The MoD has commissioned new technology, known as the Battlefield Target Identification System, which is designed to reduce so-called "blue-on-blue" incidents.

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America's C4ISR network provides everything from target detection and identification to navigational information.

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Given the first two bills are pretty chewy, I doubt there will be much time left for Mark Hendrick's International Development (Official Development Assistance Target) Bill, still less for Barbara Keeley's Social Care (Local Sufficiency) and Identification of Carers Bill or Douglas Carswell's European Communities Act 1972 (Repeal) Bill, or the considerable number of other bills on the order paper.

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