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Technical developments bringing about relevant increases in the efficiency of reconnaissance and C3, as well as in the effectiveness of weapons are commonly put under the heading ‘New Technologies’. Their effect is that they engender completely new weapon systems. Rapid progress in electronics especially has brought about long range and ‘intelligent’ systems, quick to react, whose greater destructive capabilities could not have been imagined without improved accuracy and effectiveness.
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von Baudissin, W.G. (1985). New Technology, Stability and the Arms-control Deadlock: Part I. In: O’Neill, R. (eds) New Technology and Western Security Policy. International Institute for Strategic Studies Conference Papers. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08194-3_6
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