Military applications of technology

I've had a bunch of ideas for my final year project. For those who have noticed previous posts concerning this, basically I can do anything demonstrating some groovy advanced technology. I have considered a robot, a human-computer interaction system, and others. Now I am wondering about a military application.

It seems friendly fire and unit co-ordination and such would be helped along if every soldier carried a beacon which identified them as friendly, and which showed in a visor/eyepiece worn by each. So you might see an overlay of little glowing spots representing friendly units as you wandered around. Maybe waypoints and known enemy locations could show red, friendlies in blue, et cetera. The big problem is, that involves emitting an EM signal by which the enemy could locate your troops and kill them.

Any thoughts on this?

 

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what about using tight band directional lasers or pulse lasers?

i know that limits the use but it would limit the chances of detection as well

 

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Unfortunately that would entirely negate the purpose. I've considered a few options, but I'm not sure how to do it.

 

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what about a very low power signal with a very quick pulse?

 

Err wrong problem. You could do what you asked by having each side wear a different color flashing light. The problem needs to be restated as how to identify the good guys and hide from the bad guys and stop the bad guys from pretending to be a good guy. Kind of changes the problem dont it?

 

Sounds to me like you need some kind of pulse squirt transmitter to be carried by every freindly. Obviously, you are not going to get the enemy to agree to tote an IFF for your benefit. You need something that is light weight, fast transmitting, low power consumption, omidirectional, high portability, dependability, and can identify individuals by the code. You also need to determine the range that your system will operate within. More range means more power and a greater load for the soldier to carry in addition to everything else he is expected to tote. If it gets very heavy then it will be of no use. If you could squeeze it into something the size of a matchbox then it could well be a practical application that could bring you a mint in royalties.

This would also be great to find injuried parties that could not help themselves.

 

wet1 have you looked how small mobile phones are now?

they have a range of 5 k or something and they would be smaller but they wouldn't go from ur ear to ur mouth any more