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Silent guard on duty.
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Situational awareness currently is one of the defence world's buzzwords. It depicts the knowledge of the surrounding scenario as well as that of the enemy's potential movements and intentions, and can be applied to all manner of arenas and platforms. Considering land warfare alone, the ability to obtain round-the-clock surveillance of the area of operation (detecting, classifying and reporting possible targets) with the minimum use of manpower definitely ranks high in a commander's wish list. Conventional area protection methods have been hit by the general ban on anti-personnel mines, which were a very effective means of protecting one's area of operations, ranging from simple bivouacs to huge facilities. Technological breakthroughs in electronics allowed the development of new, affordable miniaturised sensors...See the full content of this document
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