Pentagon Seeks Improved ISR Systems for Strikes Against WMD Sites

By Sebastian Sprenger / May 9, 2008 at 5:00 AM
Pentagon officials are seeking improved intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems to help them assess the effects of strikes against enemy weapons of mass destruction facilities, according to a senior Defense Threat Reduction Agency official. While military planners can use existing ISR capabilities, like satellite imagery or video feeds from aerial drones, to orchestrate bombings of enemy WMD facilities, they would be unable to gauge what the attack did to the agents manufactured or stored inside them, according to Douglas Bruder,...

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