Legislation encompassing the new, estimated $87 million-a-year plan is likely to be completed within a few days. At time when public attention is focused on California's $15.2 billion budget shortage, the proposed California Institute...

Compare that relatively small $2.7 million in federal aid to the $310 million originally set aside for a U.S. radar base project in the Czech Republic. It’s totally unjustified to fund unproven missile technologies and radar bases in foreign countries while U.S. roads, bridges, dams, levees and tunnels are in dire need of repair. As Czechs and Americans see U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Czech officials sign off on a document signaling the acceptance of the Czech government to the installation of a radar tracking system on Czech soil, there are more than a few ironies worth noting.

A 44-year-old Arizona man allegedly tried to fool the photo radars that record a vehicle's speed. It worked for a while — until the police caught up with him. Timothy Welsh allegedly used a permanent marker to change both the 3 and the 9 on his license plate to an 8, so when his vehicle got nabbed for speeding, the ticket was sent to someone else... At first, Scottsdale Sgt. Jim Butera thought it was a mistake when a Phoenix man called him complaining he had gotten two speeding tickets mailed to him, but he wasn't the one speeding. When...

The Illinois State Police are using vans with cameras and radar guns to photograph motorists and other drivers who speed through highway construction zones, and are enforcing strict penalties for alleged offenders. Citations for a first offense are $375, and a second offense can cost $1,000 and a 90-day suspension of driver’s license. State Police officials said four white vans, which are equipped with radar guns, cameras and a monitor to show drivers their speed, have been deployed at different construction zones in the state. As of Thursday, June 5, those vans are deployed at the widening project on the...

Twenty minutes into the invasion of Iraq, Marine Sgt. Nathaniel Donnelly huddled with his men in the windowless rear of an armored vehicle as it rumbled across the Iraq-Kuwait border. Former Marine Sgt. Nathaniel Donnelly (below and above, while serving in Iraq) is now a senior at SDSU, where he founded a campus veterans organization. He plans to return to the Corps, this time as an officer. The roar of artillery pounded in their ears. Anxious officers chattered over the radio.“We could hear everything, but we couldn't see anything. We had no control,� Donnelly said of the events of March...

Wind farms ‘a threat to national security’ Magnus Linklater and Dominic Kennedy Ambitious plans to meet up to a third of Britain’s energy needs from offshore wind farms are in jeopardy because the Ministry of Defence objects that the turbines interfere with its radar. The MoD has lodged last-minute objections to at least four onshore wind farms in the line of sight of its stations on the east coast because they make it impossible to spot aircraft, The Times has learnt. The same objections are likely to apply to wind turbines in the North Sea, part of the massive renewable...

Israel set to emerge India's biggest defence supplier Rahul Datta | New Delhi With the maturing of at least two major deals, Israel is likely to emerge as the biggest defence partner of India in the next fiscal. The country likely to emerge as the second biggest defence supplier is the US, whose Defence Secretary Robert Gates will pay his maiden visit to New Delhi in the last week of February to discuss further opening up of the defence sector between the two democracies. In the backdrop of proposed acquisition of weapon platforms from Israel and the US, the Government...

Parents of Windsor High student first in county to use tracking device data to fight son's speeding ticket By DEREK J. MOORE THE PRESS DEMOCRAT Shaun Malone was livid when his parents installed a global positioning device in his sports car to monitor his whereabouts and how fast he drives. But now the Windsor High School junior hopes to beat a potentially expensive speeding ticket using data from the device. The case represents the first time anyone has contested a speeding ticket in Sonoma County courts using a global positioning system, which pinpoints speed and location using lightning-fast calculations and...

Czech Defence Minister Vlasta Parkanova has sung a song in support of the planned construction of the U.S. radar base in the Czech Republic, which she wants to present as a gift for U.S. President George W. Bush who will arrive in Prague this evening. Parkanova told CTK that the song is to counterbalance "the tense and negative campaign accompanying the debate about the radar base." She said she would personally give the CD with the song to Bush on Tuesday during the official talks between the Czech and U.S. delegations. Bush is to discuss with top Czech politicians especially...

