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From: cos!howard@uunet.UU.NET (Howard C. Berkowitz)
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Subject: Re: Miscellaneous
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Date: 24 Apr 91 23:23:09 GMT
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From: cos!howard@uunet.UU.NET (Howard C. Berkowitz)


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There's an antiradiation weapon, I believe Tacit Rainbow, which has some
qualities of a brighter smart weapon.  This system is a slow, but long
endurance, drone that senses electromagnetic emissions. 

On one of its orbits around the battlefield, if it detects an appropriate
transmitter, it will stop orbiting and dive into the transmitter.  
You say you can counter this by turning off the radar?  :-) :-)

In any case, this system seems to be a very logical base for ELINT collection,
and certainly announcing that it is about to attack an emitter at
<coordinates> before it dives.  

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