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Cooperative systems have the cost disadvantage, however, of becoming useful only when virtually all of the platforms within a theater of action are equipped, making partial deployments unattractive. Clearly, cooperative systems are really just friend identifiers, they do not positively identify enemy. If no reply is received, the shooter might assume that the target is enemy but perhaps it is a neutral or a friend without an operating transponder. The final classification in these cases will depend on the rules of engagement.
Chapter 3-Avoiding Fratricide: General Considerations I 39 Figure 3-4--Sources of Information for Identification /\ “\ Indirect “\,, ‘ \ Direct ,,/” / ,/ I 7 , Active ‘\ Passive,, /, passive ,/ // /“ / ‘. \ Noncooperative \ ‘\ ‘\ SOURCE: Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (C31). I Sources of IFF Information Successful IFF requires that the shooter have information--carried by some form of energy— from the putative target. The sources of this energy and how it is collected can provide a general, overall classification of the various technical approaches to IFF.
Hohenfels, Germany suggests that disorientation is not as important there as misidentification. 58 These cases could be cured by better fire discipline. Mistakes due to true misidentification were most common in melees and poor visibility. S. Army Combined Arms Command at Fort 26 I Who Goes There: Friend or Foe? 59 Since the Persian Gulf War, observers at the NTC have had to fill out fratricide incident reports whenever MILES detects friendly free. Preliminary unpublished results show that observers on the ground attribute fratricide most often to identification failure, but that this accounts for just over a fifth of the cases, with another fifth due to failures of command and control, another fifth due to planning failure, and a combination of communication and navigation problems and simple mistakes making up the balance.