HEILIGENDAMM, June 7 (RIA Novosti) - The presidents of Russia and the United States agreed Thursday to cooperate on missile defense issues, and discussed the possibility of jointly using a radar installation in Azerbaijan. ... Putin offered the United States the joint use of a radar installation in Azerbaijan in an apparent attempt to ease tensions sparked by Washington's plans to deploy elements of missile shield in Europe. The meeting in Germany's Baltic resort of Heiligendamm was the leaders' first since Washington announced the planned missile shield. ... A senior U.S. official commented on the Russian proposal that it had...

AESA radar key to Block II Super Hornets By Paul Richfield March 21, 2007 Flight tests of the latest Block II variant of the Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet are underway, with the next phase of development work focusing on refining the aircraft?s new active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar for surface searching and tracking operations. A U.S. Navy official said the Raytheon AN/APG-79 radar ? standard equipment on all new Super Hornets including the E/A-18G Growler ? will provide an ?inherent electronic attack capability? ranging from nontraditional ISR to the delivery of precision weapons controlled from multiple platforms. Speaking at...

THE United States has asked to install anti-ballistic missile radars in Japan, following North Korea's nuclear weapons test in October and missile launches in July, a report said today. US military troops and the US Department of Defense have lodged a request with Japan's Defense Agency to locate a radar in Japan aimed at counter-attacking inter-continental ballistic missiles, the Asahi Shimbun newspaper reported, without clarifying sources. Japan's Defense Agency, following the US approach, is considering the plan, in light of Japan-US Security Treaty, which demands "providing security of Japan and keeping peace in the Far East'' as conditions for offering...

HOUSTON - Congressman Nick Lampson, newly elected to the seat once held by former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, underwent a procedure Friday to open up a partially blocked blood vessel, his spokeswoman said. Doctors at Christus St. John Hospital in suburban Houston performed the angioplasty on the 61-year-old Lampson and placed a stent in the vessel. Lampson was "conscious, alert and in good spirits throughout the procedure," spokeswoman Carrie Chess said in a statement. He was expected to be discharged Saturday. His wife, Susan Lampson, drove him to the hospital Thursday night because he started feeling sick during dinner....

GREEN BAY, Wis. - A case of fowl weather really threw a local meteorologist for a loop. National Weather Service Meteorologist Tom Helman said at about sunrise Aug. 10 he saw a growing ring on the weather radar over the bay of Green Bay. "It kinda threw me for a loop. That was the morning President Bush was flying in, so I was thinking, what is that?" said Helman, who works in Ashwaubenon. Jeff Last, a warning coordination meteorologist for the weather service, said Monday he researched the ring and determined it was likely a "roost ring" - a formation...

Ohio State University engineers have invented a radar system that is virtually undetectable, because its signal resembles random noise. The radar could have applications in law enforcement, the military, and disaster rescue. Eric K. Walton, senior research scientist in Ohio State's ElectroScience Laboratory, said that with further development the technology could even be used for medical imaging. He explained why using random noise makes the radar system invisible. "Almost all radio receivers in the world are designed to eliminate random noise, so that they can clearly receive the signal they're looking for," Walton said. "Radio receivers could search for this...

Australian Radar Researchers Seek New Design Wrinkles By David A. Fulghum, Aviation Week & Space Technology 06/01/2006 ADELAIDE, Australia - Slashing power use, eliminating clutter, gleaning more information from targets and convincing radars that they are something else - in size, shape and mission - are long-terms goals for Australian radar researchers. A key facility for developing future capabilities is the Defense Science and Technology Organization's Edinburgh-based microwave radar center of excellence. At the heart of DSTO's effort is the Australian Defense Force's choice of the Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar on its new Wedgetail airborne early warning and...

SPRINGFIELD, MO (ANS) -- Gary Burghoff almost never gives interviews anymore. The actor, best known for his role as Cpl. “Radar” O’Reilly in both the movie and television series M*A*S*H, is 62 and long retired to private life. But in a February interview with Canadian radio talk show host Drew Marshall on Oakville, Ontario’s JOY 1250, Burghoff speaks candidly about a decision he made not long after he left M*A*S*H. “Family, to me, became the most important thing,” he says of his rationale for exiting the show that defined his career. “I was not available as a father because of...

