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2005-06-23 Iraq-Jordan

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Posted by Steve 2005-06-23 09:07|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Looking forward to the video showing the movements across the Syrian-Iraq border and the trace back to staging areas in Syria. Should be enough for the briefing when Condi or GWB announce ... "the authorization of tactical and operational commanders to engage in hot pursuit of enemy forces in contact and to engage and if necessary destroy any military formations which obstruct such pursuits."

Posted by Choth Slaick3903 2005-06-23 10:00|| 2005-06-23 10:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Boy, does this ignore the obvious. For two decades now, we have had the capability to monitor literally every vehicle in a major metropolitan area, simultaneously. So if you record this data, you discover something far more useful then where they go after the bombing. You discover where they *came from*.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-06-23 11:01|| 2005-06-23 11:01|| Front Page Top

#3 Sounds like they set up a really powerful committee.

Posted by Shipman 2005-06-23 13:14|| 2005-06-23 13:14|| Front Page Top

#4 OK if you have a SINGLE vehicle fleeing a ALREADY exploded IED then JSTARS becomes useful. But what if there are 100s or 1000s of vehicles on a major highway? JSTARS becomes a very expensive traffic monitoring device. FYI AWACS already provides tracking on ground targets. So we have a duplicity of effort for maybe marginal gain of information. No I was never a fan of big expensive and mostly useless weapons systems.

Posted by Cyber Sarge">Cyber Sarge 2005-06-23 14:56|| 2005-06-23 14:56|| Front Page Top

#5 Moose, everytime I read one of these reports, I ask myself how are they trying to misdirect? Let's say for the sake of argument that you could identify a vehicle's thermal signature moreorless. Would that make tracing the vehicle back to its point of origin easier?

Posted by phil_b 2005-06-23 17:53|| 2005-06-23 17:53|| Front Page Top

#6 All a JSTARS would have to do is assign a tracking number to every vehicle it's looking at and then, well, track them. If vehicle number 3,975 (or whatever) speeds off after a bombing then you track that one very closely.

Posted by Parabellum 2005-06-23 18:53|| 2005-06-23 18:53|| Front Page Top

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