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From: borynec@bnr-di.UUCP
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: DFing, was The death of mobile war
Summary: We still have telephone line.
Message-ID: <26860@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Date: 21 Aug 89 05:54:21 GMT
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From: borynec@bnr-di.UUCP

In article <26781@amdcad.AMD.COM>, baum@apple.com (Allen Baum) writes:
> 
> Why is it easy to find the FOO? With the advent of satellite transponders,
> and something to compress and squirt a transmission, I would think it would be
> very hard to locate a transmitter. I thought it wasn't very easy to begin
> with- a lot of hunting and turning antennas, etc.

Actually, in the defense, you don't even need that sort of high 
technology.  Artillery regiments typically have a line section which
gives them the capability to run telephones between the FOO's and their
command posts.  This allows them to communicate without breaking radio
silence.

This technology is circa WWI.
 
 Cheers ... James Borynec

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