April 2006, Vol. 89, No. 4 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The radar site was deep in enemy territory. The assumption was that it was impossible for attackers to climb the sheer face of the mountain. The Fall of Lima Site 85 By John T. Correll Lima Site 85 and the secret Air Force radar facility sat atop one of the highest mountains in Laos, 15 miles away from the border with North Vietnam. The site was defended by a force of 1,000 Hmong irregulars in the valley below, but a key element in its security was the mountain itself. The drop on three...

FEBRUARY 2006 India’s quest for fighter could cost losers dearly By Reuben F. Johnson / Asian Aerospace February 2006 The Indian Air Force’s (IAF) medium multirole combat aircraft (M-MRCA) tender is beginning to resemble a free-for-all that shows no signs of abating and will continue for several years. What makes this tender an unusual one, however, is that the type of radar and onboard systems which will be included in the deal, the co-production arrangements to provide work for local Indian industry and geopolitical considerations are going to carry far more weight in the decision process than the actual choice...

Beijing announced plans last week to build a high-frequency radar on the South Pole. Analysts say the radar could be used to disrupt U.S. intelligence satellites. China's Zhongshan Station in Antarctica on Jan. 24. AP Photo /Xinhua, Zhang Zongtang The radar will be built at China’s Zhongshan Station, where Beijing has set up of a space environment lab. National security analysts say the South Pole site, because of its remoteness, could be used by China to develop anti-satellite lasers capable of blinding or disrupting U.S. reconnaissance satellites, most of which pass over the pole. The station will consist of 20...

PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo., Dec. 22, 2005 - The North American Aerospace Defense Command is observing its 50th anniversary of tracking Santa Claus on his annual rounds, NORAD officials said here. The tradition of tracking Santa began in 1955, when a local Sears, Roebuck and Co. store ran a newspaper ad urging children to make a phone call on Christmas Eve and talk to Santa Claus. As fate would have it, the phone number was misprinted and, instead of reaching Santa, youngsters found themselves talking with Air Force Col. Harry Shoup of the Continental Air Defense Command at Cheyenne...

Radar pinpoints tomb of King Edward the Confessor By Jonathan Petre, Religion Correspondent (Filed: 02/12/2005) The ancient tomb of Edward the Confessor, one of the most revered of British saints, has been discovered under Westminster Abbey 1,000 years after his birth. The original burial chamber of the Anglo-Saxon king, who died in 1066, months before the invasion of William the Conqueror, was revealed by archaeologists using the latest radar technology. The existence of a number of royal tombs dating back to the 13th and 14th century was also discovered beneath the abbey, the venue for nearly all coronations since 1066....

City of Scottsdale illegally interferes with Photo Radar Referendum Have you ever had to go to a government office to file paper work of any type during a Legal Holiday? If you had gone, you would have noticed the doors locked and the lights off, and typically most people would not have gone because they understand that no government offices are opened. The attempts of citizens to place a question on the ballot regarding photo radar was thwarted by the city of Scottsdale and it's actions to claim that our filing deadline was Thursday the 24th which was Thanksgiving Day....

Vardø radar aided Iraq war Senior adviser Terje Wahl at the Norwegian Space Center said that the radar facility at Vardø, Finnmark in northern Norway played a key role in the US-led invasion of Iraq. Vardø's radar was used to prevent collisions between satellites over Iraq, and much of the precision bombing over Iraq was steered by satellites in fixed position over the equator. "That both commercial and military satellites could operate securely without colliding with anything was an important precondition for operations in Iraq," Wahl told Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK). Wahl said that the important role of Vardø has been...

Sep 23, 2005 — BAKU (Reuters) - The United States is to help its Caspian Sea ally Azerbaijan build a radar station on its border with Iran and another near Russia, a U.S. embassy official said on Friday. The Pentagon has said its aid is to help Azerbaijan's navy protect offshore oil deposits and to combat terrorism. Iran has been angered by U.S. military assistance to Azerbaijan in the past. "The United States has provided funds for the construction of radar stations in Astara, on the border with Iran, and in the southern Greater Caucasus mountains, on the border with...

