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Old 07-23-2009, 01:32 AM
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Originally Posted by Legbreaker View Post
This might raise the ugly spectre of enemy/friendly identification in the heat of battle.
A US soldier for example might see the sillouette of an AK and automatically think "enemy" when in reality it's just a soldier from a different unit.
Great care would obviously have to be taken to train and brief soldiers to first correctly identify friendly troops in all conditions before opening fire - not a easy thing to do when the bullets are flying...
Well in T2K when the West and East German armies were merged the Germans apparently managed to deal with this problem.
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