Reconnaissane today: the term 'reconnaissance vehicle' has a wide connotation, as it can include very different kinds of systems. In the cold war era a typical German recce battalion included main battle tanks as well as wheeled armoured cars, which carried out respectively recce by fire and recce by stealth missions, while Danish recce troops used G-wagen jeeps to be as stealthy as possible.

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Reconnaissane today: the term 'reconnaissance vehicle' has a wide connotation, as it can include very different kinds of systems. In the cold war era a typical German recce battalion included main battle tanks as well as wheeled armoured cars, which carried out respectively recce by fire and recce by stealth missions, while Danish recce troops used G-wagen jeeps to be as stealthy as possible.

Since the Cold War, things have considerably changed and, thanks to major breakthroughs in Optronics and communications, not to mention the modified tactical environment, light and medium armoured vehicles equipped with devices that allow long-range day and night observation, and provide the exact target grids, are currently considered the state-of-the-art of a widened recce role known as RSTA (Reconnaissance, Surveillance and Target Acquisition). Does this mean that recce by fire has disappeared? Probably not, as finding out one's opponent's intentions is still a sine qua non. Sometimes recce units, if equipped with some form of firepower, can even deal a blow to the intended target or to a target of opportunity themselves.

This happened recently in the Ivory Coast, when on 11 April 2011 a French Army recce platoon equipped with ERC-90 Sa...

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