This month, Russia lost two jet fighters during military exercises that simulated a major war with NATO. A naval task force was deployed in the North Atlantic on a mission to intercept and destroy U.S. reinforcements heading to the European theater of war. During exercises on Sept. 5, a Su-33 jet fighter fell off the flight deck of the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov during landing and sank. The pilot ejected and was rescued. Then on Thursday, seven Air Force jet fighters were sent from the St. Petersburg area to fly over the neutral waters of the Baltic Sea to Kaliningrad....

Japan to deploy 11 new radar systems to detect ballistic missilesTOKYO, Sept. 10 KYODO The Defense Agency will upgrade its missile surveillance network by deploying 11 new radar systems by fiscal 2009 to detect possible launches of ballistic missiles from North Korea, agency officials said Saturday. The 11 are seven upgraded versions of the existing EPS-3 radar systems and four newly developed EPS-XX systems, which are both designed to detect and track ballistic missiles flying at around Mach 10 at an altitude of more than 300 kilometers, the officials said. The EPS-3 systems currently deployed in Hokkaido, Akita, Fukushima, Ishikawa,...

ACCORDING TO MEDIA reports, the Defense Department is considering canceling two supersonic jet fighters that are on the Pentagon's drawing board: the Air Force's F/A-22 Raptor and the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. There is no doubt that even with the defense budget at historical highs, the Pentagon cannot afford the $1.5 trillion worth of weapons that the military services would like to purchase. However, although the Defense Department is correct in trying to slash the F/A-22, it is dead wrong in trying to save money by canceling the Joint Strike Fighter. The F/A-22 Raptor is the most unnecessary weapon system...

ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE, Ga. (AFPN) -- The first Future Total Force wing, the 116th Air Control Wing, is nearing its third birthday since merging active-duty Air Force, Army and Air National Guard units to form a “blended wing.” In October 2002, America’s first total force wing took flight as the 116th ACW and made history by combining active-duty Airmen and Soldiers from the 93rd ACW, along with Georgia Air National Guardsmen from the 116th Bomb Wing. The two wings formed one cohesive unit, flying the E-8C -- the world’s only Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System. The merger combined...

EL SEGUNDO, Calif., July 21, 2005 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Seeking more protection for ground forces without enhancing risk to aviators, the U.S. Air Force has engaged Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN - News), a leader in radar and data exploitation technology, to devise a way for aircraft, from a safe distance, to detect, track and target hostile forces in motion on the ground. "The U.S. owns the airspace but today's conflicts quickly move to the ground," Nick Uros, vice president for Raytheon's Advanced Concepts and Technology group, said. "We want to keep the war fighter in the air and on the ground...

China Debuts Aegis Destroyers By James C. Bussert July 2005 A coastal force extends its reach and capabilities. The People’s Liberation Army Navy recently introduced two domestically designed and built guided missile destroyers that include Aegis-type radars and related technologies. Known as Project 052C guided missile destroyers (DDGs), the ships feature Aegis-type phased array panels, vertical launch systems, long-range missiles and considerable command and control. These capabilities were not found on any previous Chinese-built DDGs. The design of a lead ship with prototype Aegis radar, combat direction links and a vertical launch system (VLS) into a small 6,600-ton hull is...

INTELLIGENCE OPERATIONS: JSTARS and Tracking Terrorists in Iraq June 23, 2005: U.S. Air Force JSTARS radar aircraft are being used to track down terrorist bombers in Iraq. The U.S. Department of Defense demanded that all the services get to work on dealing with terrorist bombers in Iraq, and the air force responded by suggesting that the JSTARS be used to track down the bases of terrorist bombers. This is done by using the JSTARS radar to track where the attackers go after an attack. Many of the attacks take place in sparely populated places, and at night. JSTARS can track...

Dubai: Traffic Department officers in Dubai are grappling with an unexpected problem - speeding motorists making indecent gestures to radar cameras. A source from the Radar Department at Dubai Traffic Police said such incidents were quite common and mainly involved young men, but sometimes women as well. "A few days ago, I saw the radar picture of a young man naked and driving at very high speed. This picture was very embarrassing, and it was clear the young man had done it on purpose. He did not even bother to hide the number plate of his car. "Another picture was...

