Thales unit touts advantages of combat ID technology

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A U.K.-based subsidiary of Thales Group is touting the advantages of its version of the Battlefield Target Identification Device (BTID), designed to prevent vehicle-on-vehicle fratricide. BTID is an encrypted millimeter-wave 'question-and-answer' system that allows tanks and other vehicles with direct-fire capabilities to bounce a signal off of other vehicles on the battlefield.

France, Search and navigation equipment, Thales S.A., Military electronics industry

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Canadians aim to develop advanced combat ID

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Canada is hoping to field a high tech combat identification system by the end of 2010. According to Caption Mark McNeil, the project director for army combat identification, the normal acquisition timeline for the Canadian military is generally about five years and if the requirements are approved, the program could begin in earnest by 2006.

Canada, Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing, Radio & TV communications equipment, Other Electrical Equipment and Component Manufacturing, International politics, Military Electronics, Identify Friend or Foe Equip, Military policy, Identification friend or foe systems, Identification, Friend or Foe systems

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