SCMP: China matches Nato in information arms race with deal for ‘Ferrari of war room software’
* Deal with Belgian company puts China on equal footing with US
* Technology may come with risks and lessons for government and military
China has obtained the big screen software used by Nato and the United States for war room mapping, putting its forces on an equal organisational footing with some of the West’s elite military operations.
Luciad, a defence contractor based in Leuven, Belgium, is selling the Chinese government high performance software used for situational awareness by the military commands of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, according to information from Chinese government contractors verified by the South China Morning Post.
The package includes LuciadLightspeed, a program that can process real-time data, including that from fast-moving objects, with speed and accuracy.
Situational awareness is the ability to know what is happening in a target environment and use that intelligence to defeat the enemy. In warfare, the situation is so fluid it can change in seconds.
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2 comments:
That's a deleterious situation. Obviously nobody is in charge, letting everybody does what he wants is suicidal. In this case we cannot accuse China for stealing secrets, we give them. That's a real nightmare.
Gallows were invented for a reason.
So executions can be seen and heard.
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