How far ahead of the pack is the F-22? Especially when compared to European fighters like the Rafael, Eurofighter, and Gripen? This is something that matters a lot to the Air Force, which thinks the F-22 is vital to maintaining air superiority – replacing the F-15C as soon as possible, even at the expense of reducing the buy of the F-35. How valid is the Air Force’s claim? First, one needs to look at how visible the aircraft in question are on radar. The F-15C is probably the most visible, entering service just as Lockheed began work on the F-117...

To say the New York Times is obsessed with domestic violence against women is an understatement. A search of the NYT database reveals over 337,000 “hits” on the phrase “violence against women” just since 1996! The Times has gotten in a lot of hot water for its long-standing anti-male and other forms of bias. Visit the Times Watch at www.timeswatch.com and you will see the many ways that the NYT slants, distorts, filters, and otherwise biases the truth. Last week, RADAR launched an ambitious campaign for the Times to report both sides of the domestic violence issue. But the NYT...

Tiny radar devices have revealed patterns in the meandering flights of butterflies: the looping dives are thought to help them to search for food or a home. What's more, the radar technology could help conservationists to find safe havens for the insects amid fragmented agricultural landscapes. Researchers attached radio transponders, each weighing just 12 milligrams, to butterflies and used them to track around 30 of the insects. "You have to carefully remove the hairs from their back first," explains Lizzie Cant of Rothamsted Research in Hertfordshire, UK. "I give them a wax with Sellotape." After checking that the transponders did...

Two camera-equipped vans will begin patrolling highway work zones in July, snapping images of drivers violating the 45 m.p.h posted speed limit, officials of the Illinois Department of Transportation announced today. The vans will patrol expressway and tollway construction and maintenance zones. Signs will warn drivers of the photo radar system, which will take a picture of the offending driver, his or her vehicle and record the vehicle's speed, officials said. Drivers captured on camera will be sent a ticket in the mail. Work zone speeding fines increased last year to a $375 penalty on the first offense, almost double...

Scientists Interrupt Search for the “Mayan Atlantis" in the Caribbean. Cuban Newpaper: GRANMA Mexico City, November 6, 2004 Forwarded by David Drewelow This story updates this prior story . - A group of scientists searching for a hypothetical “Mayan Atlantis" found a pyramid of 35 meters under the waters of the Caribbean, but it had to interrupt the mission due to technical problems, as reported by the Mexican newspaper Millenium, today. After 25 days of work in the sea, near the southwestern end of Cuba, the investigations deeper than 500 meters had to be abandoned due to problems with the...

U.S. military deploys to southern New Mexico border in support of Sector mission Southern New Mexico ---Soldiers from the U.S. Army’s 4th Squadron, 14th Cavalry Regiment, based at Fort Wainwright, Alaska, are concluding a 60-day joint training mission in southern New Mexico that allowed them to train in rugged desert terrain and provide surveillance support for agents of Customs and Border Protection (CBP). The 60-day training mission was conducted in the “boot heel” area of southern Luna and Hidalgo Counties of New Mexico. The joint effort with the military was part of an ongoing request by the CBP/Department Homeland Security,...

In the span of more than 40 years with ABC News, Peter Jennings has built one of the most respected reputations in television journalism. Recently, Jennings anchored "World News Tonight" from Iraq. He returned to the States, only to hit the road again. Tomorrow and Thursday "World News Tonight" reports from Seattle, where Jennings and his team will examine our region's industries. "One of the great frustrations common to people like me ... is not getting out enough," he said in a phone interview, calling his Iraq tour some of the happiest days he's had in his life. Having spent...

I am wondering if any fellow freepers can help me find information about very large circular arrays of antennae along our (eastern) coastlines that were used during WWII to radio-locate German submarines reporting to Berlin. Will some good soul steer me in the right direction? Apparently these arrays were quite impressive and some may still exist. Eager to learn more - FrPR (Proud son of a White Oak NOL physicist).

