High-Tech Warfare in Libya

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(1) Daniel Dombey and James Blitz, Precision Weapons prove Effective Against Pro-Regime Armaments. Financial Times, Mar 29, 2011
(The Pentagon has also brought five Growler electronic attack aircraft. Britain is relying on British Tornado GR4 aircraft to attack ground targets, using guided Brimstone missiles. France is using the armament-air-sol modulaire (air-to-ground modular weapon), a munition involving a 250kg bomb guided by a global positioning system)

Note:
(a) brimstone (n; Middle English brinston, probably from birnen to burn + ston stone): "SULFUR"
www.m-w.com
(b) Brimstone (missile)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brimstone_(missile)
(an air-launched anti-tank missile developed by MBDA)

(2) U.K.'s 3-D Imaging Gets a Look in Libya. Wall Street Journal, Mar 29, 2011.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704559904576228342852238016.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

(3) Jennifer Rizzo, US providing 'unique capabilities' to the Libya mission. CNN, Mar 29, 2011.
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/03/28/libya.us.military.capabilities/
("'The United States buys as much high-tech military equipment as all the rest of the world combined,' says national security and weapons expert Loren Thompson of the Lexington Institute. 'Because of that, there are things that we can do that our allies can't do'")

Note:
(a) The EA in "EA-18G Growler" stands for "electronic attack."
(b) EA-18G Airborne Electronic Attack Aircraft. Boeing, undated.
http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/military/ea18g/index.html

(4) The Libyan Bonus. Strategy Page, Mar 29, 2011.
http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htairw/articles/20110329.aspx
("targeting pods (which enable pilots to tell if people are carrying weapons, day or night, while flying 6,500 meters/20,000 feet high)")

My comment: I can not find any support in the Web that a targeting pod will do this sort of things. A pod is a case by definition. The most frequently mentioned "targeting pod" is
AN/AAQ-28(V) LITENING Low Risk, Next Generation Targeting Pod. Northrop Grumman, Oct 20, 2010.
http://www.es.northropgrumman.com/solutions/litening/
("a self-contained, multi-sensor weapon aiming system that enables fighter pilots to detect, acquire, auto-track and identify targets for highly accurate delivery of both conventional and precision-guided weapons. LITENING AT features advanced image processing for target identification; coordinate generation for GPS weapons")

LITENING is pronounced the same as "lightning."


-------------------------------Separately
(1) The Maxi Maverick From China. Strategy Page, Mar 29, 2011.
http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htsurf/articles/20110329.aspx

(2) J Michael Cole, Experts question NSB’s missile scoop. Taipei Times, Mar 29, 2011.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2011/03/29/2003499385
(However, the lack of specifics provided by Tsai, who claimed Taiwan had sources unavailable to its allies, has led some analysts to conclude that rather than a brand new type of SRBM, the DF-16 could in fact be a medium-range ballistic missile (MRBM) already known to US intelligence, the CSS-X-11)

Note: The NATO reporting name CSS: C for China; SS surface-to-surface missile.

(3) Chris Wang, More countries grant Taiwan visa-free privileges. Central News Agency, Mar 29, 2011.
http://focustaiwan.tw/ShowNews/WebNews_Detail.aspx?Type=aALL&ID=201103290036
(113; France's 11 overseas territories, Tanzania and Mozambique)

(4) 台汉光演习恢复每年举行有政治意涵？ VOA Chinese, Mar 28, 2011.
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news/20110328-TAIWAN-MILITARY-EXERCISE-118798044.html

(5) 朝韩就长白山爆发可能性进行接触. BBC Chinese, Mar 29, 2011.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/world/2011/03/110329_koreas_paekdu.shtml
(朝鲜提出; 朝鲜和韩国传统文化中视长白山为圣山。而朝鲜还宣称其现任领导人金正日在长白山出生)

(6) 留英中国学生遭遇“间谍门.” BBC Chinese, Mar 28, 2011.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ukchina/simp/uk_life/2011/03/110328_life_james_dyson_students.shtml

Note:
(a) The report is based on
Robert Watts and Jack Grimston, Chinese students steal secrets: inventor James Dyson. Times (London), Mar 27, 2011.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/chinese-students-steal-secrets-inventor-james-dyson/story-e6frg6so-1226028900686
("Nearly 57,000 Chinese now study in the UK, a rise of more than 21 per cent since 2009. Although business, finance and economics are the most popular subjects, there are more than 3,000 Chinese studying electronic engineering and another 1,510 on computer science courses. Manchester, with 1,890 Chinese in the academic year 2009-10, is the most popular university overall")
(b) James Dyson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Dyson
(1947- ; inventor of the Dual Cyclone bagless vacuum cleaner, which works on cyclonic separation; His net worth in 2008 was said to be £1.1 billion)
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