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Changing Warfare Technologies with ESA

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Watch this video about warfare technology on HowStuffWorks. The U.S. military is fighting a new kind of warfare in that they're fighting a public war and thus have to be much more precise during combat missions; for example, pilots in F-18s are using digital cockpits to help process tremendous amounts of real-time information. See how Elbit Systems of America works in this video from World Business Review.

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