The U.S. military on Saturday launched a five-day war game to see how space-based assets such as satellite communications and precision bomb guidance systems would fare in a hypothetical war against terrorism in 2020. "This is not warfare in space. Our focus is how to best use our space-based assets to coordinate the joint terrestrial fight," said Brig. Gen. Daniel Darnell, commander of the Space Warfare Center at Schriever Air Force Base in Colorado. Over the past decade, the U.S. military has come to rely to a huge extent on satellites to relay communications, transmit high-resolution imagery; track U.S. forces;...

NEW YORK -- The U.S. Air Force is playing a dangerous game of cat and mouse with Iran's ayatollahs, flying American combat aircraft into Iranian airspace in an attempt to lure Tehran into turning on air defense radars, thus allowing U.S. pilots to grid the system for use in future targeting data, administration officials said. "We have to know which targets to attack and how to attack them," said one, speaking on condition of anonymity. The flights, which have been going on for weeks, are being launched from sites in Afghanistan and Iraq and are part of Bush administration attempts...

Tunnels under Cusco Early chroniclers reported that by far the greatest amount of treasure in Cusco was in the Sun Temple (Koricancha). However, it disappeared before the conquistadors could get hold of it and melt it down. Despite the use of various forms of persuasion, the Spanish never found this horde. A team of investigators from Spain, using modern technology of radar and software producing 3D images, have suggested that there are tunnels connecting the former Incan temples (over which colonial churches were built) to Sacsahuaman. They have discovered the existence of huge tunnels over 5 metres deep under the...

Committee hears about 'useless' radar A parliamentary committee of inquiry has heard how a radar system Pasokbought has earned international condemnation as useless. Meanwhile, a $132million rebate for Russian missiles is still missing EFTHYMIOS TSILIOPOULOS Is he eating his cake, or having it? Defence Minister Spilios Spiliotopoulos was celebrating his birthday en route to Berlin on October 29. he has come under fire from socialists over a probe into past defence purchases A parliamentary committee of inquiry into arms procurements under socialist governments heard military testimony damning to former defence minister Akis Tsochadzopoulos. A US-made radar system Tsochadzopoulos selected for...

The reason Brown International got into the business of guarding the president with a sophisticated radar command center is really quite simple, its officers say. Repairing televisions just wasn't paying enough. While no longer the 12-person repair operation it was in the 1980s, the Huntsville, Ala., company is still a tiny fish in a huge pool of corporations helping the military defend the homeland. But it was Brown's engineers who got a frantic call from an Air Force commander the evening of Sept. 11, 2001. His message: We want your latest invention, and we want it now. A C-130 plane...

Last Update: Tuesday, November 30, 2004. 8:16am (AEDT) Mass whale stranding on NZ North Island There has been a mass whale stranding in New Zealand. There are reports more than 50 dead whales will be buried today, after a mass stranding on the North Island. Seventy-three pilot whales came ashore in the Coromandel region on Sunday night. Most of them died before rescuers discovered them the following morning. Mass strandings are not uncommon around New Zealand's coast. This one comes within a day of two similar strandings in Tasmania. Conservation staff in New Zealand are still hoping they can save...

The reason Brown International got into the business of guarding the president with a sophisticated radar command center is really quite simple, its officers say. Repairing televisions just wasn't paying enough. While no longer the 12-person repair operation it was in the 1980s, the Huntsville, Ala., company is still a tiny fish in a huge pool of corporations helping the military defend the homeland. But it was Brown's engineers who got a frantic call from an Air Force commander the evening of Sept. 11, 2001. His message: We want your latest invention, and we want it now. A C-130 plane...

A South Korean Defense Ministry research institute said yesterday it has developed a radar system that can take pictures of enemy terrain regardless of weather conditions. The Agency for Defense Development said KOMSAR, or the Korea Miniature Synthetic Aperture Radar, is able to detect enemy facilities concealed in hilly terrain within a range of 15 kilometers and make high-resolution pictures of objects. The EO radar that the military had been using could not operate properly at night and in rainy or foggy weather. A researcher at the Agency for Defense Development explains at a news briefing at the Defense...