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Smart weapons: services focus on fielding munitions for close combat.(URBAN WARFARE)
The Army, Navy and Marine Corps are rushing to field an array of munitions that are designed to be precise enough for close urban combat operations.
Munitions have been developed to counter decidedly different tactics that the United States faced as recently as the 2003 invasion of Iraq, said Army Col. Ernest Harris, project manager for precision-fire rockets and missile systems at Huntsville, Ala.
U.S. forces fought Saddam Hussein's army primarily on conventional battlefields. Now, they are contending with asymmetric threats posed by paramilitary, trans-national organizations whose members fight in a non-linear battlefield, Harris told the Institute for ...
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