New Blue Force Tracker

[tomahawk6]

http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/issues/2006/may/NewBlue-Force.htm

Amazing technology that provides troops with real time situational awareness which helps to reduce blue on blue incidents.

 

[KevinB]

Having worked with both BF tracker and the CF SAS system -- I prefer BF -- I am looking forward to the newer renditions.

 

[Canadian Sig]

Kev I was taking some training on BF for Ex Maple Guardian a few weeks ago and the instructors told us that we had been offered BFT but sadly were opting to stay with SAS. That being said I understand that there is still some major use of American systems/software in Kandahar right now, I just wonder if it will last when we start to take a larger control role in that area? I would have to agree that BFT is a better and certainly more user friendly system.

 

[KevinB]

No Idea - I am no longer in the CF -- The entity I work for is tied in with Blue Force tracker.

 
I used SAS when it first came out to the CF - I have no doubt that it will eventually be improved upon - however I do not feel that due to the design constraints it will measure up to BFT.

 

[LineDoggie]

BFT is superb, I used it on several occasions to coordinate between units that I normally wouldnt have freq's for. Much easier to prevent Blue on Blue.

 

[couchcommander]

The technology, which soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment called “T6,” is a Windows-based system that runs off a satellite-based network.

Uh-oh.

Sure it'll work great, until you start getting porn pop-ups.

Seriously though does anyone know what version they based it upon?