COMBAT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS. Strengthened Management Efforts Needed to Ensure Required Capabilities

摘要

Friendly fire, or fratricide, incidents accounted for about 24 percent of U.S. fatalities during Operation Desert Storm in 1991. Following that operation, the Department of Defense (DOD) and the military services have been working to find new ways to avoid friendly fire in joint and coalition operations. Their efforts have focused on developing new equipment and technologies as well as new tactics, training, techniques, and other solutions.